DiGiSPICE: Industry Monitoring 27 February 2019
- Priyanka Kanodia
- Mar 6, 2019
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Tanla launches commercial communication stack for telecom sector
Publication- Business Standard
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Tanla Solutions, a leading cloud communication provider, on Tuesday launched Trubloq, a first of its kind blockchain enabled commercial communication stack for the telecom sector. The solution launched by the Hyderabad-based company will help telecom service providers to eliminate fraudulent activities and safeguard the interest of all stakeholders against spam, frauds and sensitive issues like data privacy.
It has been developed to comply with the new regulation by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and it empowers individual mobile users to set and manage their communication preferences and consents, the firm said in a statement here. R.S. Sharma, Chairman, TRAI, launched Trubloq at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona on Tuesday
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Ericsson signs managed services deal with Telefonica
Publication- Telecom Lead
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Ericsson will provide services including day-to-day monitoring and service desk, change management, and problem and incident management.
The strategy of Telefonica is to enhance use of AI-based automation for network operations, said Juan Manuel Caro, global director of Operations & Customer experience, Telefonica.
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STC selects Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia for 5G network
Publication- Telecom Lead
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Huawei announced its 5G network deal with Saudi Telecom Company (STC) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2019) in Barcelona. Huawei at Mobile World Congress 2019Earlier, Ericsson and Nokia have also announced their 5G network deals with STC that has presence in Saudi Arabia. This means both Samsung and ZTE did not receive the 5G network deal from STC. Huawei said it has already obtained more than 30 5G commercial contracts and delivered over 40,000 5G sites.
Huawei in 2018 helped STC to deploy Saudi Arabia’s first E2E 5G network (Packet Switch core, transmission, wireless and CPE). STC will provide larger 5G outdoor and indoor coverage in Aspiration project.
STC will modernize its existing LTE network through latest technologies such as PS (Packet Switch) core, Massive MIMO, 15-band antenna and multi-band technology. Huawei will support STC to introduce global partners to KSA for 5G ecosystem, and deliver services to Saudi citizens and enterprises. The focus is to support National Transformation Program 2020. STC aims to maximize investment efficiency in term of capital and operations spend.
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Ericsson wins network deal from Tele2 Russia
Publication- Telecom Lead
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Tele2 Russia engineers will be deploying more than 50,000 base stations across the country as part of the five-year network modernization deal. Tele2 has operations in 65 Russian regions including Moscow and Moscow Region. Tele2’s subscriber base totals 40.6 million. The deal will enable higher speed and capacity rates and prepare the Tele2 network for 5G.
Sergey Emdin, CEO of Tele2, and Sebastian Tolstoy, head of Ericsson Russia, signed the deal at the Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC 2019) in Barcelona. Ericsson will implement technological solutions on Tele2’s infrastructure across 27 regions in Russia – including Moscow and Saint Petersburg – to meet constantly growing data traffic demands, Sergey Emdin, CEO of Tele2 Russia, said.
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Apigate Partners with One97/Paytm for E-Wallet and Content Services
Publication- IT News Online
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Apigate announces a global partnership with One97/Paytm, India's largest e-Wallet service provider, to connect its international partners to Paytm's wallet services and its customers while expanding the reach of One97's (Paytm's parent company) content services to customers worldwide. One97 is India's largest marketplace that runs Paytm, India's largest digital payments and ecommerce platform including other subsidiaries such as Paytm Money, Paytm Mall and Paytm Payments Bank.
Through this partnership, One97 is leveraging Apigate's new-breed API platform to bring One97's network of varied content within Asia as a part of the first phase followed by Europe in phase two. Concurrently, Apigate opens up Paytm's large volume of wallet users and merchants for its international partners with just one connection.
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IoT-enabled logistics will drive business growth in a world of opportunities
Publication- ET Auto
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
The possibilities it opens for the various industries are staggering. Business, today, is differentiated not so much by the front-end product or service offering as by the processes that run quietly in the background, enabling the said product or service to be delivered in a transparent, efficient, reliable, and safe manner.
One of these processes is logistics, and it is as good an example as any to demonstrate the relevance of IoT; how online interconnectivity can inform and improve physical connectivity. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that IoT-aided logistics will be the key to driving innovation and business growth in the future.
IoT, in conjunction with emerging technologies such as Big Data and Data Analytics, has the potential to transform almost every important aspect of logistics – a sector that demands a high degree of transparency and integrity throughout the supply chain.
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Top 10 AI & Data Science Meetups You Must Attend In Bengaluru
Publication- Analytics India Magazine
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
The growing number of meetups and tech summits for data science, analytics and artificial intelligence in Bengaluru is indicative of the city’s thriving emerging tech community. With the technology evolving each day, avenues like meetups are used by a large number of techies to exchange ideas and gain new industry perspective. Analytics India Magazine takes a look at 10 most popular meetup groups for AI and data science enthusiasts in Bengaluru and what they offer through their groups:
ReactJS Bangalore: This group is the go-to place for React JS enthusiasts who wish to know more about the react ecosystem. This group which has 7,939 members, holds React Meetups and React Native, its workshops on a regular basis at different locations within Bengaluru. In the past, the group has organised meetups and workshops on topics such as GraphQL, virtual reality, among other topics.
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Infibeam to Invest $35 Mn to Build A Blockchain enabled Fintech Platform
Publication- Indian Web2
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Ahmedabad-based internet and e-commerce conglomerate Infibeam Avenues is investing Rs 250 crore (~ US$35.25 million) to build a back-end blockchain enabled fintech platform catering to BFSIs, SMBs, and corporates, reported Economic Times.
According to the report, Infibeam, which is India’s first listed e-commerce entity, is focused to divest its non-core businesses including consumer marketplace (B2C) and broadband satellite communications services to focus on riding the financial inclusion wave and provide fintech solutions to fast-growing new small and medium businesses entrances in ecommerce space.
In December, Infibeam Avenues signed an agreement with IBM, where later will Develop, Implement and Promote Blockchain applications to Clients on LinuxOne in India.
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Rancher K3s shrinks Kubernetes for IoT devices
Publication- Computer World
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Rancher Labs, creator of the Rancher Kubernetes management system and the RancherOS container-centric Linux distribution, has announced a new Kubernetes distro built to be slender and simple. K3s, as it’s called—a play on “K8s,” a common abbreviation for Kubernetes—is aimed mainly at the edge computing and standalone device markets, but can also support scenarios such as a self-contained Kubernetes-powered app distribution. The x86-64, ARM64, and ARMv7 platform architectures are all supported.
K3s uses a variety of techniques to squeeze a Kubernetes distribution into 512 MB of RAM, using a single 40 MB binary. K3s omits many features that bloat up most Kubernetes distributions, such as rarely used plug-ins, and consolidates the various functions of a Kubernetes distribution into a single process. Nevertheless, Rancher Labs claims K3s passes CNCF’s “Certified Kubernetes Distribution” tests.
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HPE and Continental to launch blockchain platform for vehicle data sharing
Publication- Computer World
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and automotive manufacturing giant Continental will this year launch a blockchain-based platform for car manufacturers to share and sell vehicle data. As well as helping car-makers “monetise their data and differentiate their brands” the secure data sharing capability is expected to lead to driver services such as real-time traffic warnings and locating available parking.
“Several existing digital ecosystems enable data sharing based on a middleman model, where platform owners centrally coordinate the data flows and monetisation. Applying a complimentary approach, HPE and Continental’s platform leverages a decentralised architecture based on blockchain technologies,” the companies said in an announcement today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Mercedes-Benz develops Blockchain-prototype for sustainable supply chains
Publication- Autocar Professional
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Mercedes-Benz Cars and Icertis, a leading provider of enterprise contract management solutions in the cloud, have teamed up for a strategic partnership for a consistent documentation of contracts in the supply chain. Daimler says it requires its direct suppliers to vigorously pass on and control standards and contractual obligations with regard to working conditions, human rights, environmental protection, safety, business ethics and compliance within the supply chain. The Blockchain prototype allows a transparent mapping and understanding of this transmission across the entire supply chain. Should one of the sub-suppliers deviate from the contractual obligations, this becomes visible in the Blockchain, similar to a secure accounting system. Mercedes-Benz Cars and a number of Icertis experts have successfully developed and programmed a prototype. Acceptance by suppliers and partners is now being tested in a pilot project, and feedback is being obtained.
According to Wilko Stark, Member of the Divisional Board of Management Mercedes-Benz Cars, Procurement and Supplier Quality attaches great value to sustainable supply chains: "Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally revolutionise our procurement processes, and could affect nearly the entire value chain. Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex. With our Blockchain prototype, we are in the first step testing one of diverse possible applications with the aim of increasing transparency beyond our direct suppliers."
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In Next 5 To 6 Years, AI To Make Significant Impact In Healthcare And IoT Space: Beena Ammanath, HPE
Publication- Express Computer
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
A few years ago, the industry was in the narrow intelligence stage and it was expected to take a few more years to get to super intelligence. What is the current status?
I think it is still narrow, however we see certain industries combining narrow intelligence to do more complex tasks. For instance, in a self-driving car, there are different components of AI that come together that make it a self-driving car. Also, when we think of general or super intelligence, we imagine a machine doing everything that a human can do. However, for this to happen, we require emotional intelligence, which I don’t think we have the underlying models or programing languages for it yet.
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Google Releases Search Tools for Blockchain
Publication- Crypto News
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
While cryptocurrencies have been a no-go for search engine giant, Google, the blockchain technology has been embraced by the company. Google recently launched search tools that allows a user to search for patterns in a blockchain of their choice. These tools permit a user to search a blockchain in much the same way that they would search the internet, a news portal, The Bitcoin News said. The portal further noted that the tools would allow Google to analyze patterns in transaction flows which would further allow the company to then develop appropriate blockchain technologies and potentially even predict future crypto prices.
This is not the first time, we are hearing of this. Earlier, Crypto-News India had reported on Allen Day, a 41-years old data scientist at Google, who recently used one of his tools developed at Google to figure out a “mysterious, concerted usage of AI” on Ethereum blockchain. According to him this usage was by a whole bunch of “autonomous agents” that were moving funds around “in an automated fashion”. While he couldn’t figure out who has created these agents, he thinks that they’re created by cryptocurrency exchanges to trade between themselves for artificially inflating the price of Ether.
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Blockchain Summit India 2019 Introduces India’s First Public Blockchain Network
Publication- Owlt Market
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
India’s first public blockchain network Auxledger went live during the inaugural function at Blockchain Summit India 2019. The event is the first edition of the Vision Blockchain 2030 initiative, successfully concluded on 22-23 February 2019 in IIM Lucknow, Noida Campus. The summit has been supported by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and State Government of Uttar Pradesh.
The summit was inaugurated by Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce and Industry, who also announced about the agreement signed with Government of UAE. This agreement will help in learning and leveraging Blockchain technology in e-governance of India.
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MWC 2019: World's rst blockchain enabled communication stack launched
Publication- Gizbot
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Cloud communication provider Tanla Solutions has announced the launch of an app called Trubloq, which would address issues of commercial communication with respect to Trust, Security, Spam, Fraud and privacy breaches in the enterprise communications space.
The solution has been developed to comply with the new TRAI regulation, and it empowers individual mobile users to set and manage their communication preferences and consents. "Trubloq is a ground-breaking innovation for the telecom industry, powered by Tanla's blockchain based communication stack. This initiative would perhaps be the largest use case for Blockchain in the world with potential transactional volumes of above 10 billion per month. We are condent that it will empower the billion plus mobile users. It truly is Made in India for Digital India and beyond," Uday Reddy, CMD, Tanla Solutions said.
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TRAI approved World's First Blockchain Communication Stack launched
Publication- The Mobile Indian
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
At the Mobile World Congress 2019, Tanla Solutions introduced the first of its kind blockchain enabled commercial communication stack - TRUBLOQ. The product was unveiled in the presence of TRAI Chairman, R S Sharma and has been developed to comply with the new TRAI regulation where mobile users can set and manage their communication preferences and consents.
With the help of TRUBLOQ, telecom service providers can now eliminate fraudulent activities and safeguard users against spam, frauds and sensitive issues like data privacy. Tanla has announced that Vodafone India will be the first Telecom Operator to go live on Trubloq and will be their first customer to use Blockchain technology on a wide basis.
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Emurgo academy to create blockchain experts in India
Publication- United News of India
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
Commercial and venture arm of the Cardano project Emurgo formally announced its entry into the Indian market with the establishment of Emurgo Academy in Bangalore, a statement here said. At the launch of academy Dr. K R Venugopal, Vice Chancellor, Bangalore University said, “Out of the 4 million IT workforce in India, approximately 1.5 million of them are based in Bangalore.
The academy will provide a platform to connect developers and organizations, enabling them learn the blockchain technology and implement it in their own business verticals. This will definitely open up better and newer opportunities for job aspirants in this field.” Emurgo Academy is the launch pad of Emurgo Global’s entire education business line in India.
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Not going to stop at 100 smart cities: Hardeep Singh Puri
Publication- Money Control
Edition- Online
Date- 27 February, 2019
The government has spent around Rs 1.5 lakh crore, six times the money used for urban rejuvenation during the 10-year UPA rule, and is not going to stop at just 100 smart cities, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at the Second National Apex Conference of CEOs of Smart Cities held in the New Delhi on February 27.
The rapid rate of progress of the mission is an answer to the 'cynics and naysayers who doubted what we are doing'. "The amount spent on urban rejuvenation in the 10-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), from 2004 to 2014, was around Rs 1.5 lakh crore. The money spent between June 2015 and February is six times that amount at around Rs 8.6 lakh crore. That's the difference in terms of scale and intensity," he said.
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