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…
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…
Architectural Innovation – Change is hard!
What’s common between World War tank Blitzkrieg on the battlefronts of Europe and modern organizations’ historical fumbles with disruptive technologies Image Source: Internet The Blitzkrieg Major JFC Fuller, then 37 years of age, was posted at the Somme battlefield in France at the time of WWI in 1916. On that battlefield, Major Fuller observed…
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…