Businesses will be able to customise their own text-to-speech voice for Alexa, Amazon has announced. KFC is one of the first to work with the company on the feature, developing a voice for Colonel Sanders that replies to customers instead of the default Alexa voice. This is part of a new capability within Amazon Polly […]
Archives for February 2020
How to check your vulnerability to credential dumping
Use these techniques to see if attackers have harvested authentication credentials from your Windows network.
Advancing safe deployment practices
“What is the primary cause of service reliability issues that we see in Azure, other than small but common hardware failures? Change. One of the value propositions of the cloud is that it’s continually improving, delivering new capabilities and features, as well as security and reliability enhancements. But since the platform is continuously evolving, change […]
Backup Explorer now available in preview
As organizations continue to expand their use of IT and the cloud, protecting critical enterprise data becomes extremely important. And if you are a backup admin on Microsoft Azure, being able to efficiently monitor backups on a daily basis is a key requirement to ensuring that your organization has no weaknesses in its last line […]
How is the Internet of Things making our offices more productive?
When most of us are spending approximately 10 hours at work, every day, offices ought to be our second homes. Irrespective of what organisation you work for, every office is getting smart so that the second home feels equally comfortable and secure, says Yash Mehta, an IoT and Big Data Science specialist. As per a report, […]
Quess who’s India’s largest private employer?
Next time you see an Amazon delivery executive in your locality or walk into a Samsung store for after-sales service, you will probably be dealing with an employee of Quess Corp — a company you most probably haven’t heard of. Going by its latest quarterly filing, the Bengaluru-based company, which provides staffing solutions for some […]
Google admits it sent users’ private videos to strangers
Google has admitted it accidently sent private videos of some users of its Google Photos service to strangers, blaming a technical glitch behind the incident. Google alerted the affected users via an email but did not disclose the amount of individual videos that were distributed incorrectly per account, reports 9to5Google. Google fixed the issue, saying […]
Flipkart shuts down Jabong for Myntra push
Over four years after acquiring Jabong for $70 million, Walmart-owned Flipkart has formally closed its operations to shift focus completely on its premium fashion platform Myntra for its apparel business. As part of the move, Jabong’s flagship portal and app are being redirected to Myntra’s shopping window. Experts said the move will help Flipkart consolidate […]
Streaming players sign up to form complaint council
Video on demand players Hotstar, Jio, SonyLIV, Network18 and Eros have signed up to form an independent adjudicatory council to resolve consumer complaints, a step some streaming platforms have termed as increased censorship, regressive and unnecessary. The Digital Content Complaint Council (DCCC) will be led by a retired judge and have representation from government bodies […]
Will take learnings from India to take Google Pay global: Pichai
Google will take learnings from its successful Google Pay platform in India to other global markets, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said. Alphabet is the parent company of Google. “We’ve had a lot of traction with our payments product over the past 18 months. We had a tremendously successful launch in India from which we learned […]