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Atos to support C-DAC in its National Supercomputing Mission : Atos has announced a major 3-year contract with the C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), an organization within the MeitY (Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, India) to supply its BullSequana supercomputers. This contract is part of the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission), a 7-year plan of Rs.4,500 crore (~$650 million) led by the Government of India which aims to create a network of over 70 high-performance supercomputing facilities for various academic and research institutions across India. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Facebook to train 5 million people with digital skills by Three Years : Facebook’s programme reach 29 states in India and have received strong response in states like Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab and others. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Bad News for Vodafone-Idea and Airtel SIM subscribers...!!! Low Average Realisation Per User(ARPU) Price changed from Rs. 10 to Rs.35 .... : Bharti Airtel with Vodafone and Idea have reportedly decided to switch off the connection of subscribers with low Average Realisation Per User (ARPU). This is said to be because such users generate ARPU of around Rs 10, which reportedly generates about Rs 100 crores in monthly revenue for Airtel. If this was raised to Rs 35, the overall monthly revenue will go up to Rs 175 crores, reports Financial Express. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Is Cloud pushing to stand round India's businesses ? : Now a days evolved technology and communication platforms are driving enterprises often endup replacing one vendorwith another or opting for alternating systems to provide redundancy and business resiliency. This can end up trapping them in exactly the same inflexible, costly and complex infrastructure environment they are looking to escape. And at the same time modern organizations are rapidly embracing multiple cloud services and providers, attracted by the prospect of simplifying operations, improving efficiency, driving speed and flexibility, and liberating themselves from expensive on-premise vendor solutions. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Facebook appeals against a fine enforced by the data watchdog - Cambridge Analytica scandal : As per the report, the affair between Facebook and Cambridge analytica stems from the discovery that an academic at the University of Cambridge - Dr Aleksandr Kogan - used a personality quiz to harvest up to 87 million Facebook users' details. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

The Cyber Crime - Now is a Threat to Maharashtra Govt. : According to official statistics, cases of cyber crime have increased immencly in Maharashtra and posing a big challenge for police in Maharashtra,  with the state witnessing a rise in current year compared to last year and it is presenting a major challenge to the state security & Information Technology Department. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group : 'The merger of Vodafone Idea has been envisaged to create a strong identity': Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Never before has India witnessed such an explosion of an entrepreneurial spirit: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries : 'Never before has India witnessed such an explosion of an entrepreneurial spirit' : Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

3 Things you should consider when buying Flash Storage : Applications of flash storage are poised for explosive growth, thanks to increasingly lower-priced and higher-capacity SSDs. In fact, the newest generation of 3D NAND flash technology has now reduced the cost of a single SSD to less than US$1 per GB. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

BlackBerry has announced its entering into a definitive agreement to wholly acquire Cylance for US $1.4 billion in cash, plus the assumption of unvested employee incentive awards. Pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, the deal is expected to close prior to the end of BlackBerry’s current fiscal year (February 2019). John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry, says, “Cylance’s leadership in artificial intelligence and Cyber security will immediately complement our entire portfolio, UEM and QNX in particular. We are very excited to onboard their team and leverage our newly combined expertise. We believe adding Cylance’s capabilities to our trusted advantages in privacy, secure mobility, and embedded systems will make BlackBerry Spark indispensable to realizing the Enterprise of Things.” Cylance is a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence, algorithmic science, and machine learning to cyber security software that has proven highly ...

Ajay Bhushan Pandey to replace Hasmukh Adhia as Revenue Secretary : Ajay Bhushan Pandey ha played a key role in the rollout of the historic Goods and Services Tax (GST), He is going to replace as the Revenue Secretary - top bureaucrat in the finance ministry - as Hasmukh Adhia would be retiring on November 30, 2018. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

NDCP 2018 to add $1.2 trillion to the country's GDP : It has been reported that the newly-unveiled National Digital Communications Policy 2018, if properly implemented can alone bring $1.2 trillion to the country's GDP. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

The senior officials of public-owned Bharat Broadband Network (BBNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has been notified for failing to operate the government's ambitious BharatNet network by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). In a letter to BBNL and BSNL top executives— Sanjay Singh and Anupam Shrivastava, dated November 2, telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that a disciplinary action would be taken against officials responsible for non-operational network in village blocks and attributed lack of professionalism on the part of two public sector companies which has led to poor planning and coordination between the two. Sundararajan has further warned that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious project is being monitored by highest levels in the government and any failure to comply with or disregard of instructions shall invite exemplary disciplinary action. BharatNet, originally conceived under the UPA-II regime in 2012, aims to connect 2.5...

Mark Zuckerberg has ordered an injunction on his employees using Apple’s iPhones. According to a report on Facebook’s tactics targeting company critics and dealing with multiple scandals, Zuckerberg has banned iPhones and ordered to use only Android smartphones. It is in response to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s comments made in an MSNBC interview earlier this year criticizing Facebook in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained information on millions of Facebook users. Cook had said that privacy to them is a human right and added that Apple could make a ton of money if it chooses to monetize customer data as Facebook did. Facebook, as part of its response, acknowledged that it has a policy of promoting usage of Android phones over Apple’s iPhones. Facebook remarks in a statement that they have encouraged their employees and executives to use Android because it is the most popular operating system in the world. It doesn’t stop here, as part of anti...

How to become an Intelligent Enterprise? : The on-demand economy is changing the way we perceive and use technology. Today, businesses are embracing technology to adapt faster than ever. Organizations of all sizes have realised that smart technology can enable growth and ultimately help them remain relevant in an increasingly competitive environment. This is the first and foremost step of transforming themselves into an Intelligent Enterprise. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Why are iPhones banned by Mark Zuckerberg? : Mark Zuckerberg has ordered an injunction on his employees using Apple’s iPhones. According to a report on Facebook’s tactics targeting company critics and dealing with multiple scandals, Zuckerberg has banned iPhones and ordered to use only Android smartphones. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

How 5G technology will empower the collaboration where human intervention will be minimized...!!! : The next generation of doctors have some exciting times ahed. Imagine a robot waiting for operation. Ultra high cameraras are embedded in OT. Doctor is sitting thousand kilometer ahed. Giving instructions to the robot and the operation process is getting success. At the same time a farmer is at his home and robot with Drone keeping eyes on the crop and their health. thus the autonomous robot look out the crop diseases and informing to farmer about the soil status, humidity and brief details about the crop desease. Then Drone taking action for fertilizer or pesticides.... VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

If the food items are not safe to eat, then it should be rejected by someone before using it. But it is not possible manually to test every prepared food as well bottled food even when a threat like the recent baby food scare. Recently MIT researchers discovered a way to check many food items instantly, non invasively and from a distance - using the popular RFID tags. RFID is the radio frequency Identification mechanism, uses the tiny antena embedded in a sticker or level that is activated and powered by radio waves at a very specific frequency. When a transceiver sends out a 950Mhz signal, the RFID tag wakes up and re-transmits a slightly different signal identifying itself. Products that announce themselves? Convenient for doing inventory! What the researchers found was that this return signal, outside the actual information-bearing part, can be affected by the actual contents of the product, since the radio waves have to pass through them. Consequently, a jar full of p...

Furthering its commitment to advancing research & development (R&D) and innovation in the country, Intel India has marked its 20th anniversary with the inauguration of its latest state-of-the-art design house, SRR4, at its Bengaluru campus. It also announced key initiatives to promote innovation in the technology ecosystem and support inclusive participation of women in the industry.  Built with an investment of approximately Rs.1,100 crore, the newest facility located at Intel’s 44-acre campus on Sarjapur Ring Road (SRR) in Bengaluru, has 620,000 sq. ft. of space, including 100,000 sq. ft. of world-class lab infrastructure. Extending Intel’s R&D presence in India, it will house technologists who work on cutting-edge engineering across hardware and software.  A smart and green building, SRR4 is the second building in India to be constructed with the innovative “One Storey High Technology”, with each floor being built on the ground, then lifted and attached ...

At $60 the AmazonBasics microwave has an excellent price. Features : * Takes the guesswork out of cooking certain items * Small, fits under counters * Seamless integration between microwave and speaker * Automatic popcorn replenishment via Amazon Dash * Inexpensive * Amazon Echo speaker required to use Alexa * Plain and simple looking It is not a rumor that Amazon might be introducing a microwave, we thought: Hah, a microwave ? You mean, like the kind in a kitchen that warms a Hot Pocket during hangovers ??? What does Amazon, maker of Kindles, Fire TV devices, and Alexa Echo speakers, and if Amazon is going to build microwaves with an Alexa speaker, does this mean we’re going to see other Amazon appliances in the near future ? Is Amazon trying to make every single device we own talk back to us ? And finally, what does all this mean for humanity ? It does, however, work with an Alexa speaker, like an Echo or Echo Dot (you can’t use it with a first-g...

Microwave from Alexa ..!!! It is unbelievable.. what she can do for you ...??? : It is not a rumor that Amazon might be introducing a microwave, we thought: Hah, a microwave ? You mean, like the kind in a kitchen that warms a Hot Pocket during hangovers ??? VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Intel's CPU shortage will affect the forthcoming launch of Intel's ninth-generation Core processors. Now a question comes, does Intel's production problems will bring opportunity for the AMD ? we have to wait and watch for the fourth quarter. This shortage is primarily due to the issue on the unexpected return to growth of the PC industry. The fact is there is continued explosion of data and the need to process, store, analyze and share it is driving industry innovation and incredible demand for compute performance in the cloud, the network and the enterprise. In fact, our data-centric businesses grew 25 percent through June, and cloud revenue grew a whopping 43 percent in the first six months. Intel CFO and interim CEO Bob Swan's "Supply Update" starts by noting the growth of the processor industry and secondly the performance of our PC-centric business has been even more surprising like the second-quarter PC shipments grew globally for the first ti...

Ricoh Japan Global Chairman Summoned By The Indian Court : Yoshinori Yamashita, global chairman of Ricoh Company Limited, Japan has been summoned by the Hon’ble Special CBI court, Tiz Hazari ,New Delhi in a forgery case. The Hon’ble court taking cognisance and considering the seriousness of the matter has directly summoned the global chairman and asking him to be present in the court at the next date of hearing 15th November 2018. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

PM launches 59 programmes for MSME sector : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had unveiled 12 key initiatives and outreach programme for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sectors, which will help the growth, expansion and facilitation of MSMEs across the country. It will mark a new chapter for the MSME sector. Noting that MSMEs are one of the principal employment generators in India, the Prime Minister recalled the glorious Indian traditions of small scale industry, including Ludhiana’s hosiery, and Varanasi’s sarees. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Veeam Software has re-structured its executive team, promoting Andrei Baronov as its chief executive officer (CEO). In addition to co-founder Baronov’s promotion, Ratmir Timashev, Veeam’s other co-founder, becomes executive vice president (EVP), WW Sales and Marketing, with William Largent assuming the role of executive vice president (EVP), Operations. Both Timashev and Largent will report to the CEO.  These executive changes add extra focus and strength to help the company continue its rapid expansion into the Enterprise and Cloud segments and enable it to accelerate growth across all markets. “I want to thank Peter McKay for his dedication and energy, and we all wish him the best in his new endeavors,” said Andrei Baronov, Co-Founder and CEO at Veeam. “He leaves Veeam with a deep bench strength of experienced management leaders who will carry our vision and strategy forward. The changes we have made to the executive team will ensure that Veeam continues our aggress...

The World Bank has said that India has improved on six of the 10 parameters on starting and doing business in the country. It is a complement to the efforts of PM Narendra Modi, efforts towards reform measures taken in last 4 years of dedicated service to the nation by making the efforts to ease processes, project a business-friendly environment, and draw in foreign investment. India is the only nation to have made it to the list of top 10 improvers for the second consecutive year in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 survey.  It climbed 23 places to 77 among 190 countries surveyed, making it the only country to rank among the top 10 improvers for the second consecutive year. “The key reforms in India included streamlining the process of obtaining a building permit and improved building quality controls,” the World Bank said. “Starting a business was made easier through consolidation of multiple application forms and introduction of a goods and services tax (G...

India Ranked to 23rd Position in ease of doing business in the World Bank's : The World Bank has said India has improved on six of the 10 parameters on starting and doing business in a country. It is a complement to the efforts of PM Narendra Modi, efforts towards reform measures taken in last 4 years of dedicated service to the nation by making the efforts to ease processes, project a business-friendly environment, and draw in foreign investment. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE