NEW DELHI: Indian employers are likely to step up their hiring activities over the next three months, especially with IT & ITes segment expected to go on a robust recruitment drive, says a report. The Employment Outlook Survey by job portal MyHiringClub.com says that Indian companies are expecting the hiring pace for the upcoming […]
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WHAT IS 5G? 5G is the short for fifth generation, a mobile broadband technology that is in the early stages of works and likely to be in place six to seven years from now. A 5G network will be able to handle 10,000 times more call and data traffic than the current 3G or 4G […]
WASHINGTON: It started with hactivists defacing websites and a e-mails pointing users to links that stole data. Soon, Ragnar Rattas and his team of Estonian computer security experts were battling the heaviest and most sophisticated cyberattacks they had ever encountered. As the situation worsened, they abandoned some networks including a major public facing […]
BOSTON: In an unprecedented, three-year cyberespionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries, a cyberintelligence firm said. ISight Partners, which uncovered the operation, said the hackers’ targets include a four-star US Navy admiral, US […]
The US government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with researchers working on the project. The Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning project called the Biometric Optical […]
Microsoft’s acquisition of handset major Nokia’s phone division has drawn a lot of interest in the tech and business world. Will beleaguered Nokia be better able to succeed at what it could not as a standalone player? Will Microsoft be able to rewrite its smartphone story now & compete better with Apple and Google? These […]
The popular messaging app WhatsApp has launched voice massaging, a new feature that allows users to record and send audio messages on their smartphones. Said to be a brainchild of the US-based company’s co-founder and CEO Jan Koum, the new feature allows users to just hold to record a message and release to send […]
Facebook’s quest to be a personalized newspaper for the internet age continued on Tuesday with tweaks aimed at making sure members spy hot stories from their friends. Changes to the leading social network’s formula for figuring out which posts will be of interest included “bumping” up potentially intriguing stories that went unnoticed during prior […]
A city-based scientist has come up with a concept of a ” solar summer shirt” which will come with with inbuilt solar cells and fans to keep the wearer cool during hot days. “We are trying to develop technology to fix small solar cells either into the fibre of a shirt or in its […]