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Airtel BlueJeans video conferencing app is here, set to take on Reliance’s JioMeet, Zoom  !!

Airtel on Tuesday announced a partnership with US-based telecom giant Verizon. As a part of this partnership Verizon is bringing its BlueJeans video-conferencing solution in India. Airtel BlueJeans, as the newly launched video-conferencing solution is called, it is available only to the enterprises. This is quite similar to video-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx and Microsoft Teams that are available only to businesses. As far as from the features are concerned, Airtel BlueJeans comes with a host of features that make it make an ideal for the enterprises. For starters, it can…

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Google is planning a big change to how you play music on Chrome !!

Google is ‘shaking up’ the way you watch videos and listen to the music on Chrome and is soon going to let you control playback without having to switch tabs. Google Chrome is going to get a new floating panel soon that it will allow users to play, pause, stop and also skip media without having to go to the particular tab where the content is playing. You will not have to stop what you are working on to control the media you are looking at or listening to. First spotted…

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PUBG Mobile updates Spectating System, makes it harder for players to cheat !!

PUBG Mobile has announced a new anti-cheat measure in the game today that is going to help improve competitiveness and crack-down hard on players who are trying to cheat. This update builds on the existing Spectating System and adds a peer review mechanism. The game server will now determine realtime if a player is visible in the view of the game host and with that information decide whether or not to transmit location data to spectators. The new update to the Spectating System resolves the possibility of cheating by manipulating the…

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Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $10 billion fund to bolster India’s digital economy !!

Bengaluru: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday (July 13) announced a $10 billion (around Rs 75,000 crore) fund to accelerate the India’s digital economy. The announcement came hours after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is worth noting that the US-based tech behemoth is all set expand its presence in the main overseas market. “Today, I’m excited to announce the Google for India Digitization Fund. Through this effort, we will invest Rs 75,000 crore, or approximately $10 billion, into India over the next 5-7 years. We’ll do…

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Google for India 2020 on July 13 at 2 pm: Where to watch the event live and what to expect !!

  Search engine giant Google will be hosting its sixth annual Google for India event on July 13. Unlike previous years, the Google for India event 2020 will be hosted virtually due to the pandemic. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and some other Google executives will be addressing the event. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications, Electronics and IT, Law & Justice will also be attending the Google for India event. Google for India 2020 live-stream details Since Google for India 2020 is limited to a virtual-only event, the…

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Amazon is delaying next video game New World by half a year after Crucible flops !!

Following scathing reviews of a computer game it released in May, Amazon is delaying its next big-budget game by at least six months. The decision represents another setback for the technology giant’s ambitions to break into the gaming industry. The next game, New World, was supposed to debut in late August but is now scheduled for spring 2021, Rich Lawrence, director of Amazon’s game studio, wrote in a blog post Friday. The company wants extra time to implement changes suggested by players who have been testing the game, he wrote….

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Google for India 2020: Sundar Pichai to deliver a special keynote on efforts to help India’s digital economy

Google will host its 6th edition of ‘Google for India’ event on July 13. This year, the event is going to be held on online and the highlight of the India-focused event will a special keynote from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. What to expect from Google for India 2020? India has continued to be one of the top markets for Google. Over the years, Google for India events have been the launchpad for the company’s new localised services and features. Last year, Google introduced Hindi support for Google Assistant, a…

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The founder who is giving Robots wings to fly !!

If you see self-driving robots getting lost, or robot-minders feverishly trying to control them from smartphones, you can put it down to a buggy navigation system based on open source software. Many robot makers skip building the autonomous navigation system because of their  complexity. They rely on “black boxes” available from companies like Bluebotics in Switzerland or cheaper alternatives from China, instead of taking months to write their own code. The black boxes can be retrofitted into various machines to turn with them into autonomous mobile robots. But the scope…

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Freshworks acquires Flint in second buyout this year !!

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) unicorn Freshworks Inc. has acquired IT orchestration & cloud management platform Flint to bolster its IT support service portfolio, Freshservice. Through this acquisition, Freshworks aims to provide greater visibility for IT teams to better manage hybrid infrastructure, optimise spend and automate employee workflows, focussing specifically on IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management (ITOM) capabilities. This is Freshworks’ second acquisition this year, after buying out AI solution provider AnsweriQ Inc. in February, which helped bolster the capabilities of Freddy AI, Freshwork’s artificial intelligence engine. In May 2019,…

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Flipkart signs MoU with Karnataka govt to promote local art, craft and handlooms !!

Homegrown e-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Friday said it has signed an MoU with Karnataka MSME and Mines department to promote the states arts, crafts and handloom sectors by bringing all of them on to e-commerce and providing market access. The partnership which is under the Flipkart Samarth programme will enable local artisans, weavers and craftsmen of Karnataka to showcase their hallmark products to a pan-India customer base, the company said in a release. Both the Government of Karnataka and the Flipkart Group will focus on creating avenues to increase business…

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