From electric scooters to facial recognition and deepfakes, 2019 saw several new technology trends come to the fore, even if their full consequences are yet to be entirely realised. But what can we expect in 2020? As we enter a new decade, The Telegraph’s technology writers bring you their predictions for the year ahead. ... Read More »
New Delhi: IT major HCL Technologies (HCL) and Google Cloud on Thursday announced the launch of HCL’s Google Cloud Business Unit to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption worldwide. This dedicated business group within HCL will be supported by engineering, solutions, and business teams from Google Cloud and will help organizations advance their ... Read More »
New Delhi: As part of India’s energy security plan, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is exploring newer battery technologies such as polymer-based solid state batteries that may allow India to avoid dependence on lithium or cobalt imports. This comes in the backdrop of Chinese state-owned firms securing lithium mine concessions ... Read More »
Personalized cancer vaccines. Lab-grown meat. Toilets that save lives. Wearable electrocardiograms. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates says these are among the technologies that are going to change the world we live in. Gates curated the 18th edition of the MIT Technology Review’s annual roundup of “recent technology breakthroughs that are poised to deeply ... Read More »
With Major Defence Partner status, India will be offered simplified licensing requirements With U.S. designating India as a Major Defence Partner (MDP), licensing regulations to acquire sensitive military technologies, such as those that go into the F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, will be simplified. An official said on Friday that ... Read More »
The digitisation amongst enterprises leads to increasing adoption of startup technologies. With 50 percent of enterprise-ready startups, banking, retail, and healthcare are the top adopters of the enterprise technology solutions, according to the Ecosystem Report on Enterprise ReadyStartups 2016 released by Microsoft Accelerator. In the wake of digital transformation across ... Read More »
IBM has acquired Sanovi Technologies in order to ramp up the firm’s hybrid cloud disaster recovery facilities. Big Blue announced the buyout on Wednesday, stating the deal will “enhance IBM resiliency capabilities with the help of advanced analytics to meet complexities of hybrid environments.” Financial terms of the purchase were ... Read More »
Mumbai: Capillary Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which offers customer relationship management software and marketing analytics for retailers, has acquired Sellerworx Online Services Pvt. Ltd for an undisclosed amount in a stock and cash deal to strengthen its product portfolio. “Apart from offline retailers, we are now able to offer products to ... Read More »
Bengaluru-based Capillary Technologies, which offers solutions that help consumer brands increase customer reach, engagement, sales, and loyalty, announced the acquisition of Sellerworx, an e-commerce technology services firm. (From left to right) Venkat Potluri, Ganesamurthi and Chandramouli According to Capillary, the acquisition will help the technology platform in fortifying its omni-channel product portfolio. With ... Read More »
As Tesla founder Elon Musk promises to change the world, starting with giant battery factory in the Nevada desert, investors from Toronto to Tokyo are quietly developing the next-generation technologies that may actually get him there. Batteries, especially the lithium-ion variety used in mobile phones and electric cars, are likely to dominate ... Read More »
On September 8, 1966, NBC aired the first episode of a new TV series about a starship on a five year mission of space exploration. Today, Star Trek turns 50. The first episode told of an endangered shape-shifting, salt-sucking alien posing as a human woman to lure prey to its ... Read More »
While advanced technology is transforming developed world healthcare, in developing nations well-applied simpler technology can be vital. Here are some innovative ideas that could have a big impact How can we save more lives and treat more illnesses in the world’s poorest and most remote communities? One simple answer is ... Read More »
