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Seed funding enables the start-up to tackle the biggest cyber threats to business: their own employees CybSafe, a cyber security software company, have launched its platform to tackle the human aspect of cyber security using pio…

Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai received a stock award of $198.7 million in 2016, almost double his 2015 stock award of $99.8 million, a media report said. That brought his total compensation in 2016 to $199.7 million, almo…

Google has updated its hardware support page with information on the dates till which consumers can expect end of life updates on their Pixel phones. Google has guaranteed Android OS support till October 2018, and security patch…

Objecting to the Jammu and Kashmir government order to clamp down on social media and instant messaging apps, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on Friday said internet clamp-down is not the key solution to crim…

A US scientist has developed a mathematical model for a viable time machine – an advance that could bring stuff of popular science-fiction closer to reality. Using math and physics, Ben Tippett, from University of British Columbi…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the ‘South Asia Satellite’ to be launched by India on 5 May , will go a long way in addressing the region’s economic and developmental priorities. “The capacities of this satellite and…

China plans to conduct several manned space flights between 2019 and 2022, during which a 60-tonne space station will be assembled and built, an official said on Friday. “Tianzhou-1, China’s first cargo spacecraft, was the last f…

Hybrid IT provider dedicates a business unit to staying at the forefront of evolving market, helping clients best leverage cloud technology and services. Ensono™, a leading hybrid IT services provider, announced the launch of it…

The U.S. National Security Agency said on Friday it had stopped a form of surveillance that allowed it to collect without a warrant the digital communications of Americans who mentioned a foreign intelligence target in their mess…

“We are going to introduce electric vehicles in a very big way. We are going to make electric vehicles self- sufficient like UJALA. The idea is that by 2030, not a single petrol or diesel car should be sold in the country,” said …

Banking on the e-commerce proliferation in India, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos assured people that the company will keep investing in technology and infrastructure in the country. “We’re grateful that customers are respondi…

Nasa appears to be ill prepared to have a new space suit ready for future deep-space missions, media reported citing the space agency’s auditor report. The spacesuits Nasa astronauts currently use on the International Space Stat…

Qualcomm Inc slashed its current-quarter profit and revenue forecasts on Friday, amid an escalating legal battle between the chipmaker and Apple Inc. Apple said it had decided to withhold royalty payments to its contract manufact…

After purchasing seven million dollars worth of Twitter stock in February, CEO Jack Dorsey said he has bought another $9.5 million of the company’s stock. Dorsey posted the news of the purchase on Twitter on Friday, sparking a on…

China successfully conducted maiden glide test of its first amphibious aircraft, stated to be the largest in the world, in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. The glide test was conducted yesterday. Other tests and check-ups are…

India embarks on space diplomacy like never before. For the first time, New Delhi is flexing its prowess of space technology by embarking on an unprecedented and un- chartered stratospheric diplomacy through a special Rs 450 cror…

How to Talk About Estimates

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is  an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to  roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity…

“If you come to a situation where skilled workers which actually drive your economy back home are going to be denied (entry) or Indian companies are forced to pay a particular salary just to become uncompetitive in those countrie…

Net usable storage when using Oracle Database Appliance

Since the birth of the ODA X6-2 HA, the net usable storage has become more of a challenge when advising a customer as the X5-2 HA had substantial more – but slower – storage. This very short blogpost is just a quick summary / che…

Informatica accounts for 19 percent of global iPaaS market share revenue in 2016 Informatica ® , the world’s No. 1 provider of data management solutions, announced on 25th April that Gartner, Inc., a leading IT research and advi…

John McAfee in an interview with Newsweek revealed  a smartphone he called a “truly private smartphone”. McAfee showed off an Android phone called the McAfee Privacy Phone, which he said was the “most hack-proof phone” ever crea…

Industry’s First Solution to Curate, Control and Monetize Video Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq: WIX), a leading cloud-based web development platform, has launched Wix Video, designed to provide an industry-leading solution for showcasing…

Tech2.Games S01E02: Demos, financial reports and an assortment of mixed reactions

2017 has been a good year for demos. From Nier Automata’s demo which doubled as a lesson in tutorial design to Prey’s sudden jab to your stomach while you weren’t looking (I’m sure there have been more, but these two did leave an…

Free App Alert: Game Studio Tycoon 2, ToonCamera, and More [iOS/Android]

“Free App Alert” is a series where we list out a few useful premium/paid apps which are available for free for a limited period. In today’s edition, we have a range of games and utility apps for you to download on both iOS and A…

Indian Smartphone Market Grows 15% as Selfie-Centric Phones Continue to Soar

A fter ending 2016 at a rather ambled pace, the Indian smartphone market is back on track as a new report by Counterpoint suggests a staggering 15% year-on-year growth last quarter. Smartphone sales in the country reached a tota…

Volkswagen T-Roc compact SUV teased in official video

Volkswagen will have something new to showcase at the upcoming 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The automaker is all set to welcome it smallest SUV yet, to its global lineup called the T-Roc and Volkswagen was been generou…

Finding Home is a game that compells you to experience the life of a refugee through your smartphone

Smartphones and the internet are two important pillars that make survival possible for most millennials and adults in metropolitan cities. Most of us dread and would fanatically hope that the internet connection does not go down …

Riding on its Cloud services, Microsoft has announced that its commercial Cloud annualised revenue run rate exceeded $15.2 billion in the third quarter of 2017. Revenue in ‘Intelligent Cloud’ was $6.8 billion and increased 11 pe…