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IANS- The Indian Data Protection bill 2019 which aims to help consumers exercise their privacy rights needs a proper structural framework else personal data of millions of users in the country will be at stake, leading industry experts said on Monday. As the world observes Data Privacy Day on January 28, experts and leading industry […]
indica News Bureau- The year 2020 will usher in new restrictions on H-1B visa for foreign students and employees seeking jobs in the US. The new rules are likely to decrease the number of H-1B visas in the US as the employers will be required to participate in electronic registration by paying a $10 fee […]
IANS- Smartphones have made voting easier, as King County in the US state of Washington, where Seattle is located, implements mobile voting in their board of supervisors election. This is the first-time mobile voting is available to all eligible registered voters. Previous pilots in other jurisdictions were limited to overseas and military voters and/or voters […]
indica News Bureau- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Tuesday during a session at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that the agency made the correct decision in rejecting proposed net neutrality regulations in December 2017, according to published reports. Pai, the first Indian American to hold the top FCC job, told CES attendees […]
indica News Bureau- As part of India’s Gaganyan Mission, scheduled for December 2020 (uncrewed) and December 2021 (crewed), three Indian astronauts will travel to space next year in the spacecraft designed by Indian Space Research Organization. The training of the four astronauts, each in their mid 30s to 40s, identified by ISRO, will begin in […]
IANS- A team based at Princeton University in the US has demonstrated that two quantum computing components, known as silicon “spin” qubits, can interact even when spaced relatively far apart on a computer chip. “The ability to transmit messages across this distance on a silicon chip unlocks new capabilities for our quantum hardware,” said leader […]
Gokul Bhagabati- With a new data center up and live in India, US-based global Cloud major Oracle has unleashed its animal spirit, targeting to double its customer base in the country to 2,000 from its current base of close to 1,000 customers. In a country of India’s size, getting another 1,000 customers should be […]
indica News Bureau- In order to settle allegations of misclassification of foreign workers and tax frauds, Indian IT giant, Infosys has agreed to pay a sum of USD 800,000 (Rs 5.7 crores) to California, in an out-of-court-settlement, said officials on Tuesday, December 17. It has been alleged that around 500 employees, recruited by Infosys between […]
IANS- Software major Infosys on Wednesday launched blockchain-powered distributed applications (apps) for government services, insurers and supply chain management verticals. “The applications are designed as ready-to-subscribe business networks to ensure quick deployment, inter-operability across disparate systems of value chain stakeholders and cases involving analytics and IoT (Internet of Things),” the-city based IT firm said in […]
IANS- In yet another strong public rebuke of Microsoft who has won the prestigious $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said the US government’s decision to award the project to the Satya Nadella-run company was done under significant political interference. Addressing a news conference here during AWS ‘re: Invent’ […]
