November 13, 2017

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Will Trade Unions Matter In The Age Of Automationedit

CXO Today

  Nonetheless, technology and trade unions do exist. WashTech represents a portion of Microsoft employees. Alliance@IBM, possibly one of the oldest computer technology unions, represents IBM employees. Then there’s IEEE for electrical engineers that has some union-like characteristics, aimed at bettering the programmer and technical workers who operate on their own. But these groups represent a tiny fraction of the total workforce.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Co-create content with corporatesedit

The Financial Express

  Technological innovations such as m-commerce and e-commerce, virtual and augmented reality, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, Learning Management Systems, MOOCs, Sharable Content Object Reference Model, mobile applications, cloud computing and social media has completely transformed the way businesses function, bringing technology to the forefront of daily operations.

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With IoT creating significant security gaps, it’s imperative to focus on securing devicesedit

Your Story

  This is the state of security in today’s world. Everyone on the internet is open to be raided; their data stolen by hackers. So except for large businesses that spend tons on network security, smaller ones do not understand how to secure themselves in the world of multiple devices.

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Vodafone to strengthen enterprise portfolio with broadband: Co’s MD and CEO Sunil Soodedit

The Economic Times

  The MD said it aims to become a telecom solutions provider and has companies, startups and various government bodies as its clients. The telco had rolled out a Start-up Kit this September that included complimentary access to Vodafone’s internet of things (IoT), managed connectivity platform, dedicated support team and rental free package for 6 months for about 50 IoT SIMs to develop and deploy their solution.

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Unisys predicts IoT & other connected technologies to improve efficiency and deliver better patient careedit

Pharma Biz

  Unisys Corporation now sees that life sciences and healthcare companies will follow the lead of other industries and integrate connected technologies including Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent scanners across their ecosystems as a means to improve operational efficiencies, enhance supply chain visibility and deliver better patient care.

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SDN-NFV: The Game Changers In Indian Telecom sectoredit

CXO Today

  While Srishty Raj Koul, Cloud Core Network Solution Director stressed on the need for NFV based on VM’s and containers seamlessly transforming SP core networks towards the 5G Service oriented core. Network X-formation based on DC-Centric approach to support futuristic services for 5G, which demand ultra-high throughput, Low latency & massive IOT connection.

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National Instruments plugs into future techedit

Auto Car Professional

  With it over 35,000 global customers spanning diverse fields of telecom, software, aerospace and automobile the US-based $1.3 billion electronic testing solutions provider, Nadonal Instniments (NI) shed light on the fame trends in the industrial environment, which are seeing immense resource allocation inside R&D labs, and are going to spawn anew era in the fast changing world. (IIOT)

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IoT startup landscape: Emerging mergers and acquisitions by traditional “non-tech” playersedit

First Post

  IST Comment 0 Tweet In the last 5 years IoT startups have grabbed attention and angel.co has over 5000 IoT startups listed. A whopping sum of $12.5B has been put into IoT startups worldwide in the last 5 years by the investor community (CB Insights).

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IoT & Smart Citiesedit

My Mobile

  It is well believed that loT is the key to developing smart cities. It makes every possible device internet connected and enables exchange of data between the networks of connected devices. This can be any device from headphones, mobile phones, washing machines, alarm clock to anything else that has an on and off switch to the Internet. It is a huge network of things or even people connected to each other.

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Impact to Database Management System with Machine Learning and IoTedit

Udaipur Kiran

  Managing data by collecting it at the edge and centrally storing and processing it will be inappropriate to many IoT networks. Data management will be pushed out from the center into the network itself and onto the devices that sit at the edge. However, sensors and other devices will run on a variety of energy-saving processors, not necessarily the complex and energy-hungry x86 architecture, and the amounts of memory available will shrink.

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Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara launches Lumada IoT platformedit

CIO

  Hitachi and Hitachi Vantara, jointly announced Hitachi’s first commercial Lumada internet of things (IoT) platform offering. Now in its v2.0 release, the Lumada IoT platform has been fully updated with an elegant, portable architecture that enables it to run both on-premises or in the cloud and to support industrial IoT deployments both at the edge and in the core.

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Cyber security: Narendra Modi government clears plan for Microsoft led consortium to train officialsedit

The Financial Express

  The government has approved a proposal made by an industry consortium led by tech major Microsoft to train chief information security officers (CISOs) and other information technology officers from the Centre, states, banks and public sector enterprises (PSUs) on cyber security-related challenges.

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Bengaluru is home to 51 percent of IoT startups in Indiaedit

Your Story

  It is well known that Bengaluru leads the charge in India when it comes to being a startup hub. Now, there is data to endorse that fact. Of the 971 Internet of Things (IoT) startups in India, 536 are registered in Bengaluru, according to the IoT Startup Directory 2017. It 2014, there were 123 IoT startups in the country, and their number grew to 275 in 2015.

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AI Creates Jobs, More Productsedit

Deccan Chronicle

  Manufacturing with digital platforms for competitiveness, high employment and wealth generation advanced manufacturing is a wide spectrum multi-and interdisciplinary domain where learning from experiences, simulation and modelling, materials, sensors with Internet of Things (loT), supply-chain robustness, life cycle management, innovations through imaginations and commercialisation should work in synergy with right expertise of human resources, facilities, infrastructure and polices.

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5G: Modi’s next speed testedit

Deccan Herald

  5G will enable electronic and mobile smart governance, remote health diagnosis, remote education, digital payments, Smart Cities, Smart Transportation, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine Communications (M2M), and smart devices enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as driverless cars, smart houses, etc.

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Light Up Your Lifeedit

Bangalore Mirror

  The Internet of Things is an ambitious proposition, combining all your personal devices and home appliances into a centrally controlled mesh. It’ll be a while before that becomes a reality, but one part of the puzzle is already here – smart lighting. From lightbulbs that you can sync wirelessly, to speakers that make lights dance, to light-up wearables, let us illuminate your way through this brave new world.

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Industrial Organizations Increasingly Focused on IoT Adoptionedit

Business World

  According to the 2017 study, 86 percent of industrial organizations are currently adopting IoT solutions and 84 percent believe those solutions are very or extremely effective. In addition, 95 percent believe that IoT has a significant or tremendous impact on their industry.

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India’s Smart City project not moving fast, need to involve enterprises: Nokia global executivesedit

The Economic Times

  In fact, at a recent high-level meeting, the Prime Minister reportedly pulled up the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) for the tardy progress in urban mission projects. Nokia, on its part, is currently working with telecom operators in India to reach out to enterprises tapping the opportunity in the smart city and the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.

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Digital world: AI creates jobs, more productsedit

The Asian Age

  Manufacturing with digital platforms for competitiveness, high employment and wealth generation advanced manufacturing is a wide spectrum multiand inter-disciplinary domain where learning from experiences, simulation and modelling, materials, sensors with Internet of Things (IoT), supply-chain robustness, life cycle management, innovations through imaginations and commercialisation should work in synergy with right expertise of human resources, facilities, infrastructure and polices

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Certain segments in Indian start-up space are overcrowded, says Dr Vivek Mansinghedit

DNA

  Bangalore and Delhi continue to be start-up hotbeds with Mumbai (fintech), Pune (Auto), Hyderabad and Chennai (SAAS) right behind. There is a lot of focus on B2B in addition to B2C. Many B2C are turning into B2B2C. Among the verticals, software as a service (SaaS), internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), Fintech, Healthtech, enterprise software, ecommerce and mobility are most pursued.

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Catching them young: Intel powers AI start-upsedit

The Hindu

  Smart eyewear that helps the visually impaired read and identify objects, gadgets that analyse physical wounds for faster recovery, and floor-cleaning robots were some of the AI-based innovations on display by hardware start-ups at ‘Intel India Maker Lab’ in Bengaluru. Many of these companies said that they had implanted Intel chips or are in talks with the chipmaker to get the technology for their products. (Internet of Things)

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Banking gets Augmented Reality liftedit

Telangana Today

  Banks are weaving all the cutting edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality into their service models leading to a much more contextual, profitable and efficient customer service.

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Industry News: Education

Skill development programmes off the radaredit

The Hindu

  An ambitious English skill training course runs into teething problems While the State government is grappling with rise in unemployment among the weaker sections, it has emerged that some of the skill development programmes taken up by the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Castes Cooperative Finance Corporation (APSCFC) are off the radar.

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PM’s council sets out roadmap for skill development, job creationedit

The Hindu Business Line

  The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister in its second meeting laid out a roadmap for stepping up skill development, job creation; enhanced resource investment in the social sector, including for health and education, and boosting infrastructure financing.

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Indian academics awarded in Singapore for skill developmentedit

India Today

  While academics are working out collaborations for courses to prepare their students for direct employability, there is also demand from working-class and professionals to attend Sunday schools for enhancing their skills, Pachpande said. Dr Nripen Dutta, founder and principal of Guwahatis Miles Bronson Residential School which won the Icon of Learning award for its unique way of teaching students, said: “Our students are taken on field trips, excursions and given hands-on training”.

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India and Japan collaborate on Technical Intern Trainingedit

Auto Car Professional

  On October 17, Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan signed the MoC on behalf of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of the government of India with Karsonobu Kato, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan at the Ministry of Health Labour arid Welfare in Tokyo, Japan

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Business Corneredit

The Pioneer

  Managing Director and CEO of Punjab National Bank Sunil Mehta called on Cabinet Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan recently and discussed business opportunities in the Oil sector and Skill development area respectively.

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When it comes to grants, Govt discriminates against private educational institutesedit

The Hindu Business Line

  Technology has become an integral part of our everyday life and its impact can also be seen in education. In the age of smartphones, smart classroom and online exams, the vision of future is Education 4.0 or personalised education, TV Mohandas Pai, Chair-FICCI Skills Committee and Chairman of Manipal Global Education, told BusinessLine in an interview. (AICTE)

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Skill development centres needed in city to guide budding entrepreneursedit

The Times of India

  Bitten by the bugs of ideation, innovation, experimentation, risk and entrepreneurship, youngsters across the nation seem to have been shunning traditional and stable jobs to start their own ventures in a variety of sectors over the past few years.

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Sharing the way forwardedit

Millennium Post

  Solar energy does not require government support any longer. Case in point –tariffs hit an all-time low in May when Avaada Power quoted to sell electricity for just Rs 2.44 per unit, at the auction for the Phase III of a solar park in Rajasthan.

Solar Energy
Solar energy policy for Goa soonedit

Navhind Times

  Pointing out that an eco-friendly power source environment is needed for the state, Padma Jaiswal, power secretary, on Friday, said that a solar energy policy for Goa will be announced within one-and-a-half-months.

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First power plant under PM Ladakh scheme commissioned in Drassedit

ET Energy World

  The New and Renewable Energy Ministry said the 1.5-mw small hydropower plant in Biaras Drass of Kargil has become the first project to be commissioned under the Prime Minister’s Ladakh Renewable Energy Initiative. The power project will meet normal power requirement of close to 1,000 families, a ministry statement said. According to the statement, the Biaras small hydropower project (SHP) of 1.5 mw was commissioned on November 4.

Renewable Energy
EESL invests $12m in Canadian battery projectedit

Auto Car Pro

  The partnership has strategic importance for India as the government has set a ambitious target of achieving 175GW of renewable energy by the year 2022, or 40 percent of the country’s energy supply, up from 12 percent now, under its commitment during COP21.

Renewable Energy
Startup Ultimate Sun Systems offers customised renewable energy solutionsedit

The Economic Times

  “Our aim was to provide solutions and expertise in the installation of solar projects, which deliver the best results and also qualify for government incentives,” says Yadav, Co-founder and Managing Director. Founded with an investment of Rs 75 lakh, put in by the founders, Ultimate Sun Systems, in a relatively conducive environment for renewable energy, has seen quick growth. In 2016-17, with a staff of 35, it generated Rs 20.2 crore in revenue.

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