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Tanay Singh Thakur October 24th, 2024 6:56 AM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Stops Validity Loan Feature Indefinitely

Bharti Airtel, a leading Indian telecom operator, has stopped offering new validity loans. The validity loans were a service operated by Airtel wherein customers could get 1.5GB of data and unlimited voice calling for 1 day from Airtel without paying any amount. This service wasn't available in PAN-India, but only in select regions including Rajasthan, Kerala, Bihar, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. But now, Airtel has confirmed that it has stopped... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 7:48 PM 0 COMMENTS

Aidoc Partners With Nvidia to Establish Guideline to Accelerate AI Adoption in Healthcare

Aidoc, a clinical AI company, has announced a partnership with Nvidia to co-develop the BRIDGE (Blueprint for Resilient Integration and Deployment of Guided Excellence) guideline, aimed at accelerating AI adoption across the healthcare industry. In what the companies call an industry-first guideline, set for release in early 2025, the evidence-driven framework will help healthcare systems seamlessly integrate and scale AI innovations more quickly. Also Read: Microsoft Announces New AI Models and... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 23rd, 2024 6:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

Breaking: Airtel Offering Accidental Insurance with 3 Prepaid Plans

Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, has partnered with ICICI Lombard to offer accidental insurance to users subscribing to select prepaid plans. We will detail these prepaid plans, their benefits, and the insurance terms and conditions here. There are only three prepaid plans to which Airtel has added accidental insurance. These plans cost Rs 239, Rs 399, and Rs 969. Customers subscribing to these plans would authorise Airtel to share... Read More

Tanuja K October 23rd, 2024 5:09 PM 5 COMMENTS

BSNL Successfully Tests Homegrown 5G RAN & Core in 3.6 GHz, 700 MHz Bands: Report

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has successfully tested indigenous 5G RAN (radio access network) and core in the 3.6 GHz and 700 MHz spectrum bands. The state-run telecom operator is expected to deploy 5G in early 2025. Jyotiraditya M Scindia, union telecom minister of India, said, "We have conducted successful trials of Indigenous 5G RAN and Core in both 3.6 GHz and 700 MHz bands and India will soon deploy... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 4:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

GE HealthCare Launches AI Innovation Lab to Drive Medical Advancements

GE HealthCare this week unveiled its new AI Innovation Lab, aimed at accelerating early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) innovations within the company to enhance medical devices and healthcare delivery. According to GE HealthCare, these projects are part of the company's broader AI and digital strategy, which focuses on integrating AI into medical devices, building AI applications that enhance decision-making across the care journey and various disease states, and using AI to... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 23rd, 2024 3:06 PM 2 COMMENTS

India Launches International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System

A new Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) logo was launched on October 22, 2024. However, on the very same day, the union telecom minister, Jyotiraditya M Scindia also launched the International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System. The launch was attended by Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, Minister of State for Communications along with the Secretary Telecom and other senior officers. This is yet another effort from the Indian government to safeguard... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 2:33 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Monthly Prepaid Plans in October 2024 Detailed

Indian telecommunications service provider Vodafone Idea (Vi) offers a range of prepaid plans and validity options that no other private telco provides. So far, in our series of articles covering prepaid tariff plans and packs, we have explored the benefits offered by Vi across diverse validity segments, including 365, 180, 84, 56, 28 days, and others. However, monthly prepaid plans are something that certain sections of users are keen on,... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 12:25 PM 1 COMMENTS

Chipotle Rolls Out AI-Powered Hiring Platform With Paradox to Cut Recruitment Time

Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced a partnership with Paradox to introduce a new AI-driven hiring platform aimed at improving the efficiency of its recruitment process. The platform features "Ava Cado," a virtual assistant designed to simplify tasks such as gathering candidate information, scheduling interviews, and answering applicant queries. Also Read: Chipotle Invests in AI Supply Chain Platform Lumachain Chipotle Rolls Out AI-powered Hiring Platform "Paradox's conversational hiring system will enable... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 11:53 AM 0 COMMENTS

Jio Haptik, Du Collaborate to Offer Localised GenAI Solutions to UAE Businesses

Jio Haptik, an AI-driven customer engagement company, has partnered with du, a telecommunications operator in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to expand its services in the region. According to the partnership, the companies will jointly go to market with Jio Haptik's sophisticated GenAI conversational suite for businesses in the UAE. The companies signed the agreement to formalise the partnership at GITEX Global 2024, the tech event held at the Dubai... Read More

Srikapardhi October 23rd, 2024 10:44 AM 0 COMMENTS

GlobalNet Launches Stockholm-Berlin DWDM Subsea Fiber Route

GlobalNet has successfully launched a new 1,200-kilometer Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) fiber link that connects Stockholm and Berlin, expanding the company's European network infrastructure. This subsea cable, running under the Baltic Sea from Equinix SK1 in Stockholm to Speedbone DC in Berlin, achieves a latency of 12 milliseconds, GlobalNet said on Wednesday. Also Read: GlobalNet Expands Network with New PoP in London Launch of the Stockholm-Berlin Fiber Link This... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 10:13 AM 0 COMMENTS

Qualcomm Partners with Google to Transform Automotive Cockpits with Generative AI

Qualcomm announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Google to deliver generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) digital cockpit solutions. Under this partnership, the companies will leverage Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Chassis, Google Cloud, and Android Automotive OS (AAOS) to develop a standardised reference platform for advanced cockpit solutions powered by generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI). Also Read: Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip for On-Device Generative AI Generative AI Capabilities in the Digital... Read More

Kripa B October 23rd, 2024 8:21 AM 1 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Gets CCI Approval to Raise Indus Tower Stake Over 50 Percent

Bharti Airtel has received approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), allowing the company to increase its shareholding in Indus Towers Limited following a share buyback by the telecom infrastructure company. Indus Towers is a passive telecom infrastructure provider that deploys, owns, and manages passive infrastructure for various mobile operators. Also Read: Indus Towers to Become Bharti Airtel Subsidiary After Buyback Exercise CCI Approves Bharti Airtel's Stake Increase "The... Read More