"They're certainly not exactly about truth in advertising. Even they have said that. That's why we're really in squarely a crisis of trust, when the core vendor themselves cannot say that trust is our most important value," said Benioff. "I expect a fundamental reconceptualisation of what Facebook's role is in the world," Benioff added.
After the banking, financial sector and insurance (BFSI) space, the public sector is the fastest-growing unit for the company, driven by power and utility modernisation and smart city initiatives.
More than 50,000 mobile phone retailers have given an ultimatum to the top five smartphone brands to permanently stop online discounting and launch of online exclusive models, claiming that the ecommerce push had badly hurt their business.
"We believe in a multi –cloud workload and that the world is going to go very strongly on open source and our entire strategy and aligning with Redhat in the recent acquisition that we did was to ensure that the world gets to open source and more importantly enables scalability and faster adoption around enterprise open source using Redhat," said Lingraju.
The advent of new technology paradigms like robotics, AI, blockchain and IoT is changing how companies and individuals consume technology and for the Indian businesses to remain successful, an update to the technology of tomorrow, today will be needed, Nasscom Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer Sangeeta Gupta said.
Premium smartphones those priced over Rs 30,000 are expected to grow by 48% in 2020, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research. With Oppo, Vivo and Realme entering the premium segment, consumers are set to have an abundance of choice, which will help expand the market at a faster pace than before, analysts said.
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said govt had decided to give 5G spectrum for trials to all players.
The growth in smartphone adoption was further fuelled by the government's push to position the country as a global hub for manufacturing and coax Apple and other leading brands to produce and export more phones from India. Experts say that phone shipment is expected to see high single-digit to double-digit growth in India.
Handset-makers including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo in October had issued trade advisories to their retail partners to assure that they will bring price parity between their online and offline channels.
The Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB) 2019 is expected to become a law in 2020 once it is reviewed by the joint parliamentary committee (JPC). The Bill also gives Indian users rights to obtain personal data, correct, erase, update and port the data from one company to another, and raise grievances.
Analysts said Parekh’s bets in changing the company's growth trajectory have started paying off. In the first half of FY20, Infosys reported 10.2% growth in topline to $6,341 million. TCS, on the other hand, is chasing higher margins and has certain cyclical client-specific issues.
With over 451 million Internet users, India is second only to China in terms of monthly active internet users, as per estimates of industry body IAMAI. Interestingly, about 66 million of these are children aged between 5-11 years, who access internet on devices of their family members, constituting about 15 per cent of India's active Internet userbase.
The first palatable AI-led works will likely happen in genres of music and movies which are formulaic, like electronica and pop, and rom-coms and superhero flicks. And that might just open the sluice gates to a new era of man-machine collaborative creativity.
Major improvements in cameras, sensors and processing capacities have made these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) more versatile. And their usage is set to grow. Barclays estimates that the $4 billion global commercial drone market will touch $40 billion in five years, resulting in cost savings of up to $100 billion for corporations.
Harmony by RealDoll is among the most evolved sexbot today. It can blink, move its head, have conversations and comes with self-learning software that remembers earlier encounters and conversations to offer better companionships. AI-powered sexbots are customisable and offer a choice of personality types. In future, expect them to become more evolved and human-like.
The decade that’s knocking on our doors now — the 2020s — is likely to be a time when science fiction manifests itself in our homes and roads and skies as viable, everyday technologies. Cars that can drive themselves. Meat that is derived from plants. Robots that can be fantastic companions — both in bed and outside.
3-D manufacturing will grow in size and scale as everything — from shoes to hearts — becomes ‘printable’. Known as additive manufacturing, a 3-D printer assembles an object layer by layer using plastic, resin or metal. While manufacturing products is the easier part, the challenge is to scale the effort to make it truly useful for industries.
AI-enabled technologies are changing the one-size-fits-all model of classrooms. The world’s top technology billionaires are betting their philanthropic dollars on personalised learning. Smart education and learning market is in high demand globally and is forecasted to reach $423 billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research.
Using machines to translate a language isn’t a new concept yet the process was slow and output lagged. Now, due to deep neural machine translation,there's a transition to “learning” systems that can achieve a high level of accuracy. This tech takes into account multiple layers of abstraction like speech vision, tone, context, cultural nuances.
As the internet has helped create virtual worlds and made the life easier, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ruling in the higher income households with self-driven cars, toys, translators among others. 2020 is likely to be a time when science fiction manifests itself in our homes and roads and skies as viable, everyday technologies.
“But many of the world’s biggest mysteries and potentially greatest opportunities remain beyond the grasp of classical computers,” says Stefan Filipp, quantum scientist at IBM Research. “To continue the pace of progress, we need to augment the classical approach with a new platform, one that follows its own set of rules. That is quantum computing.”
In India, the 5G launch might happen in 2021-22, with 5G auctions likely to be held next year. By 2025, there are likely to be 1.4 billion 5G connections and 5.5 billion 4G connections globally, according to GSMA Intelligence. Pilots for next-generation networks, called 5G Enhanced or 6G, will start towards the end of the next decade.
Technology is beneficial in all sorts of ways but it’s also tearing us apart in ways we are only gradually comprehending. Generationally, we have had the luxury of learning by mistake and course-correcting. However, when mistakes happen at a huge scale, the cost of learning by mistake is enormous on everyone— also futile because the pace of change is so rapid.
AI is widely misunderstood and still too rudimentary for us to be worrying. But it’s not too soon to contemplate the ethical implications of intelligent machines and systems. An AI system is only as good as the data it receives. It is able to interpret them only within the narrow confines of the supplied context. It can’t distinguish causation from correlation.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi, the Japanese tech investor, thinks singularity will hit humankind by 2047, while futurist Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, is betting on machines matching human intelligence by 2029 and singularity happening by 2045.
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has assured that it will put an end to online exclusive launches in India as part of its 2020 strategy. The Vivo-branded products will have consistent price and offers across offline and online, Jerome Chen, CEO, Vivo Mobiles India said in a letter to its retail partners.
Indian AI industry has also doubled in size with revenues of $415 million in 2019, compared to $230 million a year ago. Most of this growth has been powered by experienced professionals who have transitioned into a career in AI by upskilling themselves over the last few years.
A local semiconductor manufacturing industry can support the development and manufacturing of sensors required for India specific Internet of Things (IoT) products, especially in the domains of agriculture, healthcare, smart cities, safety and waste management. The report estimates establishing such an industry would witness a pay back of 6.3X in terms of economic impact.
The smartphone app has notably served as a platform for new forms of consumer marketing. But its influence on spending is far more profound. Because everyone now lives their lives on camera, Instagram has played a crucial role in altering both the look and nature of products people buy and the physical spaces where they shop.
An estimated six million people in the United States – nearly 2% – have atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that brings increased risk of events like clots, heart attacks and strokes. A selling point of the watch is a sensor that can monitor a wearer’s pulse and potentially detect atrial fibrillation.
In the letter, Amanda Keton, General Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation said the new draft rules have not been made public even after a year since official consultations on the draft were completed.
Amazon Inc is getting ready to disrupt several sectors outside of retail, as it becomes more nuanced and moves up the value chain to reach the common man. Technology is at the core of whatever Amazon does, from algorithms that forecast demand, and robots that sort and pack items in warehouses to drones that will soon drop packages off at homes.
The company said it would grant more time for employees in the first year of parenthood by allowing more flexibility in its ‘Work from home’ policy. As part of the new policy, same-sex couples will also be able to take 12 weeks paid adoption leave, it said. Bereavement leave of three days will also be granted to same-sex partners, the company added.
Google contractor HCL Technologies had enlisted management consultant Eric Vanetti of Vantage Point Alliance to “create awareness” among employees to cast their votes against unionisation. Vanetti’s Twitter bio read that he’s an expert in workforce solutions and union avoidance.
Common Service Centres (CSCs) will give internet free to individuals and institutions through BharatNet – a countrywide optical fibre network till March next year.
As revenue from traditional software services declines, the IT services provider sees opportunity in delivering digital tech-led services and increasing consulting-led revenue to 20%
CSCs or Common service centers have got permission to manage BharatNet’s last mile deployment in 1,20,000 panchayats. This means that in the panchayats where BharatNet — countrywide optical fibre network — has reached, the CSC will connect it to schools and primary health centers in the village through necessary fibre infrastructure.
Many of those laid off were mid- or upper-level techies, with low lateral skills for other industries.
The laptops will be based on Intel and AMD chipsets, a top company executive told the media during a visit to company's headquarters in Shenzhen.Laptops with AMD processors are expected to be launched in India in the first quarter of 2020 along with the global launch, the company said.
Security researcher Ibrahim Balic found that it was possible to upload entire lists of generated phone numbers through Twitter's contacts upload feature, reports TechCrunch. "If you upload your phone number, it fetches user data in return," he was quoted as saying. Most of the users were in countries like Israel, Turkey, Iran, Greece, Armenia, France and Germany.
Nasscom’s lobbying spends have risen significantly since 2015. It fluctuated between $40,000 and $150,000 between 2010 and 2014. But the tightening visa environment in the later years of US president Barack Obama and then Donald Trump appears to have compelled India’s IT industry to strengthen lobbying.
Technology companies represented by industry lobby groups had earlier flagged concerns, including how the Bill enabled the government to direct data fiduciaries or data processors to share anonymised data or non-personal data with it.
The strategy is to identify the top two-three players in datarich sectors such as banking, telecom, retail, and government and then invest towards building large-scale data platforms that use AI. IBM is also seeing high growth in its Cloud and cognitive businesses, which include portfolios such as security, AI and the internet of things.
TikTok users posting these protest videos were not so long ago shooting videos of themselves dancing, cracking jokes and playing pranks. Its young and semi-urban user base is in stark contrast to the one found on Twitter and Instagram, which is a platform of choice for urban intellectuals, activists, the media and lawyers.
Market research firm TechArc, in its forecast on 2020, said that the overall market will see 2% dip compared to sales in 2019, attributed to continuous fall in sales of feature phones as well as smart feature phones. Counterpoint Research predicts a 6-9% growth due to low demand of feature phones.
Experts say the move is part of Huawei's effort to build an alternative to Google's service suite, called Google Media Services (GMS), since there is uncertainty on the use of GMS on Huawei and Honor mobile phones following restrictions announced by the US government earlier this year.
Enter Samsung Electronics, which is planning a decade-long, $116-billion push for their business. The South Korean company is investing heavily in the next step in miniaturising semiconductors, a process called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV).
Google Pay has urged users to keep their UPI PIN a secret, download only trusted apps, and use the payment app to reach customer care. The advisory comes in the backdrop of increased cases of fraud, where money from bank accounts of users have been swindled using UPI.
Govt has set a target to increase smartphone exports to $110 billion by 2025 from $3 billion now.
Addressing media in Hyderabad on Monday, he said the Rs 1,010 crore company in revenues last fiscal will now spread its product offerings to include IoT and connected devices, including smart televisions and air purifiers.from Technology News, Latest Gadget Reviews, Gaming & Tech Videos | Times of India https://ift.tt/o3b1NzK
