VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

As per the report, Sharp Corporation of Japan to buy Toshiba Corp’s personal computer business for 4 billion yen ($36 million). Sharp brand is under the control of manufacturing giant Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer and major Apple Inc supplier, to produce PCs more cheaply – just as it was able to do in TVs. Another report also noticed by VARINDIA, Foxconn is also promoting the Sharp TV to start marketing in India, which has kick started from this year IPL(Indian Premiere League) ,with this they are marking a return to a business in India. Earlier Sharp was a known brand in terms of technology but it’s position become negligible with the fastest technology and pricing structure of SAMSUNG, LG and Sony. With the manufacturing capability of FOXCONN, they are trying to enter the Asian market. The recent deal of Pc business, will see Sharp take an 80.1 percent stake in Toshiba’s PC unit on Oct 1.... Read More

Cabinet okays 51% FDI in multi-brand, 100% in single brand retail, with this it will create a level playing field. Hope, this decision will be cheered by global retail giants such as Wal-Mart that have long been eyeing India's lucrative retail sector worth an estimated $450 billion a year. The two American retail giants have fought in India market like one foreign investor sold the stake to other foreign investor to invite the globe competition and it is like the battle unfolding among global tech players in India. The real case study and the test bed is Indian market where about 220 million on-line users with 1 billion mobile phone market and it is increasing post Modi regim, talking most about digital India, it has helped the global company Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and Amazon, the e-commerce behemoth to venturing into India market, where as Amazon has invested billions of dollar in India market, with the entry of Walmart ,they are also going invest few...

Google will not go for another contract or renew for its controversial experiment providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defence for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires. Google Cloud CEO Mr.Diane Greene give out the decision at a meeting with employees last Friday morning, three sources told Gizmodo. The current contract expires in 2019 and there will not be a new followed contract, Greene said. The meeting, designated as Weather Report, is a weekly update on Google Cloud’s business. Google would not trail the Maven today because the reverberations has been horrible for the company, Greene said, adding that the decision was made at a time when Google was more aggressively trailing military work. The company plans to publish new ethical principles about its use of AI next week. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about Greene’s comments.... Read More

Atos has been awarded two major outsourcing contracts by Siemens to drive the latter’s digital transformation program. The first contract will cover multiple activities spanning Application Management services and Technical Production Support in SAP, Microsoft and Business Intelligence for multiple divisions of Siemens, while the second contract will cover Application Management services for Siemens regions in Europe, APAC and Latin America. Both contracts, with a total value above €200 million, will run for the duration of 5 years commencing Q4 2018. Most of those contracts represent new business for Atos. Driving an ambitious IT transformation program, Siemens launched a tender to identify and select providers which offer cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, while meeting Siemens’ important selection criteria. In this context, Atos has been selected as a provider for:.... Read More

Google Sets Limits for Project MAVEN but Allows to Continue US Defence Work  #Project-MAVEN Google CEO Mr.Sundar Pichai affirmed that the AI is as more as profound to humanity than fire & war. Last Thursday Mr.Pichai offered guidelines for how Google will-and won’t-use the technology. One thing Pichai says Google won’t do: work on AI for weapons. But the guidelines leave much to the discretion of company executives and allow Google to continue to work for the military. This is a response to more than 4,500 Googlers signing a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon project called Maven that uses machine learning to interpret drone surveillance video and imagery. In the letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai, Google employees expressed concern that the U.S. military could weaponize AI and apply the technology towards refining drone strikes and other kinds of lethal attacks.“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,” the lett...

Due to the rapid growth of smartphones in the market, fixed line connections declined steadily down to 22.81 million connections. Though state-run firm BSNL dominated the market with highest share of 12.26 million customers, it lost 5,304 customers. RCom lost 169,052 fixed line connections and MTNL 10,157 connections. Airtel topped the chart in terms of market share with 304.19 million subscribers, followed by Vodafone 222.69 million and Idea with 211.2 million customers. Indian telecom industry in a stage of consolidation. Vodafone led new subscriber addition by adding 12,280 fixed line connections, taking its total subscriber base to 220,981. With this the number of broadband subscribers increased to 412.6 million in March from from 392.06 million in February. The mobile segment accounted for over 95 per cent of the total broadband connections.... Read More

Dell Technologies and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver a joint Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to help vertical customers simplify deploying their end-to-end IoT solutions, from the edge to the cloud. The combination of Microsoft Azure IoT applications and services, VMware Pulse IoT Center and Dell Edge Gateways will offer customers streamlined management, centralized monitoring and security from devices to the cloud. Together, Dell Technologies and Microsoft will make IoT easier for customers by delivering a secure solution that provides consistent infrastructure management from the edge to the cloud. The joint solution offers an underlying IoT infrastructure, management capabilities and security for customers looking to deploy IoT for scenarios like predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility and other use cases. The solution will deliver.... Read More

L&T Technology Services has announced new Smart City, Campus & Building Solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for its enterprise customers. L&T Technology Services’ Smart City, Campus & Building Solutions i-BEMS provides Energy Management, Sustainability, Cloud-based Space Occupancy & Asset Utilization and Performance Management. The solution leverages Microsoft Azure IoT platform, including new capabilities, and connects with Dynamics 365 for Field Service to enable real-time optimization and improve RoI and employee’s productivity for Facility Management and Operations. In 2017, LTTS expanded its relationship with Microsoft for Smart City, Campus & Building (SCCB) solutions based on Microsoft Azure. This alliance helps drive innovation for campuses of the future and has led to additional global enterprise wins in the Smart Occupancy & Spaces segment for both companies.... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that HPE OneView has reached one million licences, helping thousands of customers worldwide improve and simplify their cloud experience and speed the delivery of applications and services through automation, allowing them to move faster, and be more responsive to critical business needs. In addition, HPE continues to add capabilities to HPE OneSphere to enable Azure public cloud. Leveraged by leading enterprises, small and medium businesses and in every major geography, HPE OneView enables customers to deploy infrastructure and workloads faster, deliver policy-based management and increase efficiency through workflow automation. “As enterprise cloud adoption continues to mature, organizations are developing a comprehensive strategy for managing both on- and off-premises infrastructure,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “HPE OneView brings together all aspects of everyday lifecycle management across comp...

With the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect from 25th May 2018 in Europe. Now citizens across will have the choice and more control over their personal data, including what messages they want to receive from marketers, hence it will be difficult for the corporates to share their bulk branding campaigns share through either digital or social media campaigns .The fact behind it , with the help of artificial Intelligence ( AI),when a consumer clicks the advertisement, all the user data/behaviour/profile/buying pattern can be captured. Now, the question comes on how to do impact-full marketing to reach out the target audiences. Globally, the increasing number of cybercrimes has made it imperative for companies to keep pace in hiring the right talent to combat them. Therefore, companies across the world are gearing up to ensure compliance to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy requirements. While the larger technology giants are more or l...

San Francisco-based GitHub tool for coders, into hosting and development service, which hosts 27 million software developers working on 80 million repositories of code, on and off for a few years. Recently they began talks about a partnership but progressed to discussing an acquisition, according to another person familiar with the situation. GitHub is a code housing platform that allows developers to store their projects and network with peers and GitHub covers why the platform matters, how developers use it, and more and work together to create software. With GitHub one can collaborate on projects and invite other programmers to work on your project from anywhere. GitHub works seamlessly with the command-line tool Git, wherein developers can easily check in and check out their projects. This cheat sheet is an easy way to get up to speed on GitHub. There are more than 2 million work on regular updates, made to projects, which Microsoft is eyeing to reach out.... Read More

Google loses copyright battle on Java and Android, as per the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle’s open-source Java software to build the Android platform in 2009. The judgement has come after eight trying years, Google is now on the losing end of a legal battle with Oracle, who has accused the former of stealing proprietary. Absolutely, there is no doubt on Programming languages like Python, C, Java and C++ are used to power the technology we use every day. If you see Java, it can run on many devices and If you have an Android phone, all of your apps are running Java. Big data technologies are using Java as their language of choice because of its excellent capabilities of compiling and organizing data. Now a question comes who owns the data, in fact the data belongs to the user’s. Google and Facebook dominate the harvesting of user data. The theory behind this penalty to Google is ,before making the Android...

Array Networks has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Netmagic (An NTT Communications Company), to launch the next-generation Network Functions Virtualization platform (NFV) Center of Excellence to enable enterprises in India, to enable enterprises in India, with end-to-end customized hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution for scaling and optimizing business-critical applications. This agreement of collaboration signals the continued commitment of both the companies to accelerate the scalability of customers’ businesses in the ICT industry. The NFV Center of Excellence is enabled to address the emerging requirements of customers in a cloud generation. This will be the first-of-its-kind and will support customers to host multiple network functions on a single purpose-built hardware. “We are extremely pleased to form an alliance with Array Networks, to provide enterprises with secure remote access to applications and data,” said Nitin Mishra, SVP & C...

Idea Cellular Ltd has received an approval on its application to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the company to 100%, from the current 67.5%, from the Department of Telecom (DoT) today. The approval is for total foreign investment up to 100% in Idea Cellular Ltd, and total indirect FDI in its relevant subsidiaries – Aditya Birla Telecom Ltd and Idea Cellular Infrastructure Services Ltd. The FDI approval is a major milestone in the merger process of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular, and follows other statutory approvals already received from SEBI, NSE, BSE, CCI and NCLT Mumbai and NCLT, Ahmedabad. The merger of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular is in the final leg of regulatory approvals and is expected to complete in H1CY18, subject to the final approval from the DoT.... Read More

While the new White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force formed by Donald Trump on 10 May 2018 has the potential to drive AI-enabled technological innovation and development, especially on defense issues, the benefits to key US technology segments such as telecoms remain to be seen, says leading data and analytics company GlobalData. Recent advances in AI technology are promising dramatic technological breakthroughs in virtually every aspect of society, including telecommunications. Operators are also lining up to use AI to drive innovation throughout their organizations including the launch of new digital services and augmenting the customer experience. For example, AT&T’s Atticus entertainment chatbot, working through the Facebook Messenger application, uses AI to recognize speech and automate the handling of customer requests. AT&T is testing AI-enabled drones to expand mobile LTE network coverage with the Flying Cell on Wings (COW), reaching remote areas ...

Alexa, the brain behind Amazon Echo, is built in the cloud, is a smarter assistant in form of a smart speakers. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns and vocabulary. Using Alexa is as simple as just asking a question – You just ask and Alexa will respond instantly. In other ways it is a super computer in a miniature form. This Amazon Device is now available in more than 350 retail outlets such as Croma, Reliance, Vijay Sales and Crossword among others across 20 cities in India. It will also be available at the Amazon devices kiosk in Bengaluru and Mumbai. Going forward, Amazon is also introducing voice calling and messaging capabilities to its voice assistant Alexa, enabling users with an Echo device or Alexa mobile app to call or message their contacts who also have either an Echo device or the Alexa mobile app. Amazon Prime members get access to Amazon Prime Music, an ad-free music streaming service. You can also order millions of products ...

Modi governments achievement to people on completion of four years. Governments effort is to ensure that benefits of its initiatives reach the people. Four years ago on May 26, 2014, only one goal was fixed by the Modi govt which was to ensure the country's development. The govt has been working on its 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' since then and now with four years gone by, the Ministers are taking the message of 'Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas' to the people. By highlighting a number of achievements of the NDA government, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology said, the country's economy was on "a good wicket" during the last four years. India is becoming a major manufacturing hub of mobile phones with the number of handset factories in the country has gone up to 120. Secondly, a fast-track Task Force, a body under Ministry of Electronics and IT, has set target to achieve around 500 mil...

Make in India has really created a. powerful brand name across the globe , the result can be seen increase from 2 to 120 factories by manufacturing mobile phones in India, it has created jobs for the skilled and semi-skilled young boys and girls in India . Speaking during the launch of Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Baghpat on Sunday, Modi said that mobile phone factories increased from just 2 to 120 in last four years - many of which have opened in Delhi-NCR providing more job opportunities. In last two years, these companies have begun manufacturing cellphones, the Modi said, adding that the infrastructure creation does not differentiate on the basis caste, creed, religion and economic status. Out of total factories opened in India , the largest chunk of which 32 have been opened in Noida and Greater Noida.... Read More

India and Indonesia have agreed to double their efforts to boost bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2025. As per the record of Indonesia’s Central Statistics Agency (BPS), trade between the two countries in 2017 was $18.13 billion in 2017 with Indonesia’s exports to India reaching $14.08 billion and its imports from India standing at $4.05 billion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, talks with President Joko Widodo. Prime Minister Modi, who arrived here last night on his first-ever official visit to Indonesia, exchanged views with President Widodo on potential areas of cooperation in areas like defence, maritime security, trade and economy.... Read More

To increase the exports with integrated logistics division, Government has come up with a clear mandate of support, Minister of State of Commerce & Industry, C R Chaudhary asked the exporting community to further build on the exports of over USD 76 billion in 2017-18. Giving away EEPC India National Awards in New Delhi last evening to 110 engineering exporters, Chaudhary said that it is significant that these entrepreneurs made this possible in 2016-17 when the going was tough and there were lot of headwinds in the global economy. However, things improved in the following 2017-18 and the prospects seem equally encouraging this year. In her address, Commerce Secretary Ms. Rita Teaotia said the government is working on creating an integrated logistics division within the Commerce Ministry to bring down the total cost of movement of shipments. She asked the engineering exporters to work on a strategic plan to completely wipe out the trade deficit of USD 16 billio...