COMIO Smartphones, India’s emerging mid-segment brand brings yet another striking smartphone to the market, the COMIO C1 Pro. With this smartphone, COMIO is offering its customers a host of premium features such as Face unlock, 8MP Camera, Dual VoLTE/ViLTE, Intruder Selfie, Venus Browser, Regional language support, Font application and Bike mode. Priced at Rs 5599, the C1 Pro comes in three color variants - Metallic grey, Sunrise gold and Royal black.
The COMIO C1 Pro has attractive features like 4G Dual VoLTE/ ViLTE support powered by Mediatek 6739 Quad Core processor, multiple font support in user interface, 5.0-inch HD display, Quad core 64 Bit processor, 1.5GB RAM and ROM 16 GB memory. It comprises of 8 MP AF rear camera and 5 MP selfie camera with 2,500 mAh battery. The device has 3 dedicated slot support- 2 SIM Card + 1 SD card which can be extended up to 128 GB and WPS Office support for PPT/Word/Excel/PDF. COMIO C1 Pro comes packed with Android 8.1 (Oreo) operating system which ensures pop touch, Simplified UI and 2X Faster Interface.
Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, CEO & Director, COMIO Smartphone further adds, “We are delighted to announce the launch our new smartphone COMIO C1 Pro in such a short span. We believe that consumers in this price segment deserve better features and our budget friendly C1 PRO smartphone provides a potpourri of exciting features like good camera quality, better speed, security features, stylish design and value-added services.”
Key features of the smartphone:
Dual 4G VoLTE/ ViLTE: The device has 2 4G VoLTE SIM slots
Camera features: 8MP Camera with cool modes like Panorama mode and Gestures-setup-in-camera mode which enables the user to capture smile and finger gestures within a photograph
Face Unlock – A higher level security feature with face recognition.
Venus Browser: A light weight web platform for smartphone users with advanced functionalities like browsing, app store and services. Users can multi-task with this app like shopping, playing games, browsing, listening to music and watching movies etc. Venus is first Indian browser solution providing hyper-regional content covering all the major Indian states supporting 22 regional Indian languages.
Bike Mode: This feature basically turns off all the notifications on the device when the user is riding a bike and automatically responds with the message to the caller notifying them that person is riding a bike and will call back later.
Display features such as Split Screen, Pop Touch and Simplified UI/ 2X Faster UI
Security Features: Intruder Selfie
Physical Attributes: 3 SIM slots
Main functions: Android 8.1 Oreo operating system, Quad core 64 Bit Processor and MediaTek chipset
COMIO support: Specially designed after-sales support comprising of 1 year + 100 days warranty, 30-day replacement, a special buy back and upgrade offer allowing you to upgrade your old smartphone. The COMIO upgrade offer allows you an assured 40% return on your old COMIO phone (not more than 12 months old) which will be given if you want to upgrade you existing COMIO phone. Applicable through www.comio.in only. COMIO has 1000+ service centers across India delivering to customer’s convenience.
Reliance Jio offer: Customers can now enjoy unlimited data and talk time offers using a COMIO smartphone. Jio customers to get INR 2200 cashback (44*50 Rs vouchers) at the time of 1st successful recharge of Rs 198/299 monthly plans. The offer can be redeemed from the 2nd recharge onwards.
Availability: The COMIO C1 Pro will available at all key retail stores Pan-India and online platforms- Snapdeal, Flipkart, Amazon, ShopClues and Paytm.
Qlik, a leader in data analytics, announced that New Zealand’s Savor Group of restaurants, which includes Seafarers, Ostro Brasserie & Bar and Ebisu, is leveraging Qlik’s data analytics platform to revolutionize operations from the front-of-house to the boardroom. Qlik is enabling the restaurant group to analyze data collected across all its outlets to better understand drivers of success, promotion performance and supplier value, together with food wastage and costs.
Matthew Sparling, Chief Financial Officer at Savor Group said, “The restaurant industry is highly competitive on all fronts. Even if a customer loves their dining experience, they’ll still want to explore other eateries - making it harder to attract loyal customers. We need to consistently innovate and bring new things to the table, so that visitors to our restaurants are wowed every time they dine with us.”
Savor Group recognized the need to be more effective in leveraging the significant volume of data at its disposal, and to take the guess-work out of its operations to increase competitiveness. Rather than relying on incomplete data, the business wanted a system that would provide consistent figures as well as motivate and engage its staff to use this information. Savor Group turned to Qlik partner, Endeavour, to assist with the implementation of Qlik Sense for self-service analytics in order to connect data from across nine different restaurants to optimize efficiencies across the organization.
Since the implementation, Qlik has provided Savor Group with granular insights on sales and business performance, helping to lead its competitive negotiations with suppliers and partners. It has also helped restaurants like Seafarers to accurately optimize its performance - top-selling and low-performing menu items are no longer identified based on “gut feel.” This helps with the creation of future menus and determining the best promotions to drive capacity and demand.
Wayne Shennen, Venue Manager and Sake Professional at Ebisu said, “Qlik has been instrumental in our efforts to reinvigorate our drink offerings. At Ebisu, we specialize in Sake. Qlik has helped us refine our approach to determine if we’re too cheap or too expensive and to find out what we’re selling the most of and why. This allows us to proactively recommend relevant products to patrons to improve sales. For instance, we noticed one brand of a particularly good Sake was underperforming and encouraged our staff to actively promote it. Before leveraging Qlik, we would sell 1.5 bottles of it a month, now we’re selling one bottle per day. To be able to take that level of insight back to a supplier and show them how we’re selling their product is phenomenal.”
Garnering strong engagement and adoption of the platform was important for Savor Group, so the intuitive nature of the Qlik platform combined with the visual graphs and presentation was exactly what they needed. “The opportunity to access their data, on their terms, meant the process of selling the new system internally to our employees was extremely simple. Staff across all levels could quickly use it with minimal training and they are now very savvy in using the data. Qlik Sense is now a critical tool for the on-going management of our business,” added Sparling.
Sparling concluded, “As a CFO, I’m well-versed in inputting and analyzing data in Excel. However, chefs and front-of-house staff shouldn’t be expected to. They need to see information in real time, and in a format that’s quick and easy to digest. Endeavour and Qlik have been instrumental in delivering these actionable insights to our business group.”
Sharryn Napier, Vice President and Regional Director, ANZ at Qlik said, “The hospitality industry is always moving with the latest consumer trends, meaning restaurants are looking for new ways to innovate and attract customers. For years, restaurants have wanted to understand their customers better but Savor Group is actually doing it – applying levels of analytics that are not just keeping themselves relevant in a competitive industry but also improving the bottom line.”
Online training provider Simplilearn announced its partnership with Lovely Professional University (LPU) to offer certification courses in a variety of high-demand digital technologies to their undergraduate and postgraduate Engineering and Science students as part of LPU’s online internship program.
With a joint focus to make students job-ready with the latest digital skills, the partnership will allow students to access a blend of online self-learning, live instructor-led classes and hands-on practical training. All students of LPU’s online internship program will be required to enroll in their choice of Simplilearn’s digital technology courses. Upon completion of the course, they will receive certifications from Simplilearn and relevant industry bodies. Designed by industry experts who work in their fields of study, all courses are supported by 24/7 online teaching assistants and include assessments and hands-on capstone projects that will provide the students with the real-world experience that is sought after by employers.
“The next generation of talent needs to be armed with emerging digital skills before they enter the competitive workforce, and we are proud that this partnership with Lovely Professional University to make this possible,” said Simplilearn Founder & CEO, Krishna Kumar. “It's encouraging to see that universities are taking measures to prepare their students for the jobs of the future on their own rather than depending solely on hiring companies to train them.”
LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said, “LPU is a university which is closely working with industry. The present collaboration with ‘Simplilearn’ will definitely help our students to be job-ready as per the latest requirements of the industry. Thus, this initiative is to prepare students industry ready from day one of their career start and get absorbed on high pedestals even in the initial stages. I also want to share that LPU is already tied up with Google, SAP, Microsoft and more to work closely with industry so that innovative ideas of production be brought forth.”
In addition to training working professionals and enabling enterprises to build a digital-ready workforce, Simplilearn has partnered with leading universities and colleges in the United States to help students build industry-relevant skills and achieve their career goals in high-demand fields such as Big Data, AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Digital Marketing, Cyber Security and other technologies.
Atos, an international leader in digital transformation, and the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)’s direction of defense applications (CEA/DAM) place Tera 1000 – a supercomputer they developed together for defense and nuclear deterrence uses – among the world’s 500 most powerful machines. Reaching the 14th position, Tera 1000 thus becomes the most powerful European general-purpose supercomputer, with a computing power of 25 petaflops and a very competitive power consumption of 4 MegaWatts.
This result crowns the expertise acquired by the CEA/DAM and Atos in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the co-design strategy initiated some 18 years ago by the two partners, working together as top contenders in the international competition towards exascale capacities – reaching a billion billion calculations per second.
Developing an exaflop-class supercomputer by 2020 is a necessity for some of the defense programs implemented by the CEA/DAM. To reach this capacity, technological breakthroughs are needed – most notably to maintain low levels of energy consumption, one of the key challenges in the high-performance computing market, but also to ensure smooth information flows and process the significant volumes of data produced by increasingly precise simulations of multi-physical, multi-dimensional phenomena.
To do so, the CEA/DAM decided to adopt co-design processes developed by Atos, with the help of Intel. The objective is to maximize the performances of the supercomputer by testing it on applications. The CEA/DAM’s competencies are required at several levels: for the structure of the applications’ computing codes, the interaction between these codes and the supercomputer and for the architecture of the supercomputer itself.
25 times more powerful for the same electricity consumption, an outstanding eco-responsible achievement
Deployed in two stages at the CEA center in Bruyères-le-Châtel (Île-de-France), Tera 1000 has a 25-petaflop computing capacity and best-in-class energy efficiency for a large range of applications – an achievement made possible through the use of technologies developed by Atos for its line of BullSequana X supercomputers. BullSequana uses an innovative cooling technology, using streams of lukewarm water circulating in close proximity to processors. A single BullSequana module can deliver almost three quarters of the computing power of the Tera 100, the supercomputer that was formerly in use at the CEA/DAM, with an energy efficiency improved by a factor of 25.
François Geleznikoff, the director of defence applications at the CEA, says: “Once again, the partnership between Atos and the CEA/DAM has allowed a major technological milestone in the power capacities of supercomputers. With the Tera 1000, we have very significantly increased the quality that digital simulations can attain for defence applications, but also for research and industry uses. This step opens the way to the exaflops in the coming decade.”
Pierre Barnabé, Chief Operating Officer of Atos’ Global Big Data & Security Division, adds: “Atos is very proud to help France and Europe gain international prominence in supercomputers, and to provide the CEA with the computing power they need to develop quality innovative research. This spot in the top-500 ranking reflects the successful collaboration between Atos and the CEA, and is one of the best examples of Atos’ technological excellence in high-performance computing.”
Technical features
Tera 1000 consists of two computing partitions:
The first one, relying on Intel Xeon V3 processors, has been in production since 2016
The second one uses latest-generation BullSequana, based on Intel Xeon Phi Knight Landing processors connected with a very-high-performance Bull X Interconnect(BXI) network, a result of the R&D collaboration between the CEA/DAM and Atos
The second layer of Tera 1000 marks a breakthrough in the parallel setups used for its 540,000 computing cores. Its architecture prefigures those that will be used in the next CEA/DAM computer, EXA1, by 2020.
Continuing its disruption streak and providing its customers ultimate ‘peace of mind’ while purchasing their mobile phones, iVVO, a pioneering communications brand and the latest entrant in the Indian mobile phone market, has now unveiled its ‘Eco Series’. All products in this series are priced under Rs.669, with the range starting from Rs. 569. iVVO is a subsidiary of BRITZO, an industry player that recently came to fame for spearheading various forward-looking innovations in ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) targeted at the rural Indian audience. The tagline for the newly-launched series is “Smart bhi, Kifayati bhi”.
The product lineup of the Eco Series, as of now, comprises iVVO IV1801, iVVO IV1805s, and iVVO Eco Beatz (earlier known as iVVO Beatz IV1805/IV1805s). The company has covered all of its offerings with a hassle-free service policy of a 201-day replacement guarantee and a product warranty of 455 days. iVVO has targeted the ‘Real India’ by keeping the prices well-within the slab of Rs. 669. All three devices feature a 1000mAH battery, MP3 and MP4 player, LED Torch, Bluetooth support, dual-SIM support, one-touch music access, 1.8-inch screen, GPRS web browser, wireless FM, megapixel camera and a storage space expandable up to 32 GB. IV1805s additionally includes a selfie camera and vibration mode.
Speaking on the launch, Mr. Pradipto Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder – Britzo, said, “The Eco Series is the perfect confluence of features, cost-effectiveness, and entertainment that is soon going to redefine the mobile phone experience of the ‘Real India’, which is essentially our target audience. Since our market foray, we have been experiencing an extraordinary demand for our product offerings. We are confident that the Eco Series will further emerge as a crucial milestone for us, as we make deeper inroads into the country’s rural hinterlands.”
The brand had recently launched iVVO Beatz IV1805 (now rebranded as iVVO Eco Beatz). iVVO IV1801 and iVVO IV1805s, on the other hand, have a price range starting at Rs. 569. The overall range is priced between Rs. 569 – Rs.669. The newly launched series has increased the brand’s product offerings in the market to 8 smart feature phones, and 2 smartphones.
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today unveiled "Generation AI 2018: Second Annual Study of Millennial Parents of Generation Alpha Kids." The survey illuminates how millennial parents in India, U.K., U.S., China and Brazil with Generation Alpha children (eight years-old or younger), think growing up with health- and medical-related AI technology will impact the lives of their children. Born from 2010-2025, Generation Alpha is considered by many to be the most tech-infused demographic, and AI technologies are expected to infiltrate nearly every aspect of their lives.
Generation Alpha Trend Watch: Babies Wearing AI Health Trackers
Experts say wearable technology will soon be able to track patient health data, and by using AI and machine learning, physicians and wearable users will then be able to gain a better understanding of changes in that patient's health. Millennial parents across the globe are most comfortable letting their Generation Alpha children use wearables to track their health starting with their teenage years (33 percent). However, more than half (58 percent) would have those ranging from as young as infancy to five years-old (including toddlers) wear them.
Kids Not Feeling Well? AI Knows Why … and How to Fix it
In the next decade AI will be even more developed, prompting clear majorities of Millennial parents in various countries to say they would have at least some trust in AI technologies for diagnoses and treatments of their Generation Alpha children.
More than half (56 percent) of Millennial parents globally said they would have at least “a great deal of” trust, with India (80 percent) leading the way.
Speak up and Smile: The Chatbot + Biometric Pediatrician is In
Experts say that in the future when people are ill they will be able to converse with a speech recognition-powered chatbot. The chatbot will use AI to compare the symptoms communicated against a database of diseases, patient history and circumstances, then recommend a course of action. How likely are Millennial parents across the globe to use an AI and speech recognition-powered chatbot to diagnose their sick Generation Alpha child, according to the survey?
Eighty-three percent of Millennial parents in India said that they are likely to use an AI chatbot to diagnose their sick child in the future, including more than a third (38 percent) saying they are extremely likely.
Facial recognition software and machine learning are also helping clinicians diagnose rare diseases by analyzing patient photos and correlating detected irregularities with rare genetic diseases. As for how comfortable Millennial parents would be using such technology to seek answers if they had concerns about their child’s health:
More than eight out of ten Millennial parents from Asia (84 percent in India), say they would be very comfortable using this technology for diagnosing their child.
Robot Surgeons Get a Thumbs up to Operate on Millennials’ Children
Surgical robots powered by artificial intelligence are bringing new innovations and accuracy to the operating room.
Millennial parents in India are significantly more likely (78 percent) to allow robots powered by AI to conduct surgery on their Generation Alpha child
In Life or Death Decisions for Generation Alpha Kids or Their Own Parents, Millennials Trust Doctors Relying on AI
When asked whether they strongly or somewhat agree with the statement that they would trust doctors that base their recommendations on data coming from AI to make life or death decisions regarding their Generation Alpha children:
More than half (51 percent) of Millennial parents in India say they strongly agree with this statement, while less than one out of 10 parents in India (5 percent) disagreed with this statement.
Real-Time AI Health Monitoring and Data Tracking Will Become Routine in the Future
Majorities of Millennial parents across the globe are confident AI will make real-time, round-the-clock monitoring and data tracking of their health -- including AI-powered reminders for medicine, exercise and doctor’s visits -- a routine practice, especially in Asia.
Indian Millennial parents are overwhelmingly confident (88 percent) that this practice will become routine.
Millennials See Cancer Eradicated in Generation Alpha’s Lifetime, Thanks to AI
Medical imaging coupled with AI can now diagnose many forms of cancer even before anything is suspected. According to the survey, Millennial parents in Asia are significantly more likely to think AI medical breakthroughs in the future will likely eradicate cancer during their Generation Alpha children’s lifetime.
A majority of Millennial parents in India (83 percent) think AI medical breakthroughs will eradicate cancer.
"Generation AI 2018: Second Annual Study of Millennial Parents of Generation Alpha Kids" surveyed 2,000 parents, aged 20–36 years-old, with at least one child eight years old or younger -- 400 each in the United States, United Kingdom, India, China and Brazil. The surveys were conducted May 17-23, 2018.
The internet-based startup Fixpocket secured USD 250,000 seed funding from La Gajjar Group, a private investment group based in Ahmedabad. Following the venture, the two companies together formed Kasova Ventues Private Limited, which currently owns and operates Fixpocket.
The capital has been utilized for setting up the initial team, design & development of technology and early-stage marketing activities. Fixpocket launched the first version of its web portal in April 2017. It consists of more than a hundred categories identified to serve different microservices in the market.
So far, around 17,000 people have enrolled as members of Fixpocket for providing one or more of its 3,500 services. The freelance marketplace has also been able to establish tie-ups with more than 200 corporate enterprises and fulfilled over 2,000 orders since the launch of its website.
Soham Thacker, Co-Founder, Fixpocket said, “Fixpocket was conceptualized by identifying the gap of micro-services in the freelancing market. People in India possess a variety of skills but the market lacks a platform for these skills to be publicized and monetized. We have established a special Corporate Management team that reaches out to large and mid-sized companies, educating them about the beneficial use of Fixpocket and how it can help them reduce fixed overheads by outsourcing their work.”
“Fixpocket’s vision is to create an online marketplace where Digital Microservices are offered by Working Professionals & Freelancers at a reasonable & fixed price. These services then can be purchased by Individuals, SME’s & Start-ups who are looking for freelancers or project-based content providers. We have a mission to establish Fixpocket as a brand which is known for its quality services offered at highly competitive prices. We want to develop valued trust amongst all the buyers by ensuring on-time delivery,” added Kaivan Shah, Co-Founder, Fixpocket.
