IT news
Microsoft plans to invest $5 billion in IoT
05 Apr 2018
Improve information security by giving your employees more options
27 Mar 2018
Computer users at home and at work often engage in behaviours that create security risks and privacy threats, despite having a variety of security options available
The path of ransomware payments exposed
24 Mar 2018
Ransomware attacks, which encrypt and hold a computer user's files hostage in exchange for payment, extort millions of dollars from individuals each month, and comprise one of the fastest-growing forms of cyber attack
AI will gradually eat into jobs: Raghuram Rajan
23 Mar 2018
India’s cyber security chief does not trust internet banking
16 Mar 2018
India’s cyber security chief Gulshan Rai revealed that he does not trust internet banking and keeps a low balance in his account avoid fraud
Japan to hire 200,000 IT professionals this year
09 Mar 2018
GitHub hit with largest DDoS attack
03 Mar 2018
Govt backs Nasscom initiative to train 4 mn IT employees in emerging tech
20 Feb 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Nasscom’s Future Skills platform that seeks to impart new skills on IT employees to make them ready for future jobs with eight new technologies emerging
Under new tax laws, Cisco to bring back $67 bn to US
16 Feb 2018
Cisco investors are set for a windfall of about $44 billion as it becomes the latest big US company to map out plans to bring home cash that has been stashed overseas for years
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation