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Despite the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being in its infancy stages, European regulators are increasingly focusing on implementing the law. As a result, the number of cases and fines has also surged. Data acquired by Finbold indicates that the cumulative number of GDPR violations has steadily surged 113.5 percent over the last 12 months between July 2020 and July …

Zoom has planned to buy cloud contact center software provider Five9 Inc in an all stock deal worth about $14.7 billion. The popular video conferencing provider is now shifting focus to its cloud calling product Zoom Phone and conference hosting product Zoom Rooms as bigger players Microsoft, Facebook and Google amp up their video products. The deal marks Zoom’s first …

Holcim is deploying its Transport Analytics Center (TAC) in 35 plants of ACC and Ambuja in India to optimize its logistics for road safety, enhanced efficiency and sustainability. TAC is currently tracking more than 20,000 trucks through various data sources like ERP, in-vehicle monitoring system (IVMS), NFC, RFID and others for advanced analytics and artificial intelligence applications. Globally, transportation accounts …

Bengaluru, 19th July, 2021: G7 CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd (https://g7cr.in/) today announced it has earned the Modernization of Web Applications to Microsoft Azure advanced specialization, a validation of a solution partner’s deep knowledge, extensive experience and proven expertise in migrating and modernizing production web application workloads, and managing app services in Azure. Only partners that meet stringent criteria around customer success and staff …

Trend Micro has released a new report highlighting the growing risk of downtime and sensitive data theft from ransomware attacks aimed at industrial facilities. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are a crucial element of utility plants, factories and other facilities—where they’re used to monitor and control industrial processes across IT-OT networks. If ransomware finds its way onto these systems, it could …

Almost a third of logistics companies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are considering IoT (37 percent), warehouse automation (33 percent), and electric vehicles (32 percent) as key investment priorities in the next two years, as per the new research from Here Technologies in partnership with global consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan. Over half of the logistics companies are also …

India IT spending is expected to touch $92.7 billion in 2021 growing at 8 percent over 2020, as per the latest forecast by Gartner. The research firm revised its growth forecast from 7.3 percent that it announced in April 2021. The growth is however still notch less against 8.6 percent of the world average. The global spending on information technology …

Microsoft and NEC Corporation have announced an expansion of their decades-long collaboration. Through a new multi-year strategic partnership, the companies will leverage Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s network and IT expertise, including 5G technologies, and each other’s AI and IoT solutions to help enterprise customers and the public sector across multiple markets and industries further accelerate their cloud adoption and …

Lenovo has emerged as the leader with 23.9 percent market share in the global traditional PC shipments in Q2 2021. The worldwide shipments of PCs including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, have reached 83.6 million units in Q2 2021, up 13.2 percent from the second quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal …

Machine-Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services are estimated to grow within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain at a CAGR of nearly 40 percent, reaching $3.6 billion in 2026, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research. The research firm said that the next wave of Internet of Things (IoT) analytics development will fully converge with the Big …