Google launches search feature for night and food shelters

The idea behind the launch of the search feature is that while governments are working on setting up several night and food shelters, information about them was not easily available.

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RPG Life Sciences and Seniority launch Covid-19 risk monitoring tool for senior citizens

The tool has been developed in consultation with the leading experts in the areas of infectious diseases, community medicine, clinical pharmacology and Covid-19 management.

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IIT Roorkee develops mobile app to locate coronavirus suspects

The system will get an alert, if geofencing is violated by the quarantined person, Prof Kamal Jain from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, said. In case the GPS data is not received, the location will be obtained automatically through the triangulation of mobile towers.

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Brands may look to flood market with smartphones, offers after Covid-19 restrictions ease: Analysts

“When the markets reopen, all the major OEMs will rush to address the latency in demand by heavily incentivizing both offline and online channels,” said Neil Shah, Research Director, Counterpoint Research. Almost all major phone brands have suspended launch of their latest offerings including Oppo Enco M31, Vivo V19, Realme Narzo and Xiaomi Mi 10 while keeping stocks on hold.

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ABB India partners with NASSCOM for standardised qualification for IoT jobs

The company has created qualification packs to define the competency standards that will provide a framework for academic institutions to design their course curriculum to better conform to industry hiring standards. These have been approved by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), and National Skills Qualifications Committee (NSQC).

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Mid-tier IT braces for impact as clients suspend operations

Mid-tier technology services companies, such as NIIT Tech, Sonata Software, Mindtree and Hexaware, will see revenue drop in the year ahead as large clients including airlines and travel operators suspend operations amid the virus outbreak, analysts said.

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TikTok emerges most downloaded social media app

Compared to January 2020, social media downloads on iOS and Google Play during the lockdown in India in the first week starting March 22 went up 20%, exceeding over 49 million new downloads, the mobile and data analytics company said.

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