VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Coolpad has launched the ‘Coolpad Note 5’, a successor to the note series sporting an elegant design, intelligent technology and disruptive price. The smartphone will be exclusively available on Amazon.in at a price of Rs 10,999 and will be available in variants of royal gold, space grey via open sale from 18th October 2016. The company also announced that it aims to sell over 4 million Coolpad phones in India by next two quarters. After the success of its offline pilot project in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai, Coolpad will be expanding its presence in 13 cities over the next three months. Coolpad Note 5 features a 5.5 inch display FHD resolution of 1920 x 1080 with 78 per cent (screen-to-body ratio). The phone is loaded with a 4 GB RAM along with a Qualcomm SD 617 Octacore processor and comes with 32 GB of internal storage -expandable to 64 GB... Read More

iBall has launched another star performer to its Andi Series with ‘iBall Andi Wink 4G’ designed to meet the ever growing needs of todays generation. The 5 inch IPS FWVGA display 4G smartphone lets you enjoy images, gaming and video. With its easy capacitive multi-touch display you can now switch between home-screen and different applications, with soothing graphics and tender transitions effortlessly. The new generation phone sports the powerful Quad Core processor and Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, delivering the optimum balance of performance and power. With 2GB RAM and 16 GB built-in storage which is expandable upto 32 GB with the Micro-SD card, the smartphone brings more space for all your photos, videos and music.... Read More

SAP today announced investment plans of €2 billion over five years to help business and government entities benefit from the proliferation of sensors, smart devices and Big Data that is transforming business with the Internet of Things (IoT). SAP plans to accelerate innovation in its IoT solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing, scale service, support and co-innovation, and grow its ecosystem of partners and startups in the IoT market, which is estimated to reach €250 billion by 2020. “With billions of connected devices, we now have the potential to reshape society, the economy and the environment,” said Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP. “SAP HANA is the data platform we knew would unlock the Internet of Things. Today SAP is making another bold investment to help our customers seize the benefits of live business. Only SAP empowers businesses to innovate from the core to the edges to the network,” added McDermott.... Read More

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conferred Reliance Jio with a special award for HR Impact in People Practices . This was in recognition for Reliance Jio creating and launching Jio services across 18,000 cities and towns and more than 200,000 villages through a network of 1,215 offices and a formidable team of over 60,000 employees across India. As one of India’s youngest start-ups, the average age at Reliance Jio is 30 years, making Reliance Jio an organisation of the young, by the young, and for the young. The HR team has further created an ecosystem across India, where the company has more than 500,000 partners, and considers them part of the Jio family. Together with all partners, the Jio family is nearly 5,000,000-strong.... Read More

Connected car production is growing rapidly in both mature and emerging automobile markets, according to the latest forecast by Gartner . The production of new automobiles equipped with data connectivity, either through a built-in communications module or by a tether to a mobile device, is forecast to reach 12.4 million in 2016 and increase to 61 million in 2020. Gartner defines the connected car as an automobile that is capable of bidirectional wireless communication with an external network for the purpose of delivering digital content and services, transmitting telemetry data from the vehicle, enabling remote monitoring and control, or managing in-vehicle systems. “The connected vehicle is the foundation for fundamental opportunities and disruptions in the automotive industry and many other vertical industries,” said  James Hines, research director, Gartner ... Read More

NCR today announced that it is now the first financial technology company to achieve the milestone of installing 100,000 ATM machines in India. The 100,000th NCR ATM is located at State Bank of India’s (SBI) branch at Nariman Point in Mumbai. NCR continues to stay committed to India with service and support centers in over 260 locations, covering about 4,500 contact points in India alone. With its team of over 3,500 professionals NCR continues to transform into a “hardware-enabled, software-driven” business. “It is a moment of great pride for us to celebrate 20 successful years of business in India and mark the occasion with the installation of our 100,000th ATM machine. We have been privileged to be associated with all leading banks in India and look forward to continue delivering value to financial institutions for many more years, said Navroze Dastur, country manager, NCR India.... Read More

Google today announced that it will open a new Google Cloud Region in Mumbai and this is expected to be live in 2017. The India cloud region is aimed at offering Google Cloud Platform services to Indian developers and enterprise customers. The local region will help make Google Cloud Platform services even faster for Indian customers, enhancing differentiators that are already motivating companies to choose Google as their partner. With more than one billion end users, Google Cloud has gained significant traction in India and across the world. Globally, key customers already leveraging the benefits of Google Cloud Platform include Snap Inc (formerly SnapChat), Niantic Labs (Pokemon Go), Telus International, and Evernote. In India too, we have seen great customer momentum with thousands of customers including major brands like Wipro, Ashok Leyland, Smartshift by Mahindra & Mahindra, Dainik Bhaskar Group and INshorts.com building on Google Cloud Platform....