DiGiSPICE: Industry Monitoring 12 April 2019
- Priyanka Kanodia
- Apr 17, 2019
- 9 min read
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Subex to partner with Telefonica for cybersecurity venture
Publication- DSIJ
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Security solution and telecom analytics player Subex announced its partnership with Telefonica on a new cybersecurity venture which is focused on IoT security. This collaboration will be realised through a new cybersecurity unit recently launched by Telefonica. As more and more devices connect to the internet, the risk associated with it grows in parallel. In order to address these threats and promote IoT implementation, Telefonica has launched this initiative with the objective of expanding the existing catalogue of IoT products and services offered to customers and also to develop new IoT security solutions in order to cater to existing and emerging threats faced by businesses deploying IoT.
Telefonica via its ElevenPaths cybersecurity unit has expanded its collaboration with Subex with whom it offers a Fraud Management as a service solution (FMaaS). The new scope of collaboration extends to the analysis of the data traffic generated by IoT devices and the detection of specific threats in this field.
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Airtel to have European vendors Nokia and Ericsson for 4G calling service
Publication- The Asian Age
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel will have European vendors Nokia and Ericsson to handle its 4G voice call service across India, a senior official said while declining the possibility of roping in Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei. "We have two-vendor strategy. We have Nokia as one vendor. Now, Ericsson has come in as second vendor. When there is growth, we give it to other vendors. As and when our VoLTE traffic picks up, we will be giving expansion order to both the customers," Bharti Airtel Chief Technology Officer Randeep Sekhon told reporters.
He declined to have any possibility of including Huawei in the 4G calling service network. "Huawei is there in core network (of Airtel). There is no point bringing three (vendors for 4G calling service)," Sekhon said. He said Ericsson has just been given contract and it has started deploying telecom network solutions and ensuring that experience of customers across network is same as that being delivered by Nokia.
"They will put service equivalency. Once they achieve service equivalency, we will put commercial traffic on it. VoLTE (voice over LTE, or 4G) handling is different. Call set-up rate will be higher in VoLTE," Sekhon said.
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KT network team reveals 5G monetization strategies
Publication- Telecom Lead
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
KT’s network management team including Sung-Mok Oh, president; Chang-Seok Seo, vice president; and Jin-ho Choi, vice president are driving the 5G business strategy. Sweden-based Ericsson and Korea-based Samsung are the 5G network partners of KT during this transformation journey. Ericsson earlier also assisted KT during the deployment of its 4G LTE network. Huawei, ZTE and Nokia did not win the KT contract. KT is following its “5G First” strategy to focus on providing the best network, low latency and 25 percent cut in smartphone battery use.
KT and Samsung achieved 1Gbps speed with Galaxy S10 5G smartphone on KT’s network, using 3.5 GHz frequency in downtown Seoul on March 26. Ericsson is providing 3GPP standards-based 5G new Radio (NR) hardware and software from its 5G platform to cover KT’s 3.5 GHz Non-Standalone network.
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OnMobile Global, Vodafone Spain unveil entertainment app ‘Kids Planet’
Publication- Udaipur Kiran
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Vodafone Spain in association with OnMobile Global has introduced Kids Planet, an entertainment app with over 3,000 contents from Sanrio, Planeta Junior, Highlights for Children, Lingo Kids, Motion Pictures and many others, with a high educative value, addressed to kids from 3 to 12 years old.
Customers will have access, from any device to games, videos, stories and songs starring characters like The Smurfs, Maya The Bee, Heidi, Marco, La Granja de Zenón, Hello Kitty, Once Upon a Time Life, Pororo, or Cleo. OnMobile, headquartered in Bangalore, India, and with offices in all regions of the world, delivers over 575 million music plays daily to mobile customers worldwide.
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Wrestling Federation hiring professionals to bolster Olympic preparations
Publication- Inside Sport
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is extending its professional approach and transparency in working to hiring of professional support staff for the national teams in all three categories – Men’s Free Style, Greco Roman and the Women’s team. The WFI has invited applications for the posts of Physios, Nutritionist/ Dietician, Masseurs and Mental Conditioning Coaches in all the three categories. The WFI will also hire a professional manager for the national team, WFI has stated in a Press release.
The WFI, following its association with Tata Motors and commercial partners Sporty Solutionz, has already become the first Olympic sports federation in the country to offer annual contracts to the leading wrestlers across all age categories, including stipends for select grassroots players. The Tata Motors – WFI commercial association is the biggest partnership for a non-cricket sports discipline in the country.
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Tanla Solutions drops 5% on acquisition of Karix Mobile
Publication- Money Control
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Shares of Tanla Solutions dropped 5 percent intraday on April 11 after the company completed the acquisition of Karix Mobile Private Limited for a consideration of Rs 340 crore.
The company in its BSE release said that the consideration comprises of Rs 112 crore in cash, Rs 125 crore equity shares of the company to Banyan Investments and payment of Rs 103 crore debt of Karix Mobile.
Post-Acquisition, the shareholdings (on a fully diluted basis) of Tanla would be; Promoters: 31.2 percent, and GSO Capital Partners: 14.6 percent.
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Blockchain, ERP professionals remain in high demand: Report
Publication- People Matters
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Blockchain professionals have much to cheer as they remain in high demand, especially for staff and middle manager positions, as per a new job market report from management consulting firm Janco Associates. Janco Associates CEO M. Victor Janulaitis stated, "With 20,600 new IT jobs created in the first three months of 2019, the market is tight. There is a skills shortage, some projects are missing key early benchmark dates due to lack of staffing. Many blockchain and ERP positions remain unfilled and some organizations are seeing an increase in attrition rates for those positions."
In addition, companies that have found blockchain professionals are also experiencing higher attrition rates as consulting firms and services companies are actively recruiting IT professionals in those roles by offering competitive salaries and benefits, as per the report. Salaries for blockchain developers range from $119,000 to $176,000, as per several job search sites and Janco Associates.
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Blockchain Prediction Platform Augur Launches A Stablecoin DAI-Denominated Markets
Publication- Krypto Money
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Augur, a blockchain-powered event betting platform introduces a major upgrade to its platform, within which the platform launched a token denominated in MakerDAO’s Dai (DAI) stablecoin.
Augur announced the news on an official blog post on April 8. As per the platform, introducing DAI-denominated markets will enable them to make trading less volatile as compared with Ethereum (ETH), that was used for trading on the platform thus far. This new development comes as a part of a broader scheme of improvements happening to the Augur’s protocol, wherein the company also stated that its two (V2) protocol contracts are “now ready for the first round of audits with integration work in progress with the rest of the Augur platform.” As for DAI support, the blog adds:
Other notable protocol improvements include resolving the current weak point on the platform, which allowed bad actors to create deliberately invalid markets, as reported by Cointelegraph. In order to do so, Augur is introducing a V2 upgrade that will allow for “Invalid” to be a tradeable outcome.
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Tata Consultancy Services Powers Blockchain-Based Cross-Border Securities Settlement
Publication- Krypto Money
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an India-based IT services company has reportedly successfully completed what defines as the world’s first cross-border securities settlement between two central depositories by employing the Quartz blockchain. As per the announcement made on April 10, the two Central Securities Depositories (CSD) are Maroclear, the CSD of Morocco, and Kuwait Clearing Company, the CSD of Kuwait. The test involves a set of equities and fixed income securities from both markets that were created on the chain along with accounts to hold them, and was instantaneously transferred.
Reportedly, the system used cash coins on the BaNCS Network, powered by the Quartz blockchain. The announcement further elaborates about the cash coins, stating that they are a digital asset pegged to a fiat currency and maintained on the network. As per the report, the network is a private permissioned blockchain focussed on connecting the consumers in the banking, market infrastructure, custody, and insurance industries via a single ledger. The post claims that 450 TCS customers have access to the BaNCS network.
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Startup Makes IoT Journey Simpler, Faster And Value Driven For Clients
Publication- Express Computer
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Our roots lie back in 2016, when we started as a smartphone device management and analytics platform. With constant drive to provide best services, DataCultr signed up with 12 smartphone brands within a span of 12 months including Blackberry, Karbonn, Intex, Comio, Zen, etc, as its clients.
In early 2018, DataCultr emerged as a full-fledged IoT enablement platform, and collaborated with one of the largest telcos in India for a POC to release their digital home solution, which will be out soon. DataCultr, also started building industry specific solutions on top of its IoT platform, and picked up fintech as the first vertical. Our IoT Gateway enables enterprises to go to market 6X faster which allows DataCultr to stand distinct in the market.
DataCultr’s ODYSSEY solution is a critical component for fintech companies and NBFCs in their financial inclusion efforts. We have a keen focus on fintech, agriculture and digital home solutions.
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Indian institutes tie up with German university for big data studies
Publication- The Week
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Bio big data science. This is the field in which six Indian institutes—Indian Institutes of Technology at Madras, Guwahati and Kanpur, Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Allahabad University—have had a tie up with Germany's Heidelberg University and the Indian government's department of biotechnology. They will be setting up 50 PhD research projects which will be supervised by both Indian and German guides. Big data is a field in which researchers extract and make sense of data from volumes that are massive and therefore difficult to classify into traditional sets.
In the field of biology, big data gets even bigger. For instance, genomic sequences across and within populations, bio-chemical reactions, molecular chains etc comprise big data in life sciences. In fact, it is said that life sciences deal with bulkier big data than other systems. Applying big data analytics to these studies would therefore not only just make sense, but also throw up interesting information which would take traditional processes much longer to arrive at.
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India, Sweden join hands for Smart City solutions
Publication- The Free Press Journal
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
India and Sweden has launched a joint programme that will work towards addressing a range of challenges around smart cities and clean technologies among others. The programme was co-funded by Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Swedish agency Vinnova. Vinnova will provide funding to Swedish participants up to 2,500,000 Swedish Krona (around Rs 1.87 crore) as grant. On the Indian side, conditional grant of up to 50 per cent (with a limit of Rs 1.5 crore) per project will be provided to the Indian partners.
“The India-Sweden Collaborative Industrial Research and Development Programme will see Swedish and Indian innovators work together and develop solutions that benefit both sides,” Klas Molin, Ambassador of Sweden to India, said. He added that India, with its strong talent pool and scale with over a billion people, will play an important role for developing solutions that can address challenges related to healthcare, transportation and public safety.
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Microsoft’s Global Largest AI and IoT Lab to Open in Shanghai
Publication- Pan Daily
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Hong Xiaowen, senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation and Chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group and President of Microsoft Research Asia, revealed on Apr. 11 that the world’s largest artificial intelligence and IoT laboratory will be officially put into operation in Shanghai in mid-May this year.
Back in January, Shanghai Pudong New District signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. According to the memorandum, with a total construction area of 2,800 square meters, the lab that will reside in the AI island in Shanghai. It is Microsoft’s first AI and IOT lab in the Asia Pacific region, and the largest laboratory in the world.
According to reports, the newly established lab is a global R&D institution established by Microsoft to promote artificial intelligence and IoT innovation research and development and industrialization, and is aimed at promoting manufacturing, retail, medicine, finance, public affairs and other relevant industries. In addition to Shanghai, Microsoft has two other global labs in the field, located in Seattle and Munich.
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BSNL launches IoT programme for colleges
Publication- United News of India
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
BSNL's Chennai center has started training in the field of 'Internet of Things,' a statement said here on Thursday. The IoT lab at RGMTTC, Meenambakkam, Chennai has recently kickstarted the exercise, to impart quality education in this field. "In a world of automatic systems, where washing machine, ovens and televisions talk to each other, the world is going to be very differently connected.
There will be more machines talking to each other than humans, in the very near future," said Vivek Banzal, Director CFA BSNL.
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Kudelski Security partners with BTblock to deliver secure Blockchain and DLT Deployments
Publication- Money Control
Edition- Online
Date- 12 April, 2019
Kudelski Security, the cyber security division of the Kudelski Group and BTblock, a Blockchain and a cyber-security consultancy firm announced a strategic partnership to address demand for greater cybersecurity oversight and design in Blockchain implementations. The partnership brings together complementary business expertise, networks and infrastructures to offer disruptive start-up and enterprise-level companies broader access to a complete Blockchain solution ecosystem.
In 2017, Gartner estimated that 90 percent of enterprise Blockchain projects launched would fail within 18 to 24 months, with misunderstanding of Blockchain technology and the business use case cited as two of the main reasons for such failure. The new partnership between Kudelski Security and BTblock addresses those challenges by fusing Blockchain consulting with technology to increase the likelihood of enterprises being able to adopt and integrate secure Blockchain solutions successfully and sustainably.
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