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Into the world of gaming's desktop athletes
Publication- Livemint
Edition- Online
Date- 11 May, 2019
At the National Sports Club of India’s Dome, an indoor sports arena in Mumbai, a few thousand mostly young men gathered over from 19-21 April. Dressed mostly in black, they were seated in front of three giant screens, their focus on the proceedings being telecast accompanied by live commentary Under the screens, on a stage, two competing teams of five people each sat behind computers, wearing headphones and staring into their PCs. The result of their actions was being shown on the screens, amid intermittent cheers from the audience.
For the uninitiated, the ESL One Mumbai Dota 2 event was not easy to comprehend. The screen was a cluster of action, colours and widgets. The commentary, too niche. The only indication of the contest’s results would come when someone from a team raised an arm or let out a hint of a smile. Unlike cricket, you can understand Dota (Defense Of The Ancients) 2, an online multiplayer battle arena video game described by someone as basketball and chess on steroids, only if you have played it.
The Dota 2 Mumbai event had a host of sponsors and associate partners, including Intel, Mercedes, Vodafone and DHL. E-sports is a marketing vehicle for game publishers and a media vehicle for brands to reach millennials, says Manish Agarwal, chief operating officer of gaming company Nazara Technologies Ltd. “My guesstimateis that the total spend on gaming from all these is ₹100 crore."
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Mid-range 5G smartphones to hit market by 2020: Huawei executive
Publication- Gizbot
Edition- Online
Date- 11 May, 2019
The 5G wave seems to be upon us, as the first 5G network has debuted in South Korea last month. It was followed by the first European 5G network in Switzerland, alongside three 5G smartphones. However, all of them are priced heftily. The question still remains that when will we see the first mid-range 5G device. Well, according to Huawei executive Yang Chaobin, we might get an affordable 5G smartphone as soon as 2020. The device could be launched by the end of next year, a much faster development in contrast to what we've seen with previous mobile networks.
The company executive also reminded how the first 4G phone took around three years to come to the market, while the first 5G took only one year. By the end of 2020, we will see a wave of mid-range 5G smartphones, and by 2021 there could be entry-level 5G phones as well. As of now, Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is the cheapest 5G smartphone in the global market. According to a report by Ericsson ConsumerLab, smartphone users are willing to pay a 20 percent premium for 5G services, while half of the early adopters would pay as much as 32 percent more. The report also says that data usage could reach more than 200GB per month on a 5G device by 2025.
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India lagging far behind China in IIoT adoption: Accenture
Publication- The Economic Times
Edition- Online
Date- 12 May, 2019
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) could be a game changer for India, but the country is lagging far behind China in its adoption, a top Accenture official has said. According to the consultancy giant, IIoT refers to a universe of intelligent products, processes and services that communicate with each other and with people over the Internet and promises to be the most transformative industrial revolution yet for manufacturers.
While countries like Germany, France and China have made significant progress in terms of IIoT adoption, India has not yet moved much ahead in its IIoT journey, according to Saurabh Bhatnagar, Managing Director - Manufacturing, Accenture Strategy. "In terms of IIoT adoption, in a scale of 10, if China would score 7, India's would be about 3.5," Bhatnagar told IANS, adding that according to an estimate, IIoT could be adding $14.2 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
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Indian tech firm helping Thai banks implement blockchain technology
Publication- Business Standard
Edition- Online
Date- 13 May, 2019
Singapore, May 13 (ANI): One of India's top software technology and services company, Wipro, has been engaged to build a settlements protocol for blockchain, which gave birth to cryptocurrency bitcoin, for eight banks in Thailand. "Developed as part of the first phase of Project Inthanon, the solution will enable de-centralised interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) using wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency to prove that the technology can perform key functionalities of payment and enhance efficiency," the company said in a statement recently.
Blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. His identity is unknown and almost certainly a pseudonym for a person or a group of people. At that time, "Nakamoto" was trying to come up with a means of validating digital currency transactions via distributed, decentralised peer-to-peer network in the wake of the global financial crisis. This eventually served as the technology which gave birth to the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
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Sartorius launches SIMCA® 16 for multivariate data analytics
Publication- Bio Spectrum
Edition- Online
Date- 13 May, 2019
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry has announced the new SIMCA® 16 software for multivariate data analytics is available from its subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Data Analytics. The updated SIMCA® focuses on delivering a complete data analysis experience, from data organization through to data-driven decision making, supported by multivariate models for single and multiblock analysis.
The new SIMCA® 16 software has enhanced functionality features which will save time for expert users, as well as those new to multivariate data analysis. Usability improvements provide novices with an intuitive introduction to SIMCA® and existing users with superior plot interactivity and quick raw data visualization capabilities.
The new data analytics software also includes a wizard that adapts to users’ modelling objectives (rather than focusing on which algorithm to use) and guides them through set-up, making the initial steps of creating each model easier. Additionally, its advanced data merging functionality saves time by eliminating the need to manually combine and align data in Excel.
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MSME-TDC organizing 2-day training program on IoT
Publication- KNN India
Edition- Online
Date- 13 May, 2019
Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of MSME-Technology Development Centre (PPDC) under the Ministry of MSME is organizing a certified training program on Internet of Things (IoT) on May 18-19, 2019 at Ministry of MSME Extension Centre, Connaught Place in the national capital. As IoT is spawning the next industrial revolution, the program aims to build a solid understanding of how to develop and implement your own IoT solutions using sensor connected IoT devices and IoT gateway.
The course aims to facilitate the entrepreneurs, students, members in industry by understand the definition and significance of the IoT; discuss the architecture, operation, and business benefits of an IoT solution; examine the potential business opportunities that IoT can uncover; explore the relationship between IoT, cloud computing, and big data and identify how IoT differs from traditional data collection systems.
A certificate of Ministry of MSME will be awarded to the candidate on successful completion of course and after evaluation examination which will be held on the last day of the training.
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IoT in Geolocation: Future trends and awareness
Publication- Geospatial World
Edition- Online
Date- 13 May, 2019
In the big world of IoT, location tracking becomes the next frontier! Location tracking for humans is already becoming an integral part of our lives, especially for navigation. Traditional technologies are not only expensive but they have their technical boundaries which prevent successful scaling. For the IoT geolocation to become a reality, you must be accurate extremely and significantly low cost.
Geolocation services have been around for a long time and used to provide the real-world location of objects like speed radars, mobile phones, and internet-connected computers. In old times, services were widely based on supporting GPS (Geographic Positioning System) which lacks indoor coverage and power efficiency which has given rise to many location technologies that use RFID, UWB (Ultra-Wide Band), Bluetooth and LoRa to provide indoor GPS-free geolocation.
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