January 17, 2018

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Inside Intel’s AI Democratization Drive: Prakash Mallyaedit

CIO

 

Just three years back, 70 percent of Intel’s business was driven by PCs. That number now stands at 50 percent. The remaining half of the business is driven by data centers, storage, AI and the Internet of Things (IoT). A conversation with Prakash Mallya, MD, Intel India, throws light on Intel’s vision for 2018 and what explains the company’s focus on emerging technologies. Mallya stated that Intel has set sights on key technologies like AI, IoT, 5G, AR/VR and connected vehicles.

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HP Enterprise launches Intel-powered Customer Experience Centre for IoT, smart citiesedit

The Indian Express

 

Technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India on Tuesday launched an Intel-powered Customer Experience Centre (CEC) here that will demonstrate Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart city solutions. With the facility, HPE will enable partners and customers to experience cutting-edge technologies first hand that can help in the seamless development of smart city projects across the country.

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How Big Data Is Changing Banking And Financeedit

CXO Today

 

“A growing number of financial institutions are seeing the light: big data expenditures in this sector accounted for 19 percent, or $9.2 billion, of the $48.4 billion global BDA market in 2016, addressing issues and opportunities including security and privacy; data governance and blockchain; risk management and regulatory compliance; AI and IoT.”

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Gemalto and Ponemon Institute Study: Big gaps emerge between countries on attitudes towards data protection in the cloudedit

IT News Online Gemalto’s solutions are at the heart of modern life, from payment to enterprise security and the internet of things. We authenticate people, transactions and objects, encrypt data and create value for software – enabling our clients to deliver secure digital services for billions of individuals and things.

IoT
France temporarily opens up radio waves to test 5G benefitsedit

Reuters It could also boost the “internet of things” (IoT), which describes a wide-range of objects that are connected to the internet and can collect and exchange data to perform functions such as controlling the heating at home, managing maintenance in factories or monitoring energy consumption.

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Atos Recognized as Global Leader in IoT Services by Everest Groupedit

BW CIO World

  Elaborating on Atos’ role as a leader in IoT, Dominique Grelet, Global head of Atos Codex IoT Services, said: “We are proud to be recognized as a global Leader in IoT Services by Everest Group. This validates our ability to effectively leverage agile processes, innovative tooling and automation, while working with our extensive IoT partner ecosystem, to deliver, manage and secure the full IoT value chain, from connected devices to edge computing to the datacenter.

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Industry News: Education

Indian Skill Development Service in the offingedit

The Hindu

  It will be a new civil service cadre for skill development, says Union Minister “Skill development is top priority for the Union government. We are completely overhauling the system by introducing several new schemes and instituting systems and processes,” Union Skill Development Minister Anant Kumar Hegde said in Belagavi on Tuesday. “We need alternatives to conventional education modules.

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DU Act is a lock on higher education in Delhi: Sisodiaedit

Hindustan Times

 

Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia has demanded that the Delhi University Act, 1922, be amendeds in ceitprohibits the constitution of another affiliating university in the city. He said the law prevents development in the field of higher education in the Capital.

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40% of rural youth can’t tell time, 57% awful at basic math: ASER Surveyedit

Business Standard

 

  Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, and K P Krishnan, secretary at the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, discussed the report and other youth issues with Madhav Chavan, co-founder and president of Pratham moderating the discussion. “The right to education (RTE) Act was enacted in 2009, and in 2017 i.e eight years later, we have a first-of-its-kind situation when all children in India have passed class VIII, and we thought it was imperative to take a note of their abilities and aspirations,” Rukmini Banerji, chief executive officer of Pratham said.

Education
All eyes on job creation now, with general elections just a year awayedit

The Hindu Business Line

 

“Out of 2.5 crore candidates who have been skilled under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) programmes alone, more than one crore have been trained in 2017,” said an official release. A lack of sufficient wage employment has also been a key challenge for the MSDE, which has been training youth in vocational skills, though many have often not found jobs

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India should not hurry on renewablesedit

The Hindu Business Line

  Consider two maps: one of India’s coal resources (concentrated primarily in eastern and central India) and another of India’s prime solar and wind resources (concentrated primarily in Western and Southern India). There is negligible overlap between these areas. Of India’s installed grid-scale RE capacity of about 60 MW, over 57 MW is concentrated between the northern, southern, and western India.

Renewable Energy
Chinese imports edge out domestic solar playersedit

The Times of India The National Solar Mission may have set a target of 20 million m2 (metre square) solar thermal capacity with ‘Make in India’ panels, but the government’s proposed incentives package has left this segment of the domestic solar industry out in the cold even though it is getting swamped by cheaper Chinese imports.

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