Solution Helps Tracks Luggage On Ground & Transit

 

Recominte, a leader in the aeronautic industry, announced that Telit Wireless Solutions, a leading global vendor of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, value-added services and solutions, is the M2M module supplier for the Tracer Tag, a high-tech portable tracking device. Recominte’s revolutionary solution is capable of tracking luggage both on the ground and in transit.

The Tracer Tag addresses a growing issue for airlines and their passengers. Last year, according to a report by SITA, the number of mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers was 6.96 -- or 21.8 million mishandled bags worldwide in 2013. Delayed and lost luggage cost the industry more than US$2 billion last year alone. Despite several improvements, passengers with at least one connection are the most likely to arrive without their bag. Almost half of all delayed or lost bags come from transfer flights.

Until now, the use of tracking devices to tackle this problem has been tricky due to strict airplane legislation and regulation for electronic and wireless communication devices. Recominte’s solution was designed to address these concerns by automatically shutting itself off when flying and turning itself back on when on the ground. Tracer Tag incorporates the Telit’s GL865-QUAD and JN3 modules to provide its best-in-class tracking solution.

The Telit GL865-QUAD is a GSM/GPRS module that comes with 4 GSM bands for global applications. With its ultra-compact design and extended temperature range, the Telit GL865-QUAD product is the perfect platform for high-volume m2m applications and mobile data devices. Additional features such as integrated TCP/IP protocol stack and serial multiplexer extend functionality of the application at no additional cost. The Telit JN3 is a GPS module that can be easily bundled with other Telit modules to provide a cost–effective, complete tracking solution. The combination of GPS with cellular connectivity supports a solution capable of tracking with maximum sensitivity even in challenging environments like indoors, garages and urban canyons -- making it ideal for use inside a bag transported by car, train, bus or plane.

Tracer Tag is small and portable, with a battery life lasting up to 100 hours under good GPS reception conditions. The solution is also extremely robust and passed through nine resistance tests (MIL-STD-810G Standard), proving it can endure vibration, shock, extended temperature range, high humidity and low atmospheric pressure. Tracer Tag can also record any sudden falls and ambient temperature, important factors to determine where a possible damage to the baggage or cargo may have occurred, and essential when sensitive goods are involved such as electronic devices or perishable medicines.

“Telit offers the broadest range of modules on the market today,” said Paulo Schiphorst, CTO of the Tracer Tag project. “Their technology made Tracer Tag possible.”

“The solution provided by Recominte is a fine example of demand meeting ingenuity” According to Ricardo Buranello, director for Telit Latin America.“Tracer Tag is a game changer and has the potential to achieve global success.”

With over 12 years of unparalleled focus on M2M, reducing technical risk and shortening time to market for OEMs and integrators, Telit’s ONE STOP. ONE SHOP delivers all necessary services and products to connect assets to the Internet of Things. Whether sourcing single products or full end-to-end solutions, count on M2M’s broadest portfolio in cellular, short range and positioning technologies paired with m2mAIR services covering application enablement as well as deployment management & connectivity under mobile networks and over the internet & cloud. Telit benchmark-quality products and services are delivered with global support and logistics exceeding exacting requirements from customers large and small. Telit’s ONE STOP. ONE SHOP. delivers the Internet of Things made Plug & Play. Now innovate!

The Loudest Cheer App For The IPL 7 Games

Blogmint, a networked community of bloggers promoted and managed by Tangerine Digital, has today launched an exciting app, “The Loudest Cheer” for cricket enthusiasts across the globe. It aims to connect all the aficionados of the much awaited seventh season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to their supporting teams.

With IPL 2014 being hosted outside India, disappointment amongst the fans is quite conspicuous. This app allows you to cheer every time your team scores, thus making you feel part of a live audience. The app also allows users to create their audio or video cheer that will be showcased on digital channels such as YouTube. Moreover, the participants leading the scoreboard with maximum cheers will earn points that will be translated to incredible prizes.

How can you access the app?

All you have to do is download the app from the Google Play app Store for free. The application can be accessed from all android devices. A user-friendly application “The Loudest Cheer” can be accessed by following a simple 4 steps process:

1.       Download the application from Google play store

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tech.loudestcheer&hl=en

2.       Pick / select your team

3.       According to the development of match, select from various options available – Ace Catch, Great Shot, Great Run, Ace 4, Ultra 6, Big Wicket etc.

4.       Select from  ‘Audio Cheer’ or ‘Video Cheer’ and start cheering

Commenting on the release of “The Loudest Cheer”, Seeraj Katoch, Chief Operating Officer, Tangerine Digital said, “We are excited to launch the mobile app that aims to connect fans with their favorite sport. The app will help audiences across India to cheer for their favorite team. As, IPL goes abroad, we realized the need for teams and fans to be connected and technology was the only option to bridge the gap.”   

Blogmint aims to provide brands with creative blogging solutions through its network of bloggers and enhance their brand credibility and reach on the digital platform. In addition to the gamut of services offered in content marketing, Tangerine Digital also creates metadata for videos and images, repurposes videos for VOD platforms, creates theme based text and video content across e-commerce, web, mobile and social media platforms.

Smart IT & UCC Enterprises Software From NEC

NEC India Pvt. Ltd, a leading network and IT solutions provider held a press conference announcing its smart enterprise solution strategy and officially launching the latest generation of its Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) software, UNIVERGE 3C. Following the press conference NEC India will host meetings in Delhi and Mumbai where they will communicate the details of the smart enterprise strategy and showcase the new technologies and solutions. Joining the launch events to speak about the strategy and technologies will be Makoto Omi, General Manager, Global Business Unit of NEC Corporation, the company’s global leader of IT business, and Todd Landry, NEC’s global smart enterprise chief evangelist and expert on empowering IT infrastructures and UC&C.

NEC’s empowered IT framework brings together several IT infrastructure components, addressing the trends for more converged enterprise infrastructure and empowering customers with solutions to build a smart enterprise. An essential part of this IT framework is UNIVERGE 3C, which delivers UC&C tools to business users for virtually any device while maintaining a consistent user experience. The software services adapt to a wide variety of business roles, from sales and support, to internal workgroups providing increased efficiencies and greater workforce productivity.

“We are very pleased to be launching our solution for smart enterprises, as this is at an important time with many substantial new infrastructure build-outs taking place in India that will benefit from this technology,” said Makoto Omi.

According to an IDC report, cloud spending and collaborative technology are each expected to grow by 25% in 2014. NEC’s enterprise solutions are aligned with this trend to focus on expansion of its ‘communication simplified and business amplified’ platform that includes social, mobile, cloud technologies driving change and demand for smarter enterprise infrastructure. These solutions provide the necessary agility for today’s dynamic work environment and enable total control over how, when and where users choose to be reached – truly empowering the workforce.

“Today’s economic environment is a challenge for businesses of all sizes. To stay competitive, they need to have the right tools that enable them to be more efficient, remain flexible and reduce overall cost of doing business,” said Landry. “NEC has built smart enterprise solutions that align well with the demand for new converged infrastructure. Under this initiative, NEC has brought many of its key enterprise IT assets together to create solutions that address the 4 key value pillars for enterprises.”

JDA To Add 500 Employees; Grow Workforce To 2,500

The office is part of JDA’s Center of Excellence (CoE) and the largest facility of the three JDA CoE locations: Bangalore, Hyderabad and Warsaw, Poland. The new office was officially inaugurated by Chairman of the Board, Baljit Dail, JDA Software; JDA Chief Executive Officer, Hamish Brewer and other JDA executives including Salil Joshi, managing director and senior vice president, JDA Software, India.

“The growth of JDA’s Bangalore facility reinforces JDA’s commitment to grow its Center of Excellence,” said Hamish Brewer, chief executive officer, JDA Software. “The CoE is an integral part of JDA’s growth strategy and enables us to effectively serve our global customers and leverage our locations to serve our local and regional markets as well.”

“JDA Software India was started with a vision to form an integrated, customer focused, associate centric, global supply chain center of excellence delivering unparalleled value to customers through continuous innovation and best-in-class quality,” said Salil Joshi, managing director and senior vice president, JDA Software. “It enables JDA to extend its capabilities in the areas of product development, services, support and technology, thereby providing an enhanced customer experience.”

JDA’s Center of Excellence was started in 2004. Today, with nearly 2,000 associates across Bangalore and Hyderabad, JDA’s Center of Excellence is an invaluable asset and provides significant value to the organization across all business units and industry verticals.

Bangalore Office Highlights

• The facility is located in southeast Bangalore and provides around 300,000 square feet of floor space with generous seating capacity for 2,000 associates.
• The facility holds the eco-friendly LEED Gold certified status, in sync with JDA’s ‘Going Green’ mission.
• Exclusive collaboration zones for informal and quick stand-up meetings have been designed to foster more spontaneous collaboration.
• The vibrant ambience, featuring open-plan work spaces and an open-to-sky cafeteria with common, multi-cuisine food court offers a very attractive work environment for Gen Years and others working for JDA.

Watch IPL Live Streaming On Multiple Digital Platforms

As India moves from international cricket to club cricket, Times Internet has launched a cricket portal Gocricket.com —featuring none other than former India captain Sourav Ganguly.

Besides news on cricket, the portal will also feature integrated video content, and a rich, cross-platform experience. While the portal will stream the upcoming Pepsi Indian Premier League (IPL), it will also be extended on several digital platforms including web, iPhone, Android, iPad, and WAP.

Ruchir Khanna, business head, Gocricket said, "We are also proud to announce that one of India's most successful captains, Sourav Ganguly, will exclusively share his critical insights into the game on our platform."

Khanna further added, "Gocricket will be the most comprehensive web and mobile cricket destination, offering a multimedia experience", he added.

On his association with Gocricket, Sourav Ganguly said, "I am extremely happy to be associated with Gocricket.com and be involved as a guest editor. We will bring cricket news to you like never before." 

Source: Agencies

By 2020 Digital Universe To Touch 44 Trillion GB

With growing Internet penetration and data usage, digital universe is poised to touch 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020, against 4.4 trillion gigabytes in 2013, and emerging markets would account for 60 percent of that, says a report by tech giant EMC and research firm IDC.

Strong adoption of wireless technologies coupled with the growth in Internet consumption, migration to digital TV and increasing ‘sensors’ based machine to machine communication are playing a central role in explosive growth in the digital universe. Also, the digital universe is India is nearly doubling in size every two years and will multiply nine-fold between 2013 and 2020 from 326 exabytes to 2.8 zetabytes.

For perspective, data created by an average Indian household is enough to fill 65 32GB versions of iPhones. This is poised to grow to 318 by 2020.

“China already accounts for 14 percent of the digital universe. Though US’ share has declined as the other emerging markets have grown, it is still 26 percent. India’s share is also growing from 3 percent in 2010 to 6 percent in 2020,” EMC India and SAARC President Rajesh Janey told reporters. He added that India’s Digital Universe was driven by increasing digitization across business and government and a steady rise in social and mobile usage by everyone.

IDC also forecasts that by 2020 Internet of Things (IoT) will represent almost 10 percent of the data generated in India. IoT refers to everyday objects equipped with sensors, anything from shoes to mobile phones to surveillance cameras that can record, report and receive data. The data from these connected devices represents 4 percent of the total data in India today, the report said.

“Business don’t need to wade through the vast amounts of data but instead can extract tremendous value by focusing on high-value target rich data that accounts for 1.7 percent of the current Digital Universe,” IDC India MD Jaideep Mehta said.

The report found that mobility will be a key driver of the Digital Universe with mobile ‘Connected Things’ generating 18 percent of the Digital Universe in 2014 and is estimated to grow to 27 percent by 2020.

Source: Agencies

When Can Indians Look Forward For Google Glasses?

Google Glass is not coming to India—at least not on April 15. If you’re visiting, or are in, the US, you can go to the Google site and purchase Glass in any shade or frame for $1,500 plus taxes, subject to availability.

According to Accenture’s digital consumer tech survey 2014, consumers in India ranked highest among six countries (Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, the UK, and the US) in the percentages that plan to buy consumer electronics products during 2015, and were most interested in buying fitness monitors, smart watches and Internet-enabled eyeglasses.

But why should Indians, or for that matter anyone, be so interested?

It’s because Google Glass is no ordinary eyewear (though you may be happy if the Indian customs department thinks so if you do manage to wrangle one in India on 15 April).

Weighing a little over 40 grams, it is a wearable computer that can surf the Internet, record audio, shoot video, perform searches, give directions using maps, check emails and appointments.

It can also SMS and make phone calls by using Glass as a Bluetooth headset with any Bluetooth-compatible phone.

The Glass screen is positioned just above the right eye to ensure eye contact with other people and keep distractions at a minimum—the screen is off by default. But when activated, it “looks a lot like a 25-inch color TV floating about 8 feet in front of you”, according to the Google Inc. website.

Glass has adjustable nosepads, a 5 megapixel camera, Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity, 12 gigabytes (GB) of usable memory synced with Google cloud storage (16 GB Flash total). It has a battery and includes a micro USB cable and charger.

The MyGlass companion app lets you set up contacts, Glassware, and other features. MyGlass for Android requires Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher. For iOS, it requires iOS 7 or later.

Google Glass may also get more appealing. On 24 March, Google struck a deal with Luxottica (LUX), the maker of eyeglasses like Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, and Oliver Peoples to integrate Glass into its products and sell the device through its wholesale and retail outlets.

But if Glass has so many positives, why are its users being called ‘Glassholes’?

Google Glass’ feature list is impressive, yet those who sport Google Glasses have been looked upon suspiciously for invading privacy, been banned from bars and restaurants and given tickets for distracted driving.

Privacy concerns, most importantly, may abound with consumer wearables becoming more sophisticated, capturing what the user sees, hears or even feels through biorhythmic responses.

By 2020, consumer data collected from wearable devices will drive 5% of sales from the Global 1000 companies, according to research firm Gartner Inc. The number of smartphone apps requesting to share consumer data will increase two-fold by 2015, indicating a rise in the number of marketers or proprietors who seek access to customer profile data.

The technical hurdles that have stalled the adoption of wearables (battery life, augmented reality, chip evolution and bandwidth) are quickly eroding, “opening doors to creative minds determined to exploit this technology for commercial gain as evidenced by sizeable investments in wearable technology from Samsung (smartwatch Galaxy Gear), Google (Google Glass, Android Wear), Apple (rumoured iWatch) and Microsoft (rumoured Surface watch)”, according to Gartner.

Source: Agencies