The San Francisco International Film Festival, to be held April 5-19 at various venues throughout San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., will pay a special tribute to Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. This event will take place April 14 at 8:30 p.m. at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, and will...
Cisco Teams up with India's Reliance Jio for Converged Networks
San Francisco-based Cisco will collaborate with India's Reliance Jio to build an All-IP services platform. Cisco's Open Network Architecture and Cloud Scale Networking technologies featuring IP/MPLS, spanning areas, including data center, Wi-Fi, security and contact center solutions will form the base infrastructure of this concept. Cisco will build a simplified,...
AliveCor Partners with Apollo Hospitals, India; Offers Smartphone Heart Monitoring
AliveCor, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, and maker of the first FDA-approved smartphone device, has teamed up with Apollo Hospitals in India to provide heart monitoring capabilities for people affected by arrhythmia. The collaboration is part of an effort to improve the ability to detect atrial fibrillation and prevent strokes,...
Stanford Inspired Mental Health App Tested in India
The Los Angeles Times reports that in a three-month pilot project this year, about 200 students at the Hyderabad campus of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and another city university used a cellphone app to monitor their mental health and communicate with counselors by phone and text. The...
Foreign Firms Surge to Provide India’s 280,000MW Solar Energy Goal
India's $100 billion push into solar energy over the next decade is being driven by foreign players as local manufacturers are no longer protected by government restrictions on the sector. SunEdison of California will invest up to $4 billion in a manufacturing facility, and China's Trina Solar has unveiled plans...
Twitter Establishes R&D Center in India
Twitter, the San Francisco-based social network company, plans to set up a research and design center in Bangalore, its first such facility outside the U.S. Financial Times reports that this decision was taken to enable Twitter to accelerate its growth in emerging markets, and to tailor its service for countries...