Tuesday 31 July 2018

Samsung leads global smartphone market, Huawei pips Apple

South Korean giant Samsung continued to be the global leader in the first half of 2018 with 20 per cent market share, and Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei surpassed Apple to become the second largest smartphone brand worldwide, a new report said on Wednesday.

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OnePlus 6 witnesses record sale of one million units in 22 days in India

Lau said in the five years since the company was started, OnePlus has grown to become a global presence across 35 countries.

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India finds no mention in Apple's post-earning analyst call

Apple’s management in earlier earnings call used to give more updates on the Indian operations, the potential of the market and business for Apple, and how it was able to achieve record revenue or sales of its main product, the iPhone.

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Huawei aims to capture premium phone market

Huawei along with its subbrand Honor had 3% share in the Indian smartphone segment, with the bulk of sales accounted by Honor.

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Gupshup enables several enterprises to gain early access to WhatsApp business

A few month ago, bus ticketing platform Red Bus started sending ticket details for its customers over WhatsApp, enabling users to chat with customer support executives.

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Facebook has identified ongoing political influence campaign

The company said on Tuesday it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in "coordinated inauthentic behavior".

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KPIT launches Center of Excellence for PTC in the US

The company showcased how to build customer experiences on PTC’s ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform using KPIT accelerators.

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Monday 30 July 2018

Q1 round goes to OnePlus in battle for India’s premium smartphone market

The Chinese brands are now trying to control the premium segment with Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi launching devices this year.

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Twitter forms teams to measure hate speech, incivility and intolerant discourse on service

Academics, led by researchers at Leiden University, will develop metrics to assess the extent to which people acknowledge and engage with diverse viewpoints on Twitter.

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Implementing Srikrishna Panel recommendations will boost Indian IT companies: T V Mohandas Pai

For many years, there was concern among Indian IT services compnaies' global clients about giving access to their data as India did not have a data privacy law. With a new law this concern will diminish," he said.

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Persistent Systems to invest in improving sales channels

The company announced its first quarter results on Saturday, reporting a 16.3% increase in profit at Rs87.34cr and revenues of Rs 834.28 crore, up by 14.6%.

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HCL Tech should achieve 40% digital revenue in 2-3 years

HCL Technologies, the $7.84-billion IT company, continues to bet big on its intellectual property (IP) driven business.

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Sunday 29 July 2018

India R&D moving up the value chain at DellEMC

There is an increased expectation from corporate headquarters to own and influence architecture of next-gen products and participate in the entire product development cycle in India.

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Nearly 50% of smartphones to have AI assistant in 2018: Report

On-device AI is growing fast among smartphone vendors and by 2023, around 90 per cent of smartphones will have a built-in AI assistant, according to the Strategy Analytics report.

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Infosys to expand operations in Noida

The company said the UP government had allocated 27.5 acres in Sector-85, Noida to build the centre.

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Artificial intelligence system can identify your personality from eye movements

Researchers tracked the eye movements of 42 participants as they undertook everyday tasks around a university campus, and subsequently assessed their personality traits.

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Saturday 28 July 2018

Data protection bill: Government can still access personal information

The challenge for a privacy legislation in India is keeping pace with a rapidly changing technology landscape, while at the same time worrying about the rights of its citizens.

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How your selfie obsession has created a Rs 100 crore market in India

With 10 million monthly active users in India, photo-editing apps are carving out a Rs 100 crore market.

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'Fileless' cyber attacks on the rise in 2018: McAfee

Cyber-criminals are increasingly applying "fileless" attacks in 2018 that leverage trusted Windows executables to invade systems and breach corporate networks, a new report has said.

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Chipmakers say helping Indian handset brands to make a comeback

Indian handset vendors underestimated Chinese companies, and lost considerable market share to players like Xiaomi, Oppo and vivo in the last few years.

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Friday 27 July 2018

YouTube plans original programming in India, Japan and other markets

Some of the programming will appear on YouTube Premium, the monthly subscription service formerly called YouTube Red.

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The India draft bill on data protection draws inspiration from GDPR, but has it's limits

EU's GDPR bestows several rights on the EU residents to protect their personal information and imposes restrictions to how companies keep data on them.

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Srikrishna panel report: Tech companies to undergo data audits

Clause 38 of the draft bill says any one collecting data could be termed a 'significant data fiduciary' based on the volume of data processed, the sensitivity of the data processed and its turnover.

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Blockchain can add $5 bn to Indian economy in 5 years: Nasscom official

The primary factors that are holding back the widespread deployment of this tehnology in India is lack of awareness, unavailability of adequate skilled persons and insufficient computing infrastructure, Viswanathan, who also head Nasscom's 10,000 Startups initiative, said.

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39% Indian techies learn to code before they turn 20: TechGig survey

In an exclusive survey on Indian coders, TechGig found out that nearly 39% coders learned to code at the age of 15-20 years, and more than 45% programmers st...

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Zensar acquires US-based Indigo Slate for digital marketing capabilities

The RPG-Group owned mid-tier tech services firms said this acquisition would add capabilities to provide digital marketing services for clients in the US, its largest market.

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Not dumb anymore: Riding on new tech, feature phone challenges smartphone's clout

Eighteen years and many smartphones later, the Matrix phone is back in a new avatar -- as Nokia 8110 4G ‘Banana Phone’ — and so is the trend for feature phones. These not-so-smart phones are making a comeback, not just India, but in many parts of the world.

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Thursday 26 July 2018

Can't protect users' data alone: Facebook

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter last week announced that they will join the open source initiative called Data Transfer Project (DTP).

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Fearing social backlash, online gaming companies go for counselling

Play Games24X7 has formed a data science team to pick up on warning signals of players such as time spent on the portal, withdrawals, deposits, win-loss ratio and abusive behaviour on chat rooms.

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Final draft on data privacy law may be submitted today

According to three members of the committee, a “middle ground” has been found on most of the contentious issues and the final draft of the muchawaited report is ready to be submitted.

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Qualcomm, MediaTek eye slice of India’s Internet of Things market

In India, Qualcomm is collaborating its device partners to serve both consumer and industrial IoT segments, across applications.

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Indian IT companies becoming true multinationals: NASSCOM

Indian IT companies are localising and are hiring local people, the IT industry body president Debjani Ghosh said today.

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NTT Comm-owned Netmagic invests $144 million to expand data centre facilities

India, the third largest data centre services market in Asia, is seeing significantly higher data use as large technology services firms shift to cloud services for mobile internet, e-commerce, internet of things (IoT).

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For Google Cloud, an AI approach

While Google Cloud trails Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market, it has emerged as the leader in cloud AI services.

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Hitachi Vantara appoints Hemant Tiwari as general manager for India

Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, Tiwari worked at Hewlett Packard for over two decades in various senior management positions across Asia and India.

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Wednesday 25 July 2018

Artificial intelligence and security top priority for Google: Sundar Pichai

The company sought to allay any fears emerging out of security concerns, saying safety and security are built into every layer of the Cloud operation with high level of data encryption.

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Mark Zuckerberg loses $16.8 billion in a snap as Facebook plunges

His fortune tumbled as shares of Fecebook slid 20% in post-market trading in New York on disappointing results.

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Amazon, Flipkart, Ola, other apps shed weight to pass Indian internet test

US data speed tester Ookla too has ranked India 109th in its list of 124 nations on overall mobile internet speeds, with an average download speed of 9.12 mbps.

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Inside Google's shadow workforce of contract labourers

About half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees.

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Wistron yet to identify customers, says CM's office

A CM's office press release had said that Wistron will make iPhones, among the other things, at its upcoming facility.

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IT Ministry wants WhatsApp to prioritise fake news issue over payments service plans

WhatsApp has been told that the fake news issue is far more important than other plans in the current circumstances.

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New developer requirements are to protect our platform: Twitter

Starting Wednesday, all new requests for access to Twitter’s standard and premium APIs are required to go through its new developer account application process.

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Automating job skills matching using Artificial Intelligence

Finding the right candidates and matching them with the right role is at the core of HR, but it's beyond human capacity to do this without an error, merely on the basis of an individual's resume.

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Persistent Systems invests in big data firm Cazena

The company has gained significant traction as enterprises face massive skills shortages in big data, cloud and associated development operations, or ‘DevOps’.

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Infosys introduces new criteria for appraisal of top executives

Digital is the umbrella term that covers progress in cloud, analytics, internet of things (IoT) and machine learning.

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Tuesday 24 July 2018

Atos-Syntel deal may spark mid-tier IT buyouts

On Monday, Atos announced it was buying Syntel to expand its scale in North America, especially among banking and financial services clients.

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Use resources on tax base widening, not repetitive litigation: Wipro chief Azim Premji

One of Wipro’s tax dispute is pending for more than 30 years (since FY 1985-86) and the company has over Rs 1900 crore in tax disputes, according to its annual report.

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Wistron may raise investment in Karnataka facility to Rs 3,000 crore

The company is in the process of setting up a modern facility at Narasapura industrial area of Kolar district to manufacture smartphones, IoT products and biotech devices.

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Xiaomi's growth model is already showing cracks

What should worry Xiaomi, and its investors, is that fellow Chinese brands OnePlus and Honor both posted stronger growth during the period.

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AI-powered automated video interview evaluation by Aspiring Minds

It would not only bring down the hiring time significantly but also enable to standardize their interview processes, at the same time attaining efficiency at scale.

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Samsung regains smartphone leadership in Q2, says counterpoint

The strong offline distribution and aggressive marketing campaign by Samsung helped the brand to gain not only market share but also mindshare during the quarter.

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