There are >1.3 billion reasons to make technology accessible. Disability could be permanent, temporary or situational. The legal, ethical and moral imperatives for accessible tech has been well-known and established. It took a black swan event to put accessibility at the core of businesses. With the advancements in technology, there is significant opportunity as well …
5G will usher in higher bandwidth, broader coverage and lower latency. With 5G deployments accelerating across the world, and potentially soon in India, enterprises need to ensure their cloud and edge strategy, as well as evolve their secure and nimble data centre infrastructure. This, in turn, will enable them to manage the data explosion, while …
As of today, all the individual elements that constitute metaverse are in place. Take, for instance, extended reality (XR) or automated systems. As we move forward, all these isolated experiences will combine into one seamless, interoperable and interchangeable experience over the metaverse, with the digital permeating the physical world experiences. That said, we will see …
As India kicks off local manufacturing of semiconductors to cut dependency on China, the shortage of raw material amid the Russia-Ukraine war, which, if lingers for a longer period of time, may hamper the country’s dream to produce high-end semiconductors and become their global hub. The government recently set up the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) …
Scott Jarkoff is Director, Strategic Threat Advisory Group, APJ & EMEA, at CrowdStrike. Scott is instrumental in helping customers operationalize and integrate threat intelligence within their organization’s security strategy, demonstrating the value of CrowdStrike intelligence capabilities. Based in Tokyo, he leads both the APJ and EMEA regions. I recently had a free-wheeling conversation with Scott …
Google is acquiring cybersecurity firm Mandiant for $5.4Bn. “Organizations around the world are facing unprecedented cybersecurity challenges as the sophistication and severity of attacks that were previously used to target major governments are now being used to target companies in every industry. We look forward to welcoming Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our …
At the MWC 2022, I got a hands-on opportunity to try out OPPO’s Air Glass, an AR product that OPPO terms as ‘assisted reality’ as against the full-blown augmented reality that most brands are working-on towards the metaverse. OPPO’s Air Glass was debuted at OPPO’s INNO Day event. The OPPO Air Glass is one of …
At the MWC 2022, HTC VIVE unveiled many new innovations, including updates on its 5G advances, in-car VR-based entertainment, location-based entertainment, as well as the latest updates to the HTC’s vision of the metaverse, the Viverse. HTC’s vision of the metaverse – the Viverse HTC defines the Viverse as an open metaverse platform that offers …
I am excited about attending the biggest global mobile tech industry show, the MWC 2022. The pandemic forced GSMA to cancel the MWC 2020, and curtail the MWC 2021 event. At a time when the world appreciates what ubiquitous connectivity entails, this first major in-person event in the post-pandemic world is one that we are …
The WF-1000XM4 true wireless (TWS) earbuds from Sony come with the best of everything that one seeks in a premium TWS device. What I love about the WF-1000XM4 is that it is an overall strong premium proposition that packs a punch. Take, for instance, the design aesthetics of the WF-1000XM4. It screams premium with that …