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,…
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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…
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…
Scrum vs Kanban: identical yet miles apart!
Scrum vs Kanban: identical yet miles apart! Introduction Any IT product, application or software development effort is made up of stakeholders who are invested in the success of the product. These stakeholders typical comprise customers or users, executives, development team comprising architects, product owners, analysts, Ux/ UI developers, software developers, testers, etc. In…
Transform to market realities: Leading the Microsoft way!
Microsoft has mostly been recognized as the industry leader in technology and innovation. Having cornered 90% of world personal computer market and having massively popular enterprise services as a cash cow meant that Microsoft always carried significant advantage over its competitors and peers. It could literally burn few billions in cash and not break…
Is Security better in Cloud?
Introduction A little more than a decade ago when the term Cloud, Cloud computing, and other terms associated with enterprise IT systems started to become part of technical discussions and mainstream IT topics, most IT professionals and managers, let aside outsiders, acted more in disbelief than with optimism. The initial reactions to Cloud computing and…
Agile Mindset
Agile Mindset -: Understanding principles before leading Introduction A mindset, or state of mind, is a set of beliefs, thoughts, biases, assumptions and values held by an individual or a group of individuals that leads the individual or the group respectively towards the choices they make. The Humans are most comfortable in choosing paths…
Agile, Lean and Design Thinking
Erasing and drawing lines: Agile, Lean and Design thinking Introduction Agile and Lean are some of the most commonly used terms in SDLC lifecycle. Often these terms are used interchangeably or as complimentary to each other. There are similarities as well as points of divergence between these approaches, and it takes years of practical…