Technology

Expressing concern over increasing intervention by governments to access consumer data, software giant Microsoft today said regulations need to keep pace with rapidly changing technology to secure and protect privacy of individuals. Microsoft, like its peers Google, Apple and Facebook, has been strongly advocating for protecting security of customers and their information. “Governments have a fundamentally important role in striking ... Read More »

Volvo, the Swedish luxury carmaker, today announced to bring the world’s first car without keys from 2017. The company will offer a mobile application to all its customers to replace the physical key with a digital key. The new Bluetooth-enabled digital key will allow customer’s to perform everything that a physical key currently does such as locking or unlocking doors ... Read More »

When used correctly, technology can make customers’ lives much easier and happier – and that’s great news for your business. Whether it’s creating an app that gives customers real-time information or offering different ways for customers to make a transaction, companies are experimenting with various technologies to boost the overall customer experience, both in-store and through mobile. Here are five ... Read More »

“Clever Buoy,” as the shark warning system has been called, is a joint research project led by Perth, Australia-based Shark Mitigation Systems, Optus and Google. The creation of these buoys follows heightened concerns about shark attacks along the Australian east coast. In 2015 there were 18 attacks in Australia – the most since 2009, when there were 22. A sonar emitter, ... Read More »

Discussions of the “digital divide” often touch on race and ethnicity – and the narrative is often that whites lead in technology adoption while other racial or ethnic groups struggle to keep up. But a new analysis of four Pew Research Center surveys conducted in 2015 finds that this isn’t true for one group: English-speaking Asian Americans adopt a number of ... Read More »

The technology landscape is constantly changing; ensuring that the work your technology department does today will not require a complete overhaul a year from now is a more complex task than ever before. Apart from strict documentation and frequent updates, there are a few strategies developers and technology leaders can take to better future–proof their design and engineering work. Here, members of ... Read More »

Scientists have developed a new technology that could help connect every household to very high speed internet at lower costs. The innovative technology will help address the challenges of providing households with high bandwidths while future proofing infrastructure against the exponentially growing demand for data, researchers said. While major advances have been made in core optical fibre networks, they often ... Read More »

The one-day event will take place April 9th at KTH and will be open to girls ages 11 through 18. This year’s festival will feature 28 workshops and activities covering a variety of topics like space exploration, music production, game design, 3D printing, robot programming and protein purification. Robyn will also perform at the end of the festival as part ... Read More »

The evolution of how businesses are run and the transition of HR, from being a pure play administrative function to personnel management and then HRD have been phenomenal. The challenge is for the function to move beyond its current position and focus on the domain while partnering with businesses. It is imperative for HR practitioners to either gear up to ... Read More »

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the usage of technology by the income tax department has reduced human interface between assessees and tax officers and helped eliminate malpractices. The Central Processing Centre (CPC) in Bengaluru, which processes e-filed returns, has the capacity to handle about five lakh returns a day, he said. ”Already about 3.6 crore returns have been processed through this medium ... Read More »