November 12, 2019

News for the IET

Can WANI be to telecom what UPI is to payments?edit

The Financial Express

The good news is that WANI can perhaps mean a change for telecom similar to how UPI revived the payments industry, which was in the doldrums. Trai’s WANI recommendation should be seized without further delay, and architecture should be implemented for unleashing Telecom Revolution 2.0.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The human brain: A source of inspiration for artificial intelligence solutionsedit

The Economic Times

Over the last year, content creators across the globe have actively begun to adopt AI tools in order to enhance efficiencies, unlock revenue opportunities and deliver interactive viewing experiences. The uptake has already started in sports production and OTT distribution, with entertainment following close behind. This evolution has largely been made possible by the emergence of industry specific AI solutions

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IT spending in India seen rising 6.6% to touch $94 billion next yearedit

Live Mint

By Ayushman Baruah

Among technologies, automation enabled areas such as robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and chatbots are seeing huge uptick, Roy said. Cloud still remains quite strong, along with data and analytics.

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IoT can be a cash cow amidst economic slump provided telcos step up their gameedit

The Economic Times

Internet of Things (IoT) is a departure for telecom operators from their traditional business which can prove to be highly lucrative amidst economic slowdown, however, telcos need to act timely and find the fastest route to creating business value in this segment, industry stakeholders believe.

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How to navigate cybersecurity in a 5G worldedit

Tech Republic

By Macy Bayern

5G cybersecurity concerns and physical challenges: What you need to know Dan Patterson discusses how 5G will enable IoT, AR, VR, 3D renderings, and more. He also talks about the numerous cybersecurity concerns with 5G.

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Costly Cyber Crimeedit

Business World

The logical question is what steps can be taken to mitigate the consequences of this new crime, which has menacing proportions Accenture has done a study and recommended nine technologies that can help. The most significant is security intelligence and threat sharing followed by the use of automation and Artificial intelligence.

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13 MindBlowing Things Artificial Intelligence Can Already Do Todayedit

Forbes

By now, most of us are aware of artificial intelligence (AI) being an increasingly present part of our everyday lives. But, many of us would be quite surprised to learn of some of the skills AI already knows how to do. Here are 13 mind blowing skills artificial intelligence can already do today.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Top 10 Electric Vehicle Myths Bustededit

The Quint

The last decade of human history has witnessed a phenomenal push towards sustainable growth and serious pushback against environmental pollution on all fronts. This has led to the recent uptake of electric vehicles (EVs), positioned to be the cornerstone of the next generation of transportation and human society.

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Robust charging infra key to Indias EV ambitionsedit

The Economic Times

If you search for Emobility Conference in India between 2017 to 2019 Google throws 14.40 million search results in 0.86 second. This is amazing. It shows that India has started talking seriously about adoption of electric mobility. This is not surprising keeping in view that in 2018, 14 out of the 20 most polluted cities were in India.

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Is India Focusing Enough Towards Solving Issues Related To EV Charging Infrastructureedit

Entrepreneur

By Shreya Ganguly

According to a report by Florence School of Regulation, business model of EV charging in India is at the introductory stage and focuses on kickstarting the market.

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Even 8% margin not enough for EV dealers to sustain: Sohinder Gilledit

The Economic Times

By Prathishtha Nangia

We insist our dealers that they should not have to rent the premises, therefore, owning the property is one of the requirements, said Sohinder Gill, CEO of Hero Electric India.

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EV To Make Up For 3% Of Indias Total Energy Demand By 2030: Reportedit

Inc 42

By Kritti Bhalla

A report by Europe based research group Florence School of Regulation stated that by 2030, energy consumption by electric vehicles (EV) will make up for 3% of Indias total demand. However, it also added that the Indian emobility is highly dependent on the availability of strong charging infrastructure.

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Electric Vehicles Make Their Way To Kartarpur Corridoredit

Inc 42

By Kritti Bhalla

Corridor Jalandhar based electric threewheeler manufacturer Republic Motors has been selected by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Land Ports Authority of India to provide electric vehicles (EV) for the Kartarpur Corridor to enable 5K Indian passengers to commute daily. Kartarpur Corridor was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi, on November 9, 2019, to allow Indian pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan.

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Industry News: Future of Work

The digital workspace transformationedit

Tech Radar

The most recent evolutionary stage has made this digital workspace smarter. Today’s state of the art intelligent workspace uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to prioritise tasks according to their importance or urgency. In addition, it surfaces the bits of information the user needs at the time and it condenses the task at hand to just the necessary step, such as agreeing to a web conference or approving a request.

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India to have 31 cr school graduates by 2030 but over half will lack job skills: UNICEFedit

The Print

By Kritika Sharma

Only 47 per cent of Indian school graduates by 2030 will have the basic skills to be employable, says the UNICEF report.

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What if AI actually isnt out for our jobsedit

Tech Radar

Society adapts and changes as each new major innovation is implemented into our everyday routines, so that ultimately we cant imagine life without them. Similarly, successful businesses continue to reinvent themselves, evolving with these new technologies and improving service delivery, adding value, and leveraging competitive advantage. And few technologies have captured the workplaces collective attention quite like artificial intelligence (AI).

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Nontechies now try their hands at data, AI techedit

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik

As organisations increasingly offer services on mobile devices, more professionals from India’s non-tech enterprises, government agencies and defence institutions are getting trained in data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cyber security.

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How safe is employee dataedit

India Today

Associations spend a great deal of money on cybersecurity innovation, however, they neglect to similarly invest a similar measure of assets in training employees on proper cybersecurity practices and methods.

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Future of Work: Leveraging intelligent information security, empowering employees is keyedit

The Economic Times

Enabling seamless collaboration is imperative as employees would work from anywhere on any device. To secure this anytime anywhere working environment, businesses would have to enhance their cybersecurity stance. Organizations would also have to leverage technologies such as AI, Power BI to derive valuable insights and make datadriven decisions.

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Industry News: Education

Talent accelerator prog to improve engineering eduedit

Deccan Herald

Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Higher Education Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said that the talent accelerator programme to improve quality of engineering education will be introduced. Speaking to reporters, he said, The programme aims at imparting skills to make the graduates employable. It is an employment guarantee programme which will be introduced in diploma and engineering courses. (AICTE)

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