NEW DELHI: The fourth generation telephony focused mainly on urban areas, with coverage of the countryside being incidental, says Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, chairman of Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI). But 5G will be a leveller of sorts; rural areas will get carpet coverage and the same kind of broadband as urban areas, Prof. Ramamurthi, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Under pressure worldwide and from India & U.S. in particular, ByteDance, owner of the popular mobile app TikTok has come up with new proposals to survive and comply with legal requirements in these countries. Reports from the United States have suggested that Microsoft may be in talks to buy TikTok. In India, TikTok […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This may not be germane to the main story but relevant nonetheless. Reliance Industries overtook Exxon to emerge the world’s second most valuable energy company after its market capitalisation soared to $189 billion. In contrast, Exxon has seen its share come down to $186 billion. Saudi Aramco sits at the top of this […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweet that it was a ‘tough day for us at Twitter’ was the understatement of the year. The social media giant was completely at sea in a co-ordinated hack attack on Wednesday 4 pm US time when Twitter accounts of high-profile personalities, among them Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘I’m more worried about individuals being monitored and targeted because of lower cyber security in work-from-home conditions because of the pandemic than because of India-China tension after the Galwan killings,’ Dr Gulshan Rai, former National Cyber Security Coordinator told StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. With reports of tens of thousands of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For a company that’s a supplier to OEMs across the globe, Bharat Forge has been hit hard by the Coronavirus but the company’s boss Baba Kalyani sees an opportunity in the pandemic, echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a self-reliant India. This, coupled with the defence reforms, should be the way forward, according […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Google has found itself caught in the verbal crossfire between India and China. Anti-China sentiments already high in India thanks to the standoff on the LAC, has manifested itself in the tech space. The deletion by the internet search giant of ‘Remove China Apps’ – an Indian app designed to detect and remove […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As India moves into occupying the space of an IT superpower, the ability of the Information and communications technology (ICT) industry to provide the requisite technologies reliably for civilian and military requirements needs to be significantly enhanced. The issue is complicated by the fact that India has limited presence at the high-stakes table […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the last few days, TikTok, the app developed by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, with a huge following in India, has dropped many notches in the popularity stakes, from number 5 to 10 in the App playstore. The drop coincided with the India-China standoff in Ladakh. China’s Global Times was quick to notice and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has extended to June 24 its Rs 9000 crore (around $1.3 bn) tender for upgrading 50,000 new 4G sites in four zones and nearly 7000 new sites in Delhi and Mumbai for MTNL. Reports in the pink papers said “some officials in the Department […]Read More
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