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BSNL Testing Wi-Fi Technology to Connect 1 Lakh Panchayats in a Year

11Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

BSNL Testing Wi-Fi Technology to Connect 1 Lakh Panchayats in a Year

As the government's rural broadband project is facing long delays, telecom PSU BSNL is testing an alternative Wi-Fi-based network to connect about 1 lakh village panchayats in a year with high-speed Internet. "The process of laying fibre network calls for huge amount of physical labour. We have started a pilot to test broadband connectivity to village panchayats using Wi-Fi network. With this we are hopeful of connecting about 1 lakh village panchayats in a year," BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava told PTI. The state-run firm is testing sustainability of technology in three villages in Alwar district of Rajasthan. "We have written to the Department of Telecom about this project and looking for support of USO fund for it. Once we get the approval, we will start...

HP Unveils Worlds Thinnest Laptop, Business Notebook

7Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

Tech

HP Unveils Worlds Thinnest Laptop, Business Notebook

Personal computers and printing major HP Inc today launched eight new personal products including the worlds thinnest laptop at 10.4 mm thickness, a calling device, and a business notebook. According to the company, Spectre is the worlds thinnest laptop and has a battery life of up to nine and a half hours. The new calling device, HP Elite x3, is built-for-business mobile device and runs on Windows 10. HP Elite x3 bridges phablet, laptop and desktop to enable users to run key productivity apps across these different experiences seamlessly. The third product launched by the company HP EliteBook Folio is the thinnest and lightest business notebook with 12.4 mm thickness and weighs under 1 kg. It will come with a starting price of Rs 1.30 lakh. HP Envy notebook comes with a 15.6 inch dis...

Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO Jack Dorsey says

19Mar By reutersNo Comments

News

Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO Jack Dorsey says

Twitter Inc's 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit. "It's staying. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today Show. A Twitter spokesman declined to elaborate. In January, technology news website Re/code reported that Twitter was building a new feature that would allow tweets as long as 10,000 characters. Twitter has declined to comment on the feature directly. But Dorsey tweeted the day of the report that the company had seen more screenshots of text posted as a way to get around the 140-character limit. "We're not going to be shy about building more utilit...

Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised

13Mar By AdityaNo Comments

News

Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised

An anonymous reader allegedly quoting an email from Code.org, claims that the database of the non-profit organization has been breached: Some personal data was accessed on our web site by a firm exploiting a client-side vulnerability. Your email address and your location, if you provided it, were compromised and may have been read. The exploit was limited to engineers and others who volunteered to help in classrooms. No student or teacher accounts were impacted, nor passwords or additional information. The exploit did not give hackers access to any of our servers. Earlier this week, a volunteer engineer told us he received an unsolicited recruiting email from a technical freelancing firm in Singapore. We determined the firm was able to retrieve the volunteer's private email addr...

1Mar By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Google Self-driving Car Hits Public Bus

Technology giant Google has acknowledged that it's self-driving car struck a public bus in California during a test drive. The California-based tech company beared some responsibility for the crash in an official statement. "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that," Google said in a statement. "From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the future," the internet giant further said. The Mo...

Here’s What LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Said After Stock Loses 40% of Its Value

13Feb By No Comments

BLOGS

Here’s What LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Said After Stock Loses 40% of Its Value

In case you haven’t been paying attention, many tech stocks are under serious pressure. LinkedIn, where I have been an executive for nearly six years, is one of those companies, having lost more than 40% of our value after announcing our 2015 earnings and guidance for 2016 last Thursday. As you can imagine, this has the potential to cause angst and churn, both internally and externally, and over the last week, I’ve been fascinated by the varied reactions of people, both inside and outside the company, with whom I’ve interacted: indignant, perplexed, resilient, full of pity, inspired and shell-shocked. When something like this happens at a company, you can witness very extreme, and often negative, reactions from people like the CEO and CFO, who can get into a blame game and create a c...

1Feb By No Comments

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SnapBizz: Amazing Story of $1 Billion Opportunity Spotted By An Employee and Backed By His Company

I recently caught up with SnapBizz co-founder, Yash Prakash to hear his amazing story of transitioning an idea originating in a corporation to a thriving startup. Act 1: The promising beginning When Qualcomm started its VentureFest intrapreneurship program back in 2006 (now called ImpaQt), it unlocked the floodgates of leadership, creativity, and innovation from unexpected places and people. While running the program, I never really saw an idea or intrapreneur that I didn’t like, but I found proposals out of Qualcomm’s foreign offices to be particularly illuminating, as they were addressing unknown opportunities to most of us working in the US. One such proposal originated in Qualcomm’s (fantastic) set of India offices. This is the story of CellNSell (internal project name),...

Apple Acquired Education Technology Startup LearnSprout

29Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Apple Acquired Education Technology Startup LearnSprout

Apple Inc announced that it has acquired an education technology startup called LearnSprout in a drive to expand it's initiative to make the iPad the future of education. LearnSprout, and their CEO Franklin Chien have been working diligently on creating a new type of educational software, which is already used in 2,500 school districts within the United States. The acquisition is possibly an important one for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), as they have already been pushing education tools for the iPad into school districts around the nation. As for the price that Apple paid, or just what their plans may be to integrate LearnSprout into their current educational framework, the company refused to say. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discus...

Why Employees are More Important Than Founders in a Startup?

28Dec By No Comments

BLOGS

Why Employees are More Important Than Founders in a Startup?

Hiring for startups can be very different from that of large companies. Huge multi-national companies are process driven and need employees who can follow instructions and processes diligently while everyday could be a fire fighting day for a startup. Many startups make the mistake of hiring employees who are merely looking for a job rather than someone who is looking for a life experience. A lot of entrepreneurial people have been turned down from jobs at startups because they challenge the status quo, and the founders fear that they might be training someone who might one day become their competitor. In an era where product cycles are shortening, and some of the largest companies today were startups merely 10 years ago, this fear is hardly palpable. Pavan Soni, a research fellow at...

Google to contest Russia’s antitrust ruling on Android

18Nov By No Comments

News

Google to contest Russia’s antitrust ruling on Android

Google will contest in court a ruling by Russia's antitrust agency that it broke competition law by abusing its dominant position with its Android mobile platform, the U.S. technology company said on Tuesday. Russia's competition watchdog ruled in September that Google had broken the law by requiring pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices running on Android. (more…)