Vivo Unveils Energetic Blue Colour Variant for the Vivo V7+ Available on Amazon.in from November 10

Vivo, the global premium smartphone brand, today launched an energetic blue colour variant of its best-selling V7+smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 21,990, V7+ will be available in stores on November 15, 2017 onwards.  The customers can pre-book the all-new V7+ exclusively on Amazon.in from November, 10 –14, 2017. The device is currently available in Champagne Gold and Matte Black colour in the market.

The all-new V7+ energetic blue has been designed for the young and dynamic customer base of Vivo. The energetic blue colour variant further fulfils the desire and demand of the next generation customers with its contemporary and fluid design, and superior performance. Speaking at the launch,  Kenny Zeng, Chief Marketing Officer, Vivo India, said, “We are excited to bring our V7+ flagship in another stylish ‘Energetic Blue’ colour variant that complements the energetic personality of our young and fashion-conscious consumers. The superior features of V7+ along with the new colour gives consumer more reasons to click perfect selfies and flaunt their phones in style too.”

Vivo, a premium global smartphone brand, entered India in late 2014. With a strong focus on "Camera and Music", Vivo has established itself as one of the top smartphone brands in India. Manufacturing in Greater Noida, the company has a robust distribution network across the country both online and offline, catering the best in class quality services to over 400 cities, in 22 states backed by 400 service centres in India. 

Dedicated to the youth, Vivo became the title sponsor of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for 2016 & 2017 and recently bagged the title sponsorship for the next five years. Also have bagged the title sponsorship of Pro Kabaddi in 2017 for five years. Conquering the global stage, Vivo became the official sponsor of 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

FUT Hair Transplantation is Fast Becoming Most Popular Method of Hair Transplantation

By age 50, about 50% of substantial number of men and women-are affected by hair loss, much of which is hereditary. In men, the most common condition leading loss is called male pattern hair loss.  This affects only front & top of head. 

Hair transplantation surgery involves transferring the hair follicles from the donor area on the

back and the side of the head, which has genetically strong hair to the balding areas.

Hair Transplant does not increase the total number of your hairs in the scalp because here we redistribute the hair from the back in such a way that you grow sufficient hairs on the hair loss area to look good without the Donor area looking bad.We use the roots  of this permanent hair and graft them in the area where you have lost your hair.This can be done in two ways FUT and FUE.

The FUT hair transplantation or the strip method is surgery is the older method that involves removing a narrow strip of hair-bearing scalp from the back of the head and using it to fill an area with thin or no hair.. After removing the strip of scalp with a scalpel, the surgeon closes the scalp. This area is immediately hidden by the hair around it.

Next, the strip of removed scalp is divided under magnification into into multiple tiny grafts containing an individual hair or just a few hairs each. The number and type of graft used depends on the hair type, quality, and colour as well as the size of the area where it will be transplanted.

Then the surgeon cleans and numbs the area where the hair will be placed, creates holes or slits with a scalpel or needle, and carefully places each graft in one of the holes.

The FUE or Follicular Unit Extraction or root extraction is a minimally invasive hair transplantation technique in which follicular unit grafts (hair follicles) are individually removed from the patient’s donor area and then individually transplanted to the recipient  area. 

Follicular hair extraction (FUE) technique is the latest and fast becoming, the most popular method of hair transplantation. In this method, the follicular units (hair roots) are extracted as individual units and then transplanted, the advantage being minimal or no visible scarring in the donor area.These are removed using a power tool and then placed in the recipient area. The advantage is that there is no linear scar and no stitches are required, so the donor area will be minimally noticeable within just a few days and this technique is useful for men who want to keep their hair short. 

The patient lies with the face down on the operating table. The scalp is cleaned and a local anaesthetic is applied to it. Your surgeon may choose to give you oral or intravenous antibiotics before and for a few days after the procedure. Once the local anaesthetic has taken effect, the surgeon takes out grafts from the donor area using fine micropunches. The grafts are stored in saline solution and then grafted in the planned area.

After hair transplant, you may need to take pain medications and antibiotics for few days. Your surgeon will have you wear a surgical dressing over the scalp for at least a day or two.  Most people are able to return to work two to five days after surgery. The results of hair transplant are generally satisfying.

Sometimes additional sessions are needed if you continue to lose hair or decide you want thicker hair.

A10’s Software Subscription Model for Consumption of Secure App Services across On-Premise, Cloud and Hybrid Environments

A10 Networks, a Secure Application Services company, has announced A10 FlexPool, a software subscription model that provides enterprises and service providers with the ability to simplify the consumption of app services. The A10 FlexPool aggregated capacity model allows customers to flexibly allocate and re-distribute capacity across applications, multiple clouds and data centers.

As businesses attempt to balance workloads across hybrid cloud deployments, they need a flexible software delivery model to ensure their services and applications are consistently available whenever needed. A10 solves these challenges with FlexPool, a unique capacity pooling-based consumption model that allows customers to redistribute capacity across multiple sites as their business and app needs change. 

The introduction of A10 FlexPool represents a strategic step in the company’s business strategy and vision to help customers become more secure and agile as they bridge traditional and cloud application environments. A10 FlexPool allows customers to seamlessly use A10 services either on-premise or in the cloud, without service disruption, in a cost-effective, customer-friendly manner that eliminates unnecessary expenses caused by overprovisioning.

This software subscription-based capacity consumption model represents a more modern, customer-centric approach compared to perpetual, instance-based arrangements that force customers into numerous fixed capacity licenses that outlive their practical lifecycles. However, A10 FlexPool allows customers to purchase licensed capacity, then allocate and redistribute that capacity across applications and infrastructures as desired. Additionally, FlexPool simplifies the operational process by limiting the administrative task of centrally managing the license pool.

“Hybrid cloud is spurring greater innovation opportunities for IT to deliver business relevance and agility for network managers,” said Raj Jalan, CTO, A10 Networks. “Our new software subscription and capacity pooling model is designed to eliminate the traditional challenges of resource planning and portability across today’s hybrid network environments, offering greater flexibility and dynamic scalability to meet enterprise IT’s cloud environment needs well into the future.”

Whether A10 software is deployed on virtualized infrastructure, bare metal, or in the cloud, A10 FlexPool gives IT professionals and service providers the flexibility and portability across multiple application services and cloud infrastructure deployment models. With capacity pools that are sharable across on-premise, public and private cloud infrastructures, A10 FlexPool can help simplify cloud migrations, and at the same time eliminate costly overprovisioning and prevent service disruptions.

Availability:

·         A10 FlexPool is available now

·         A10 FlexPool annual subscription pricing begins at US $29,000

ICA Edu Skills’ Latest Course to Make Indian Youth Industry-Ready

ICA EduSkills, one of India’s leading vocational training and placement institute lately heralded the launch of an ICA-SAP Course christened SAP (FICO) End User.  ICA EduSkills targets at the countless employable youth to build a pool of industry-ready, technically-qualified professionals in the coming years with the introduction of this latest offering from their institution. SAP, enterprise resource software, is an accredited market trailblazerin ERP with a 68% shares,​ ​ and 2, 58, 000 customers in 188 countries and has 13 million SAP certified professionals worldwide.​

In order to realize the dreams of our Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making Digital India and contemporaneous operationalization of GST, the teeming population engaged in small and medium-size enterprises are embracing the digitalization thus, becoming GST-compliant. ICA’s SAP (FICO) End User course has been unveiled keeping in mind the huge demand for SAP consultants countrywide in order to bridge the gap of supply and demand in the future course.

SAP (FICO) intends at targeting undergraduates, graduates, management, HR&Finance aspirants and working professionals. ​It will impart them with basic training in SAP and endowthem to create Balance Sheet.

ICA EduSkills’ SAP (FICO) course will be of enormous value to students. It intends to provide 80 hours of theoretical and practical training and makes them industry savvy. On successful completion of the course, students will obtain certificate with SAP and ICA EduSkills logos respectively, which could ensure them a passport to success.

Heraldingthe launch of the ICA-SAP course, Dr. Narendra Kumar Shyamsukha, Founder Chairman, ICAEdu Skills said, “On one hand, India has a large number of educated unemployed, and on the other, Indian industry is short of skilled professionals. We are launching this course to help students equip themselves with the required skills and technical expertise. While our immediate aim is to train students and make them job-ready, our long term goal is to take the Indian economy to new heights.  We invite students to make the most of ICA EduSkills’ SAP (FICO) End User course.”

“Practical training is the key to proficiency and employability. Our strong in-house R&D team ensures that our courses are training-oriented and in sync with the needs of the industry. The USP of ICA’s SAP (FICO) course is that it provides students a customized SAP practicing software and makes them career-ready. We have a100+ training centres in 21+ states across India. Students can do this course from an ICA centre anywhere in India. The students will be trained on the latest technologies and tools with subsidised course fees by our experienced faculty,” Dr Shyamsukha added.

ICA Edu Skills has been tirelessly endowing youth across India the requisite skills for the last 18 years to make them job ready. ICA is the pioneer in skill enhancement. ICA has also aligned with the NSDC and is working concurrently with the Central and state governments to train and place aspirants in various fields.

Forcepoint’s Human-Centric Security Helps Financial Services Firm Protect Critical Customer and Business Data in Hybrid Clouds

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today announced the company’s human-centric, real-time security technology has been deployed by Simplicity Credit Union to protect the financial services firm’s 23,000 members, prevent catastrophic data breaches, centrally manage a hybrid cloud environment and, critically important for businesses today, enable the secure use of cloud applications, such as Microsoft Office 365.

Financial services organizations like Simplicity require cyber security solutions that address regulatory compliance and, most importantly, protect member data, including personally identifiable information (PII). Simplicity chose Forcepoint to keep its employees, partners and members safe and prevent data breaches caused by accidental or malicious intent.

Simplicity established Forcepoint was the only security company delivering the range of capabilities that meet their needs and can efficiently manage their hybrid environment through a single management console. The company utilizes Forcepoint’s Email Security Cloud, Web Security Cloud and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) products to protect critical data at the human point - the intersection of users, data and networks – and understand normal user behavior patterns and flow of data, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Forcepoint’s human-centric approach to security has helped transform Simplicity’s security program and outlook.

“It’s more important than ever for financial institutions to protect against employee and user risk. Whether compromised maliciously or accidentally, credentials of users are the keys to the data kingdom,” said Thomas Frank, system administrator at Simplicity Credit Union. “In a highly regulated industry like financial services, we must consider strategies and technologies that are more intelligent and efficient than the traditional model, which clearly isn’t working, to protect our people and our business.”

Utilizing Forcepoint’s security expertise and integrated Web, Email and Data Security products, Simplicity has educated staff on cyber hygiene best practices and how to identify the digital signs of cyberattacks that seek to take advantage of human error and social engineering. In addition, Forcepoint’s Email Security has already proven its protection for Simplicity members’ personally identifiable information by preventing a catastrophic data breach disguised within fraudulent emails that ultimately impacted a number of local financial services organizations. 

Frank continued, “We’re preventing end-users from accidentally sending out PII, which now gets flagged, so they know to resend as an encrypted message. Forcepoint’s solutions help us protect users from inadvertent behaviors that could cause catastrophic breaches, and in the end, helps to protect member data.”

Forcepoint also consolidates management for on-premises and cloud services into a single system to help Frank and his team cut through feeds of false positives and quickly identify and drill down into incidents that require immediate remediation. The time saved allows Frank and the Simplicity IT team to focus on innovative projects and solutions for its members.

“We always knew we could build a future with Forcepoint. Forcepoint gives us more flexibility in how we manage cloud services such as Microsoft Office 365 together with our Exchange servers; as well as more flexibility in how we manage cloud services on or off our network,” said Frank.

“Financial services organizations are, and will continue to be, a prime target for cybercriminals. For customers like Simplicity, protecting the human point keeps their business safe and is strategic to their mission,” said Kris Lamb, vice president and general manager of Cloud Access and Gateway Security at Forcepoint. “We believe a human-centric approach to security is the key to stopping data breaches and preventing intellectual property theft from anywhere, and we continue to collaborate with our customers and partners to drive this paradigm in our industry.”

IESA Likely to Set Up Fab Facility in Chandigarh: IESA Chairman Aggarwal

India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) said it is working hard to strengthen the electronics manufacturing capability of India by expanding the Chandigarh-based fab facility owned by government of India.

The association has already submitted a memorandum in this regard to the government, IESA Chairman Ashwini K Aggarwal said.

"Semi-Conductor Laboratory, located in Mohali and under the Department of Space, can help the country to enhance its chip manufacturing capability. IESA had proposed the expansion of the government owned foundry in 2012," he told DH on the sidelines of the two-day IoTNext 2017 summit, organised by IESA in association with The Indus Entrepreneurs, here.

Aggarwal said the Chandigrah facility's capability is confined to certain areas. "We want the government to make some framework policy so that its capacity expansion is expedited on war-footing and it will help India to meet its hardware requirement in the electronics and semiconductor area," he said.

Manufacturing
IESA is also planning to come up with a common manufacturing facility to help startups and other companies in their go to market strategy. "We have already acquired eight acre land in Noida for this project which will be funded by World Bank and Central government," he said.

The association chairman also said the detailed project report (DPR) for the facility has been prepared and the work is underway. "IESA believes that the facility will help in coming up with a comprehensive hardware ecosystem," Aggarwal added.

The event showcased a 100% growth in the 2nd edition of the Start-up IoT Directory, launched with IoTForum. The Directory includes 900 start-ups working in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) across the nation. It has been compiled with support from Nasscom, IoT CoE, IIT Mumbai, SINE, IKP EDEN, Revxx, IoTBLR,T-Hub, Forge and Excubator.

The Directory includes 900 start-ups, working in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) across the nation. It has been compiled with support from Nasscom, IoT CoE, IIT Mumbai, SINE, IKP EDEN, Revxx, IoTBLR,T-Hub, Forge and Excubator.

He also pointed out that the start-up ecosystem in India has already reached great heights and with the support of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics the growth in this space has been exponential. "Last year, we had about 500 start-ups listed in our directory and now the number has reached to 1000 start-ups in the IoT field, in just one year," he said.

Fino Payments Bank Ties up with Mother Dairy and Gokul Dairy Sector to Digitize Payments in India

In line with the Government’s push for digital payments, Fino Payments Bank is focusing its efforts towards digitizing payments for rural masses, starting with those associated with the dairy sector. The newly launched payments bank announced that it has tied up with Mother Dairy and Gokul Dairy to digitize payments of milk pourers.

As the largest milk producing nation with over 160 million tonnes of output annually, India has over 15 million milk producers associated with more than 150,000 village dairy cooperatives. The milk producers or pourers, a key component of Fino’s target customer base, largely get paid in cash at the milk collection centres (MCC) where they deposit milk.

Stating digitizing payments for dairy sector as a step towards banking for all, Rishi Gupta, MD & CEO, Fino Payments Bank said, “As the torchbearers of White Revolution, the hard-working milk pourer segment across the country deserves to get the benefits of digital banking. While the segment plays a vital role in the nation’s growth story, it also needs to be financially secure. With this thought, we have focused on the dairy sector to enable digital payments and going forward we will explore other rural, agro-based and allied sectors that need digitized payments and banking services.”

To facilitate digital payments for milk pourers of Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board, Fino Payments Bank will open accounts and provide instant RuPay debit cards. The same will be done for milk pourers affiliated to Maharashtra-based Gokul dairy.

Post account opening, the payment due to milk pourers will be directly credited into their accounts. They can withdraw money from the MCCs or from any ATM using RuPay debit card. Further, customers can use Fino’s mobile banking app BPay to make digital payments and do other banking transactions.

“Through our simple and convenient banking model, we would encourage our customers to save money and make payments through bank accounts. As a digital bank, our branches and banking points deploy Aadhaar-based authentication and verification to facilitate secure, safe and paperless banking transactions. Customers also have the option to use BPay, our mobile banking app,” added Gupta.

With each dairy having thousands of MCCs, Fino will add these centres to its banking network thereby increasing its reach and providing enhanced customer convenience. This is bound to make life easier for milk pourers. Contrast this to the earlier situation where people had to travel quite a distance to the nearest bank to withdraw money at extra cost and loss of income.

Fino Payments Bank started operations in July 2017 with 410 branches and 25000 access points across 14 states.