The SmartGPA app automatically predicts college students' grade point average based on their cellphone data that tracks their study, party and other habits.
Microsoft also took a charge of $940 million related to job cuts announced this month and last year.
Microsoft Research India's MD Sriram Rajamani tells Alnoor Peermohamed & Raghu Krishnan how India can reap the benefits of the changing industry.
Nadella showcased improvements to Cortana and announced previews of new cloud services.
Enterprise data management will be a USD 105 bn business by 2020.
Through these new hires and centres, Infosys will also focus on enhancing its play in new technology areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, user experience, cloud and big data.
The audacity of the virus has been categorised as 'severe' and cyber experts say such a malicious programme has been detected for the first time which asks for a ransom of an estimated Euro or $300 to unlock the genuine files of a user through 'anonymous pre-paid cash vouchers'.
Software employees can opt for company-run programmes, online courses, boot camps to upgrade skills.
Though India is a low-bandwidth geography with relatively low Internet penetration, it has a very large number of sophisticated surfers and skilled computer users
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The broader markets, however, outperformed their larger peers.
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Built by the French railway technology company Alstom, it will host a 90-metre-long digital wall for train operation, said to be the second largest in Asia.
Robo Brain -- a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources -- is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.
With smart mobile devices inching out desktops and laptops, global research firm Gartner has said that it expects about half of first time computer purchases to comprise of tablets by 2017.
Instead of taking a normal photograph, a user simply moves the phone around the object of interest and after a few motions, a 3D model appears on the screen.
'SAP has been an enterprise software leader for 43 years, and we don't have a competitor also in this space.'
"In a year dominated by political chaos and bluster, it was a rare brand of steady -- even quiet -- leadership that won the day in the business world. And no one epitomises that brand of obsessively results-driven, team-based leadership more than our new No. 1 Businessperson of the Year," Fortune said.
Stating that he is looking forward to working with talented Infoscions, Vishal Sikka said, "I am honoured to lead Infosys, an iconic company built by pioneers in the technology industry. I look forward to working with and learning from talented Infoscions around the world."
Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India.
With Awfis, a quirky co-working venture, and other offbeat ideas, Radha Kapoor, the daughter of the Yes Bank CEO, is taking the creative route to entrepreneurship.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Given their growth prospects and reasonable valuations, Mindtree, Hexaware and NIIT remain top picks of most analysts.
The Android version of Bitdefender Family Pack 2018 is useful, especially the anti-theft feature.
What makes Nagaraj's achievement significant is the fact that there have been only about 80 Intel Fellows globally in the 50 years of the company's operation.
'It looked as if India had been a major player in science at that time, raising the question when and why things changed,' says distinguished aerospace scientist Professor Roddam Narasimha.
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Karthik Balakrishnan, an engineering student from Bangalore spearheaded the campaign that will inspire and educate millions from across the country.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
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Traders were up in arms, fearing huge job loss if Walmart was to enter.
The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
The Hyderabad-born Nadella says it's not the AI engine, but the teams that build it as well as the algorithms to make it intelligent have to be diverse and inclusive, so that the solutions they build do not show up any sort of 'unconscious bias' that they may have.
November 12 marks 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began.
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Smart lighting is about to revolutionise the way we think of the humble bulb.
Dell, which once led the world in computer sales and was held up as a model of production-chain innovation, is increasingly resorting to price cuts to soothe customers nervous about its future and to spearhead a late foray into the enterprise computing market.
Industries with the highest number of top-rated companies at risk were hospitality/travel, media and entertainment, retail, financial services and consumer goods/manufacturing
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India also saw a decline in piracy level to 60 per cent in 2013 from 63 per cent in 2011.
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