Will 2017 be the year blockchain becomes part of the mainstream business culture? This past year has seen the technology used in various ways, and companies are throwing money behind it, but headaches and obstacles to its growth remain. Deloitte conducted an online survey of 308 senior executives at U.S. companies with $500 million or more in annual revenue to find out about corporate sentiment towards blockchain technology. Key findings from the survey showed that 28 percent of respondents had invested $5 million or more in blockchain technology, while 10 percent had invested $10 million or more. On the flip…
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In order to provide proper education to the underprivileged street children, the Maharashtra government has planned to launch ‘signal schools’. There are plans to form a committee also which will suggest measures to tackle the issue. Representative Image RELATED STORIES Microsoft Research India’s researchers named ACM fellows IIMs to provide FPM to groom faculty from the reserved category Modi government to boost higher education J&K schools: Winter vacations from December 17 In order to provide proper education to the underprivileged street children who are unable to get the same due to poor socio-economic background, the Maharashtra government has planned to…
A candidate who has three years of professional experience as a journalist and employed as a journalist by an independent news media organisation in India can apply for the fellowship Journalist Fellowship RELATED STORIES Kerala government offers 70 acres land to set up IIT Palakkad free of cost Microsoft Research India’s researchers named ACM fellows Modi government to boost higher education J&K schools: Winter vacations from December 17 Indian teacher makes it to the list of $1 million Global Teacher Prize in UK A non-profit organisation in the US founded by an Indian-American IT entrepreneur and his wife will partner…
An odd thing happened this morning. My Windows 10 PC notified me I had another system update ready and waiting for a reboot—the second update in less than a week! Turns out, this latest update fixes a big mistake that may (or may not) have rolled out earlier this month. Several Windows 10 users recently reported difficulty connecting to the Internet, with the presumed culprit being the December 9 update KB3201845. That may not be the case, however. Woody Leonhard, our colleague over at InfoWorld, says the connection issue pre-dates KB32018045 by several days. Microsoft has posted a banner warning…
The hottest technology in TV tech right now is the high-dynamic range displays, but so far HDR hasn’t made its way into computer monitors—save for a few expensive studio-grade displays. That’s set to change in January when LG says it will introduce the company’s first 4K HDR computer monitor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The display is a 32-inch ultra-high definition 3840-by-2160 monitor capable of working with everything from spreadsheets to games. LG isn’t releasing a ton of details about the monitor yet. All we do know is that the LG 32UD99 features a single USB Type-C port that…
Custom watch face app Facer now supports a third platform – Samsung’s Tizen. This allows Gear S3 users to tap into the 15,000 watch faces that close to one million Android Wear and Apple Watch users have been enjoying. The app supports Gear’s always-on feature so a full-color, fully animated watch face will be constantly visible, bringing smartwatches one step closer to classic watches. Facer 3.0 adds support for a number of new Android Wear watches as well – Asus Zenwatch 3, Moto 360 Sport, Polar M600, Nixon Mission and Michael Kors. Official Star Trek LCARS for Samsung Gear S3…
Panasonic has announced the P88 smartphone in India. A modest, but affordable model, the Panasonic P88 checks a few of the right boxes including a list price of INR 9,290 (a few dollars short of $140). The specsheet starts with a 5.3″ IPS display of 720p resolution (some 277ppi) covered with 2.5D glass by Japanese glass specialists Asahi (no gorillas there). Computing power comes from a 1.25GHz quad-core CPU inside an unnamed chipset. You also get 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, which is expandable by up to 128GB. The P88 sports a 13MP rear camera with no less…
Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design was the surprise at the Huawei’s press event that brought us the Mate 9. While sharing internals with the regular Mate 9, the Porsche Edition is as premium as it can get with a curved QHD AMOLED screen and a different body. The Mate 9 is already on sale in many countries, but the Porsche Design edition is about to hit the shelves in a month. Even though its price tag is quite hefty, there are lots of people eyeing this particular package and now we can give those fans a taste of what’s coming.…
Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Chinese authorities are about to halve the amount of cash China UnionPay bank card holders can withdraw from ATM machines in Macau, the South China Morning Post has learned. It is the latest step by Beijing to curb the flow of cash out of the country as the value of the nation’s currency weakens against the dollar. Here are other measures the authorities have taken over recent months to tackle the problem: 1. Shanghai’s municipal foreign exchange authority told bank managers in the city in November that all overseas payments under the…
It’s that time of the year for financial journalists: We are being inundated with lengthy outlook reports for the coming year. My inbox is littered with ominous warnings about how 2017 will see more uncertainty. The overwhelming theme for the year is: It’s the politics, stupid. Given the rise in populist voting in 2016, which manifested itself in the shock Brexit referendum and a surprise victory for Donald Trump in the U.S. election, investors are nervously anticipating the outcome of a hodgepodge of elections across Europe. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande (R)…