Impact of Coronavirus is causing startups to struggle! All companies, from one-person proprietorship to those employing hundreds of thousands of people, established firms or start-ups, are equally struggling in these trying times. One can surely, and perhaps effectively argue about the impact which may vary on a case to case basis, however generally…
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Telecommunication in the age of Satellites
Launching satellites in to space has always been a dream endeavor. A source of national pride as well as pinnacle of decades of human engineering, space journeys are nothing short of miracles. Ever since humans took to flying, nations have attempted to conquer the space and been in a race to launch new satellites,…
Expanding Horizons by expanding reach of Broadband
A study in Equal Distribution of Internet Access A look at how Regulators, Companies and Individuals are shaping the Broadband map across America Technology and the needs of businesses and consumers continue to evolve. Over the last 2 decades of mass internet penetration, availability and affordability have become the two key cornerstones of…
Exposure Notification Express
Contact tracing with Exposure Notification Express This is part II of our blog post on Exposure Notification. Our original blog on Exposure Notification was published August 30th. Let’s look at the Background Public Health Agencies around the world and especially in US have had little success with using mobile phones based technology to…
Exposure notification
Image Credit: University of South Florida Exposure notification and Contact Tracing: Essential tools As the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the world, Governments, Organizations and People all over the World are trying desperately to break the vice like grip of this deadly pandemic. With more than 830,000 people dead and 25…
Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence: A deeper look
Whenever there is a talk of infusing technology, automation and intelligence in to tasks or processes, the solutions proposed fall in to two broad buckets. The first is the conventional use of the term Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and cognitive learning, which typically work outside human intervention and are largely driven…
Content Moderation and Social Media
Whats the problem! Image Credit: Adweek All content platforms and social media companies must keep the content flowing because that is the business model: Content captures attention, provides viewership and generates data (users’ statistics). Content is the starting and the end point of consumers’ journeys on social media. A video, an information post, a…
Privacy and partnerships: Apple WWDC 2020
Image Credit: Techcrunch In an industry which is not limited by any conventional restraints, Apple® has once again proven to the thought and market leader in promoting what it’s users want. It is not however what Apple® has promised to do, as its customer and user-centricity is quite legendary, rather it’s the timing of…
Social Media and managing content!
This article offers a critical view of how content available on the internet quintessentially shapes public opinions and provides an unique challenge to governments around the world. Introduction The Social media today has a very different impact potential than it used to 10 years ago. Today the social media is capable of influencing country-wide elections,…
Big Tech, content moderation and regulations – Three way road!
Big Tech controls lives yet has difficulty controlling what it hosts! Introduction When Mark Zuckerberg wrote the oped in WAPO in March 2019 asking for government and regulators to step in more aggressively to police the internet, he may have elaborated what many insiders feel regarding governing internet, and specifically what content is uploaded…