News & Events IBM acquires red hat in deal valued at $34 billionIBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion, the companies announced on Sunday. According to a joint statement, IBM will pay cash to buy all shares in Red Hat at $190 each. Shares in Red Hat closed at $116.68 on Friday before the deal was announced. The open source, enterprise software maker will become a unit of IBM’s Hybrid Cloud division, with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst joining IBM’s senior management team and reporting to CEO Ginni Rometty. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html https://www.businessinsider.in/IBM-is-reportedly-nearing-a-deal-to-acquire-Red-Hat-the-software-company-valued-at-20-billion/articleshow/66406686.cms ... Read more...IBM Gives Tennis Players a Competitive Edge with Watson at the 2018 US Open Tennis ChampionshipsFLUSHING, N.Y., Aug. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM today announced that IBM Watson will now partner with tennis players and coaches to enhance their game strategy and better prepare for matches more efficiently. As a partner of the US Open tournament for more than 25 years, IBM innovations have positioned the US Open as a tournament at the forefront of the modern digital experience with technology that fans have come to know and love. This year, IBM and the USTA will integrate its AI Highlights technology into player performance as the tournament enters the next phase of its technology journey. For the past year, IBM has been working with the USTA Player Development's performance team to develop a technology solution that will help coaches and players analyze and improve their performance. The new player development solution uses AI Highlights, the same technology IBM built to support the USTA's US Open Digital Team, enabling them to create real-time content to engage their fans. The new player development solution will review hours of match footage and automatically identify and index key points and stats, allowing coaches to quickly design detailed reports for subsequent matches. This enables coaches to reference and review a comprehensive database of players' indexed match video that they otherwise would not have been able to access. Read the complete article here . http://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-08-29-IBM-Gives-Tennis-Players-a-Competitive-Edge-with-Watson-at-the-2018-US-Open-Tennis-Championships... Read more...How Industrial IoT sensors are used to monitor water levels and flood warning systems: A guideYou may already realise that water is an everyday critical resource for you and your family. Plenty of headlines about on how we get too much water or too little – flooding and drought. But how do water monitoring systems help you, your teams, and your organisation to save water, your time, your money, and potentially lives? Here, we will give you inside details about case studies where smart cities in coastal areas have deployed flood warning systems with Industrial IoT sensors, how the sensors technologies work and how they are deployed, as well as challenges for using them in practice. Continued in below link: https://www.iottechnews.com/news/2018/jul/25/how-industrial-iot-sensors-are-used-monitor-water-levels-and-flood-warning-systems-guide/ ... Read more...TED 2018: The smart home that spied on its ownerVery interesting news and also scary on how IoT and data is going to change the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43747421 ... Read more...Another big sports deal for Facebookhttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45178848... Read more...Free Internet of Things (IoT) & Microsoft Azure WebinarInternet of Things (IoT) is a natural evolution of embedded computing. The advent of IoT has completely changed the way people and business think and act. The exponential growth of IoT is fuelling innovation and creating new business models, innovated products and new services to enhance customer experiences. IoT aims to create self-organized environment by connecting people and processes to boost overall performance. Despite obvious benefits, organizations and individuals are reluctant in harnessing its real potential because of pertaining security and privacy issues. This webinar will help attendees understand standard Internet of things architecture and its security and privacy implications • Introduction of IoT • IoT standard architecture • IoT security and privacy • Security and Privacy challenges • Common vulnerabilities, threats and associated risks • Best practices for IoT security and privacy https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5eHRqg1th5DoAZCP4j14Wd0rUN49DCxZ1JDwrGJvSsFSpYA/viewform... Read more...Samsung Research Institute in India Working on Bixby For IoT Home Deviceshttps://www.news18.com/news/tech/samsung-research-institute-in-india-working-on-bixby-for-iot-home-devices-1749273.html... Read more...National Technology Day 2018 – Top technologies That are Impacting the Way We Think, Love and Communicate https://www.news18.com/news/tech/national-technology-day-2018-top-technologies-that-are-impacting-the-way-we-think-love-and-communicate-1744813.html... Read more...Qualcomm, MediaTek eye slice of India’s Internet of Things market https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/qualcomm-mediatek-eye-slice-of-indias-internet-of-things-market/articleshow/65152178.cms... Read more... Gadget ReviewsXiaomi Redmi Note 6 ProXiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro The phone comes with a 6.26-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 2280 pixels. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro is powered by octa-core processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM. The phone packs 64GB of internal storage that can be expanded. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro packs a 12-megapixel (f/1.9, 1.4-micron) primary camera and a 5-megapixel secondary camera on the rear. On the front, it packs an 20-megapixel (f/2.0, 1.8-micron) primary camera and a 2-megapixel secondary camera. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro is powered by a 4000mAh. It measures 157.90 x 76.38 x 8.20 (height x width x thickness) . The Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro is a Dual-SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, Micro-USB, 3G and 4G. Sensors on the phone include Fingerprint sensor, Proximity sensor and Accelerometer. Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro Refer for complete details : https://gadgets.ndtv.com/xiaomi-redmi-note-6-pro-5648... Read more...Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro ReviewThe Redmi Note 5 Pro by Xiaomi is one of the latest smartphones in India that launched in February 2018. This enviable smartphone is designed with strong features and a powerful configuration. The device comes with a layer of 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass on the top with rounded display corners that boasts the look and feel of the phone. The Redmi Note 5 Pro is a great phone with a marvelous camera within a budget. Redmi Note 5 Pro https://www.gadgetsnow.com/mobile-phones/Xiaomi-Redmi-Note-5-Pro... Read more...Huawei’s Honor teases upcoming almost bezel-less Magic 2Huawei’s Honor brand has a new cool phone in the works, and it could be pure magic. In this case, it’s actually the Magic 2, the second version of the AI-powered Magic phone the company launched two years ago. Honor’s President George Zhao teased the phone on stage, revealing a phone that’s all screen, with no notch or chin in sight. Taking a page from Oppo’s Find X ($961 at Amazon Marketplace), the Magic 2 will have a slide-out camera, only this time, you’ll have to physically slide it out unlike the mechanical motorized shooters of the Find X Read complete article here : https://www.cnet.com/reviews/huawei-honor-magic-2-preview/... Read more...New 2018 iPhonehttps://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-2018-iphone-x-plus-11-9-launch-date-specs-price-release-date-competition/... Read more...OnePlus 6 Reviewhttps://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/reviews/oneplus-6-review-1854680 See the pricing details in the below link... Read more...Xiaomi Mi A2 Reviewhttps://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/reviews/xiaomi-mi-a2-review-camera-performance-benchmark-battery-life-india-price-specifications-1897219 Check the below links for Redmi Max2 & Redmi Y2 details... Read more...
