Agencies ill prepared; intel ignored: Pathankot Parliamentary Panel report

A Parliamentary panel has rapped the government for its failure to prevent the Pathankot terror attack, saying ‘something is seriously wrong’ in the country’s counter-terror......

ISI sought massive intel data collection tools, says report

Pakistan's powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence sought to intercept all communications passing through the country in 2013, the most significant expansion of its capacity to conduct mass......

Silicon Valley Revisited

A year ago, totally new in these parts, I wrote my first rediff column titled Sounding silly in Silicon Valley. It did capture my state of befuddlement then about not only technology, but......

Chips: Why govt's dream to make India self-reliant may be premature

Mumbai-based Indian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ISMC) and Singapore-headquartered IGSS Ventures have one strategy in common: They have told the government in their application for......

Challenges Chip Projects like Vedanta-Foxconn Face

Indian plants -- who plan to begin production with 28 nano metre chips -- will take two to four years to get off the ground.By that time, in the fast changing world of chip making, the global......

Chip shortage may last up to two years, say Qualcomm and Intel

Leading microchip providers Qualcomm and Intel say the chip shortage might last anything between four months to a year, perhaps even two years, depending on the various product categories - mobile......

Snapchat touches 100 mn user mark in India

Photo-messaging app Snapchat on Wednesday said its monthly user base has reached 100 million in the country, and the company will continue to anchor its efforts towards growing and providing more......