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May 2021

HUGE SURGE IN ONLINE GAMING. WILL THE TREND CONTINUE?

With increasing smartphone usage, it is possible to download games with just a tap on the screen, easier than ever before. Besides, online games are skill-based games and involve both money and strategy

WITH MANY NEW CONNECTED ASSETS, NEED A SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH

The band-aid security solutions that were put in place last year now need to be replaced with scalable, long-term, strategies, feels Adam Palmer, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Tenable

THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF BLOCKCHAIN IS YET TO BE REALIZED

The short term for blockchain is in security and efficiency, but new business-transformative blockchain-based solutions are going to emerge in the years to come and most won’t even know blockchain is part of the solution

WE WILL BE ABLE TAP POWER OF QUANTUM COMPUTING AT WILL

Kalyanaraman K, Managing Director, Protiviti Member Firm for India argues why Opex models, Cloud constructs, hardware innovations and ecosystem evolution will make Quantum Computers reach their ultimate potential. And may be help them replace classical computers soon enough

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SECURITY IS A FABRIC, NOT A BOLTED-ON PIECE

Enterprise end-user security spends have been projected to rise 9.5 per cent in 2021. But there’s more behind these numbers recently unravelled by Gartner. Prateek Bhajanka, senior principal research analyst at Gartner explains why humans would always stay integral even in the third wave of AI security tools, and why now traditional notions of data-centre security have gone completely out of vogue. Let’s understand some finer chinks and knots in this chain called security. Or shall we say, the fabric called security?

IT REMAINS THE BACKBONE FOR DIGITAL PAYMENTS COS' SUCCESS

Three strategic themes in IT that help in structurally scaling up technology in any digital payments company and make it a driver for business growth

HP OMEN 15

The Omen is dedicated gaming line-up by HP that comes in multiple specifications and variants. The variant that we are talking about today is the HP Omen 15-ek0019tx. The laptop has powerful specifications and top-of-the-line features, but can it deliver the performance that you need?

ZEBRONICS ZEB-MAX PRO MECHANICAL GAMING KEYBOARD

When building a high-end gaming PC, you can not compromise on the peripherals. The complete and immersive gaming feel can only be extracted out of the system by accompanying it with good peripherals. Peripherals include your mouse, keyboard, headphones and in some cases mouse mat and microphone.

Is 2021 The Year Of Big Tech Legislation?

In 2020 the Indian government cracked down on Chinese apps in a big way. In various stages, overall hundreds of apps were banned either generally for the citizens or specifically for soldiers at the border. Two of the most high-profile ones were the immensely popular battle royale game PUBG and teen sensation TikTok. Soon after the US government also cracked down, sealing the rising global ambitions of TikTok