Signalling Apple’s plans to reduce dependency on external Cloud services, the company’s executive Eric Billingsley, who was in charge of operating infrastructure for iCloud services, including the iCloud Drive document storage service, has left the company. Billingsley’s old team now reports to engineering vice president Patrice Gautier, CNBC reported citing industry sources late Friday. Billingsley’s group relied to a degree on external public Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to handle the computing needs of iCloud services. Data centre infrastructure in the past had been “a bit of a problem child”, a source was quoted as saying. Patrick Gates, another executive who reports to…
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Amazon will host the next Great Indian Festival sale for Diwali from October 14 to October 17, the same days arch rival Flipkart will have its own sale. The Amazon sale will offer discounts and deals on products in categories like smartphones, TVs, laptops, accessories, headphones, speakers, and other electronics. Along with these, shoppers can also get deals on home appliances, home décor etc. As has become the staple for online sales nowadays, Amazon will be offering no cost EMIs on as many as 30,000 products, exchange discounts, and cashbacks on Amazon Pay (up to Rs. 500) and SBI credit and debit cards (10 percent) in its Diwali sale.…
Flipkart has announced the dates of its next big festive sale – named the Big Diwali Sale. The Flipkart sale will start on October 14 and end on October 17, and will offer deals and discounts across categories such as mobile phones, electronics, fashion, home and furniture, etc. In fact, the company is already hosting a sale on TVs and home appliances, which will continue when the Diwali sale comes around. No prizes for guessing that Amazon is hosting a sale on the same dates as well. Flipkart sale will see flat discounts, exchange offers, 20 percent cashback on PhonePe (maximum Rs. 200), 10…
Amazon has kick started its second festive sale of the season, with discounts and deals on more than 10 crore products across various categories. Users of the e-commerce platform can get great deals on electronics, consumer durables, fashion, home & kitchen, among many others via the Amazon website and app. Apart from the flat discounts, the Amazon sale will allow consumers to get more bang for the buck via exchange offers, cashbacks on Citi Credit and Debit cards (minimum spending Rs. 3,000, maximum cashback Rs. 2,000) as well as Amazon Pay balance (maximum Rs. 450), and no-cost EMI options. If you are in the market for a smartphone,…
Do you love gadgets? And people talking about gadgets? And unscripted gadget demos that flirt with the possibility of complete disaster? Well, we’ve got a show for you. We’re taking Circuit Breaker, The Verge’s gadget blog, and bringing it to Twitter as an hour-long weekly live show. Paul Miller, Ashley Carman, Jake Kastrenakes, Chaim Gartenberg, and I will be putting as many gadgets as we can on screen, taking your questions, and generally causing as much gadget-related chaos as we can, every Tuesday at 4PM ET. [“Source-timesofindia”]
The Bihar School Examination Board has made the Aadhaar number or the number of any other valid identity card compulsory for filling up the forms for class 10 and 12 exams from the year 2018. Representative image The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has now made the Aadhaar number or the number of any other valid identity card compulsory for filling up the forms for class 10 and 12 exams from the year 2018. It has been done following the embarrassment which the Board had to face due to the age-forgery by this years’ deposed class 12 (arts) topper…
The directorate of education said that “participation was high” though there was no definitive figure on the participation of parents and students in the PTM. Representative Image The AAP-led Delhi government on September 1 organised this academic year’s first mega Parents-Teachers-Meeting (PTM) in its 1,041 schools. According to reports, the comeback of class 10 board exam was the most discussed topic at the PTM. Not only in building a bond between teachers and parents, the mega meeting aims to start a positive dialogue and it is hoped that parents will feel proud that they are also part of the…
Towards the end of each year, we host our awards ceremony to reveal the best gadgets from the previous 12 months. The EE Pocket-lint Gadget Awards is now in its 13th year and we’re now ready to reveal the products that have caught our eye so much they have made our final shortlist. These are the products for each of the 19 categories that you can vote on yourself. Your vote, plus those of industry experts, will be combined to find the overall winner for each category come the official EE Pocket-lint Gadget Awards ceremony on 14 November. You can register…
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has declared the results of entrance test for admission to its research programme (MPhil/PhD)on its official website. The exam was conducted on August 20, 2017. Steps to check the results: 1) Visit the official website of IGNOU 2) Click on link for entrance test result for admission to research programme(MPhil/PhD)in the alerts section 3) Enter nine digit enrolment number 4) Click on submit 5) Result will be displayed on the screen 6) Take a printout and save it on your computer Note: The entrance test is qualifying in nature. Qualifying the entrance test does not entitle the candidate…
Not only in schools, but teachers will now also be able to track whether students are actually studying at home. Around 5000 students of Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country studying in class 8 are being provided tablets on a pilot basis. Students will use them especially for science and mathematics. According to a senior KV official, the tablets are enabled with multi-device management software that can be used by the teachers to find out whether the student used the tablet at all for studying, what material was accessed and for what duration. The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry will…