Jio Phone 2, the successors of Jio Phone was launched by the Reliance Industries Limited chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani on July 5, 2018. The Jio Phone 2 is expected to hit the market by August 16, 2018. The company has set the starting price of the phone at Rs 2,999.
The Jio Phone 2 comes with a 2.40-inch display and a screen resolution of 240 pixels by 320 pixels. The phone has a 512 MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128 GB via an SD card. It has a 2-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 0.3-megapixel front shooter for selfies. It runs on KAI operating system and is powered by a 2000mAh battery. The connectivity options available on Jio Phone 2 includes - Wi-Fi, Global Positioning System (GPS), Bluetooth, Near-field communication (NFC) and frequency modulation (FM).
Specifications
Design and display
The new JioPhone 2 is strikingly different from its predecessor in terms of design. JioPhone 2 has a QWERTY keypad now along with a 4-way navigation pad. While the form factor is different now, JioPhone 2 and JioPhone have the same 2.4-inch display.
Camera
JioPhone 2 comes with the same camera configurations as the JioPhone. This includes a 2-megapixel camera at the rear and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) camera up front. Both phones are capable of video recording.
Connectivity, battery and OS
In terms of connectivity, JioPhone 2 offers new options like dual SIM support and VoWi-Fi. Rest of the features remain same like 4G VoLTE support, FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and NFC. On the software front, both phones run KaiOS, and are fuelled by a 2,000mAh battery.
RAM and storage
In terms of memory, JioPhone 2 comes with the same capacity of 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. There’s a microSD card slot for further expansion up to 128GB.
Apps
JioPhone and JioPhone 2 both come with access to JioApps like MyJio, JioMusic, JioTV and more. JioPhone 2 has amped things up with support for popular social apps like Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp. The company has announced support for these apps to JioPhone as well.
Price
JioPhone is priced at Rs 1,500 (refundable after three years), while the JioPhone 2 will be available at a higher price of Rs 2,999. Reliance Jio is likely to announce a similar refundable scheme with the newer model as well.
India has a long way to go before it can actually undertake a human space flight mission, former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar said.
Earlier in the day, ISRO said that it carried out a major technology demonstration, the first in a series of tests to qualify a crew escape system, a critical technology relevant for human spaceflight.
Officials of the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said development of different technologies needed for making the ambitious venture a reality, including environmental control and life support systems and flight suite, was under progress.
“This is one of the many things that needs to be done. Not the only one. It’s a step-by-step approach,” Kiran Kumar told this media on today’s test. “These are all some preliminary activities”.
The crew escape system was an emergency measure designed to quickly pull the crew module along with the astronauts to a safe distance from the launch vehicle in the event of a launch abort, according to ISRO.
Kiran Kumar said, “We still have a long way to go actually (to undertake the mission). Currently, we are doing certain key developmental activities within the confined... whatever resources that are there.”
ISRO officials said the government is yet to give its formal approval for the human space flight mission which was on the drawing board of the space agency for quite a long time now.
More than a decade ago, at a meeting convened by ISRO, scientists were highly appreciative of the study undertaken by it on such a mission and were unanimous in suggesting that the time was appropriate for the country to undertake the venture.
Kiran Kumar said earlier this year that a human space flight was “not very high on priority” and indicated that “resource constraints” were holding back the high-cost venture.
GreenFuel was recently felicitated at the recently held Make in India Emerging Entrepreneurs Summit and Awards 2018 with an award in the Automobiles category. Akshay Kashyap, Founder and MD, was there to receive the award as handed out by the Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Mr Dharmendra Pradhan.
These awards are an effort to recognize rising ‘Make in India’ stars in the field of manufacturing. The winners were identified after a three month long intensive survey and were then shortlisted by an expert jury namely Uday Kotak, Aroon Purie, Manish Sabharwal, Hamitab Kant and Sanjay Nair. Greenfuel specializes in product solutions for sustainable mobility. These solutions are based on their expertise in handling high pressure gaseous fuels, as well as ventures into exciting new areas of energy storage (batteries) and electromobility (battery-operated vehicles), all of which helped to bring the company out on top.
Speaking on the occasion, Director and MD of Greenfuel said, “It is an honor to have our hardwork and passion recognized as a Make In India Emerging Entrepreneur. We want to use this opportunity to continue to grow and build upon our efforts. We believe that the future is green and sustainable technologies are a necessity to continue to better our country”
Tata Motors Finance Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors Limited, today picked up a 26% stake in TruckEasy, a tech based freight aggregator owned by Loginomics Technologies Solutions Limited, a Bangalore based logistics company. This is part of Tata Motors’ continued endeavor of bringing smart solutions to enable the Trucking Community to have better lives and improve their livelihood.
TruckEasy was formed in 2015 in Bengaluru by 3 passionate young entrepreneurs’ – Nikhil Thomas, Vikram Kodgi and Avinash Achar. The company provides timely and reliable service for the transporting needs of businesses within Bangalore. TruckEasy will use this investment to expand it footprint to additional cities.
This strategic investment in TruckEasy will provide Tata Motors an insight into the rapidly growing technology-driven transformation in the freight logistics space and also get an understanding of the market dynamics in the intra-city freight movement. This will also enable Tata Motors to stay closer to the final customer, the load consigner thus enabling to provide better products and solutions. The data analytics provided by TruckEasy will be further used for research and development thereby allowing for better customization of product specifications in line with market requirements.
Speaking on the investment, Girish Wagh, President –Commercial Vehicles Business Unit (CVBU), Tata Motors said “Tata Motors has always been at the forefront of providing a differentiated service experience to the trucking community by not only providing them with the means of income but also creating business opportunities. TruckEasy is promoting entrepreneurship amongst transporters and providing them with a stable income. The young start-up has grown manifolds due to its partner-based module and its outstanding service to its customers. Through this investment from Tata Motors, TruckEasy will be able to access our wide network to grow the supply side and also to expand to multiple locations country wide.”
Commenting on this strategic investment by Tata Motors, Nikhil Thomas, CEO –TruckEasy said, “TruckEasy has been on a disciplined growth since its inception, having coverage all over Bangalore serving both the planned and unplanned business segments. Our plan is to expand to other cities and replicate the success we have in Bangalore. With the entry of Tata Motors as an investor, a box of limitless opportunities has opened up. Tata Motors having a majority market share in the SCV segment, the alliance will certainly give us access to lot of vehicles & businesses through their network. This would help us scale at a much faster pace. We in turn can give deeper insights into the SCV usage pattern with our vehicle data analytics. The driver community will be more confident on the aggregation business with Tata's entry. Truly exciting times ahead!”
For Prime Day this year, Amazon India will offer a one-of-a-kind virtual reality (VR) experience to customers in India’s top metros. Until July 17, customers in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata can visit top malls to experience hundreds of new products launching exclusively on Prime Day.
Aimed at bringing the touch-and-try charm to online shopping, Amazon Prime Day Experience Zones will allow customers to enjoy an immersive experience before buying a product. They can view products in life-size, inspect products up close, enjoy 360 degree views and evaluate products in the environment that they are likely to use it in. Apart from product launches, customers will get a virtual theatre experience and enjoy trailers of the 7 Prime Video titles premiering for Prime Day, including the latest Bollywood blockbuster Raazi and the all-new Amazon Prime Original series Comicstaan, in a virtual theatre experience.
Prime Day is an exclusive 36-hour celebration from 12 noon on July 16 to midnight on July 17 where Prime members enjoy over 200 exclusive launches, blockbuster deals and entertainment premiers. Amazon has partnered with top brands such as OnePlus, Nestlé NesPlus, Marks & Spencer, Bosch, HP, Acer, GAP, Asics and more to launch over 200 new products on Prime Day, available first to Prime members in India.
Explaining the concept, Akshay Sahi, Director & Head of Prime, Amazon India, said “Prime is designed to make life easier, more convenient and more fun for customers. With this virtual reality experience, we are helping customers discover and experience great products that are yet to launch. Customers can check the fit & fall of the latest Marks & Spencer dress on a 360 degree hologram, pick up an Amrapali necklace and inspect the intricate details up close, open a Bosch microwave placed in a kitchen countertop to visualize how it would look in their home, play with an Iron Man figurine from Hasbro in virtual reality and more. All this, while having fun in the Prime Day world.”
Customers can visit Amazon Prime Day Experience Zones in top malls in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata until July 17th. These Experience Zones are located in the atriums of malls and are open to all visitors, free of charge. Prime members will get priority access to this unique experience. At the Experience Zones, customers can also take selfies against the Prime Day wall, share their experiences on social media by tagging #PrimeDayVR & #AmazonPrimeDay and participate in quizzes to win special Prime Day merchandise.
Amazon Prime Day Experience Zones will be operational until 17 July from 12 noon to 8 p.m.
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Aujas Cyber Defense Center, an ISO 27001 certified Global Delivery SOC (Security Operations Center) has gone live in Bangalore today. It is designed to extend the capabilities of SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management) solutions and proactively provide threat detection, actionable threat intelligence and endpoint response. This aims to help security professionals hunt and mitigate the increasingly complex and persistent threats of the present and future.
Srinivas Rao, Co-founder and CEO of Aujas, explains the increasing need for proactive cybersecurity. “Today, more than 70% of security incidents are reported by third parties, often as late as 6-9 months after the event. The data signifies that enterprises today have weak monitoring capabilities driven by detecting and alerting familiar attacks. This leaves a window of vulnerability which malicious agents can easily and repeatedly exploit. “
He further added, “If a bank or an insurance provider’s network is breached, then the customer’s assets, as well as personal data and reputation, are on the line. So the key question is do you want your security teams to play on the back foot and wait for malicious attacks or should they start playing on the front foot and stop an attack before it happens? Wouldn’t you sleep better knowing you have the right people, employing the right tools, actively hunting threats 24/7?”
In 2017, the threat landscape consisted of 58 per cent known threats and and 42 per cent unknown threats. Further, before 2020, it is likely to exceed that of the known, according to IBM X-Force Threat Research report.
“It is true that technology has evolved and the modern SIEM is truly an integrated solution built on a common codebase, with a single data management architecture and a single user interface. This helps with better correlation, integrated with tactical threat intelligence feeds, capability to link assets with vulnerabilities and do prioritization with run book automation, but still, that is not enough,” said Rao.
Firstly; not all logs lead to attack patterns; in fact, modern attacks do not even leave logs. So, how do you know whether your system has been compromised?
To understand whether and how an adversary has breached your network, improve your defenses and stop future attacks, you must build capabilities in Deception, User and Entity Behavior Analytics and Threat Hunting.
To enable preemptive protection, Aujas Cyber Defense Center incorporates:
Proactive Threat Discovery by using actionable threat intelligence based on customer critical assets, industry segment and geographical threat vectors, secondly, a proactive threat hunting by leveraging big data that ingest customer log and packets and uses machine learning to identify anomalies and finally, the managed deception to lure attackers and improve true positives
Advanced Threat Detection using Next Generation SIEM with flexibility to use kill-chain based use cases and threat model-based protection, capture full packets and flows and integrate well with organizations critical assets, vulnerabilities, use tactical threat intelligence feeds and provide single pane of glass
Incident Response Platform Automation to improve SOC efficiency, provide single-view visibility and reduce time-to-respond by 90%
Endpoint Detection and Response tools to detect and respond to outsider and insider threats; speedily contain future attacks and manage APT attacks effectively
Advanced technology, effective use cases, seamless processes and workflows and automation are good supports to sound decision making. But the real key to cybersecurity is the human capability to hunt and make sense of data.
At the Aujas Cyber Defense Center, a skilled team of certified security professionals scans client’s network for suspicious behaviour round-the-clock. It collects threat data from the external landscape and combines this information to identify risks. It also separates the false positives/deceptive, validates real risks and prioritizes them. The team then recommends rapid counter-measures to provide complete cover on threats and intrusions in real time. They conduct a detailed root cause and impact analysis and recommend policy/rule changes to preempt future attacks.
With this right blend of technology, processes and people, Aujas SOC offers 100% service availability in the steady state.
SAP SE has announced that SAP Labs India has ranked #1 in ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2018’ survey carried out by the Great Place to Work® Institute. SAP Labs India has also been recognized in the list of the Best Workplaces – Culture of Innovation 2018. Great Place to Work® Institute’s annual list is one of the largest and most esteemed study of workplace excellence and people management practices globally.
Congratulating SAP Labs India, Prasenjit Bhattacharya, CEO - Great Place to Work Institute said, “SAP encourages free expression, collaboration, individuality, and diversity. Its core strength as an employer vests in the Culture of Innovation of the Company. SAP has developed an environment which motivates its employees to do their best and energizes an individual to influence the deliveries with utmost sincerity, and this award is a testament to it.”
SAP Labs India is the second largest R&D center in SAP’s global network of 20 labs in 17 countries and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Employees of SAP Labs India work in an environment where people are the focus across all functions and the workplace is non-hierarchical, fluid and flexible. SAP Labs has always been employer of choice because of its various people-focused initiatives like – ‘Back-to-Work; Autism at Work; Entrepreneurship Sabbatical, Care for Life Fund, SAP Startup Studio among several others.
Dilipkumar Khandelwal, President – SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP SE & Managing Director, SAP Labs India said, “Innovation is the soul of the organization and we place significant importance to build and sustain a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation drives pride and helps us to move our customers into the future. Our endeavor is to create a workplace where each individual believes that they are stakeholders in the success of the organization and are empowered to take decisions that eventually leads to better innovations for our customers.”
Shraddhanjali Rao, Head of Human Resources – SAP, India said, “At SAP, we create a workplace our employees feel inspired & challenged to bring their best, be authentic and feel a part of bigger family that cares. Our emphasis is to understand their needs and provide platforms for innovation fostering creativity & collaboration. We have hyper personalized our programs, initiatives and benefits for the five generations of employees who work at SAP.”
SAP Labs India contributes to a wide range of SAP products and platforms including SAP S/4 HANA, the next generation business suite, SAP SuccessFactors, the complete HR system on the cloud,SAP Cloud Platform, the open enterprise PaaS offering, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, providing cloud infrastructure and managed services for in-memory applications, database, and platform among many others.
