Category: Technology

Apple Maps is leaving no stones unturned to match up to Google Maps in India. Apple Maps has introduced a new “Nearby” feature for users in India just like Google Maps. The latter has been offering Nearby feature for a few years now. The new Nearby feature makes it easy for Apple Maps users to find nearby grocery stores, hospitals, medical stores, and more. Besides India, Apple rolled out the Nearby feature to 30 other countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia,…

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Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, today announced a partnership with CloudKnox Security. The Wipro and CloudKnox joint solution offering enables enterprises to proactively protect and manage their Hybrid and Multi-Cloud infrastructure by continuously detecting and remediating over-permissioned identities. Wipro Ventures, the corporate investment arm of Wipro, invested in CloudKnox through its recently announced $150M Fund II, to strengthen the strategic partnership. Rapid adoption of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud infrastructure by enterprises is leading to an increase in the attack surface area, and as…

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We are excited to announce that Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services, has partnered with Coursera to offer high-quality learning to its employees. Starting today, Capgemini’s employees in nearly 50 countries will have access to 4,000 courses on Coursera for Business. No one could have predicted the impact that COVID-19 has had on the world of work and the dramatic way it will change how businesses operate and serve customers in the long-term. For Capgemini, it has reinforced its business imperative of encouraging employees…

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Information technology (IT) services major Wipro Ltd on Monday said it will collaborate with IBM to assist their customers on a “seamless and secure” hybrid cloud journey. The co-innovation centre Wipro IBM Novus Lounge located at the former’s Kodathi campus in Bengaluru is a dedicated centre which will offer “a comprehensive suite of solutions leveraging cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and internet of things (IoT) capabilities to foster innovation for enterprises, developers and startups.” “As companies across the world continue to drive digital transformation, decision-makers must rethink radically…

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BCT Digital is a global FinTech company specializing in BFSI, predictive analytics, and risk management. BCT Digital has announced the launch of its specialized ‘Real-Time Early Warning Systems for credit monitoring’. This is to tackle the Non-Performing Assets Real Time Early Warning System for Credit Monitoring” is its AI-based upgrade to their current EWS product suite. The company aims at assisting banks and other financial institutions through its “rt360 – Early Warning System”. The system is currently being used by the top notch and reputed public and private sector banks…

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L&T Technology Services, a global pure-play engineering services company, announced that it served as a technology partner to Canada’s CogniLore Information Solutions enabling it to offer its acclaimed proLibro digital delivery tools for mass adoption by educational institutes and businesses who now face the imminent task of realigning their operations and business model for a “work from home” environment. The move is in line with the recent spurt in demand of educational institutes to deliver their age-old teaching mechanisms to the COVID-19 triggered work from home mode where academia-student engagement…

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HCL Technologies recently announced its intent to acquire Cisco’s Self-Optimizing Network (SON) technology. This acquisition, which comprises of products and services built on Cisco’s SON technology, will help HCL meet the growing needs of its customers in the telecommunications industry, which includes tier-one communications service providers globally, by adding the power of Cisco’s SON’s multi-vendor multi-technology and application support to its clients. The Cisco SON technology is a powerful platform that uses machine learning and a set of applications to automate the Radio Access Network (RAN). It helps customers boost…

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Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held ThousandEyes, Inc. headquartered in San Francisco, CA. ThousandEyes’ Internet and Cloud intelligence platform delivers deep visibility and insights into the digital delivery of applications and services over the Internet. “The last few years have seen a rapid acceleration of Cloud adoption, widespread use of SaaS applications, and a reliance on the Internet and networks outside of enterprise control. This increased dependence on the Internet and other third-party infrastructures, compounded over the past several months during the COVID-19 pandemic, substantially reduces the…

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Paytm has announced a partnership with Vodafone idea and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to enable feature phone users to recharge their numbers using UPI ID. This should be useful especially among the elderly citizens and in rural areas that rely on a feature phone for communication and also eliminates the need to visit a store for top-ups. It is based on NPCI’s payment service and works on the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel. To do this, feature phone users will first need to setup a UPI ID.…

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