November 3, 2017

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DTU students develop click-with-a-blink softwareedit

Nyoooz Named ‘Sysbot’, the software, built by a four-member team for a Hackathon organised by Women in Engineering of IEEE at DTU, won the first prize at the competition which saw participation of 50 teams of DTU students as well those from IP University and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology comprising over 200 members.

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Lokesh hardsells State to top investorsedit

The Hindu Tech Mahindra representatives told him that it was expanding its operations in Visakhapatnam, and also an open Internet of Things (IOT) School there. Panasonic India representatives said they had plans to set up satellite centres in AP. A proposal to set up one such centre in Visakhapatnam was under examination, they said.

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Journey to the cloud: One View, One Cloudedit

The Economic Times In a world where digital, big data, IoT, AI and others are creating new opportunities for enterprises to build new revenue streams in a matter of days, reach out to more customers, significantly improve the overall experience, the importance of having IT tools that can keep pace with all of this cannot be emphasized more. Organizations are increasingly putting customer experience ahead in their strategy for business growth.

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India added over 1,000 new tech start-ups in 2017 to become third largest ecosystemedit

Zee News Areas like health information management, aggregator/ecommerce have continued to mature with growth in areas like anomaly detection, disease monitoring, and tele-health/tele-medicine. As for advanced technologies, 31% of health-tech funding went towards Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Analytics.

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Global IoT in Transportation Market Expected to Reach $328.76 Billion by 2023 Allied Market Researchedit

PR Newswire According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “IoT in Transportation Market by Connectivity Technology, Mode of Transport, and Application: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2017-2023,” the global IoT in transportation market was valued at $135.35 billion in 2016, and is projected to reach $328.76 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 13.7% from 2017 to 2023.

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Five technology marvels for your homes that you didn’t know existed todayedit

Gizmodo Connected IoT devices can do lot more than dumb appliances of the past ever could. Since they are always connected online, you can make and maintain a list of items stored in a fridge for example, you can set it up to order supplies when they are running low or order ingredients that you may need for a certain recipe.

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Firms in Asia-Pacific on way to become intelligent enterprisesedit

Business Standard When it comes to leveraging ties between physical and digital worlds for better visibility, enterprises in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, including India, are on the path to becoming more intelligent when compared to firms globally, a new study said on Thursday. The framework of an ‘intelligent enterprise’ is based on technology solutions that integrate cloud computing, mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) to automatically “sense” information from enterprise assets.

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Epicor eyes SMEs in India’s manufacturing sector, partners with Redingtonedit

The Economic Times From a technology perspective, Epicor ERP solutions come with an underline layer of features and technology capabilities like artificial intelligence, data analytics, predictive analytics, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality (AR) and others. These capabilities help the customers to improve their business performance as well as support future growth without any additional technology investments.

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Drones, the satellites of the futureedit

Udaipur Kiran The Internet of Things revolves around massive data collection. The more data captured, the more accurate the analysis, the more efficient the system. Drones, being airborne sensors, definitely have an edge over fixed sensors due to their vantage point. In a smart city where there are volumes of complex data constantly on the move, untethered drones could prove to be a better option than fixed sensors such as CCTVs and streetlamp sensors.

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Digital technology has huge potential to transform agricultural economy: Rana Kapooredit

The Financial Express Dairy farm optimisation and monitoring services by leveraging IoT, big data, cloud and mobility are increasingly being used to improve milk production, milk procurement, storage & supply chain. A range of service providers on the Farming-as-a-service (FaaS) model are leveraging digital technology to provide innovative farm-to-fork solutions to farmers and agri businesses.

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Demand for modem, IoT chips helps Qualcomm top estimatesedit

ET Telecom Qualcomm Inc’s fourth-quarter profit and revenue beat market expectations as strength in its smartphone chips business was complemented by demand for chips used in automobiles and for the Internet of Things (IoT). Qualcomm, which has been fighting a legal battle on many fronts with Apple Inc, said revenue from areas other than smartphones was more than $3 billion in its latest fiscal year, up more than 25 percent from last year.

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Dell EMC plans to add IoT divisionedit

The Economic Times Dell EMC, the IT infrastructure behemoth that provides solutions in servers, storage, computers, virtualisation and security, plans to venture into the Internet of Things (IoT) with their products, solutions and partner ecosystem. Earlier, Michael Dell, chief of Dell Technologies, spoke about plans of opening a new IoT division to create more products that might augur well for the edge computing market.

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Consumer-friendly devices, refined R & D key goals in 2018: Samsung Indiaedit

Sify Camera continues to be a highlight but, said Warsi, services like entertainment and utility (My Galaxy), UPI-based mobile payment ecosystem (Samsung Pay) and AI-based features (digital assistant Bixby) and Internet of Things (IoT) will continue to enhance consumer experience. Refuting reports that Samsung’s market share has slipped in India, Warsi said: “German research firm GfK reports final consumption which is the most important measure of market share.

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Asia-Pacific DDoS Solution Services Market Propelled by Proliferation of Sophisticated Attacksedit

PR Newswire The Asia-Pacific distributed denial of service (DDoS) solution market has witnessed a 39.7 percent year-on-year growth rate. DDoS attacks continue to evolve and become more sophisticated with compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices, rise of botnet-for-hire, DDoS-for-hire in dark webs, and malware source code sharing in user forums, aiding the proliferation of sophisticated attacks

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5G Infrastructure Market Worth 33.72 Billion USD by 2026edit

PR Newswire The growth of the market is attributed to various factors such as increasing automation in different industries, rising number of subscribers owning more than one connected device, advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), high growth rate of connected/autonomous cars, increase in cellular M2M connections, high demand for on-demand video services, and growing trends of smart cities.

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Aeris, BSNL to roll out Internet of Things products and services for rural Indiaedit

Your Story Rishi Bhatnagar, President, Aeris Communications India, added, “From smart city projects to SMBs, large enterprises, PSUs and PPP projects across India will stand to gain immensely through this partnership. BSNL is also now among the few telecom players to have a complete stack of IoT solutions to offer, and this is a definite game-changer”.

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Industry News: Education

Odisha inks MoU with Singapore based ITEES for improving skill development ecosystemedit

The Times of India The MoU was signed for a period of five years between Sanjay Kumar Singh, secretary, skill development and technical education department and Bruce Poh, chief executive officer of the ITEES. In his reaction, Bruce said he is impressed with the vision of the state government for skill development. “We expect very long term collaboration between Odisha and Singapore,” he said

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Kudumbashree to impart skill trainingedit

The Times of India Kudumbashree Mission plans to offer job-oriented skill training to 15,000 youths as part of the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) through 45 agencies in 93 urban areas of Kerala and to ensure placements for them. As the nodal agency to implement NULM scheme, Kudumbashree has now given work order to 22 agencies to offer skill training to the youths

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IT-driven training helps to boost staff performanceedit

ET CIO With millennials making up the largest chunk of human resources in most sectors, L&D has taken on a larger significance in building engagement with the workforce. L&D was also seen to have an influence on leadership, helping managers to evolve their skills and improve abilities to lead across functions.

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Deal push for skillsedit

The Telegraph The MoU was signed between skill development and technical education secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh and Poh. Odisha Skill Development Authority chairman Subroto Bagchi said: “We are delighted to forge collaboration with ITEES, a global leader in the area of technical training and skill development. With their help, we can push up the standards of our ITIs.”

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Campus placements in TN engineering colleges down by 50 per centedit

Deccan Chronicle He also said the students should acquire specific skills in emerging areas like machine learning, internet of things (IoT), big data analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). Many students also get placed through competitions and challenges which test the coding skills and problem-solving ability of the students.

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Big Data for military useedit

The Indian Express According to Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), information supremacy gained over the adversary this way will be very important factor in all types of future engagement. This seems to be the reason for the efforts to gather large volumes of data through intelligent devices and subject them to analysis and create decision support systems.

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Come on board the solar alliance: Jaitley to multilateral banksedit

The Hindu Business Line Jaitley also re-iterated India’s commitment to optimal use of our new and renewable sources of energy for its huge energy requirements. Noting that the Prime Minister has committed for furthering the cause of New and Renewable Energy since the Paris COP21 UN Climate Change Conference, he noted that India has been in the forefront of the 42-nation International Solar Alliance (ISA).

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