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Solidworks 2017 release boosts design-to-prototype innovation

In an increasingly complex business world across industries, characterized by disruption from unexpected sources and merging of the physical and virtual worlds, innovation rules. And the new 2017 release of Solidworks promises to further unlock this ability to innovate for large and small enterprises

in manufacturing, as well as for enterprising individuals who want to bring their ideas to life and scale in the market.

“Solidworks 2017 (3D CAD software) simplifies the design and development process with a better user experience, new capabilities for emerging technologies, and improved function-ality for seamless collaboration with teams and networks,” said Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, Solidworks at Dassault Systèmes, in a company statement. His colleague Sanchit Jain, VP of Strategy & Business Development was in Bengaluru to share how the new release can power India’s “Make in India” agenda.

Powered by Dassault Systèmes ’ 3D Experience platform, Solidworks 2017 helps innovators design, validate, collaborate, build and manage their product development processes with in-tegrated applications. The 2017 release features more core power and performance, as well as new capabilities to address paperless

manufacturing through the support of Model Based Definition, and printed circuit board (PCB) design. Both new and experienced users can improve productivity with simulation to analyze, solve, visualize and verify functionality of designs, before any prototype is created. New tools unlock any 3D model for better collaboration with vendors and customers, and dynamic product data manage-ment (PDM) from concept through to manufacturing allows for stronger support of multi-site and remote teams.

Set for Uberization of Manufacturing While “Uberization of Manufacturing” as a trend is yet to pickup in India, it indeed is a huge area of opportunity and some traction on this is already visible as companies begin to embrace virtual reality and the market is beginning to see smart, connected products in various pockets. Besides, 3D printing is becoming more affordable as compared to what it was five years ago and range of materials you can print continues to improve... All this is helping push the cost of failure down, allowing room for more experimentation, thus building innovation capability at a lower cost.

What’s new in Solidworks 2017 Release? Every year, Solidworks actively collates community feedback, publicly announces it and integrates it in its next release. Here are some of the top user-requested features, new capabilities and enhancements included in Solidworks 2017 release: Innovate by directly addressing PCB design:

n Solidworks PCB—Seamlessly synchronize electronic and mechanical design on demand with a combination of electronics design expertise from Altium and ease of use from Solidworks.

n User-friendly interface—A unified environment for schematic and layout tools to select the best routing options based on design constraints with Interactive Routing, AutoRoute, Multi-Track, and Differential Pair, locate and select new components for informed decisions with real-time supplier data, and incorporate Solidworks models within the PCB design environment and verify electro-mechanical design intent.

Accelerate the design process with more core power and performance:

n Modeling power—Speed up the design process with new tools for Chamfer, Fillet, and Advanced Hole Specification that create multiple variable chamfers in one simple operation, switch any pre-existing Chamfer to a Fillet and vice versa to apply design changes in seconds, capture and access previous hole definitions and apply pre-saved specifications in an instant, and construct stepped holes faster with one operation.

n Surfacing—Remove obstacles to creating complex 3D geometry, save time and avoid complex workarounds with new surfacing features such as wrap, drag and drop, emboss, deboss, or 3D Curve.

n Magnetic mates—Work with large, challenging assemblies by easily organizing equipment and space, publishing parts and assemblies as assets with appropriate connection points for easy drag and drop mating, and easy repositioning of models.

Validate design insights with simulation:n Simulation static study—Input parameters to automatically

make logical decisions.

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n Stress hot spots—Quickly identify these to investigate a model or setup further simulation and verify results.

n Single-click conversion—Instantly convert studies from linear static to non-linear or dynamic.

n RealView—Display simulation results to clearly communicate analysis.

Improve collaboration by unlocking new streamlined design workflows and removing barriers to third party data:

n 3D Interconnect—Work with both neutral and native CAD data, such as updating part and assembly files as design changes take place with the Update Model feature, directly opening imported files and treating them like Base Parts, or unlocking workflows from various sources to collaborate with customers and vendors.

n eDrawings—Visualize all types of product design data for simple and accurate collaboration, from native CAD formats to 3D reality with Google Cardboard. Access product data anywhere with mobile apps for both Android and iOS devices.

Build and manage with data integration, from concept to manufacturing:

n Solidworks PDM—Improve the way teams manage and collaborate on design by controlling design data and ensuring access to the right version. Enhance suppor t for SOLIDWORKS MBD (model based definition) with auto-generated 3D PDFs, list native CAD files in the SOLIDWORKS PDM Vault check-in structure, and keep track of where they are used and overwrite versions to minimize clutter.

n Solidworks MBD—Quickly and accurately commun ica t e c r i t i c a l p roduc t i n fo r ma t i on throughout downstream manufacturing operations with features such as basic dimensions and fully automated Polar Dimensioning Schemes, direct referencing of edges, easy creation of intersection geometry between drafted sur faces, and 3D PDF publishing at different accuracy levels for control over file size and quality.

“In software, it is said, fail fast and fail often. Unfortunately, that’s not true for hardware, but in Solidworks, one can apply same principles to hardware as well. Solidworks tools allow movement across integrated design process spanning me-chanical, electrical, PCB,” said Rohan Shravan, CEO of Notion Ink, and a Solidworks customer. The young CEO of Notion Ink has solved the over heating issue in his company’s 10-inch, 2-in-1 tablet/ netbook product range using Solidworks design tools and functionalities.

Notion Ink, the Bengaluru-based manufacturer of Cain-series tablets, has launched a new 2-in-1 tablet called Able 10, priced at sub-Rs 25K level, available exclusively via Snap-deal. One of the highlights of the tablet is that it is powered by Intel’s Cherry Trail processor, runs on Windows 10 OS and comes with a built-in SIM card slot for 3G connectivity on the go. It is designed on Solidworks and has processing power to run Solidworks as well. Notion Ink products have been in the market since September 2014, and its latest Able 10, 2-in-1 tablet model been in the market for three months now.

Improving Access To Solidworks The 2017 release of Solidworks is available for online subscrip-tions as well and the technical team at Solidworks is working on how to improve streaming on low latency networks for countries like India, where connectivity can be a challenge. “Our aim is to give our customers flexible of technology, business and ease of use,” said Jain.

Jain and his team, has been working on lowering the access barrier for Solidworks. It is available at zero cost to over 100,000 students across India via their colleges and the company has also been running design challenge programs for education segment in the country since 2007 under the leadership of PM Ravikumar, the Sales Director- Solidworks India at Dassault Systemes.

While conventional perpetual license ensure that the customer gets all new updates and releases, Solidworks is also available as term license for defined duration use of three months, six months and a year, pricing for which is available on request.

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The Golden Temple city of Amritsar topped the list of 27 new smart cities announced by India’s Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu.

Eight other cities of pilgrim and tourism importance that made to the third list of smart cities are; Ujjain, Tirupati, Agra, Nashik, Madurai, Thanjavur, Ajmer and Varanasi. With this the number of cities selected under Smart City Mission for financing implementation of smart city plans has gone up to 60.

Announcing the cities that were selected in a competition among 63 cities, Naidu said, “The willingness and enthusiasm among cities to participate in more than one round of competition is a clear evidence of the urban renaissance set in motion. Competition based selection has made the cities rediscover themselves as they are undertaking a thorough assessment of gaps in the present levels of infrastructure and service delivery and come out with comprehensive, credible and actionable plans for area based development and technology based pan-city solutions.”

The Minister informed that the new 27 smart cities have proposed an investment of Rs 66,883 crore under smart city plans including Rs 42,524 crore under Area Based Development and another Rs 11,379 crore for technology based Pan-city solutions that benefits all the citizens of respective cities. With this, the total investment proposed by the 60 cities selected so far has gone up to Rs 1,44,742 crore, he said.

The 27 smart cities announced today are from 12 States including 5 from Maharashtra, 4 each from Tamil Nadu and

India’s Smart City list goes to 60

Karnataka, 3 from Uttar Pradesh and 2 each from Punjab and Rajasthan. Nagaland and Sikkim have made it to the smart city list for the first time.

With this announcement, implementation of smart city plans is now spread over 27 States and UTs, said Shri Venkaiah Naidu. Nine States/UTs still to enter implementation phase are; Uttarakhand, J & K, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra, Nagar & Haveli.

Stating that Smart City Mission is running ahead of schedule, Naidu informed that the next round of competition to select the remaining 40 cities would begin in January next year.

Here are the 27 cities selected in the latest round of ‘Smart City Challenge’ competition.

1 Amritsar Punjab

2 Kalyan-Dombivili Maharashtra

3 Ujjain Madhya Pradesh

4 Tirupati Andhra Pradesh

5 Nagpur Maharashtra

6 Managaluru Karnataka

7 Vellore Tamil Nadu

8 Thane Maharashtra

9 Gwalior MP

10 Agra Uttar Pradesh

11 Nashik Maharashtra

12 Rourkela Odisha

13 Kanpur UP

14 Madurai Tamil Nadu

15 Tumakuru Karnataka

16 Kota Rajasthan

17 Thanjavur Tamil Nadu

18 Namchi Sikkim

19 Jalandhar Punjab

20 Shivamogga Karnataka

21 Salem Tamil Nadu

22 Ajmer Rajasthan

23 Varanasi UP

24 Kohima Nagaland

25 Hubbali-Dharwad Karnataka

26 Aurangabad Maharashtra

27 Vadodara Gujarat

S.No City State S.No City State

Rs 1,44,742 crore investment proposed


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NIDHI (National Initiative for Development and Harnessing Innovations), an umbrella program is being pioneered by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful startups.

In order to realize the Prime Minister’s ambitious Initiative on Startup India, DST aims to bring both speed and scale to transform the Startup Ecosystem in the country and has committed Rs 500 crore to implement these new programs in next few years.

This was announced by the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Ear th Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan, while addressing the media in New Delhi.

NIDHI focuses on building a seamless and innovation driven entrepreneurial ecosystem especially by channelizing youth towards it and thereby bringing in the positive impact on the socio-economic development of the country. The program aims to provide technological solutions not only to the pressing needs of the society but also targets to create new avenues for wealth and job creation.

NIDHI, by design connects and strengthens all the links of the innovation chain from scouting to sustaining to securing to scaling to showcasing, because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The key stakeholders of NIDHI includes various departments and ministries of the central government, state governments, academic and R&D institutions, mentors, financial institutions, angel investors, venture capitalists, industry champions and private sectors. The program addresses the new national aspirations by massively scaling up DST’s experience of three decades in promoting innovative startups.

There are 8 components of NIDHI that support each stage

DST commits Rs 500 crore for Startup Indiaof a budding startup from idea to market. The first component PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators & Startups), launched on September 2, 2016, aims to suppor t innovators to build prototypes of their ideas by providing a grant up to Rs 10 lakh and an access to Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab).

The final component is the Seed Suppor t System which provides up to Rs 1 crore per star t-up and is implemented through Technology Business Incubators. During the current financial year with a view to drive the innovation and startup centric new initiatives in a scaled up manner for its wider outreach across the country, a 450% increase in allocation (Rs 180 crore) has been made in the Department’s budget.

So far, DST has established more than 100 Technology Business Incubators in academic and R&D institutions of repute. These institutions include IITs, IIMs, NITs and other institutions. Each of these incubator is focused on a Technology Domain and all of these combined together house more than 2,000 startups currently and offer a total incubation space of approximately 7 lakh square feet.

The Minister, also mentioned that various successful and high growth stories in affordable health care, diagnostics, applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, renewable energy, service oriented online platforms, payment gateways etc., have emerged out of these incubators.

In the recently concluded National Expert Advisory Committee Meeting on September 3, 2016, proposal to establish 6 Centers of Excellence and 14 Technology Business Incubators was agreed upon in addition to a variety of other new programs including a fellowship program for Entrepreneurs.


Minister of Communications, Manoj Sinha has launched India Post Help Centre and a Toll Free Number 1924 to address the grievances of people in the country related to Department of Posts.

Inaugurating the Help Centre here, Sinha said that the move comes in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation) review meetings, where he exhorts the Union Ministers to actively address the grievances of the common man by setting up and strengthening Public Redressal Grievances Mechanism.

Sinha said that the Help Centre has been launched in three languages -Hindi, English and Malayalam and gradually all regional languages will be included which are mentioned in the Schedule of the Indian Constitution.

He said, the Help Centre will be functioning from 8 AM to 8 PM on all working days except holidays. Sinha said that soon, in every circle a nodal officer will be appointed to bring efficiency in redressal mechanism.

The Minister stressed that except in the case of policy decisions, all complaints related to postal services will be addressed within 24 Hours.

Sinha recalled that last month he had launched “Twitter Sewa” for addressing the complaints and concerns of common man and other stake-holders in the telecom and postal sectors, where on an average 100 complaints are received daily related to postal services.

He said, the Department of Posts is one of the 8th largest Department/Ministry in terms of numbers of complaints received. A toll free helpline number ‘1924’ would be available for customers from all over India from landline/mobile phone of service providers namely AirTel, Idea, Vodafone, Telenor, Aircel, MTS, Reliance etc.

The complaints received from the complainant on toll free number ‘1924’ would be registered in Computerized Customer

Manoj Sinha launches toll free number 1924Centre (CCC) Portal by the operators at the Dak Bhawan and the 11 digits ticket number would be provided to the complainants. If the complaint already registered, the complainant would be informed the status as viewed in CCC Portal. As soon as the complaint is generated on CCC Portal, the concerned post office will take immediate necessary action to resolve it and would upload the status.

All the Postal Circles will have a Control Room for monitoring and redressal of complaints. The Nodal Officer in each Circle will open the CCC Portal every day and check all the complaints beginning with “100030 - …… the Toll Free Complaints” and will examine for quick disposal. The Circle Heads would direct to all the Post Offices concerned to ensure that they log in CCC Portal at the beginning of day and at the end of the day compulsorily.

The case disposal time is one working day subject to policy matters. The complainant would be informed, if it involves policy matter. A reasonable reply should be uploaded in the CCC Portal. The circle will update the status of each of such cases every 24 hrs. through email on [email protected].

The name of Officers with email address and mobile number in each Circle who will be Nodal Officer, should be sent on email [email protected] .CPMG should review the ‘1924’ pending cases every day and in case of pendency going beyond 24 hours would give full details and convey his/her observation to PG Cell of Directorate which will provide weekly report to the Office of Secretary (Posts).

The Circles would provide utmost priority and quick disposal of the complaints received through Toll Free Centre. All the Circles would propagate and give wide publicity of “Toll Free Number 1924” within their jurisdiction through appropriate medium within budgetary limit.


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India has over taken the United States to become the world’s second largest Internet market, with 333 million users, trailing China’s 721 million. A new report released by the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development also confirms that just six nations – including China and India – together account for 55% of the total global population still offline, because of the sheer size of their populations.

Whi le In ternet access is approaching saturation in richer nations, connectivity is still not advancing fast enough to help bridge development gaps in areas like education and health care for those in poorer parts of the world, according to the 2016 edition of The State of Broadband report.

Globally, an estimated 3.9 billion people are not using the Internet. But the Commission’s new report estimates that, between them, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria account for 55% of all unconnected people, while 20 countries – including the US – account for a full 75% of those not using the Internet. These findings suggest that targeted efforts in just a few key markets could help enormously in redressing the gaping ‘digital divide’ between those who are online and those still offline.

Released just ahead of the 14th meeting of the Commission in New York on September 18, The State of Broadband 2016 is optimistic about the potential of mobile broadband, with 165 countries now having deployed ‘4G’ high-speed mobile networks. As smartphone penetration reaches near-saturation in the US, Europe and mature markets in Asia like Japan and Korea, India and Indonesia in particular are expected to drive future growth. India also recently overtook the US to become the world’s second-largest smartphone market, with an estimated 260 million mobile broadband subscriptions.

The Commission argues that if today’s near-universal basic mobile phone access could be converted to high-speed mobile broadband access, mobile phones could serve as a major accelerator of development, driving rapid progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Issued annually, The State of Broadband report is a unique global snapshot of broadband network access and affordability, with country-by country data measuring broadband access against key advocacy targets set by the Commission in 2011.

The report confirms that according to latest ITU figures, by end 2016, 3.5 billion people will be using the Internet, up from 3.2 billion last year and equating to 47% of the global population. Progress in the 48 UN-designated Least Developed Countries has been encouraging, with the Commission’s target of 15% of the LDC

China, India now world’s largest Internet markets

population online expected to be reached by the end of this year. This year’s figures show that, once again, the top 10 developing

countries for household Internet penetration are all located in Asia or the Middle East. The Republic of Korea continues to have the world’s highest household Internet penetration, with 98.8% of homes connected; Qatar (96%) and United Arab Emirates (95%) rank second and third, respectively.

Iceland continues to have the highest percentage of individuals using the Internet (98.2%), while Luxembourg (97.3%) has surpassed Norway to take second place, and Andorra (97%) takes third place from Denmark.

Monaco remains very slightly ahead of Switzerland as the world leader in fixed broadband penetration, at over 47 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants compared with the Swiss figure of 45%. There are now seven economies (Monaco, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and the Republic of Korea) where fixed broadband penetration exceeds 40%, up from six countries in 2014 and just one nation (Switzerland) in 2012.

Finland has the world’s highest percentage of active mobile broadband subscriptions, with 144 subscriptions per 100 people, followed by Singapore (142) and Kuwait (139). The Asia-Pacific region accounts for nearly half (48%) of all active mobile broadband subscriptions.

In total, there are now 91 economies where over 50% of the population is online, up from 79 in 2015. But whereas in 2014 the top 10 countries for Internet use were all located in Europe, this year sees Bahrain (ranked 7th) and Japan (ranked 9th) join the group. The lowest levels of Internet usage are found in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 3% of the population using the Internet in a number of countries including Chad (2.7%), Sierra Leone (2.5%), Niger (2.2%), Somalia (1.8%) and Eritrea (1.1%).

The State of Broadband 2016 is the sixth edition of the Commission’s broadband connectivity report. Released annually, it is the only report that features country-by-country rankings based on access and affordability for over 160 economies worldwide.


Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) and Maxis Communications Berhad (MCB), promoters of Aircel Limited (Aircel), a leading pan-India mobile operator, signed definitive documents for the merger of their Indian wireless businesses - the largest-ever consolidation in the Indian telecom sector.

On December 23, 2015, RCom had said that it is in talks to acquire its rival Aircel, a leading Indian mobile operator.

Merged company will be one of India’s largest private sector companies, with an asset base of over Rs 65,000 crore (USD 9.7 billion) and net worth of Rs 35,000 crore (USD 5.2 billion).

The combined entity will enjoy substantial benefits of scale driving significant revenue growth, and capex and opex synergies with an NPV of ~ Rs. 20,000 crore (USD 3 billion).

RCom and MCB will each hold a 50% stake in the merged entity (MergedCo), with equal representation on the Board of Directors and all Committees. The MergedCo will be managed by an independent professional team under supervision of the Board.

RCom’s overall debt will reduce by Rs 20,000 crore (USD 3 billion) or over 40% of its total debt, and Aircel’s debt will reduce by Rs 4,000 crore (USD 600 million), upon completion of the transaction in 2017.

The RCom-Aircel combination will create a strong operator clearly ranked amongst India’s top 4 telcos by customer base and revenues, also ranking amongst the top 3 operators by revenues in 12 important circles.

MergedCo will have the second-largest spectrum holding amongst all operators, aggregating 448 MHz across the 850, 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz bands, and will enjoy enhanced business continuity through extended validity of spectrum holdings till 2033-35.

MCB commented, “This deal further reinforces MCB’s commitment to India. Since acquiring Aircel in 2006, MCB has invested in excess of Rs 35,000 crore (USD 5.2 billion) into Aircel, making this one of the largest foreign investments into India, not only in the telecom industry but across all sectors. The magnitude of this investment, and the further equity commitment in support of this deal, are underpinned by MCB’s belief in the long term growth potential of both India and the Indian telecom sector.”

RCom will continue to own and operate its high growth businesses in the domestic and global enterprise space, data centers, optic fibre and related telecom infrastructure, besides owning valuable real estate.

On consummation of the merger, RCom and MCB are committed to additional equity infusion into MergedCo to further strengthen the Balance Sheet, fund future growth plans, and enhance financial flexibility. Both parties are already in talks with leading international investors in this regard.

MergedCo’s subscribers will have access to nationwide ‘gold standard’ 4G LTE services on the sub-1 GHz band, under RCom’s existing nation-wide spectrum sharing / ICR arrangements with Reliance Jio Infocomm.

5BARz India Private Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of 5BARz International, has entered the wireless router business through its advanced next generation Wi-Fi broadband router and smart hub that brings in new innovations for the homes in emerging markets.

The new product comes with intuitive features and state-of-the-art functionalities that will now enable Wi-Fi users to smartly monitor, manage and control their home networks while at home or away.

The product brings in a fundamental change in thinking of Wi-Fi users across the world who earlier viewed the router as a mere hardware device, the sole function of which was to enable access to the internet. The 5BARz Wi-Fi device comes with the 5BARz Smart Experience connectivity software and applications that will enable homes to customize their internet experience completely.

This announcement comes immediately following the announcement on August 31 of signing a landmark deal with a top ISP to deliver a minimum of 5 million units of these devices in India alone over the next few years. The contract volume is close to 1.25 times the current annual router sales of the entire country. On deployment, 5BARz WiFi solution will enable nearly 25 million users to avail the fastest, optimal and smartest broadband connectivity in the country making it the largest deployment of a solution of its kind in the world.

RCom, Aircel merge, create Rs 65,000 crore telecom giant in India

5BARz enters Wi-Fi router business


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Nasdaq-listed Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience solutions, has closed the acquisition of three privately owned companies – Vindicia, Brite: Bill, and Pontis – in line with the company’s digital strategy.

Vindicia is a market- leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription management and payment solutions. Vindicia makes it easy, flexible and frictionless for digital enterprises to onboard customers and process payments for digital content, over-the-top (OTT) entertainment, online subscriptions and on-demand services. Utilizing cloud-based operations for greater business agility, Vindicia’s ultra-fast time to market allows customers to easily experiment with various service offerings and pricing schemes to quickly introduce offers and attract new users. In addition, Vindicia’s advanced retention capabilities reduce user churn and increase top-line revenue for online service providers.

Brite: Bill’s design-led, user-experience exper ts turn the customer bill into a unique, customer-centric engagement channel. Brite:Bill’s technology and services transform invoices into a personalized, digital, interactive billing experience in the channel of the customer’s choice. The invoice’s customized and engaging design reduces customer confusion around the bill, thereby cutting service provider costs around inbound inquiries,

Technology major Cisco has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Government of Telangana to help accelerate the digital transformation of Telangana.

Digital disruption is a reality and is transforming every country, state and city. “Cisco and Telangana have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which includes the Digital Zone smart city project in Hyderabad, establishing an Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Hub and a Living Lab near Hi-Tech City in Hyderabad, a Center of Excellence and Living Lab in T–Hub premises, the largest building in India to be entirely dedicated to entrepreneurship, remote education in 10 schools in Karimnagar, and deploying digital solutions at the historical landmark monument of Hyderabad, the Qutubshahi tombs,” the company said in its statement.

As part of the Digital Zone project, Cisco will deploy City Digital Platform (CDP) in the 2.2 km area near Hi-Tech City in Hyderabad, including smart Wi-Fi, smart parking, smart lighting, traffic analytics at key junctions, Remote Expert for Government Services (REGS), smart environmental sensors, smart waste management, and a smart control center to monitor and manage the city with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Amdocs invests $260 million in three company acquisitions

Cisco signs MoU with Telangana

and also provides an engagement opportunity for service providers to promote new services. The company was named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner Inc. for 2014.

Pontis is a leading provider of contextua l d ig i ta l engagement so lu t i ons . Pon t i s ’ s r ea l - t ime decisioning and learning technology enables service providers to offer

their customers personalized contextual interactions relevant to where that individual customer is in their journey with the service provider. With Pontis, Amdocs is uniquely positioned to help service providers determine the next best action for customer engagement and then to offer the customer, across outbound and inbound channels, the most appropriate service at the right time and the right touch point.

The three similarly priced companies were acquired by Amdocs for a combined amount of approximately $260 million in cash, net, and may be subject to certain adjustments including small earnouts. Together, these acquisitions are expected to contribute 1.5% to 2.0% to total company revenue for the full fiscal year 2017. Amdocs will initiate formal guidance with respect to our expected total revenue growth for fiscal year 2017 when the company report results for the fourth fiscal quarter 2016 on November 8, 2016.

In the Digital Zone project, Cisco will collaborate with local ecosystem solution providers to build a scalable model for the effective rollout of city services across the state of Telangana. This project will utilize Cisco’s global expertise and intellectual property in the areas of IoT, mobile technology and applications, cloud computing, data analytics, social media, energy, and lighting solutions. Cisco will also engage with ecosystem partners in the state to develop new applications specifically for Indian smart cities and collaborate with the state for its upcoming smart cities in Telangana.


RIL set to invest Rs15,000 crore in Jio

Digital payments provider PayU said that it will buy rival Citrus Pay for $130 million. PayU’s $130M transaction is the largest ever M&A cash deal in Indian fintech, demonstrating its payments and financial services expansion strategy.

The deal will grow PayU India customers to more than 30 million, processing a forecasted 150 million transactions in 2016 worth a combined $4.2 billion, growing at 50%+ YoY. The agreement also enables PayU to quickly bring additional innovative financial services to market for its business and consumer customers.

Amrish Rau, currently Citrus Pay managing director, will become CEO of PayU in India. Reporting to PayU Global CEO, Laurent le Moal, he will lead a talented entrepreneurial management team across PayU and Citrus Pay. Citrus Pay founder Jitendra Gupta will drive PayU’s Fintech foray into credit through Citrus Pay’s Lazypay while Shailaz Nag, PayU cofounder will focus on new areas of growth through bank alliances. Nitin Gupta, PayU cofounder, will help complete the transition to the new leadership team before departing PayU to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions.

The Indian online payments industry is rapidly growing, attributed to a rise in smartphone use and an active policy push to drive financial inclusion. A recent Boston Consulting Group report estimated digital transactions will hit $500 billion by 2020, ten times its current level.

The agreement, due to close in Q3 2016, capitalizes on this market growth and brings together two complementary businesses. PayU will be able to maximize its existing franchise in ecommerce, and grow vertical market leadership in the airline and telecoms industries on the back of Citrus Pay’s platform. PayU will also continue to develop Citrus Pay’s consumer brands, LazyPay and Sellfie.

Citrus Pay was founded in 2011 by Jitendra Gupta. It has become one of the fastest growing Indian fintech companies.

Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Comviva have launched “Data Revenue Booster” (DRB). DRB allows Communication Service Providers (CSP) to open up additional revenue oppor tunities while delivering innovative services to users.

The DRB Solution bridges the gap between operator networks and content services by exposing the OSS and BSS capabilities of operators to content providers and vice versa.

“This st reaml ines col laborat ion between digital content providers and operators, making it possible to offer unique application-specific features to end users for better experiences. Built on Google Mobile Data Plan APIs, DRB will seamlessly suppor t future Google Use Cases and other digital content providers,” the statement said.

Based on Mahindra Comviva’s mBAS suite, the DRB Solution enables apps such as YouTube to trigger customized real-time data offers, leading to a seamless YouTube watching experience.

Tech Mahindra-Mahindra Comviva is collaborating with Google as one of the first partners to get on-boarded on its mobile data API platform. This integration enables Google to bring innovative features and services to products such as YouTube and reach large numbers of users by leveraging the scale that DRB provides.

PayU to buy Citrus Pay for $130 million Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Comviva Data Revenue Booster for telcos

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) said that its parent Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will invest Rs 15,000 crore more in the company through an issue of non-cumulative optionally convertible preference shares.

“We refer to the communication dated July 14, 2016 informing about the decision of the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on

July 14, 2016, to issue 1500,00,00,000 Equity Shares of Rs 10 each aggregating to Rs 15,000 crore on rights issue basis,” RIL said in a statement.

“The Board of Directors at its meeting held on September 12, 2016 has decided to make rights issue of 300,00,00,000 – 9% Non-Cumulative Optionally Convertible Preference Shares (‘OCPS’) of Rs 10/- each for cash, at a premium of Rs 40 per OCPS, aggregating to Rs 15,000 crore in substitution of the earlier rights issue of Equity Shares of the Company approved by the Board at its meeting held on July 14, 2016,” it added.

“Each OCPS shall be either redeemed at a value of Rs 50 per OCPS or converted into 5 Equity Shares of Rs 10 each at any time at the option of the Company, but not later than 10 years from the date of allotment of OCPS,” it said.

Recently, the company started its 4G services on September 5 and is offering free phone call and high speed data services for free till December 31.


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Switzerland-headquar tered u-blox has made available its advanced navigation and positioning chip for a new high-tech initiative that protects Indian forests, wi ld l i fe and endangered species, and promotes sustainable resource development.

u-b lox is a p ioneer in wire less and positioning semiconductors and modules for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. The company’s solutions enable people, vehicles and machines to locate their exact position and communicate wirelessly over cellular and shor t range networks.

Recently in India, the Forest Minister of Odisha, a state in eastern par t of India, unveiled a locally developed handheld GNSS device, the Sxtreo T51 PDA, based on the u-blox M8 GNSS chip, which will be used by thousands of rangers to protect and manage forest resources. The Indian state of Odisha is larger than most European countries, but 30 percent of its area is forest, including national parks that are home to protected wildlife, tiger reserves and over 100 species of wild orchid.

The T51 was developed by India’s Stesalit Systems, which worked with Swiss-based u-blox to create a unique handheld PDA for the Indian sub continent, where GNSS can be enhanced by signals from India’s own GAGAN (i.e. GNSS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation) system to improve standalone accuracy down to the 2-meter range – potentially making a u-blox M8-equipped device precise enough to geotag locations of individual trees and animals.

Finland-based telecom giant Nokia has launched an extensive ‘everything as a service’ - XaaS - portfolio to enable operators and enterprises to leverage Nokia’s global scale and expertise to meet the demands of the ultra-connected world rapidly and cost efficiently.

The XaaS portfolio will leverage the latest Nokia data center technology - the Open Compute Project AirFrame Data Center.

“Nokia is extending its XaaS offer to deliver a wide range of technologies including Wi-Fi, fixed and mobile ‘as-a-service’ at a time when enterprises recognize the business opportunity in providing connectivity to attract data-hungry customers. Cafés, stores and other venues offer Wi-Fi access, and operators are evolving their networks, but for operators with multiple technologies, or enterprises not focused on delivering communications services, network management can present challenges,” the company said in its statement.

Nokia will host technologies, delivering them ‘as-a-service’ securely on a multi-tenancy basis using the Nokia AVA platform. This will allow customers to turn capital expenditure into operating expenditure while reducing overall installation, integration and ownership costs by up to 40 percent. With fast access to the latest technology and Nokia global services expertise, operators and enterprises will be able to satisfy customers’ data demands while staying focused on their core business.

Telenor Connexion, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has announced an increased focus to expand its Global Par tner Program. Together with its par tners, Telenor Connexion is committed to assisting customers in realizing business value through IoT.

The goal is to make it easier and faster for customers to bring their connected products and services to market.

Telenor Connexion works with a broad and diverse ecosystem of partners to extend the value of its IoT solutions. The partner strategy is designed to enable partners of all sizes to collaborate efficiently to offer customers a complete IoT solution, including hardware, communication, data analytics, business applications, and other services.

Telenor Connexion recently appointed Jesper Lagerstedt as Partner Manager to expand their Global Partner Program. Lagerstedt is a senior business management professional within ICT and has a proven track record from companies such as Capgemini, Telia Company, and IBX, where he has succesfully grown both existing businesses and new markets.

In 2016 alone, Telenor Connexion has added 10 new par tners to its par tner ecosystem. These include large players such as Tieto, the largest IT services company in the Nordics, Flex, a global leader in electronics manufacturing, and smaller niche players such as LumenRadio , a wireless radio provider and STE Industries , a provider of smart wireless systems.

u-blox forays into India, to protect Odisha forestry

Nokia launches extensive ‘as a service’ portfolio

Telenor Connexion to expand its partner programme


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