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Google Assistant develops speech recognition feature

Google Assistant will soon recognize your voice as the company is working on a personalized speech recognition feature. According to an IANS report, the tool will help Google Assistant get "better at recognizing your frequent words and names." The "Personalised speech recognition" feature will appear in Google Assistant settings. The fe...

Pvt. telcos’ FY23 revenues to jump by 25% on H2 tariff hike: Crisil

The country's top three private telecom operators will resort to another round of tariff hikes in the second half of the current fiscal and will close FY23 with revenue growth of 20-25 percent, a report said on Tuesday. Growth in average revenue per user is essential for the industry to invest in the network and s...

Content pirate ThopTV hauled up on Viacom18 complaint

Well, anti-piracy initiatives in India are picking up as content rights holders and TV channels look to bring to task pirates.

The latest in this regard is the police action --- initiated on complaints filed by Viacom18 --- taken against one person involved with Thop TV, an app that ...

MIB decides to monitor output feed of MSOs, cable operators

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has decided to put the output feed of MSOs and cable operators under scanner by having them monitored, though the reason behind such a move is still not clear.

“ln order to ensure adherence to the provisions of Cable Television Networks (R...

Netflix releases stills from composer Leonard Bernstein biopic

Netflix has released the first images from its upcoming film ‘Maestro’, based on the life of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein and starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan. Cooper plays Bernstein and Mulligan stars as stage and TV actor Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, the wife of the late conductor. The streamer on Monday s...

NxtDigital-Thaicom pact for b’band over satellite

NXTDigital Limited (NDL) and Thaicom Public Company Limited, Thailand (Thaicom) Monday, made a joint announcement of having signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a strategic partnership to enter the Broadband-over-satellite (BoS) market and related...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!