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Google, US govt. in pact to develop chips for researchers

The US Commerce Department said it has reached a cooperative research and development agreement with Alphabet Inc’s Google to produce chips that researchers can use to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices. The deal was signed between the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Google. ...

Instagram rolls out parental supervision tools

Meta-owned platform, Instagram on Thursday rolled out supervision tools in India to help parents be more involved in their teenage children’s experience on the image-sharing platform. The platform said it is working with experts, parents, guardians, and young people in India to understand needs. The supervision tools allow parents and guar...

Meta introduces ‘Community Chats’ for messenger

Meta announced Discord service-like ‘Community Chats’ for Messenger and Facebook groups. Large Facebook messenger groups can now organize chats into categories — real-time audio and video channels, and admin-only chats for announcements and events. Community Chats, introduced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is sim...

Zoom rolls out new features, renames chat product

Zoom Video Communications announced that it has renamed its chat product to Zoom Team Chat, and added new features. The move comes as a push to compete with its counterparts—WeChat Work, Microsoft Team and Slack. Zoom Team Chat will include features where users will be able to share in-meeting chat to Team Chat...

IBM, Airtel tie up to power Indian enterprises in 5G era

As India prepares for the 5G rollout, Cloud major IBM and telecom-to-media company Bharti Airtel announced the deployment of Airtel’s edge computing platform in the country, which will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities. To begin with, the Airtel edge computing platform, backed by IBM Cloud Satellite, will power Maruti Suzuki's...

Jio gets DoT nod to offer voice, data services via satellite

Reliance Jio Infocomm's satellite unit has received a letter of intent (LoI) from the Department of Telecoms (DoT) for satellite communication services, according to industry sources. The LoI was issued to Jio Satellite Communications Ltd (JSCL) on Monday, sources informed. An email sent to Reliance Jio for commen...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!