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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
PM Narendra Modi urges IT industry to innovate NASSCOM Delhi
PM Narendra Modi urges IT industry to innovate NASSCOM Delhi
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today called upon the Indian IT Industry to concentrate on meeting the global challenge of cyber-security. Expressing that the whole world is worried about this issue, the Prime Minister said Indian IT experts could do a great deal for cyber-safety of digital assets over the world.
The Prime Minister was talking at an extraordinary occasion to check the finishing of NASSCOMs 25th year. Lauding NASSCOM for its commitment to the IT sector in India, the Prime Minister noticed that seldom has an association changed into a movement in such a short span of time. He added that it was because of the success of Indias youth in the IT sector, that the world began taking a gander at India in an unexpected way.
Alluding to the subject of todays function: IT = India Tomorrow, the Prime Minister said there was monstrous potential for the Indian IT sector to innovate and give portable applications to convey resident driven administrations and versatile administration. Discussing the Digital India activity, the Prime Minister said e-administration likewise infers simple administration, and temperate administration. He said Government is building IT framework, and would embrace innovations by the IT industry. Discussing digital databases, he said the world would require "digital godowns" sooner rather than later. He said the digital partition in India needs to be killed.
The Prime Minister clarified how innovation was serving to check debasement. He gave the cases of the coal square barters, and Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG endowment, in this respect.
The Prime Minister required the Indian IT sector to help tourism in India. Restricted of doing this, he said, was to make virtual historical centers showcasing Indias legacy. He called upon industry pioneers to contribute towards making e-libraries for schools.
The Prime Minister exhibited "Impact awards" for commitment to industry. He additionally propelled the NASSCOM Innovate for India Challenge, to support innovation in the sector.
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Read complete speech of PM Narendra Modi here.
Read official Nasscom Press Report here.
#Cybersecurity is biggest challenge for world. India shud build capabilities n the direction Says @narendramodi @nasscom 25 yrs celebrations
— Deepankar (@dp2web) March 1, 2015The Prime Minister was talking at an extraordinary occasion to check the finishing of NASSCOMs 25th year. Lauding NASSCOM for its commitment to the IT sector in India, the Prime Minister noticed that seldom has an association changed into a movement in such a short span of time. He added that it was because of the success of Indias youth in the IT sector, that the world began taking a gander at India in an unexpected way.
Alluding to the subject of todays function: IT = India Tomorrow, the Prime Minister said there was monstrous potential for the Indian IT sector to innovate and give portable applications to convey resident driven administrations and versatile administration. Discussing the Digital India activity, the Prime Minister said e-administration likewise infers simple administration, and temperate administration. He said Government is building IT framework, and would embrace innovations by the IT industry. Discussing digital databases, he said the world would require "digital godowns" sooner rather than later. He said the digital partition in India needs to be killed.
The Prime Minister clarified how innovation was serving to check debasement. He gave the cases of the coal square barters, and Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG endowment, in this respect.
Technology can play a big role in fighting corruption. Through technology, lot of transparency can be brought in: PM https://t.co/tug1s6kY89
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) March 1, 2015The Prime Minister required the Indian IT sector to help tourism in India. Restricted of doing this, he said, was to make virtual historical centers showcasing Indias legacy. He called upon industry pioneers to contribute towards making e-libraries for schools.
The Prime Minister exhibited "Impact awards" for commitment to industry. He additionally propelled the NASSCOM Innovate for India Challenge, to support innovation in the sector.
Related Articles:
Read complete speech of PM Narendra Modi here.
Read official Nasscom Press Report here.
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Friday, May 26, 2017
The proposed press publishers right is it really worth all this noise
The proposed press publishers right is it really worth all this noise
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| Again on the proposal (for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market) |
As reported and covered in a number of previous posts [here, here, here], in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS) on 14 September last the EU Commission unveiled a new copyright package, consisting of a number of proposals aimed at improving the existing EU copyright framework.
Among the contents of the package, there is the already famous proposal for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) [here].
Among other things, the DSM Directive intends to introduce into the EU copyright framework a new related right in press publications.
Article 11 of the directive states:
"1. Member States shall provide publishers of press publications [what is to be intended by press publications is clarified at Recital 33 of the directive] with the rights provided for in Article 2 and Article 3(2) of Directive 2001/29/EC for the digital use of their press publications.
2. The rights referred to in paragraph 1 shall leave intact and shall in no way affect any rights provided for in Union law to authors and other rightholders, in respect of the works and other subject-matter incorporated in a press publication. Such rights may not be invoked against those authors and other rightholders and, in particular, may not deprive them of their right to exploit their works and other subject-matter independently from the press publication in which they are incorporated.
3. Articles 5 to 8 of Directive 2001/29/EC [the InfoSoc Directive] and Directive 2012/28/EU [the Orphan Works Directive] shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of the rights referred to in paragraph 1.
4. The rights referred to in paragraph 1 shall expire 20 years after the publication of the press publication. This term shall be calculated from the first day of January of the year following the date of publication."
However, the drafting of this provision and related recitals (31 to 36) raises a number of technical questions, as well as a practical, fundamental, one.
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| When less may be actually more |
The technical questions
A first question may be why Article 11 refers to Article 3(2) of the InfoSoc Directive [making available right] instead of Article 3(1) of the same directive [right of communication to the public], also considering that the last sentence in Recital 33 refers to the right of communication to the public.
The question is not just pedanticacademic, because the rights of communication to the public and making available to the public are not the same thing. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has made this clear, more recently in its C More judgment [here].
A second point is that it is not entirely clear why Recital 33 contains a reference to hyperlinks, by saying that those which do not amount to acts of communication to the public are outside the scope of the new right.
First, the new related right is not about the right of communication to the public, but rather reproduction and making available to the public.
Secondly, if the new related right does not go beyond copyright [as Article 11(2) stresses], surely saying that "protection does not extend to acts of hyperlinking which do not constitute communication to the public" is not really necessary.
Finally, hyperlinks are not everything the right is about: Article 11 refers to the "digital use" of press publications. A "digital use" may range from the scanning of press publications to the display of relevant excerpts and everything in between.
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| Charlie is scared ... but is there anything to really fear? |
A practical question
Last week I had the chance to speak to a number of people, both stakeholders and legal practitioners, over meals and at events. While coming from different positions in relation to the current EU copyright debate, they all seemed to have the same question:
Will the press publishers right have any practical relevance?
Despite some earlier academic concerns, the answer may be NO in the majority of cases. The reason for this is twofold.
First, the new press publishers right is certainly not broader than copyright (and is certainly shorter). Article 11 is clear in saying that the rights of reproduction and making available, along with related exceptions and limitations, are to be intended in the same sense as the same rights and exceptions under the copyright framework. So, to one who already owns the copyright to a press publication, will ownership of also the press publishers’ right mean anything (useful)?
Secondly - as a matter of practice and possibly with the exclusion of certain free-lance journalists who manage to retain ownership of copyright in their pieces - press publishers already own the copyright to the press publications authored by their journalists-employees. And copyright already provides a fairly powerful tool. Just to provide an example, yesterday I re-read the CJEU decision in Infopaq in preparation for the second IP class with my Southampton Law School undergraduate students.
Readers will promptly remember that that case - a reference for a preliminary ruling from Denmark - concerned indeed press publications scanned without the prior consent or relevant rightholders, ie press publishers.
The CJEU ended up saying that merely "storing an extract of a protected work comprising 11 words and printing out that extract, is such as to come within the concept of reproduction in part within the meaning of Article 2 of Directive 2001/29/EC ..., if the elements thus reproduced are the expression of the intellectual creation of their author".
Would have things been any better if - besides copyright - press publishers could have also invoked the ad hoc press publishers right in an Infopaq-like scenario?
Conclusion
All in all, it is unclear whether and to what extent the press publishers right will change things in relation to digital uses of press publications.
Also the reference to the CJEU decision in Reprobel [here] in Recital 36 seems a bit out of context [and possibly only makes sense if, instead of Article 11, it is read as referring to Article 12], since that decision nothing had to do with digital uses of press publications. Reprobel was completely a non-digital case concerning private copying levies in printers.
In the majority of cases the addition of the press publishers’ right extra-layer of protection is unlikely to make a difference. But am I missing something here? As always, readers feedback is very welcome!
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
It Has Taken a Couple of Decades but Fixed Wireless is Coming Back in a Big Way
It Has Taken a Couple of Decades but Fixed Wireless is Coming Back in a Big Way
Windstream plans to expand its fixed wireless access operations in 40 U.S. markets, using 39-GHz millimeter wave spectrum, presumably for backhaul and business customer access.
Ironically, Windstream in 2008 wrote down the value of its 39 GHz spectrum holdings to zero, as part of a sale of mobile and wireless assets to AT&T Mobility.
The collapse of a millimeter-wave access services business is not terribly unusual. Whole companies (Windstar and Teligent, for example) went bankrupt after trying to build an enterprise access business using millimeter wave technology, after the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
But times change. Platforms become more capable. Costs go down. And with coming 5G mobile networks embracing millimeter wave technology, what was a broken business model two decades ago might well become an essential underpinning of next generation networks, both mobile and fixed.
Google Fiber, Facebook, AT&T and Verizon are a few of the leading firms now developing or planning to use fixed wireless in a significant way for Internet access.
Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL) is providing the radios and and Straight Path Communications is supplying the spectrum licenses for the Windstream rollout.
The new technology will allow Windstream customers data speeds of up to 275 Mbps full duplex, and it also supplements Windstreams other fixed wireless access technologies that range in speed from 1 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
Windstream will deploy in seven existing markets where it currently offers fixed wireless access technology - Chicago, New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Little Rock using equipment from CBNL and spectrum from Straight Path.
Windstream will also deploy CNBL equipment in 33 new markets where it will begin offering its fixed wireless technology. Those markets include Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis,Nashville, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Richmond, San Antonio, Seattle and St. Louis.
Under the agreement, Windstream has the option of eventually expanding fixed wireless to an additional 32 markets where Straight Path owns 39 GHz spectrum.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
United Payment Interface UPI How Will it Make Life Simpler for You
United Payment Interface UPI How Will it Make Life Simpler for You
The NCPI works the Rupay payments infrastructure that – like Visa and MasterCard – permits distinctive banks to interconnect and transfer funds. The UPI can be considered as a digital framework to do likewise – the thought being that every single financial instrument can be given a unique identity on the UPI, which can then be utilized to rapidly and effortlessly complete online payments.
With UPI, will we at long last see the tide move in the opposite direction of money towards digital money? There are numerous motivations to seek after this, as digital frameworks can be utilized to decrease the haziness of money, and to manufacture a mans financial history, which will be a vital device for financial incorporation.
What is Unified Payment Interface (UPI) about?
With the usage of UPI, clients can transfer money between various banks, or even do an online exchange without hardly lifting a finger. The NCPI cases its as basic as sending a text message.
Not at all like the present situation when you require an IFSC code and expansion of a recipient, with UPI the exchanges/purchases made are connected to a unique number which goes about as your virtual address number for all payments.
What Will UPI Work on?
It is a portable interface and will take a shot at cell phones as it were.
One-Click Secured Payment is Here
Rather than an internet banking password, trailed by an OTP code, now clients need to simply put in their single-access code for all exchanges. This procedure at long last gives you a solitary click payment system however in the two-variable verification mode - you require both a phone with an enrolled application, and your password, to acknowledge a payment - this implies its a protected technique for payments as well.
Since it doesnt depend on individuals having charge or Visas by any stretch of the imagination, and improves net-banking rather, the UPI could open up online payments for an immense number of individuals.
How Does One Start Using UPI?
A few banks have incorporated UPI into their existing applications. Some have launched new ones for it. Clients can download the application and register - the vital piece of this is a virtual ID and a versatile pin or MPIN.
Password is Your License to Buy
Individuals can send you money utilizing the virtual ID, and you can shop utilizing this ID.
You can pay for your taxicab or online staple without sharing your bank points of interest. You should simply share your virtual address gave to you by the bank. The individual on the flip side will then demand you to make the payment, which can be finished once you authenticate the payment by writing in your password.
One should likewise take note of that the UPI will be accessible to clients 24x7 as it depends on the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) stage, right now utilized for internet banking exchanges.
Who Needs E-Wallets?
The UPI could make it less demanding to refill your virtual wallet and use it - however it could likewise get to be simpler to specifically execute with a merchant. All things considered, would individuals still require digital wallets?
Mobile wallet organizations like PayTM, PayU and ItzCash say they are more than alright with the UPI coming into power.
Whats more, it appears to be enormous players like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon have been preparing for it too.
Not long ago, Flipkart purchased PhonePe which is said to be chipping away at an item in light of UPI system. Snapdeal as of now has FreeCharge under its wings and Amazon could make its turn in the coming months.
The impact of UPI on electronic wallets is to be seen. A few individuals say it could mean the end for wallets—a passing stride between traditional payments mechanisms and a full-fledged digital one, for example, UPI—while others say it will essentially make it simpler to possess and work wallets.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Google to Light 6th Undersea Cable in Which It has Ownership Interest
Google to Light 6th Undersea Cable in Which It has Ownership Interest
Google is working with Facebook, Pacific Light Data Communication and TE Subcom to build the first direct submarine cable system between Los Angeles and Hong Kong. The move highlights changes in the way global wide area network capacity is created and supplied.
The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) will have 12,800 km of fiber and an estimated cable capacity of 120 Tbps, making it the highest-capacity trans-Pacific route, a record currently held by another Google-backed cable system, FASTER.
The project represents the sixth submarine cable in which Google has an ownership stake, joining the ranks of the Unity, SJC, FASTER, MONET and Tannat projects. The new network is expected to be operational in 2018.
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In addition to http://tylercaldwellphotography.blogspot.com /2015/03/cloud-computing-drives-global-bandwidth.html" style="text-decoration: none;">cloud computing and cloud-based apps, video, mobile users and Internet access now drives wide area network capacity demand.
Those apps and functions now drive “in the data center” traffic, long haul and metro traffic growth. In fact, wide area network traffic, though growing robustly, is not growing as fast as “within the metro” demand.
Metro-area traffic likely surpassed long-haul traffic in 2015, and will grow nearly twice as fast as long-haul traffic from 2014 to 2019.
The higher growth in metro networks is due in part to the increasingly significant role of content delivery networks, which bypass long-haul links and deliver traffic to metro and regional backbones.
Content delivery networks will carry over half of Internet traffic by 2019. Globally, 62 percent of all Internet traffic will cross content delivery networks by 2019 globally, up from 39 percent in 2014.
Traffic from wireless and mobile devices will exceed traffic from wired devices by 2019. By 2019, wired devices will account for 33 percent of IP traffic, while Wi-Fi and mobile devices will account for 66 percent of IP traffic. In 2014, wired devices accounted for the majority of IP traffic at 54 percent.
Though there has been a mix of “carrier-purchased” and “enterprise private networking,” the current trend in the WAN market includes a higher mix of “owned” networking by big app providers such as Facebook and Google.
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