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03 Jan

When The Cloud Gets Nervous: Why AI Is Quietly Packing Its Bags And Moving Onto Your Phone

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3: For years, the future of artificial intelligence has been sold like a real estate brochure for hyperscale data centres—bigger buildings, louder fans, denser racks, and electricity bills large enough to qualify as national GDP figures. The unspoken assumption was simple: intelligence must live somewhere central, expensive, and very far away from the user. And then someone said the inconvenient part out loud. The idea that AI might not need to live exclusively in distant cloud fortresses but could instead run locally on personal devices has begun to unsettle a narrative that investors, hardware giants, and…

02 Jan

Kingston Launches Dual Portable SSD Storage Solution

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 2: Kingston Technology, a world leader in memory and technology solutions, today announced it releases its first cable-free solid-state drive for those in need of an affordable and reliable, portable solution for data back-up and transfers. With the sleek look of a traditional flash drive in a compact, durable metal casing, the Dual Portable SSD can easily transfer files between USB Type-A and USB-C®1 devices such as laptops, desktops, mobile devices and more with USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds up to 1,050MB/s read and 950MB/s write2. To improve productivity and enhance your workflow, this all-in-one storage and transfer solution…

27 Dec

India needs its own narrative on AI, says filmmaker Shekhar Kapur at MICA pre-summit meet

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Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], December 27: MICA – The School of Ideas on Sunday hosted “Empowering People with Responsible AI: Skills, Trust, and Access”, a pre-summit event of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, which India will host in New Delhi in February next year. Designed in a TEDx-style format, the programme was held at the MICA campus and brought together policymakers, experts, industry leaders, technologists, academics and creative professionals to examine how India can shape an AI future that is ethical, accessible and grounded in human values. The discussions aligned with the broader themes of the upcoming India AI Impact…

24 Dec

Prof. Krishna Agarwal Shares Pioneering Arctic MedTech Innovations with Indian Parliamentary Delegation in Tromsø

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Tromsø [Norway], December 24: Prof. Krishna Agarwal, Founder & CEO of Spermotile and Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, delivered an insightful presentation on cutting-edge Arctic medical technology to a visiting group of young Indian parliamentarians during a special knowledge-exchange programme organised by ProTromsø. The event drew participation from representatives of UN Women and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, underscoring the growing interest in cross-border collaboration. The five-member Indian delegation included Mr Anup Sanjay Dhotre, Mr Putta Mahesh Kumar, Mr Sirgapoor Niranjan Reddy, Mr Gowaal Kagada Padavi and Ms Priya Saroj, currently India’s youngest MP. Their…

20 Dec

IGP Launches ‘Find My Santa’ to Transform How India Plays Secret Santa This Christmas

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 20: IGP, a global D2C multi-category gifting platform, has rolled out a new festive feature, ‘Find My Santa’, an in-house Secret Santa generator built to take the clutter and confusion out of holiday gifting. Launched just ahead of Christmas, the tool replaces the usual scribbled chits, manual coordination and last-minute chaos with a clean, fully digital, end-to-end experience. Secret Santa is fun until the scribbled chits get lost, the pairing becomes biased, three people forget to participate, and everyone scrambles at the last minute. Find My Santa fixes all of that by offering a smooth, fully…

17 Dec

Leading HR Software in India

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New Delhi [India], December 17: HROne today shared insights on why businesses across the country continue to turn to its platform as they evaluate options for the Best HR Software in India. With organizations seeking tools that help them handle payroll, attendance, recruitment, engagement and other daily HR tasks, HROne outlined how its connected set of modules and services supports teams that want clarity, accuracy and smoother operations. The company stated that this update comes at a time when HR departments want dependable systems that keep up with legal rules, internal processes and employee expectations. HROne’s team explained that its…

17 Dec

The Hidden Drain: Why Manual IT Asset Handoffs Are Costing Companies More Than They Realize

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New Delhi [India], December 17: Across offices and corporate parks, a quiet inefficiency persists behind the scenes. Despite rapid digitisation across business functions, many organisations still rely on manual processes to issue, retrieve, and track IT assets such as laptops, mobile devices, and accessories. Walk-up IT counters, informal handovers, and spreadsheet-based tracking remain common even as workforces become larger and more distributed. While these systems may appear routine, their impact is rarely measured. Employees wait for device replacements, IT teams spend hours on repetitive handoffs, and equipment often sits idle due to poor coordination. Over time, these delays and accountability…

16 Dec

Consumer Privacy Has Entered the Premium Tier

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 16: Once upon a time, privacy was implied. You bought a product, used it, and went about your day without assuming your behavior would be logged, modelled, sold, and re-marketed back to you with unsettling accuracy. That assumption is now considered quaint. Today, consumer PC has been rebranded — not as a right, not even as a baseline expectation — but as a feature. Sometimes a premium one. Sometimes optional. Occasionally, it is hidden behind a paywall that smiles politely while doing it. The message is subtle but consistent:If you want fewer eyes on you, you’ll…

15 Dec

Middle Management Wasn’t Replaced — It Was Automated

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 15: No announcement was made. No farewell email circulated. No LinkedIn post mourned the loss. It simply… happened. Reports started writing themselves. Forecasts updated without reminders. Calendars reorganised quietly overnight. Performance summaries appeared before anyone asked for them. Decisions came pre-packaged with options, risks, and a polite suggestion. Middle management didn’t get fired.It got absorbed. AI didn’t storm the executive floor like a hostile takeover. It slipped in through the productivity stack, wearing the harmless badge of “workflow optimisation,” and started doing the parts of management nobody ever romanticised. This is the uncomfortable truth many companies…

13 Dec

The Cloud Isn’t Shrinking — It’s Just Getting More Expensive to Explain

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 13: For years, cloud spending grew the way tech executives like their charts: up and to the right, no questions asked. Infrastructure moved off-prem. CFOs were promised elasticity. CIOs were promised agility. Boards were promised transformation. Everyone nodded. That phase is over. Not because the cloud failed — but because it finally grew up. Traditional cloud spending is slowing across global enterprises. Not collapsing, not reversing, just… stabilising. Growth rates are no longer theatrical. Forecasts are cautious. Budgets are being scrutinised. Usage is being audited. Finance teams are suddenly reading invoices with the same intensity they…