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ASUS Pan India Enthusiasts Meet 2014

Gadgets

October 4, 2014

This year’s Pan India Enthusiasts Meet came to an end on Saturday. The meet was held by ASUS India at their head office in Mumbai. The motive of the meet was to introduce new products of asus to the tech fanciers and receive feedback from them. Mr. Jack Cheng, R&D department, ASUS, told us that the meet was filled with open discussions and interactions with the software developers helped them to review their products better.

ASUS Pan India

ASUS initiated this course in 2011 and its popularity has increased greatly since then. ASUS believes that the Indian market holds a good share of their overall profit. The meet began with an update of the latest products of ASUS that were launched during the last two months. They mostly included the graphic cards and the powerful motherboards. They aimed at making people familiar with their products and increasing their market share. Demonstration of some new products was also given during the meet.

During the discussion with Mr. Jack Cheng over Skype, the enthusiasts were told about the conceptualization of OC Socket which is the latest feature introduced by ASUS in their X99 motherboard series. The working benefits of the socket and its advantage were explained in detail by Mr. Cheng. Working on the new innovation with motherboards, tech lovers were also given a chance to work on those products and get familiar with the technology.

Wireless networking was another centre of attention. The latest introduced DSL-AC68U attracted many. The Intel Core i-7 ASUS X99-Deluxe with the G-SYNC monitor was even not behind to attract people. The event was concluded by an overclocking session by the owner of Comp Kraft Pvt.Ltd, Shatul Durlabhji who is the most popular overclocker and is also known for holding various records in overclocking.

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Salesforce.com named World’s Most Innovative Company by Forbes Magazine

Software

Srikanth Kulkarni

October 3, 2014

Salesforce.com Inc. is a global cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though best known for its customer relationship management (CRM) product. Salesforce work in commercial applications including of social networking using acquisition. Salesforce is ranked first in the innovative company category of America in Forbes Magazine. Even Fortune magazine has ranked it number 7 in the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2014 category.

Salesforce.com named World’s Most Innovative Company

For an unprecedented fourth year in a row, Forbes Magazine named salesforce.com the “Most Innovative Company in the World.”The company was founded in 1999. The founders are Parker Harris, Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez. They started the company as specializing in software as a service (SaaS).

Industries and companies of all sizes can connect to their customers in a whole new way using the latest innovations in mobile, social and cloud technology to sell, service, market and succeed like never before. Salesforce.com’s dedicated employees, partners and customers have helped the company’s industry-leading customer platform become the world’s leading enterprise cloud ecosystem.

Salesforce.com migrated to Dell servers with AMD processors running Linux from Sun Fire E25K servers with SPARC processors running Solaris in 2008.In 2012, Salesforce.com announced plans to build a data center in the UK to handle European citizens’ personal data. In 2013, Salesforce.com and Oracle announced a 9-year partnership in which Salesforce.com will use Oracle Linux, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, and the Java platform to power salesforce.com’s applications and SaaS platform.

In a recent interview with Forbes, CEO Marc Benioff outlined three key ways salesforce.com manages to stay on top:

A visionary product line
Empowering employees through the V2MOM (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Metrics) process
Allowing employees to help shape the company vision.

The company has designed and developed its applications to be easy-to-use and intuitive solutions that can be deployed rapidly, customized easily and integrated with other software applications. Salesforce.com offers its services on a subscription basis, primarily through its direct sales efforts and indirectly through partners.

element14 “In the Air” design challenge announced

Gadgets

Arshi Bansal

October 3, 2014

The largest design community of its kind, Element14, which has more than 250,000 members, has released the announcement of its most anticipated design challenges ever-the “In the Air” challenge. This challenge is an initiative which is a global competition that encourages participating engineers to evolve pioneering pollution measurement applications and is backed by partners including Texas Instruments (TI), Cisco Systems, Würth Elektronik, Sierra Wireless , The Eclipse Foundation and Keysight Technologies.

element14 “In the Air” design challenge

Participants will use a core kit that features several popular products: the element14 BeagleBone Black, Würth power inductors and TI’s SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3200 LaunchPad and ultra-low power MSP430FR5969 FRAM LaunchPad. The goal of this initiative is to create advanced and creative Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions calculate the amount of pollution and deliver that information quickly to enable smart and prompt interventions.

“In the Air” aims to create IoT-base gadgets that identify the levels of pollution and enable to take prompt actions that help to increase and improve the quality of life and safety for people. The “In the Air” design challenge reveals how the IoT can figure out solutions to real-world problems like air pollution with a wireless sensor network.

The participants in the competition will be provided with element14 BeagleBone Black 4G, TI SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPad, TI ultra-low power MSP-EXP430FR5969 FRAM LaunchPad, Würth Metal Alloy Power Inductor, Würth Shielded Power Inductor, Würth Low Profile High Current Power Inductors, a 6-month License, access to the Eclipse Foundation’s IoT platform, access to Sierra Wireless’ AirVantage M2M Cloud Platform.

Also, all the participants will receive an amount of Rs 30564.7 budget for additional parts and prototyping and Rs 3912.35 toward Würth Elektronik’s PCB services. Moreover all passive components, switches, LEDs and connectors that are listed on Würth’s website will be supplied free of cost. Texas Instruments has also dispensed Rs 305645.56 towards the challenge.

The recruitment period starts today and will end on 13^th October, Monday .Amongst them, 10 participants will be chosen to build their designs and blog at the award-winning element14 design community al through the challenge. They will share their ideas and address the most important challenges. The competition is scheduled to end on 30^th January 2015.The announcement of the winners will be made in the early February.

The winners will receive a magnificent prize that includes a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, a TI Bluetooth low energy SensorTag and a U1273A OLED Multimeter from Keysight Technologies. The Community Choice winner, who is to be selected by a vote on the element14 community, is entitled to receive a MacBook Air and a TI SensorTag as gifts.

The IoT has applications that are beyond smart homes and health monitoring. This challenge aims to create devices that help to calculate levels of pollution and enable to take steps to ensure a better quality and safety to people. This challenge is a way to showcase how the IoT can help and solve problems like air pollution with wireless sensor networks.

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Newertech wireless numeric aluminium keypad announced

Gadgets

Srikanth Kulkarni

October 3, 2014

Newertech wireless numeric aluminium keypad announced

NewerTech Inc., headquartered in Woodstock, Illinois, is a leading performance upgrades and accessories company for Macs, PCs, iPhones, iPads, and iPods since 1988. Designed to complement the look and feel of Apple keyboards, the NewerTech numeric keypad features precision machined aluminum housing, white keys, and a bracket that attaches to the Apple keyboard – no tools needed.

The NewerTech Keypad was built to rigorous standards with input from accountants to get every detail of the full-sized 28-key numeric keypad just right, including key-throw, feel, design, size, and connectivity for maximum number crunching workflow excellence.

Newertech wireless numeric aluminium keypad

The NewerTech Wireless Aluminum Keypad works with all Bluetooth compatible computers, laptops and devices for the ultimate easy-to-pair Bluetooth workhorse that’s built to last. Bluetooth pairing is quick and reliable and reconnecting automatically when the computer or device is awakened or restarted. This allows the user to utilize this time for other purposes.

The comfortable wide-spaced island keys reduce errors and make the NewerTech Keypad the perfect companion to the Apple wireless keyboard. The keypad is well organized and has a great space between each keys for easy handling and perfect typing purposes.

NewerTech worked with accounting professionals to get every detail of this keypad just right, including key-throw, feel, design, size, and connectivity. Bluetooth pairing is quick and reliable, and reconnects automatically when the computer or device is awakened or restarted.

The comfortable wide-spaced island keys make the NewerTech Keypad the perfect companion to the Apple wireless keyboard. This gives a huge advantage for the apple users who are programmers and as we know that the keys are well organized ,this makes their work quite easy.

Key Features:

Precision machined aluminum housing
Quick and reliable Bluetooth pairing that stays connected with a range up to 30-feet
Full-sized 28-key design with: delete, tab, navigation, and more
Ergonomic tilt with firm desktop grip
Lightweight and perfectly sized for mobile or desktop use
Long battery life
Compatible with Bluetooth enabled Macs, PCs, and iDevices
Available with white keys to complement Apple keyboards

The NewerTech Keypad is perfect for financial professionals, including accountants and analysts, as well as students, teachers, administrators, traders, agents, videographers, programmers, salespeople, and more.

This has quite a bit of shape, easy for the programmers to use. The responsive full sized keys are meant for their accuracy. As this keypad is light weight this can be easily carried and also has long battery life which is useful during traveling purposes.

Flytxt CEO wins the Asia Leadership Award

Software

Rahul Hirani

October 2, 2014

Dr. Vinod Vasudevan, CEO of the leading provider of Big Data Analytics solutions, Flytxt, has won the Leadership Excellence in Telecom Business award at Asia Leadership Awards in Dubai.

Flytxt CEO wins the Asia Leadership Award

This award is honoured to those leaders who play a huge role in shaping the Asian Economy and Mr. Vasudevan is one of them. His vision has led Flytxt to get an international recognition. The company is now the most favored big data analytics solution provider in Asia & Africa. It has its services in 32 countries. The company generated revenue of $100 million last year.

Dr. Vasudevan is an IIT Kharagpur Alumni and has an experience of more than 20 years in global telecommunication industry. He has also worked with the industrial giants Reliance Communications, NTT, SingTel and Orange. We would like to have your say on this news.

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