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McAfee’s celebrity survey has found Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt topping the charts in the category of riskiest celebrity across the web and has unveiled the 2014 rendition of its most sensational celebrity research. Alia trumps Priyanka Chopra, who topped the list in 2013. McAfee’s survey highlights the pitfalls of the trend. The cybercriminals capitalize on the public’s fascination to lure …

The overseas Indian Facilitation Center (OIFC), a public private partnership between the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) formed to facilitate the economic engagement of the Indian Diaspora with India, is all set to host the 24th OIFC Diaspora Engagement Meet in London in October. The Meet will be bringing together industry leaders from India …

Nous Global Markets, a London based company aiming to discover and train the next generation of trading talent, has announced the India entry of its ‘Spark Profit’ application. It is a free to join, free to play and free to earn virtual trading game. Behind its friendly interface is a highly realistic trading simulator that pays actual cash for correctly …

Indian Printing market is going through a revolution phase in the sense that digitalization has happened in a very big way and is also eating into the market for offset printing. However, as per industry experts, both offset and digital market will co-exist side by side because both have their own niche markets. Of course digital technology is more advanced, …

Microsoft has announced the opening of applications for the sixth batch for the Accelerator program of Microsoft Ventures in India. Starting October 10 till November 30, Microsoft will receive online applications from technology startups. The names of shortlisted companies will be announced in a few weeks after applications close and they will be invited for a face-to-face session with a …

The WLAN market in India is growing due to  the enterprises, large or small and campuses that are all investing in the wireless infrastructure as a primary option. Q2 was the quarter of telcos, with huge investments to build their backhaul for expansions as well as new network build-outs. SDN is also gaining traction through  innovations and aggressive initiatives by …

Amazon has announced the payment service for third party sellers, Pay with Amazon in India. Sellers of all sizes across the country, especially small and medium sellers can now convert their static websites into digital storefronts and tap into the growing base of online users in the country. Through an easy set up process and integrated order management and payments, …

Cloud technology is fast emerging at the convergence of three major trends — service orientation, virtualization and standardization of computing with the help of Internet. Today, Cloud is enabling users and developers to utilize services without knowledge of, expertise with, nor control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. Of course, all these benefits of lower cost, agility, improve customer …

With tremendous growth in mobility and increased adoption of unified communications, cloud computing and collaboration services, the demand for network bandwidth is increasing tremendously and to support the user demand and applications the LAN and WAN cabling is seeing higher than average growth; HD video, voice and data services plus remote access of applications is driving the infrastructure growth. The …

MAC users now needs to take extra care of their device as Kaspersky experts have calculated chances of a malicious program making it into a MAC OS X device. In August the probability of unwanted encounters with malware was about 3%. Compared to the 21% infection risk facing windows users, the situation seems with MAC relaxed. According to Kaspersky Security …