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Reliance Infrastructures Mumbai Metro has announced a tie-up with Google to provide details and information about the service on Google Maps, an official spokesperson said here. The Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) has collaborated with Google Maps to give the people its timetable and associated geographic details on all the Metro stations on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar route. Through the Google Maps...

Some Indian banks, especially state-run lenders, may end up on the losing side in the competition with financial technology firms, said Ronit Ghose, global sector head for banks at Citi Research. While India is a huge fintech opportunity, it may take a long time to become the next China, Ghose told Saloni Shukla in an interview. Edited excerpts: China is dominating...

IT major Wipro today said it has reinforced security measures at all its office locations after receiving a second threat email, but there was no impact on the company's operations. "Wipro confirms that it has received a second threatening e-mail.... There is no impact on the company's operations," the company said in a statement here. However, Wipro did not specify...

Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, today announced that it has awarded the contract for the construction of an additional Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) broadband network communications satellite to Thales Alenia Space. This award reflects Inmarsat’s strategy of adding capacity to its already established, unique, high-speed global broadband network in areas of high customer demand and...

This is the third of six blog posts that examine how the Automotive industry will be impacted by Blockchain in the near and not so distant future. In this post I elaborate two use cases that have huge potential for Manufacturer Finance. Treasury Operations Today’s largest Automotive companies operate less like single monolithic command and control structures and more like a...

In 2016, the Mirai Botnet hijacked over half a million DVRs and IP cameras, redirecting traffic from these endpoints to some of the internet's largest brands and taking many services offline. To those in the security community, the attack wasn't surprising; typically, affordable, commodity internet devices are poorly secured. One unintended consequence of their rapid adoption is expansion of...

Raytheon is bragging that its new 360-degree gallium nitride-based (GaN) Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for the Patriot air and missile defense system has passed 1000 hours of operation in little over a year. That means that the Raytheon test program is moving roughly twice as fast as a typical radar test effort according to the company. "We achieved...

BEIRUT: After months of testing, a hospital in Syria will have uninterrupted power from this week, charged by solar power in a project designershope will save lives and can be repeated across the country. Syria's electrical grid has taken an big hit after six years of a volatile civil war with most the electrical infrastructure bombed, dismantled or destroyed, leaving...

India and Spain have signed seven agreements. The key areas in which the pacts were inked are cyber security, renewable energy, technical cooperation in civil aviation, visa waiver for diplomatic passport holders. The other MoUs are between Foreign Service Institute and Diplomatic Academy of Spain and others for transfer of sentenced persons and cooperation in organ transplantation. Earlier, Prime Minister...

WannaCry meant big bucks for cybersecurity companies. The cybersecurity event that dominated headlines for days last month led to significant share spikes for top cybersecurity companies like FireEye and Sophos. While the WannaCry ransomware attack, which hit hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 countries, was a wake-up call for companies everywhere without adequate cybersecurity measures, these incidents are becoming less...