Tata Consultancy Services and Bharti Airtel said they tested a 5G-enabled and automated manufacturing set-up using the trial 5G spectrum allocated by Department of Telecom. Called ‘Neural Manufacturing Suite’, the technology aims to implement a ‘lights out’ factory set-up, in which the factory produces everything by itself without human or worker supervision or intervention. This […]
Industrial automation player Marshall Machines said its promoters will sell around 3.4% of the company to raise capital to meet the company’s working capital needs. The promoters currently hold around 73.4% of the total outstanding shares, which will come down to 70% by the end of the exercise. A 3.4% stake in the company is […]
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet said it has received regulatory approval to test drones to deliver e-commerce parcels, medical, pharma and other essential supplies. “Post trials and approvals, SpiceXpress, the dedicated cargo arm of SpiceJet, plans to use drones to provide for a quicker, faster and a cost-effective delivery,” low-cost carrier said. A SpiceXpress-led consortium had submitted […]
Banking services and solutions provider Nucleus Software reported a consolidated revenue of Rs 127 crore in the fourth quarter of FY 2019, compared to the Rs 111 crore it generated in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. This is also higher than the Rs 123 crore it posted three months ago and the Rs […]
Outsourced services provider Infosys said it has made yet another investment of $1.5 mln in start-up software company TidalScale, taking the total to $3 mln. TidalScale creates software that helps ‘merge’ multiple servers (or powerful computers) into a giant and super-powerful unit. Traditionally, the need for more power has been met by ‘clustering’ servers together. […]
Videocon Wallcam has launched a CCTV solution with bundled 4G connectivity in association with Vodafone. It unveiled a 4G-enabled vehicle surveillance kit and stand-alone outdoor and indoor CCTV cameras, both with a 4G sim slot to support 4G connectivity. This ensures that the camera can be placed anywhere with 4G connectivity and only the power […]
Tata Consultancy Services said it will create applications on MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens. IoT stands for ‘Internet of Things’ and refers to connectivity between two machines over the Internet, with zero human interface. Examples include a connection between a smart electricity meter at the customer’s home and a billing computer […]
Tata Elxsi, the Tata Group’s design and technology services company, said one of the top five carmakers in the world has licensed its driverless car software for use as part of its research and development in this direction. Further details of the deal were not disclosed. “We are delighted with this latest win for AUTONOMAI […]
A technology that has been around for almost a decade is now getting deployed on a large scale by Indian telecom operators to deploy 2G, 3G and 4G networks using the same base station. This could hit the revenue and growth prospects of telecom tower companies, while reducing the number of antennas mounted on each […]
A pioneering artificial intelligence program that started getting deployed around mid-2016 has helped Wipro Ltd reduce its employee numbers by 12,000 people, the company said in its recent quarterly update. “The HOLMES platform generated productivity worth over 12,000 people,” Saurabh Govil, head of human resources for the company, said. The statistic points to a stronger-than-expected […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s network benchmarking app MySpeed is no longer listed on the Android Play Store. The link for the app throws an error saying ‘the requested URL was not found on this server’. It is not clear whether TRAI pulled the application or whether it was taken down by Google. It […]
Government of India has moved to block the signals of ABS Free Dish, a free DTH service in India, but questions remain as to how practical the move is. “Ministry of Home Affairs mentioned that the transmission of DTH service by ABS is without any application to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and not […]
Reliance Jio, the new entrant to India’s telecom landscape, is carrying nearly 80% of its traffic in the next-generation Internet technology, a senior official of the company said. Internet Protocol or IP is one of the languages used by machines to talk to each other. All machines on the Internet use this language to ‘talk’ […]
Thanks to technology, the Income Tax department is now able to track all your bank accounts in all the banks in India, and show you the details on its website. The details of your accounts can be seen on incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in — the portal used to file your income tax returns. As of now, only those […]
Reliance Jio, the new 4G operator led by Mukesh Ambani, is coming under increasing criticism for slow connection speeds, but our latest test reveals that it is possible increase the speed by making a minor change to the access settings of client devices such as smartphones. Broadly, the issue seems to be that Jio’s IPv4 […]
The government of India will introduce a star rating for mines by next month and start monitoring mining activity using satellite, said mining secretary Balvinder Kumar said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. “If (mines)y don’t get 4 or 5 star rating they will get 2-3 years to comply. By end of […]
Ten days after Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, promised to roll out a superfast activation procedure for new SIMs within “2-4 weeks”, the facility is now available in several small towns, suggesting that the company may be running ahead of schedule on its e-KYC roll-out. The new system has been rolled out with the […]
Kerala-based privately owned Federal Bank said it has started a one-minute loan facility called Digital Personal Loans. “Customers can log into Bank’s website (www.federalbank.co.in) and avail personal loans in a minute. Upon the acceptance of the offer by the customer, the loan money is credited to his account immediately,” it said. “This facility neither requires […]
Bosch, global supplier of technology and services, inaugurated the first phase of expansion of its development center at Adugodi in Bengaluru and will invest Rs 1,170 cr in 2016 in India, said the company. The company has invested around Rs 350 cr since it has revamped its oldest facility in India into a technology and […]
Ducon Infratechnologies, a technology company providing solutions in the digital and infrastructure space, signed an agreement with Zhejiang Hailiang Ecological Materials of China to market and distribute DeNOx catalyst — used to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from thermal power plants. Ducon’s DeNOx systems uses catalysis technology and control engineering for easy erection in new and […]
