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April 18, 2016 Reliance Jio to Soft Launch in April, Roll Out Completely by December: UBS
Amid speculation over the actual date of the roll-out of Reliance Jio 4G telecom services, a top global financial services firm, UBS, said while soft launch was expected by the end of this month, the full commercial offering was expected by December. “Contrary to market belief that Jio has started rolling out 4G SIMs commercially, […]
ALL DEALS April 18, 2016 BSNL Says Gearing Up to Launch 4G Services in 14 Telecom Circles
State-owned BSNL is gearing up to launch 4G services in 14 telecom circles where it has 20MHz liberalised broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum. The company, which has already soft launched 4G services in Chandigarh, is exploring two methods – revenue sharing model and capex model – for the 4G rollout. The company has 20MHz liberalised […]
COMPUTERS April 17, 2016 Intel Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs: Report
Intel Corp is planning to cut thousands of jobs this spring, including reducing headcount in some business units by double-digit percentages, news website Oregonlive said, citing sources inside the company familiar with the plan. The job cuts at the world’s largest chipmaker this year will be considerably larger than the more than 1,100 US jobs […]
NEWS April 16, 2016 In Andhra and Telangana, workers continue to toil through hot hours, despite heat warnings
From auto drivers in Hyderabad to farmers in Nalgonda, many make their own provisions against the heat despite new heat action plans set up by the states. Image credit: Vivek Nemana More than 111 people have already died across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from sunstrokes. Following last year’s devastating heat wave that claimed over 2,000 lives […]
ALL DEALS April 15, 2016 Bill Gates Says He Memorised Employees’ Licence Plates to Track Them
Gates, who is now co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, described his intense management style from Microsoft’s early days during an interview to BBC Radio. “I worked weekends, I didn’t really believe in vacations,” Gates said of his early years at the helm of Microsoft. “I had to be a little careful not […]
ALL DEALS April 15, 2016 Xerox to Split Into Two, Icahn to Get Board Seats in One
Xerox Corp said it would split into two companies, one holding its legacy hardware operations and the other its business process outsourcing unit, in which activist investor Carl Icahn will get three board seats. Icahn, who first revealed a stake in Xerox in November, had said he would seek representation on the company’s board as […]
NEWS April 15, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
ALL DEALS April 13, 2016 Hyundai, Kia to Develop AI-Based Intelligent Car
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors on Tuesday announced a plan to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based, Internet-connected car to create a new future lifestyle with a “driving, high-performing computer”. The driving computer means a car will become a high-performing computer itself as the car, to be developed by Hyundai and […]
NEWS April 13, 2016 SpaceX to Launch First Cargo Since 2015 Accident
Nine months after a SpaceX rocket exploded on the way to the International Space Station, the California-based company is counting down to the launch Friday of another flight to resupply astronauts in orbit. The unmanned Dragon capsule is poised to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:43pm (8:43pm GMT or 2:13am IST, Saturday) atop […]
HOME & GARDEN April 13, 2016 Isro to Start Monitoring Water Bodies in Tribal Areas
In a first, Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) will monitor and map the water bodies in tribal belts in the country to help tackle irrigation crisis faced by tribal farmers, a union minister said on Thursday. The initiative has been taken up jointly by the tribal affairs ministry and of the NRSC of the […]
NEWS April 12, 2016 Apple Watch 2 Tipped to Launch at WWDC; New iPhone 7 Details Emerge
An analyst has claimed that Apple may refresh the Apple Watch in June at its annual developer conference – WWDC. In addition, new details about the next iPhone have emerged, claiming a better battery than previous generations as well as a thinner body. Analyst Brian White has issued his research notes (via MacRumors) with predictions […]
COMPUTERS April 12, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
