Powerful malicious actors continue to be a substantial risk to key parts of the Internet and its Domain Name System security infrastructure, so much so that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is calling for an intensified community effort to install stronger DNS security technology. Specifically ICANN is calling for full deployment of […]
2019 Oscars Predictions: Results Are In
The 91st Academy Awards this Sunday, the first without a host in 30 years, proceeded without a hitch and seemed to sit well with the worldwide audience. For the third year in a row, we applied the BigML Machine Learning platform to predict the winners. This year, we got 4 out of 8 right for […]
Verizon, Cisco Announce 5G/SD-WAN Pact
News Verizon, Cisco Announce 5G/SD-WAN Pact By David Ramel 02/25/2019 Two more major networking players have signed an agreement to combine two promising, game-changing technologies: 5G wireless and software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN). Verizon announced its Virtual Network Services will support 5G devices on Cisco’s SD-WAN platform, which features intent-based networking, an offshoot of the software-defined movement. […]
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 with a enterprise laser-focus
Microsoft has announced HoloLens 2 at MWC on Sunday, the follow up to its mixed reality headset. The announcement was made by Alex Kipman, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the creator of the first HoloLens, who said that customers had been consistently asking Microsoft for three things to improve the HoloLens. First, was for more […]
Working Group Two Introduces Cloud-Managed Mobile Network with Cisco Ultra Packet Core on Amazon Web Services
BARCELONA, Spain – February 24, 2019 – Working Group Two (WG2) today announced an industry-leading platform to offer cloud-managed mobile network, running both control and user plane on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Focusing on the demands and opportunities of the 5G era – the WG2 platform allows mobile operators and enterprises to create and monetize […]
Companies shouldn’t be allowed to colonise data: Ravi Shankar Prasad
India is keen on the storage of key personal data within the country to prevent “data imperialism”, Law, Justice and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at the Global Business Summit on Saturday. He also said government would seek details of origins of only such messages that promote terrorism and radicalisation on social media platforms […]
Cisco at MWC Barcelona: Showcasing Innovation Across Its Portfolio to Support Billions of Networked Connections
BARCELONA – WORLD CONGRESS – February 24, 2019 – In Barcelona, Cisco is showcasing how it is helping its service provider and enterprise customers adopt and drive revenue from 5G-powered services. The 5G movement is in steep ascent. Cisco has had over 100 active engagements with global customers on 5G. 40 service providers are actively trialing and […]
Cisco Breaks the Record Books: Powering Rakuten’s First-of- its-Kind Cloud Native Mobile Network
BARCELONA, – Mobile World Congress – February 24, 2019 – Cisco today announced details of its innovation blueprint with Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc. to build the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network, ready for 5G. Rakuten Mobile Network (RMN), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., a global leader in internet services and soon to be operator of […]
Facebook powering small business to access markets, says India head
Social networking giant Facebook is powering small business across the country by providing tools on its platforms to access markets, which otherwise can’t find the supply chain and infrastructure to do so. “As many as six million businesses are live on Facebook in India today. We are the internet for small business because, for them […]
‘In future, data protection could be about good AI fighting bad AI’
Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India, Office of Prime Minister, Ritesh Agarwal, Founder, OYO Rooms, Alan Mamedi, Co-Founder & CEO, Truecaller, Amit Shah, Group President & Head Corporate Strategy, Fintech, Marketing & Communication, YES BANK, Osama Bedier, Founder & CEO, Poynt, talk about data regulation, transparency & the power of world’s […]