DiGiSPICE: Industry Monitoring 22 January 2019
- Priyanka Kanodia
- Jan 22, 2019
- 4 min read
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Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation announces scholarships for Indian students
Publication- The Week
Edition- Online
Date- 22 January, 2019
Rosatom, Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, has announced scholarships for Indian students in nuclear engineering. The tuition fees of students will be fully funded, and living expenses partly. The registration is now open on Russia Study website https://russia.study/en. A supplementary guide to application process is available on Rosatom regional Facebook page: FB.com/RosatomAsia.
Scholarships are available for studies in nuclear energy-related fields in Russia, and include tuition fees and free preparatory courses of Russian language, depending on the university programme. Students will have access to subsidised accommodation, library funds and practical experience at Russian nuclear plants.
TPU is the only Russian university equipped with a nuclear research reactor available for foreign students. The IRT-T research reactor was commissioned in July 1967 and is now used for research in peaceful atom technologies such as nuclear medicine, transmutation neutron alloying, isotope engineering, and thorium power engineering. More than 12,000 specialists have graduated from TPU since then, including 8,000 trained in nuclear engineering and research.
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US telecoms redesign 5G business for early customer wins
Publication- Telecom Lead
Edition- Online
Date- 22 January, 2019
AT&T, T-Mobile-Sprint and Verizon Wireless are redefining 5G in line with the availability of their resources as they cannot afford to miss the anticipated incremental revenue from 5G business. Telecom analyst reports indicate that 5G revenues will not be substantial if there is not much difference between 5G and 4G LTE.
5G services market globally is expected to grow to $123.27 billion by 2025 from $53.93 billion in 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18 percent during the forecast period. North America will achieve the fastest growth rate in 5G services during 2020-2025. Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung are some of the technology partners for AT&T’s 5G network in the US.
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Signed marquee customers in Europe, US and Japan: Sasken Technologies
Publication- CNBC TV18
Edition- Online
Date- 22 January, 2019
Sasken Technologies posted mixed set of quarterly earnings. Rajiv Mody, CMD and CEO of the company, discussed third-quarter results and growth prospects in an interaction with CNBC-TV18. “We have shown satisfactory growth from Q2 to Q3. However, when you look at year-on-year (YoY), definitely there is a drop primarily because of couple of reasons. One is that we are systematically exiting some of the businesses that don’t make sense primarily from either the business model or from the margins perspective. So in Q3 previous year, we had some of those businesses which we don’t have in this quarter," Mody said on Tuesday.
"Secondly, we have had certain challenges with one of the complex programmes that we have been engaged with and we had mentioned that in Q2. We are in the process of arriving at a resolution but until it is done, it is not done. So we have not had any positive impact on the topline because of that in Q3 but the cost has been factored in Q3 quarter,” he said.
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Microsoft Launches Asia’s Largest AI And IoT Lab In Shanghai
Publication- Analytics India Magazine
Edition- Online
Date- 22 January, 2019
Microsoft will soon open their largest artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) lab in Shanghai, in a bid to target China’s growing business sectors ranging from manufacturing to healthcare.
The new facility which will be opened in April, is located in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, an area which is turning itself into the country’s AI heartland. Spread across 2,800 square metres, the new lab will be the Microsoft’s first ever in Asia-Pacific and will be the third, dedicated exclusively for research and development for AI and IoT.
Stating that the new lab will facilitate increased productivity for Chinese business, Roan Kang, vice president of Microsoft China, said to an online portal, “China is the world’s largest IoT market, with great potential in deploying AI and IoT technologies.”
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Asia Embraces The Wave of Revolutionary Blockchain Technology
Publication- Owlt Market
Edition- Online
Date- 22 January, 2019
With rapid advancements being made in blockchain technology in 2019, Asia is gearing up for a massive acceleration in its blockchain advancements. In recent weeks, major events have taken place that have the potential to catapult Asia into a powerhouse for this kind of tech. The Binance Blockchain Week is one of them. It is a four-day event that is running in Singapore from 19th – 22nd January that shall bring together crypto-entrepreneurs and enthusiasts from all around the world. It shall mark the presence of the biggest players in blockchain and cryptocurrency. It is an attempt to unify leaders in this domain to bring forth innovative solutions. Various challenges and issues faced by the crypto world are to be discussed in this event.
Over 50 ingenious entrepreneurs and visionaries in blockchain technology are said to attend the event. The motive is to seek newer, effective ways to tackle the ongoing hurdles in the domain and to ponder over the current trends that could affect the future of crypto technology. This event is hosted by the cryptocurrency giant – Binance that operates the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume. While this event certainly has enough momentum to ignite revolutionary blockchain developments this year, the advancements in Asia aren’t limited to this, according to a report by Ethereum World News.
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