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KOLKATA: Bharti Airtel stands to lose if Vodafone Idea (VIL) collapses under the weight of its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues of more than Rs 53,000 crore, said a few analysts. Their view is contrary to the widespread belief that the Sunil Mittal-owned operator would gain in a two-private player market. Without VIL, Bharti Airtel would lose out on benefits of shared towers infrastructure, which could lead to an increase of at least 15% in network and customer servicing costs and hinder its ability to offer affordable tariffs to consumers in future, said the analysts. Bharti Airtel, they said, would also be without a trusted partner, if Vodafone Idea exits, in combating a challenging regulatory environment, especially when facing a strong adversary like Reliance Jio Infocomm, the new telecom market leader. Bharti Airtel chief executive Gopal Vittal recently said it is important that VIL survives and India remains a three-player market. “Bharti may have a tough time … [Read more...] about This is what Vodafone’s exit may mean for Airtel

There are three specific goals of the Google News Initiative: highlight accurate journalism while fighting misinformation, particularly during breaking news events; help news sites continue to grow from a business perspective; and create new tools to help journalists do their jobs. Google is serious about supporting these goals, too, pledging to invest $300 million over the next three years. … [Read more...] about Google News Initiative announced to fight fake news and support journalism

To call the MacBook Pro, Apple’s ‘problem child’ will be doing it a great disservice. After all, it was a really powerful laptop that was lapped by many a buyer from all over the world. Having said that it wasn’t devoid of issues as most people seemed to be quite unhappy mostly with the keyboard. Then there were throttling issues and some related to the battery as well. If it would be wrong to say that MacBook was a problem child then it won’t be incorrect to say that of all the Apple devices, MacBook was in the news for wrong reasons the most. Apple with its new 16-inch MacBook Pro claims to have addressed them all. There’s a new keyboard, new display size, new speakers to name a few upgrades that Apple has made. At a starting price of Rs 1,99,900, Apple is pitching it to the ‘Pro’ users who want to upgrade from their old MacBooks and switch some high-end Windows users as well. We have been using the 16-inch MacBook Pro as our daily … [Read more...] about Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) review: Dial M for most-powerful Mac ever

“Near-ultimate availability” Press coverage was already declaring the death of Unix back in late 2011, at which time Forrester analyst Richard Fichera wrote a blog post saying, "the extinction of UNIX is not going to happen in our lifetime... UNIX on proprietary RISC architectures will stay around for several reasons that primarily revolve around their being the only close alternative to mainframes in regards to specific high-end operational characteristics." … [Read more...] about Linux is king *nix of the data center—but Unix may live on forever

So far, Comcast has provided IPv6 connectivity only to Windows Vista/7 and OS X 10.7 users who connect their computer directly to a DOCSIS 3 cable modem. But they're now also going to delegate an entire range of IPv6 addresses to IPv6-capable home routers, which can then hand out these addresses on their LAN ports and over Wi-Fi. And IPv6-support is even coming to selected DOCSIS 2 modems. Both cable operators will be giving out /64 prefixes, which is the size used on a single subnet. In other words: you can't daisy chain home routers or have separate IPv6 home and office networks separated by a router or firewall. The rationale for this decision is that some home routers may be confused by a larger address block, and current ones have no use for such a bigger block, anyway. But bigger address blocks may be given out at some point in the future. … [Read more...] about With World IPv6 Launch, IPv6 on by default will be the new normal