India’s competitive IT labor inducing cyber criminals

New Delhi: July 15, 2017 As the country’s estimated $150 billion IT services industry is becoming the world’s favoured outsourcing centre, India is emerging as a popular destination for cyber data theft and may witness growing activity of hackers. Data theft is one of the biggest risks posed before the companies in the banking sector. […]

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

By Gartner New Delhi: Feb 10, 2016 Widespread failures in realizing return on investment (ROI) in digital technologies for customer experience could create a sense of distrust among buyers and decision makers in India about the potential for digital business, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 80 percent of consumer-facing companies will […]

Digital revolution in India opportunity for US firms

PTI ?Boston (US) ? ? Last Updated: February 7, 2016 ? Asserting that India is sitting on the cusp of a digital revolution, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has exhorted senior executives of leading American IT firms to take advantage of the ‘Digital India’ initiative and tap the growth opportunities in the country. “India is […]

China domain “.cn” becomes world’s largest

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — China’s country code domain “.cn” is now the world’s most commonly used. It had 16.36 million users by the end of last year, topping Germany’s “.de,” according to data released on Friday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which manages the domain. The .cn domain is also world […]

Digital technologies are the backbone for RTI

ICTpost Governance Bureau As natural resources and readily available, easily transformable energy were the raw materials out of which the Industrial Revolution was forged, so Information and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are the raw materials out of which the Information Revolution is being forged. And just as the Industrial Revolution was transformative of all […]

China’s supercomputer growth is thundering while US is losing steam

China’s supercomputer growth is thundering while US is losing steam

For the sixth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the worlds No. 1 system, according to the 46th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Overall, change at the top of the list is again minor, with only […]

Five Things to Grow India’s Digital Commerce Market

Five Things to Grow India’s Digital Commerce Market

New Delhi: November 4, 2015 Customer experience, product range, delivery, payment and customer service are the top five things Indian digital commerce players should focus on to grow their business, according to Gartner, Inc. “Digital commerce is at a nascent stage in India, and it accounts for less than 1 percent of total retail sales […]

With the emergence of Internet of Things, energy harvesting will be a critical component for electrification

Mumbai: November 1, 2015? In response to growing demands from customers, partners and consumers, many organizations are moving beyond corporate social responsibility as a philanthropic activity, according to Gartner, Inc. They are integrating green- and sustainability-related initiatives into their core business operations. ?Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment, allowing organizations […]

Indian Railway Knowledge Portal : Step towards ICT convergence in Indian Railways

ICTpost News Network New Delhi: October 1, 2015 Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu recently launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal namely www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in which has aggregated most of the available knowledge about Indian Railways at one location and has also tried to encompass as much knowledge as possible, by linking websites, documents etc. for dissemination of […]

Internet of Things will Change Cybersecurity Forever

New Delhi: September 3, 2015 Over 20 percent of enterprises will have digital security services devoted to protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of Things (IoT) by year end 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines digital security as the risk-driven expansion and extension of current security risk practices that protect […]