536 new malware families and a further 616 new variants affecting the Android platform were detected.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
Xiaomi Inc said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books after a report by a computer security firm said the Chinese budgetsmartphone maker was taking personal data without permission.
As Indian IT service entities mature into multi-billion dollar organisations employing thousands, the pressure has increased on them from clients to identify and solve customer problems than working on predefined parameters.
Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but sceptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
There is a high demand for IT professionals who can envision, design and develop applications for the future.
Did you know that a food security officer in a leading company can earn upto $84,000 a year by just protecting data?
The US president's stance on immigration could lead to a change in H1B visa rules.
'What we are going to see is a large number of white collar jobs getting lost.' 'Job loss can drive people to depression, drugs, alcoholism and even suicide as there is no one to turn to when they are down.' 'There is no in-between now -- things go from a luxurious lifestyle to no lifestyle.'
Online and mobile based personal finance applications have gained importance over the past few years.
Cyber security sleuths have warned Indian Internet users against a potent Trojan virus in the social media and email circuit which stealthily encrypts important documents of the user and then asks for a 'ransom' to unlock proprietary messages.
'Adaptability is what is needed right now and students have to continuously learn the new tools to remain relevant in the career they choose.'
Find out which devices are most vulnerable.
Traditionally, financial institutions have operated risk functions in silos. However, the nature of unknown threats today requires industry participants to work together, says Vikram Limaye.
After returning from Nepal, a group of 12 pilgrims on Thursday narrated their "near-death" experience as they recalled the April 25 earthquake due to which colossal structures fell like "pack of cards".
The threat of landslides and mudslides remains high in the earthquake-hit Nepal in the coming weeks, and the risk is likely to increase when the monsoon rains arrive this summer, scientists have warned.
Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
United States space agency NASA said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India's ISRO.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
With thousands of people receiving ransom messages from cybercriminals every day, Devangshu Dutta explains how you can defeat the hackers.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
These include Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, and Harman International Chairman Dinesh Paliwal.
Over 5 million alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai University and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, plan to raise Rs 21,000 crore to start the world's largest infection testing lab in Mumbai.
Stringent action should also be taken against persons involved in terrorism and their extradition should be ensured, he said.
Shah said the BJP-led government had only brought an amendment to the law which was enacted by thr Congress and whose provisions were later made stringent.
Indians may adopt wait-and-watch policy in first year.
It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961, when United States President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Here are some lesser-known facts about the historic first mission:
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
After years of disrepair, R K Narayan's house is inching towards becoming a memorial.
Despite lay-offs and the threat of automation, the industry will continue to be an important driver of growth in employment and GDP, says Ashok Soota.
'I want France to remain itself. The barbarians who attack France would like to disfigure it. They will not make it change.'
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Microsoft said Nadella will get a total compensation of $84.30 million for the fiscal year ended June 2014, significantly up from the $7.66 million he received in 2013.
For those who find the online facility difficult, there is an electronic tutorial, and staff to assist you.
Microsoft saw its shares fall 2.6% on Monday.
'It's like your own private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself. This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'
Building front-end and stitching it with back-end is a task that IT firms are learning the hard way, finds Raghu Krishnan.
'The Vajpayee personae is so mirrored in Modi's initiatives that one wonders if the similarities are merely a coincidence or a divine design,' says RSS ideologue Tarun Vijay.
Did you know that India is among the top five countries in food processing?
Over 650,000 emails have been found on a laptop shared by Hillary Clinton's close aide and her husband as the Democratic presidential nominee's woes escalated just over a week before the election with the Federal Bureau of Investigation set to review the newly-discovered data.
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