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Guide to Anywhere Work and Why it is a Growing Trend

August 29, 2022October 18, 2022 Karan S

What is an Anywhere Worker? An Anywhere worker is someone who works remotely, often from home. They have the freedom to work outside the office, which can greatly benefit people with families or those looking for a more flexible work schedule. A recent study by FlexJobs found that 43% of remote workers were happier and less stressed than their counterparts in traditional office environments. Moreover, the study found that remote workers were more engaged in their jobs and had better relationships with coworkers than those who worked in traditional offices.…

Jabra Panacast - a boon for next-gen virtual meetings

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 Karan S

Jabra is a leader in engineering communications and sound solutions. Jabra engineering, with a legacy of 150 years of pioneering work, has been actively creating integrated audio headsets and communications tools that focus on professional productivity. With 1400 employees across the globe, Jabra is part of the 6000 employee strong GN Group, established in 1869. The group has operations in more than 100 countries worldwide. Jabra PanaCast is a unique and ground breaking offering for video conferencing. It is equipped with world’s first smart Panoramic-4K Plug-and-Play video solution Certified for…

The Key Reasons Why This Is the Perfect Time To Pursue a Career In CyberSecurity

September 23, 2018September 25, 2018 Karan S

So far in 2018, there have been more than 300,000 cybersecurity job openings in the US, as reported by CyberSeek. This is predicted, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to rise by 28% before the year 2026, which is 300% higher than the average prediction for all occupations. This statistical magnitude is possible because any company that implements digital technology is always at risk of malicious attack. In a bid to mitigate the risk, countless companies seek to hire cybersecurity experts to protect their organization from the increasingly refined threats. With…

Why 2G cellular Networks will still play a Big role

July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

The biggest buzzword in today’s mobile market is 4G LTE. Yes, it represents something real: a network upgrade that provides faster data speeds and more efficient transfers. But it wasn’t so long ago that LTE was not considered 4G; it wasn’t until Verizon and other companies lobbied heavily that LTE technology was even considered fourth generation. Still, the technology is changing mobile as we know it. Perhaps the most impacting change of the LTE revolution is the consolidation of services. Since the advent of 3G networks, cellular operators have used…

Airtel Launches 4G LTE in India

April 4, 2012April 4, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

Where the world is buzzing around the Long Term Evolution LTE, a 4G technology, India is still on its 3G and 3.5G speeds of HSDPA. The government of India had kept high license prices for the 3G spectrum, the reason why 4G LTE is even a harder game. While the telecom providers like Vodafone, Airtel, Idea have not yet profited from 3G (Investment was huge, returns are still lagging), its almost time for everyone to start moving to 4G. Bharti Airtel, nation’s biggest Telecom provider, is now ready for the…

Verizon launches iPhone 4, What’s New

January 11, 2011January 11, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Apple and Verizon have just announced the big thing, the wait is finally over after 2 long years of Rumors, the Verizon iPhone. iPhone comes to America’s most Reliable wireless network, which would work with 3G CDMA (non-LTE) version of the iPhone 4. Verizon iPhone would be available on Apple stores, Verizon outlets on Feb 10th starting at $199.99, and pre-orders start from Feb 3rd. Talks started way back in 2008, and the phone has been in testing for a year. What’s different in Verizon iPhone: iPhone CDMA antenna changes,…

How to Hack GSM Nework, Phone

January 1, 2011January 1, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

A Group of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of monitoring an encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” attached to a laptop computer powered by open source softwares. GSM Security is inherently weak and that’s why it was made possible to Hack GSM Security (GSM’s 64-bit A5/1 encryption), last year. However, governments own devices that are worth $50,000, which essentially monitor phone activities for National security. “GSM is insecure, the more so as more is known about GSM,” said Security Research Labs researcher…

Who sued Whom: Mobile, Telecom Lawsuits

October 7, 2010October 7, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

There’s a utter chaos in the Mobile world where each one is fighting to win the crown. The real fight is ON between Apple and Google. No brand has left any chance and that is why we’ve seen a numerous number of lawsuits from a number of manufacturers/OEMs within last 2 years. Microsoft sues Motorola for Android, Apple sues HTC over android, gets sued by Nokia, which is counter-sued and bla bla. Here is a demographic of Who is suing Whom in Telecom/Mobile Industry: image credit: informationisbeautiful Stay tuned for…

Nokia Siemens buys Motorola Wireless, boost 4G Networks

July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion. The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business would prove out to be profitable for Nokia Siemens, as they now achieve #3 spot in Top wireless network vendors in the United States and hence expand business propositions with Motorola’s existing customers. The acquisition gives Nokia Siemens 7,500 employees plus solid relationships with Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and China Mobile. In the press release from NSN, Rajeev…

How Firmware Upgrade can Fix iPhone 4 Signal, Reception Issues

July 1, 2010July 5, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Everyone seems to be complaining about the iPhone 4 signal Reception issues, when held Incorrectly. Holding iPhone 4 in left hand covering left side’s bottom bridges the left and bottom antennas which results in a serious attenuation in signal. Obviously, the issue is not same for every one. Users living in areas having good signal coverage would not observe issues. Every phone, agnostic of brand/make, has antenna attenuation problems when covered with hand. These attenuations can lie anywhere between 14dB and 18dB drops. But iPhone 4’s attenuation is as high…

Verizon: 4G Network in November, iPhone 4 in January 2011

June 30, 2010June 30, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Apple might have sold iPhone 4 in millions in its first week but it could have been way better if it had not been exclusive on AT&T, in U.S. The good things are inevitable, and Verizon Wireless will start selling the iPhone in January of next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. Unless you are living under the rock, you must be well aware of flawed antenna causing reception issues for AT&T / iPhone 4 users. Had it been Verizon, issue would have been trivial. While there had been…

Leveraging Cloud Computing to Drive Mobile Wireless Networks

March 28, 2010March 28, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Planning and building a Wide area Wireless Network could be painfully challenging. Mobile service Providers have faced different kinds of challenges in Maintaining the 3G network throughout countries like US, UK, India, China where the urgency had taken flight long ago. Lot of the back-end work deals with complex signalling and RF management which is both tedious and expensive to maintain. But seems like IBM researchers in China have come up with a faster, yet, elegant solution that reckons shifting the signal-processing overhead from base stations into the cloud. This will make…

Open Source GSM Base Station [OpenBTS]

January 17, 2010January 17, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Closed Technologies have had the enough, the future is bound to be open. I can’t think of a stream where Open source has not contributed. In few of the relatively newer streams, like telecom, Open source is still catching up. I had been into telecom for a long time now, and had often heard a complaint from Telecom startups and sometimes even giants about the cost to go to the market in rural/developing areas. A simple BTS (a.k.a Mobile antenna) could cost anywhere from thousands of dollars to millions (depending…

Airtel acquires Bangladesh-based Telecom

January 12, 2010January 12, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Bharti Airtel, India’s mobile and Internet services giant having 118 million subscribers, will acquire 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom International, 4th largest mobile operator in Bangladesh. The acquisition is estimated to be around $300 million. As a result of the deal, Bharti Airtel control of the management and the board of Warid. Airtel has long aspired to expand into international market, and this becomes the second practical step. In actual, this was the third attempt, the last one was with MTN Group, South Africa which didn’t get through approval…