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IoT To Soon Overshadow Mobile Phones: Study

The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, published today, reveals that the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by 2018. Between 2015 and 2021, the number of IoT connected devices is expected to grow 23 per cent annually, of which cellular IoT is forecast to have the highest growth rate. Of the 28 billion total devices that will be connected by 2021, close to 16 billion will be IoT devices. Western Europe will lead the way in adding...
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Savvy Partners Top Choice For Tech Startups

Technology startups are increasingly eyeing to partner with channel partners which can customize their products for a broader portfolio of customers. The early stage companies are hunting for partners with a significant background in the technology space along with unconventional skills, to help them penetrate the market. Startups operating in the IT security as well as application deployment space consider channel partners as critical for their go-to-market strategy and eye value in the customer relationships which System Integrators, resellers and other value added distributors hold. Channel partners too are increasingly...
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Airtel Payments Bank Appoint Sashi Arora As New CEO

Airtel Payments Bank appointed Shashi Arora as the new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, subject to approval by the Reserve Bank of India. Shashi Arora will replace Manish Khera, CEO, as Khera decided to pursue his entrepreneurial journey. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Airtel Payments Bank, said in a statement that with the experience of 26 years across sectors Arora has handled key market facing assignments as well as business leadership roles. He started his career with Hindustan Unilever as a management trainee in 1990 and during his 12-year stint,...
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S Rajendran Acer India’s CMO Quits

Acer India’s Chief Marketing Officer S Rajendran has resigned from the company citing personal reasons. Citing personal reasons Acer India’s Chief Marketing Officer S Rajendran took an exit from the company. “After a long, eventful and enriching career, spanning over 16 years at Acer India, I have decided to move on. It has been a tough decision, especially since one has been closely associated in building the organisation from its inception in 1999,” Rajendran as told BusinessLine on his last day in the company. He said he was taking a...
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Apple’s ‘Hobby’ Rises To 3rd Rank In Global STB Biz: IHS

Apple’s popular Apple TV devices have moved into the third spot in global set-top revenue in 2015, up from ninth place the year prior. The surge is courtesy of continued strong growth in consumer retail over-the-top television (OTT) boxes, and the consolidation of the top players of the global set-top box market. Bringing Apple into global contention from a unit-shipment standpoint, more than 10 million Apple TVs were shipped in 2015 — the fifth largest volume in the world — following Arris, Technicolor, and Skyworth and ZTE, according to IHS....
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Think Before Charging Mobile On USB Connected To Internet

Charging smartphones on USB charger connection could put your date at risk, Kaspersky has warned. Kaspersky Lab experts in a proof-of-concept experiment have discovered that devices can be compromised when charged using a standard USB connection connected to a computer. As part of this research, the company’s experts tested a number of smartphones running various versions of Android and iOS operating systems in order to understand what data the device transfers externally while connected to a PC or Mac for charging. The test results indicate that the mobiles reveal a...
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CSS Corp Deploys Microsoft Office 365

CSS Corp has deployed Microsoft Office 365 solution to reduce IT cost and improve cloud-based communication and collaboration. The cloud-based solution which includes Yammer, Skype for Business, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online has helped its employees collaborate in a secure environment, streamline communication with customers and improve efficiencies. “We constantly evaluate technologies that can catapult us to the next stage of growth, enable greater collaboration with our globally distributed employees and customers. Office 365 helps us address all our communication challenges, while making our storage and IT hassles simpler and...
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Verizon Appoints New Managing Director For Its India IT

Kalyani Sekar has been appointed as the managing director of Verizon Data Services India, the IT & Technology arm of Verizon in India. Kalyani, who succeeds Santosh Bijur, will lead a 6,700-member workforce in Chennai and Hyderabad responsible for Verizon Communications’ India IT & Technology operations creating value for the corporation. Prior to her new appointment, Kalyani was a Senior Delivery Head, based out of Chennai, responsible for a range of Business and Operations Support Systems for Verizon Wireless and FiOS in the US. Kalyani joined Verizon in 2002 and...
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Samu Konttinen Joins F-Secure As President And CEO

Christian Fredrikson, President and CEO of F-Secure Corporation, has resigned to pursue a leadership opportunity outside the company. The F-Secure Board of Directors has appointed Samu Konttinen as new President and CEO, effective 1 August 2016. Konttinen joined F-Secure in 2005 and has held a wide range of senior management positions in the company, including Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Executive Vice President of F-Secure’s Consumer Business. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President Corporate Security Business. Since 2009 he has been a member of the...
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Facebook Is Privy To Your Conversations 24×7

The company records your conversations whenever you leave your smartphone nearby with the Facebook application running in the background. Facebook claims that the process is not for pushing targeted advertisements, but to facilitate the users in posting stuff related to the content which they might be consuming. For instance, the background noise from a television show or a movie. Some users have also claimed that they have been flooded with advertisements which aligned with the conversations, they recently indulged in, reflecting a possibility of Facebook utilizing your conversations for commercial...
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