Patna has beaten Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai to top the 4G availability metric that measures where users get access to an LTE connection most of the time, a survey said on Friday. The central and eastern regions saw more cities in the top 10 list of London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal's latest 4G availability metrics. ...
New Delhi has emerged as the most hospitable Indian city, followed closely by Jaipur, Kochi and Mumbai, according to an Airbnb study. The annual Airbnb Hospitality Index revealed that the national capital saw the highest rate of success in terms of extending hospitality, with close to 80 per cent of reviewed trips in Delhi-National Capital ...
Amid an outcry over Facebook's privacy issues, a new legal framework is required across the spectrum to better identify what information is worthy of robust protection, researchers have stressed. Facebook's current data breach crisis and questions about how Google gathers, uses and stores our personal information demonstra...
Three in every five Indians admitted using mobile phones while driving. North India with 62 per cent leads as compared to South with 52 per cent, a survey said here on Friday. According to a Nissan Connected Families of India survey, only one in four Indians have admitted that they have been caught by policemen breaking this law. "O...
Key Indian equity indices traded on flat on Friday with marginal negative bias, taking cues from benchmark Asian indices. Both the BSE Sensex and the the NSE Nifty50 traded lower. "Market, taking cues from their key Asian counterparts, traded in a narrow range," said Dhruv Desai, Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tradebulls. Around 12.45...
India's tea exports grew by nearly 7 per cent to 221.54 million kg during April-February period of 2017-18 (FY18) as compared to 207.22 million kg exported in the corresponding period the previous fiscal. According to provisional data of Tea Board India, tea exports to Pakistan grew significantly to 14.13 million kg in the period under review, up...
In much-awaited relief to Reliance Communications (RCOM), the Supreme court on Thursday cleared the decks for the sale of its spectrum and optical fibre assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm as it vacated a stay granted by the High Court. The bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman vacated the stay by the ...
Indian e-tail major Flipkart on Thursday announced its tie-up with leading online travel company MakeMyTrip for travel bookings. "Through the partnership, users can now make travel bookings through MakeMyTrip's services using Flipkart's mobile application," an official from MakeMyTrip told IANS here. The partnership will be rolled out with...
Although the number of data breaches dropped by nearly 25 per cent in 2017, Cloud-related cyber attacks saw a significant 424 per cent jump largely owing to human error, a report by technology giant IBM said on Thursday. According to the report by IBM Security titled "2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index", "As cybercriminals shif...
Bharti Airtel has appointed Santanu Bhattacharya as its Chief Data Scientist, a company statement said here on Thursday. Santanu has a Ph.D. from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is an MIT Sloan and MIT Media Lab alum and BTech from IIT (Bombay). In his new role, Santanu will be responsible for leveraging data science capabi...
