Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Even as health authorities are scrambling to find answers on who ‘P-0’ as far as First Neuro Hospital is, Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday reported three more positive cases. The trio have emerged primary contacts of P-578, a 69-year-old male from Kasba village in Bantwal taluk, who in turn was the primary contact of P-390, the first victim of Covid-19 in this coastal district. P-390 is among the three victims of Covid-19 in the district.

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A fairly straightforward yet key process, contact tracing is attempting to determine every person that an infected individual has come into contact with. It is a crucial tool to help identify those people who are infected or might potentially be infected to ‘flatten the curve’.

The investigation brings to light the issue of unverified sellers cashing in on keywords and marketing products against the policies of e-commerce sites.

This Partner Support Fund for SMBs in logistics will be available to Delivery Service Partners (DSP) and select Transportation partners in India.

This classification tool has already been used to analyse more than 5,000 unique viral genomic sequences, including the 29 novel coronavirus sequences.

India's new digital tax has caught the industry off guard as it was not part of the main proposals which the finance ministry had presented in parliament in April.

Swiggy has instructed restaurant and delivery partners to follow a strict sanitisation process, and also issued a fundraiser for the underprivileged.

Using WhatsApp on multiple devices may soon become a reality, making the app even more flexible.

The companies say the first seeds of the exposure notification Application Programming Interface (API) to select developers associated with public health authorities (PHAs) around the world.

The proposed solution will work in two stages. The first are the APIs that are now available on iOS for iPhones and Android OS for Android phones. The second will be an integration of contact tracing tech within Android and iOS.

Zoom had earlier claimed that they had surpassed 300 million daily users globally. Now, they simply say “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants”. That is just not the same thing.

Alongside the HCARD robot, CSIR's labs have been further contributing with contactless hospital waste management systems, sanitisation services and more.

The company said it has also received over two lakh e-mails from customers for delivering the non-essential items with demand for mobile phones rising 200 percent.

Facebook has introduced Covid-19 Information Center on the app in order to limit the spread of misinformation related to Covid-19.

The social networking giant also said it counts 2.99 billion monthly users across its family of apps, compared to 2.89 billion in the previous quarter.

The project aims to gather information about the spread of coronavirus, assessing the emergency response and tackling the misinformation during the crisis.

Both Apple and Samsung will retain their first and third spots respectively but they are also expected to lose market shares as well.

Google also blocked and removed coronavirus-related marketing pitches in recent months for policy violations including price-gouging and misleading claims.

The decline in growth rate is likely because enterprises relook at their buying decisions owing to an increased focus on profitability.

The virtualization and network automation technologies ensured that the networks continued to work smoothly even though there was a significant increase in traffic due to everyone working from home.

JioMeet can be used for both personal and enterprise purposes, and has apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and a plugin for Outlook.

A finance ministry task force acknowledged stress in the telecom sector and said the SC judgement mandating companies to pay around Rs 1.35 lakh crore.

Services such as Apple Music, App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ are raking in record revenues for the company. At the same time, products such as the AirPods, HomePod and accessories for the Apple Watch and the iPad Pro, to name a few, are also doing well.

Intel is pushing the boundaries once again with its new 10th-gen Comet Lake processor range for consumer desktops.

5G will help in easing out on the network congestion thereby improving user experience while streaming videos across platforms. It will also provide a smart data pipe for content; monetize broadcast spectrum and provide live streaming on-the-go sans data caps.

PUBG Mobile has officially confirmed some of the new changes that we can expect in the upcoming update that is arriving on May 7.

One of the websites used to schedule appointments showed there were no slots available for people not showing any symptoms or those who are not "front-line workers".

This is the first time since Q1 2014, that the smartphone market has fallen below 300 million units in a quarter.

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Qualcomm also said that there was a decline of 21% in mobile phone sales between January and March this year.

The MeitY deadline extension only applies to registration of startups, while the idea submission deadline remains the same.

The Aarogya Setu application developed by the government helps people to assess themselves on the risk of their catching the coronavirus infection.

HUL said that is also planning to serve its customers through any channels, be it format stores, Kirana stores or online.

Apple's COVID-19 app works by asking a set of questions in order to ascertain risk factors, recent exposure, and symptoms.

The government, on Friday, issued a directive to ease restrictions on manufacturing and sale of handsets across the country as the lockdown was extended for two more weeks.

Services such as EnableX, Troop Messenger, VacYa and Say Namaste are just a few of the startups looking to cash in on the lucrative expansion opportunity.

Xiaomi India MD Manu Jain issued a statement saying that any data it collects from its #MiFans in India stays within rented servers in the country.

Aiisma is a company that specialises in dealing with user data, and may hence be well placed to highlight the aspect of privacy in contact tracing.

The new OxygenOS features will be rolling out to eligible OnePlus phones some time in late 2020.

Several hotels in the capital city of Tokyo are featuring robots to help lighten the coronavirus burden on doctors and nurses.

Since the lockdown, smartphone manufacturing units are closed, retail shops are shut and online sellers are busy delivering groceries and other essential items.

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There might be some over-enthusiastic implementations of contactless dining which may or not work as well as they should but remember that there will be a learning curve for everyone. But is it sustainable for everyone involved? And what about user privacy?