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Facebook to test drone `Aquila’ for internet access in remote areas
01 Aug 2015
The sun-powered Aquila drone would operate between 18km and 27km above the altitude of commercial airplanes and stay up in the air for 90 days at a time
CERT warns internet users over ‘Golroted’ virus
27 Jul 2015
Google to give eligible start-ups free patents
24 Jul 2015
Microsoft lets revenge porn victims to remove sexually explicit images from cloud services
24 Jul 2015
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WTO members seal trillion-dollar IT trade deal
24 Jul 2015
The addition of about 200 high tech products in the updated Information Technology Agreement (ITA) will benefit technology companies like General Electric Co, Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments Inc, Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co
WIPRO net profit rises 4% to Rs2,190 crore
24 Jul 2015
Security researchers hijack cars remotely
23 Jul 2015
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Apple's Q3 net rises 38% to $10.7 bn, but market disappointed
22 Jul 2015
The California-based company also saw its cash and investments break past $200 billion for the first time as its ability to create wealth continued amidst lacklustre performance by tech majors like Microsoft
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Microsoft bets on booming cloud revenues despite $3.2-bn Q4 loss
22 Jul 2015
The software major reported an 88-per cent growth in commercial cloud revenue to $832 million (up 96 per cent in constant currency) driven by Office 365, Azure and Dynamics CRM Online
Email spam rate down to 49.7 per cent: Symantec
21 Jul 2015
Infidelity site Ashley Madison hacked
20 Jul 2015
Five IT majors bid for building GST network
18 Jul 2015
Microsoft, TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Tech Mahindra have bid for building the pan-India GST Network, which is central to the smooth roll out of the new indirect tax regime
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With big data, cloud and start ups, 21st century could be India’s: IBM chief Viriginia Rometty
15 Jul 2015
With robust growth in GDP, increasing start-ups base and growing spread of new technologies
Firefox blocks Flash over security issues
14 Jul 2015
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Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI
13 Jul 2015
Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence
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TCS Q1 net rises 13% to Rs5,709 crore
09 Jul 2015
TCS said its quarterly revenue rose 16.1 per cent from a year earlier and 6 per cent compared to the previous quarter to Rs25,668 crore
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