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-Pulkit Punj, Director at AnG India Ltd. In today’s rapid pace of technological innovation Video analytics has a big focus on cctv surveillance.  What was hoped for in video analytics technology is finally coming true. The vast improvements in its reliability, efficiency and capability have pushed analytics from the periphery to the mainstream. Everybody requires it, the corporate, governments, Defence, …

FreeCharge today announced that their customers can now make payments using “sound waves” as a medium. Currently, in addition to sound payment, customers can make the payment using On-The-Go-Pin, scanning the QR code or getting their in app QR code scanned by the merchant. Sound payments on FreeCharge are enabled through its partnership with ToneTag, which is a key enabler …

Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan, one of the largest schools in India for differently-abled, on its 18th annual day undertakes two noble and path breaking initiatives with the launch of Vaakya, a picture based app for speech impaired; and an e-commerce portal that sells hand-made products made by special children of MBCN under the Swayam programme. Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan works …

SonicWall, the trusted security partner protecting more than a million business networks worldwide, today announced findings from its Annual Threat Report, which highlights the most notable advancements made by security professionals and cyber criminals in 2016. The report was compiled from data collected throughout 2016 by the SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) Threat Network with daily feeds from more …

Alpha Data brings Global Village ticketing to the Cloud Alpha Data, the UAE’s leading systems integrator and one of the longest-standing IT companies in the country, recently completed work on hosting the E-Commerce portal of Global Village, the region’s leading multicultural festival park, at its ‘Alpha Cloud’ Public Cloud Service. Global Village is claimed to be the region’s largest tourism, …

Results of CA Technologies Study Also Show Combination of Agile and DevOps Drive Greater Customer Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Business Growth Results from a new CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) global study on agile and DevOps practices and their business impact have revealed that there is a ‘maturity gap’ in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), with only 29 percent of organizations …

Measurable 5G Impact on Mobile Growth Expected by 2020 By 2021, more members of the global population will be using mobile phones (5.5 billion) than bank accounts (5.4 billion), running water (5.3 billion), or landlines (2.9 billion), according to the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2016 to 2021). Strong growth in mobile users, smartphones …

Upcoming GDPR Regulations to Spur Action, Greater Transparency with Consumers Banks and insurers enjoy a significantly higher level of trust from consumers in the cybersecurity of their systems (83%) than any other sector (with e-commerce firms at 28% and both telcos and retailers at 13%). However, the financial services industry doesn’t share the same sentiment. Just one in five banking …

Diverse reactions are coming in on finance minister Arun Jaitley’s Budget 2017, including those from IT industry bodies, Consultancies, Corporate, Software & Hardware Companies, Start Ups and the Channel community. Union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s budget for the year 2017-18 has evoked diverse reactions from industry leaders and experts Here are some of the reactions: Nasscom: The Union Budget 2017 reinforces …

In today’s challenging economic climate, forward-looking organizations are upgrading their IT infrastructure and implementing virtualization and cloud computing solutions to improve business agility and drive down costs.The data center market in its entirety has seen tremendous growth over the past couple of years.According to a report from 451 Research, this market is expected to reach $36 billion worldwide by 2017. …