VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

JetSynthesys announces a special offer to celebrate 3 years of Sachin Saga Cricket Champions :  JetSynthesys , a new age digital entertainment and technology company with a global foray in gaming, digital entertainment, and interest-based social community platforms, celebrates the third anniversary of its widely popular and immersive cricket game   Sachin Saga Cricket Champions . To commemorate this milestone, fans will be given an incredible 75% discount on the annual premium subscription for the game, which can be availed through a notification that will pop up on the homepage itself. Originally priced at INR 1999, the yearly subscription will now be available for INR 499 only, while the monthly pack remains at INR 299.   Born out of an exclusive joint venture with  Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Saga Cricket Champions  is an immersive mobile game that lets users play as the legendary Master Blaster himself. It has been lauded as the world’s premiere 3D mobile crick...

IDEMIA and ZWIPE achieves a new milestone:  In a context where global demand for contactless payments is booming, biometric cards are best placed to ensure secure, hygienic, and convenient payments. The exclusive partnership and distribution agreement between   IDEMIA   and   ZWIPE   aim to promote biometric cards as the reference for tomorrow’s contactless payments in India.   India has been quite receptive towards biometric authentication (as shown by Aadhar enabled payment’s success) thus F.Code (fingerprint authentication) Cards are definitely a payment cards technology to watch out for. According to a recent report, 75 percent of millennials in India are comfortable using biometrics today. Biometrics is the most secured authentication as only you can be you, hence it just makes sense to have a biometric authentication for the most important password, Bank Card password (PIN).   IDEMIA is all set to pilot the technology in India. This card with its...

Customer wait time has reduced by 53% this year:  India’s leading provider of on-demand cloud communication/telephony solutions, has unveiled interesting insights pertaining to the call center industry in the backdrop of lockdown enforced due to COVID-19.   This study is an analysis of a sample set of 150 million calls made on  Ozonetel’s CloudAgent platform  by nearly 76659 active agents in 2020. The analysis covers both in-bound and outbound calls made on Ozonetel’s platform across various verticals, including ecommerce, food, healthcare, insurance, Ed-tech & real estate call centers. The study also includes how COVID-19 affected customer experience and call center performance.   Key findings of the report:   Callers had to wait less. Average Time in Queue is the amount of time callers have to wait in queue before they are connected to representatives. This is an important customer experience metric as the longer customers wait, the less satisfied the...

57% Indians have planned their next vacation for early 2021: ZestMoney:  ZestMoney, India’s leading AI-driven EMI financing   and “Buy Now Pay Later” (“Pay Later”) platform, today released the findings from a customer survey conducted to understand how Indians are shaping up their travel plans for the coming year. The survey was conducted with a sample of 4600 respondents across key metros and Tier II/III cities in India. The survey reveals that while over 75% respondents did not take a vacation in the last three months, over 57% are planning their next leisure travel in early 2021. Interestingly, an increasing number of people want to opt for domestic travel. Within India, Goa (53.1%), followed by Kerala (32.9%) and Shimla (31.4%) ranked high on the travel bucket-list. Ladakh, Kashmir, Jaipur, Agra and Mysore were the other popular destinations. With the pandemic taking a hit on finances, travellers have slashed their discretionary spends, including those on leisure activitie...

Microsoft also targeted of Massive SolarWinds Hack:  Microsoft’s systems   were exposed as part of the suspected   Russian cybersecurity hack   that targeted SolarWinds and hit multiple government agencies, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.   The latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical institutions, including security firms,” Smith wrote in the blog post. It illuminates the ways the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve and become even more dangerous.   Microsoft’s own products were used to further attacks on other victims by leveraging its cloud offerings. It is unclear how many Microsoft users were affected.   Microsoft president Brad Smith  warned that the wide-ranging hack of the SolarWinds’ Orion IT software is “ongoing,” and that investigations reveal “an attack that is remarkable for its scope, sophistication and impact.”   The Windows maker, however, de...

No UK flights can enter India till Dec 31 fearing new Covid strain:  All flights connecting the UK and India will remain suspended from 23rd December Wednesday till December 31, the   Civil Aviation Ministry   said on Monday in view of the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus there, joining several other countries like Canada, Turkey, Belgium, Italy and Israel that have imposed a similar flight ban.   Moreover, passengers coming from the UK through flights till Tuesday midnight would be tested for COVID-19 on arrival at airports "as a measure of abundant precaution", the civil aviation ministry said. The British government warned that the potent new strain of the virus was "out of control" and imposed a stringent new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday.   Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri  said on Twitter that the passengers who are found COVID-19-positive would be sent for institutional quarantine set up by states or union territories. ...

Amazon is free to challenge the Future Group Deal says Court:  Reliance Industries   agreed to buy   Future Group   but   Amazon   objected. The Jeff Bezos-led company already got an order from a Singapore arbitrator stopping the deal between Mukesh Ambani and Kishore Biyani from progressing.   India's retail sector is likely to grow 46 percent over the next four years to an annual $1.3 trillion (roughly Rs. 95,74,500 crores), showed data from Forrester Research. The key battle is over groceries, likely to be worth around $740 billion (roughly Rs. 54,50,100 crores) a year by 2024, the data showed. Reliance and Future are geared to dominate the market in India, with the next competitor, DMart, being far behind in terms of stores and reach. In response, Future Group went to the Delhi High Court seeking it to stop the global e-commerce giant from interfering in the deal between. The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea from India's Future Group tha...

Avaloq's Acquisition by NEC Successfully Completed:  Avaloq, a Swiss-based global leader in digital banking solutions and wealth management technology , and   Japan-based NEC Corporation   today announced the closing of NEC's acquisition of Avaloq. Each being a market leader in their own field, the combination of their shared vision, technological strengths, and global presence, will accelerate both companies' long-term growth, global expansion and value creation strategy. This acquisition was first announced in October 2020, and following receipt of the relevant regulatory approvals, the acquisition was completed on December 22, 2020. NEC now holds 100% of Avaloq's shares, including the 45% previously held by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, as well as the remaining shares held by Avaloq's founder Francisco Fernandez and by employees. Founded in 1985, Avaloq provides powerful cloud solutions for banks and wealth managers around the globe through business process...