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Building The Internet of Things: Bringing IoT Into Your Organization — Change Management (Part 1)

IOT
People generally dislike change. It disrupts the familiar and the comfortable. Change forces you to rethink what were previously routine actions that required no new thought. It requires familiarizing yourself with new processes and procedures. In many cases, change requires the acquisition of new skills. It is, however, inevitable. Over time, everything changes. By the time we’re adults we understand...

The big vision is to become an electric vehicle nation by 2030: Chetan Maini

Chetan Maini
Chetan Maini has been one of the pioneers in the electric mobility space for more than 18 years. After many years of trials and tribulations with Reva (now Mahindra Reva), he has finally moved on to building an entire ecosystem of renewable energy based infrastructure with his new venture Sun Mobility. In an interaction with ETtech’s Aritra Sarkhel, Chetan Maini,...

China increases solar power output by 80% in three months

China Solar Power
China electricity output from photovoltaic plants rose 80 per cent in the first quarter after the world’s biggest solar power market increased installed capacity. Solar power generation rose to 21.4 billion kilowatt-hours in the three months ending 31 March from a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said on Thursday in a statement on its website. China added 7.21 gigawatts...

Social media emerging as the most valuable target zones for cyber attackers

Cyber Attack
Next time you post details about your workplace and job description on social media websites, be careful you could emerge as the potential target of hackers and cyber criminals. Cybercrime experts and forensic consultants say that hackers scour through social media database of employees of organisations they intend to attack and send phishing mails to them. A recent report by...

Infosys partners TechGig to find next-gen coders

Infosys partners TechGig
IT firm Infosys has partnered with online technology community TechGig Code Gladiators to help the firm identify the next generation of ace coders for its business expansion plans. “The critical skills of our future are about problem-finding, about curiosity and learning in everything that we do, and in looking beyond what is known to us. As we look to build...

Facebook ties up with Airtel for 20,000 wi-fi hotspots

Facebook
Facebook has tied up with Bharti Airtel to deploy 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country to offer affordable internet services through the social networking major’s Express Wi-Fi service over the next few months. “Airtel is already in the planning stage for this deployment,” said Munish Seth, regional head APAC, Facebook Connectivity Solutions. “A major part of the world is not connected...

DARPA and Advancing Cybersecurity Infrastructure With Blockchain

DARPA
Cybersecurity infrastructure is taking a leap forward with the support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research unit of the U.S. Department of Defense (that helped create the internet , among other things). In September, DARPA paved the way for government use of blockchain technology. The agency has funded a handful of startups to develop blockchain uses...

Solar could provide 30% of Australia’s power needs by 2030

Australia
ARENA laid out its new Investment Plan outlining its investment priorities for the coming years and has promised to accelerate solar PV innovation and development. The government agency will dedicate AUD$800 million towards its four new priorities: delivering a secure and reliable electricity system; accelerating solar PV innovation; improving energy productivity; and exporting renewable energy. Ivor Frischknecht, CEO of ARENA, said:...

8 Considerations in Cybersecurity Risk Management

CyberSecurity Risk Management
Cybersecurity risk management boils down to three key factors: The probability of an event occurring; The severity of impact if that event occurs; and Any mitigating factors that can reduce either probability or severity. That was our takeaway from an excellent panel discussion facilitated by our partners at Cylance, titled Cut Through the Risk Confusion: Shedding Light on Common Security...

Dekkho turns your device into a television; launches TV-like Linear Programming on its platform

Dekkho Co-Founder
Mumbai, May 4, 2017:In a development which heralds a major transformation in the OTT entertainment experience in India, online video streaming platform Dekkho has announced the launch of its new Linear Programming feature. A first for any OTT platform, Dekhho’s Linear Programming allows content creators to make customized 24-hour programming with an easy-to-use back-end system and run a first-of-its-kind...

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