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NPCI introduces UPI AutoPay facility for recurring payment

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– Customers can now set e-mandate on UPI platform to perform recurring payments of upto Rs. 2000; for amount above Rs. 2000, customers have to execute every mandate with UPI PIN 

– Customers can now enable recurring e-mandate using any UPI application for recurring payments such as mobile bills, electricity bills, EMI payments, entertainment/OTT subscriptions, insurance, mutual funds and loan payments, paying for transit/metro payments among others 

– The facility to provide millions of UPI users convenience, safety while making recurring payments

MUMBAI, India, July 23, 2020 —  Mumbai National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) said that it has launched the functionality of UPI AutoPay for recurring payments. With this new facility introduced under UPI 2.0, customers can now enable recurring e-mandate using any UPI application for recurring payments such as mobile bills, electricity bills, EMI payments, entertainment/OTT subscriptions, insurance, mutual funds and loan payments, paying for transit/metro payments among others of upto Rs. 2000. If the amount exceeds Rs. 2000, customers have to execute every mandate with UPI PIN.

Any UPI-enabled application would also have a ‘Mandate’ section, through which customers can create, approve, modify, pause as well as revoke auto debit mandate. The mandate section will allow customers to view their past mandates for their reference and records. UPI users can create e-mandate through UPI ID, QR scan or Intent. The pattern for auto debit mandate has been created keeping in mind customers’ spends on recurring payments. The mandates can be set for one-time, daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly. 

Both, individual users and merchants can benefit from this feature tremendously, as mandates are generated instantly and payments get deducted automatically on the authorized date. The customers have to authenticate their account through UPI PIN for one-time and subsequent monthly payments would be debited automatically.

Some of the banks, merchants and aggregators who have already gone live with UPI AutoPay are Axis Bank, Bank of Baroda, HDFC Bank, HSBC Bank, ICICI Bank, IDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank, Paytm Payments Bank, AutoPe-Delhi Metro, AutoPe-Dish TV, CAMS Pay, Furlenco, Growfitter, Policy Bazaar, Testbook.com, The Hindu, Times Prime, Paytm, PayU, RazorPay, among others.Jio Payments Bank, State Bank of India, YES Bank and PhonePe will soon go live with UPI AutoPay. 

Nandan Nilekani Chairman and Co-Founder, Infosys Limited said,“UPI being the one stop destination for customers’ day-to-day spends,acts as a backbone of digital India. Introducing UPI AutoPay on UPI is a testament of continuous innovation in the digital payments space.This was also one of the key recommendations of the RBI Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments,which I chaired.It is a proud moment for the ecosystem to witness features like UPI AutoPay, which is technology driven that requires minimum human intervention.”

Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, SBI said,”We are glad to witness the launch of UPI AutoPay facility at this momentous event. We believe this unique facility would enable customers streamline their recurring bill payments and help them get rid of paying those bills manually. It is a pleasure to watch both banks and digital payment ecosystem collectively working towards providing utmost convenience to customers. We are confident that the coming years would bring in various innovative digital payments solutions keeping in mind customers ease of payments convenience and safety.”

Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO, NPCI said, “The launch of UPI AutoPay is a step ahead in India’s journey towards digitization. We have been witnessing a lot of changes in the way customers are making recurring payments over the last few years. The UPI AutoPay offering would provide millions of UPI user’s convenience and safety while making recurring payments. We believe, this facility will not only benefit customers, but also merchants with an all new recurring payments experience. We also hope to achieve new milestones by expanding UPI’s presence especially in the P2M payment space.”

With RBI continuously encouraging customers to adopt digital payments,offerings like the launch of UPI AutoPay would further attract customers to on-board UPI and witness a new arena of digital payments. The UPI 2.0 offers features such as overdraft facility, one-time mandate, invoice in the inbox and signed intent & QR and foreign inward remittance among others to the customers.

About NPCI

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Tanium Brings Intelligence to the Edge with Zero Infrastructure Endpoint Management and Security

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With Tanium as a Service, organisations can manage and secure distributed endpoints via a fully cloud-hosted-and-delivered solution

SINGAPORE, July 23, 2020 — Tanium, the provider of unified endpoint management and security built for the world’s most demanding IT environments, today announced Tanium as a Service, a zero infrastructure endpoint management and security platform. Tanium as a Service optimises Tanium’s patented architecture to quickly and efficiently manage and secure devices in a remote work world. The Tanium agent brings intelligence to each endpoint for instant visibility and unparalleled context, enabling IT operations and security teams to act quickly to efficiently manage and secure the environment anywhere endpoints exist.

According to forthcoming survey research from Tanium, businesses are struggling to manage and secure endpoints spread across a remote workforce. Even as cyber attacks increase, frontline defenses like patch management are slipping due to process and management gaps.

“Most endpoint management solutions are designed for office environments, expecting devices to leave the network for occasional travel or work from home. In other words, the world the way it was,” said Ralph Loura, CIO at Lumentum. “Tanium as a Service is designed for remote work environments, expecting some devices to return to the office only occasionally. In other words, the world the way it is. This innovation and commitment to adapting to business needs is why I’m a three-time Tanium customer.”

Tanium as a Service provides enterprise-grade visibility and control across complex distributed environments for both IT operations and security. With its cloud-hosted and cloud-delivered model, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), customers can perform important IT operations, risk, and security tasks with zero infrastructure and zero overhead, regardless of the number or geographic location of endpoints, or the amount of data being collected. AWS’s highly secure and scalable global infrastructure helps enable Tanium to securely and instantly address dynamic peaks in customer demand.

Tanium is powered by the Intelligent Edge, a uniquely-Tanium approach that delivers intelligence to endpoints, increasing data quality and delivery speed. This ensures organisations and government agencies can secure and manage endpoints everywhere at speed and scale, without the need to deploy additional agents or infrastructure.

  • Endpoint Intelligence teaches devices to provide information or ask for updates only when a management issue or security incident arises. This approach optimises how data is retrieved from and delivered to endpoints, increasing speed and efficiency and reducing management and infrastructure overhead associated with unnecessary data movement.
  • Threat Detection and Response leverages endpoint intelligence to provide real-time visibility into and detection of compromise and post-compromise activity at the endpoint. Automated response helps organisations decrease the impact of malicious cyber activity and recover quickly.
  • Proactive endpoint management quickly identifies unpatched desktops and servers on both modern and legacy operating systems and provides remediation for vulnerabilities without overburdening networks or relying on expensive infrastructure.

“As enterprises adapt to the work-from-anywhere world, they deeply need platforms that allow them to manage massive, distributed, complex, and changing environments with ease,” said Orion Hindawi, co-founder and co-CEO of Tanium. “Tanium has always provided an unparalleled platform for large enterprise endpoint management, focused on the largest companies in the world. With our Tanium as a Service offering, we are opening our platform up to many more customers and lowering the barrier to entry, giving many more enterprises the power that Tanium can uniquely provide to control this new IT landscape.”

Tanium as a Service is available immediately. For more information visit: https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-as-a-service.

To receive a demo of Tanium today visit: https://www.tanium.com/see-a-demo/

What the Industry is Saying

“Tanium as a Service leverages AWS’s services, deep security controls, and capacity to scale to address dynamic peaks in customer demand. Security is the top priority for AWS and we are delighted Tanium has selected AWS services and infrastructure to help provide customers with endpoint management and security across their entire IT estate.” –– Angelo Comazzetto, Principal, Office of the CISO, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

“With ‘work from home’ (WFH) becoming the new normal, Tanium as a Service could not have come at a more critical time. Tanium has developed a distinctive unified platform for endpoint management and security that requires no on-premises infrastructure. Organisations can enable critical IT operations and security tasks on-demand without a need to physically deploy infrastructure of any kind.” –– Michael Suby, Research Vice President at IDC

“At Verizon, we are focused on connecting our customers to solutions that can enable them to run their businesses in a more secure and efficient way. Tanium is a trusted technology partner when it comes to managing and protecting endpoints on a corporate network.” –– Alex Schlager, Chief Product Officer for Cybersecurity at Verizon Business

“WWT partners with Tanium to help our joint customers strengthen their security posture, reduce risk and meet IT operational goals. Tanium as a Service further extends these capabilities to the distributed edge, giving our customers the visibility and control they need to manage evolving operations without needing to manage or maintain additional infrastructure. It’s fast to deploy, simple to manage, and rapidly delivers value to our joint customers.” –– Chris Schwind, Technical Solutions Architect, World Wide Technology

“With Tanium as a Service, we can help our customers even faster and without any infrastructure. This is a game-changer for time-critical incident response and compromise assessments.” –– Ernesto Hartmann, Chief Cyber Defence Officer, InfoGuard

About Tanium

Tanium offers a unified endpoint management and security platform that is built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organisations, including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and five branches of the US Armed Forces rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently and effectively, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium ranks 7th on the Forbes list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for 2019 and 10th on FORTUNE’s list of the “100 Best Medium Workplaces.” Visit us at www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Android, Mobile, News

ASUS ROG Phone 3 Launched – Third Time’s the Charm

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Before we go on; no, ASUS’ ROG Phone and ROG Phone 2 were not rubbish. They were amazing smartphones, if I might have to say. We really liked the first-generation ASUS ROG Phone and we think that it can still hold its own today. The ROG Phone 2 was not revolutionary per say but it was still a brilliant smartphone on its own. Its expanded arsenal of accessories made it something quite special to behold, if not expensive.

The third one we see today is not exactly revolutionary as well. It is more of a step up, an evolution rather, to the ROG Phone 2. To be fair though, following up on two brilliant smartphones is difficult even for the biggest brands in the world.

The ROG Phone 3 seems to do the job well enough though. Yes, it may just be an evolution, but it does not mean that the device is a boring one.

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We start with the display, because that is going to be the first thing that will greet you when you open the box and unwrap the protective plastic cover. This thing packs the fastest display you can find on any smartphone today. While it only pushes Full HD 1080p resolution to your face, it refreshes at 144Hz. That is 20Hz more than the OPPO Find X2, just saying. All that and you still get HDR10+ and Delta E < 1 colours for a bright looking, fresh looking images on the 6.59-inch AMOLED display covered by a Corning Gorilla Glass 6. The display did not grow in size though, 6.59-inch is big enough. True to its gaming roots and purpose, the ROG Phone 3 boasts 270Hz in response rate too giving a super quick 25ms touch response and 18ms slide response. That is as fast as it gets at this point now.

No edge-to-edge nonsense with a cut out here. You still get a bottom lip and a forehead on the device big enough to fit a 24-Megapixel camera and a proper looking earpiece. The earpiece also doubles as a front-firing speaker. It is not just any speaker though. Paired with the bottom speakers you are getting a DTS:X speaker system with individual amplifiers for each speaker. Sadly, you do not get a 3.5mm AUX jack though.

Still, dig deeper and you find a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ System on a Chip (SoC). This may just be the most powerful smartphone in the world currently since it packs something that is even more powerful than the outgoing Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. You get up to 3.1GHz in clock speed, 10% more performance than the Snapdragon 865 SoC. The SoC is rivalling most entry-level gaming PCs these days.

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Plenty of power also means plenty of heat. The ROG Phone 3 packs a big heatsink that you can see from the partially transparent glass back. That heatsink is technically bigger than before, which means you get better cooling performance mechanically as well. If that is not enough, you get a fan dock thing out-of-the-box anyway (Aero Active Cooler 3). That fan dock thing now has a kickstand so that you can prop it up on a table. But the fan dock also allows the ROG phone III to be cooled more aggressively. Combine that with ASUS ROG UI’s X Mode, and you are getting a smartphone that rivals gaming PCs.

Of course, Air Trigger makes it back in the ROG Phone 3. This is probably the ASUS ROG Phone’s main party piece. The Air Trigger is in its third generation with the ROG Phone III. The third generation Air Trigger supports more gestures and input now. This also makes the ROG Phone III a highly competitive smartphone for eSports, if not unfair.

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Move to the back and you will find a 64-Megapixel main camera flanked by a 13-Megapixel ultra-wide sensor, and another macro sensor to produce great photos. This is still a smartphone anyway; you want the cameras to be good. While this is a gaming smartphone, the camera functions are not getting sidelined though. You get four microphones for the best video recording experience. This is your all-in-one device.

Of course, you cannot have an all-in-one device without requiring some power draw. The SoC itself should be quite demanding on its own. That is why ASUS fits a large 6,000mAh battery pack within the svelte body. How is this device fitting a larger battery in the same sized body of the ROG Phone II? Sorcery perhaps, but we do appreciate bigger batteries in modern smartphones.

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That should give you enough confidence to game with Google Stadia all day if you want. ASUS has partnered with Google Stadia for this device to ensure that there are enough contents for you to play with. It finally makes sense for you to get all the accessories that might come with the ASUS ROG Phone 3. So far, ASUS has only announced the Nintendo Switch-esque Kunai gamepad and a few cases.

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The ROG Phone III will come in three variants. The cheapest will be the ROG Phone 3 STRIX (Qualcomm Snapdragon 865) variant will come with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for EUR€ 799 (approx. MYR3,934). For EUR€ 200 (EUR€ 999, approx. MYR 4,917) more, you get 512GB of memory and 12GB of RAM. The one you might want to get your hands on to rival your friend’s gaming PC though is the top-of-the-line 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage variant at EUR€ 1,099 (approx. MYR 5,409). These are not local pricing though. We are expecting prices to be around the same as the older ASUS ROG Phone 2 on all its variants. That is MYR 2,499, MYR 3,499, and MYR 4,499 for the ROG Phone 2 Strix and two other ROG Phone 2 variants. ASUS Malaysia is touting a Mid-September release locally for the ASUS ROG Phone 3. In that case, all we can do is wait for a while more.

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Chargebee strengthens its subscription and revops platform with new capabilities to enhance customer growth through market uncertainties

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– Industry-leading subscription management platform announces enhanced product capabilities and integrations that will help businesses rapidly adapt to changing scenarios and scale faster as part of its Summer 2020 Release.

– New capabilities include support for complex quote-to-cash use-cases including nuanced contract term scenarios, deeper integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot and Getaccept to simplify enterprise workflows.

– Chargebee establishes a stronger presence in Europe by establishing local data centers, increased support for payment gateways and currencies, and updates for enhanced compliance with new EU regulations.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2020 — Chargebee, the industry leading subscription management platform, today announces its Summer 2020 product updates. With this release, Chargebee will further help organizations adapt their business models and scale revenue through workflow automations, pricing experiments, revenue intelligence, and deep integrations.

The update follows the recent global pandemic around Covid-19 that has forced both traditional and subscription-based businesses to rapidly adapt their revenue models and workflows.

"Change is continuous today across markets, environment and internal processes. Businesses today need to respond in close to real-time, to just ensure continued relevance," said Krish Subramanian, CEO and co-founder of Chargebee. "As a platform designed for high-growth SaaS and subscription businesses, we need to ensure that every revenue leader has the ability to rapidly identify these changing dynamics, adapt with the strategies, and leverage every opportunity to grow".

Designed to help SaaS and subscription businesses streamline their billing workflow, identify revenue insights and deploy strategies, the Chargebee Summer 2020 Product Updates include key enhancements to Chargebee’s contract management, plan modeling and entitlement, analytics, and integrations with key partners including Salesforce and Hubspot.

"We understand the changes that businesses undergo, and are continually building a flexible product that will allow them to adapt and scale. The right billing infrastructure should allow businesses to deploy new plan packages, launch products, handle complex sales workflows, and expand into new geographies with the flip of a switch," said Omar Nawaz, CPO of Chargebee.

The new features will allow businesses enable a variety of use cases while continuously evolving to meet new needs:

  • Scaling Business: Chargebee enables businesses to scale seamlessly by streamlining their complex catalogue management, sales workflows and offering increased payment options
  • Streamline Processes: Chargebee optimizes and enables frictionless enterprise workflows with deeper platform integrations for HubSpot, SalesForce, GetAccept, NetSuite among others.
  • Market Expansion: Chargebee helps business expand internationally as it increases its footprint in Europe by establishing local data centers, increased support for payment gateways and currencies, and updates for enhanced compliance with new EU regulations.

This ecosystem expansion reinforces Chargebee’s dominance in the industry, following its recognition as a Leader in G2 across all subscription categories – Subscription Revenue Management, Subscription Management, Subscription Analytics, and Subscription Billing. 

Chargebee also hosted its first user conference on July 22, 2020 where we celebrated SaaS companies and leaders who have been champions of change pushing the boundaries of change to transform their business and emerge as trail blazers.

About Chargebee

Chargebee automates revenue operations of high-growth, subscription-based business. Its SaaS platform helps businesses manage and grow their revenue by automating subscriptions, billing, invoicing, payments and revenue recognition processes and it provides key reports, metrics and insights into their subscription business. Founded in 2011, Chargebee is used by over 1,800 companies in 53 countries using more than 120 currencies. For more information, visit www.chargebee.com or follow us on Twitter @chargebee

Contact: Swetha Murali, +91-9952696935

 

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Former General Manager of Sogou’s Commercial Product Technology Center, Xu Hongbing, Appointed CTO of Yiwugo

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YIWU, China, July 22, 2020 — Yiwugo.com, the official website of the Yiwu Commodity Market, which is the largest commodity wholesale market in the world, announced last week that Mr. Xu Hongbing, former General Manager of Sogou’s Commercial Product Technology Center, was appointed its CTO, and will lead the overall technology development and operation.

Xu Hongbing
Xu Hongbing

Mr. Xu obtained his Master’s degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. He has served in well-known technology and Internet companies such as Microsoft, Sohu, and Sogou. As one of the core members, he led the development of China’s first online content publishing system and Internet video advertising system, and he has extensive experience in various fields such as e-commerce platform and traffic monetization.

Yiwugo is committed to the digital upgrade of specialized markets. After years of development, the platform has accumulated a considerable amount of traffic, especially since the beginning of this year, its traffic has increased significantly. At present, Yiwugo owns 53,000 merchants, 800,000 daily unique visitors (UV), 15 million daily pageview (PV), and 5 million registered buyers. Yiwugo has become the most influential e-commerce platform in the specialized market in China. The explosive growth of its user traffic has given rise to further overall technical requirements of Yiwugo. "The company urgently needs an experienced technical leader. I believe that under the leadership of CTO Xu Hongbing, a great technical improvement can be expected," said Wang Jianjun, CEO of Yiwugo.

After more than 20 years of development of China’s Internet industry, a large number of companies have recently begun to shift their business focus from consumer Internet to industrial Internet, which has created a new track for the Internet industry in the future, and attracting more and more talents in the industry with its huge market potential. As the largest online platform in the small commodity wholesale industry, Yiwugo was able to invite such an outstanding expert as Mr. Xu to join, which is an inevitable trend of industry and the best combination of enterprises and talents.

Yiwugo is tailor-made for specialized markets, and its functions are designed in a way close to actual small commodity wholesale markets. The core of the specialized markets is "finding goods", and the core of the professional market upgrading is the upgrading the way of finding goods. Yiwugo has covered all small commodity markets and high-quality small commodity suppliers in Yiwu and strives to make it easier for buyers to search commodities. Through technical means such as 360-degree panoramic display, live streaming and APP, the platform ensures online and offline consistency. Yiwugo is a user-friendly platform which reduces the traffic cost of vendors in physical markets operating e-commerce business, and meets the transformation requirements of merchants of professional markets through a decentralized and intelligently recommended traffic distribution mechanism. Many vendors on the Yiwugo have been made able to connect with new domestic and foreign buyers at low cost.

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South Korea’s KT Exports K-Pop Contents via 5G

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– 5G-Powered Live Relays of K-Pop Shows to Hong Kong –

– Export of High-Definition VOD Repackages and VR Formats –

– KT to Extend Korean Content Markets to Southeast Asia –

SEOUL, South Korea, July 22, 2020 — KT Corp. (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT), South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, announced that it is now streaming live performances by K-pop idols aspiring for global stages to Hong Kong audiences.

KT is rehearsing 'KT Live Stage', which is high-definition global streaming of K-pop contents
KT is rehearsing ‘KT Live Stage’, which is high-definition global streaming of K-pop contents

 

The new 5G-powered service began under a contract on content sale that KT signed on July 15 with China Mobile’s music subsidiary, Migu, the leading Korean mobile carrier said.

The contract is an extension of a 2019 memorandum of understanding on collaboration in services of 5G-based new media contents. KT is the first Korean 5G network carrier to export Korean pop music and other digital entertainment contents via China Mobile’s subsidiary.

In December 2019, KT’s 5G network began global broadcasts of K-pop groups on its “KT Live Stage” program. Since then it has relayed seven live programs each month to audiences in Korea via Seezn – KT’s OTT streaming service – and in Hong Kong via Migu’s platform. Those KT Live Stage programs also have been repackaged into VOD format to export.

FarEasTone, a Taiwanese telecommunications company with much interest in high-definition streaming of K-pop contents, also provided its clients with free viewing of KT Live Stage.

KT has collaborated with music promoters and producers in producing the VR contents of all K-pop artists who participated in KT’s earlier live broadcast programs. AR effects also have been added. The VR contents have been drawing keen attention from K-pop fans around the world.

The KT stage lineups range from new K-pop artists who are aiming for global markets to idol groups that have already established fandoms worldwide. K-pop fans around the world continue to follow up their performances with tweets and other SNS messages.

KT plans to further expand its live streaming service, targeting a growing number of Asian countries sharing interest in K-pop contents.

The telecom giant also plans to provide its domestic clients with a variety of global sports contents via Seezn, including those of the Chinese Volleyball Super League, or CVL.

Kim Hoon-bae, KT’s Executive vice president for Customer New Business Unit, says the contract to sell Korean-produced entertainment contents to Migu is the result of the telecom provider’s efforts to help promote the global reach of K-pop contents through its live streaming and other services.

As Kim noted, KT’s subsidiary Genie Music signed contracts on the provision of K-pop contents with Tencent Music Entertainment Group and FUGA in May this year.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group, a company that develops music streaming services for the Chinese market, and FUGA, a Netherlands-based music technology and services company, were the latest additions to the list of Genie Music’s some 50 overseas partners.

Among other partners are Amazon Music and TIDAL in the United States; Anghami, the Middle East; Yandex Music, Russia; JioSaavn, India; and Qobuz, France.

In April this year, KT also agreed with three global content platforms – HBO, VIKI and ODK – to provide them with “The First Shot,” a low-budget web movie, which Seezn had planned and financed.

Kim says the KT-Migu deal will help the Korean mobile carrier provide global audiences with a variety of original contents as well as K-pop contents.

HBO and its subsidiaries are scheduled to broadcast “The First Shot” in 13 countries across Southeast Asia and South Asia in October. VIKI and ODK aired the movie in North and South America, Europe, Oceania and the Middle East in April.

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KT Corp., Korea’s largest telecommunications service provider, reestablished in 1981 under the Telecommunications Business Act, is leading the era of innovations in the world’s most connected country. The company is leading the 4th industrial revolution with high speed wire/wireless network and new ICT technology. KT launched the world’s first nationwide commercial 5G network on April 3, 2019, after successfully showcasing the world’s first trial 5G services at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in February 2018. This is another milestone in KT’s continuous efforts to deliver essential products and services as it aspires to be the number one ICT Company and People’s Company.

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NetDragon Launched International Summer Intern Program

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FUZHOU, China, July 22, 2020 — On July 21, 2020, NetDragon’s International Summer Intern Program opened, 17 college graduates from different countries and regions, such as the United States, Italy, and Serbia, began to formally take up their posts. It is reported that they have been screened out among more than 200 candidates. Affected by the global epidemic situation, they will spend this wonderful international internship online in the next six weeks. It will become the most special one among the seven consecutive sessions held by NetDragon.

The International Summer Intern Program is a normalized platform for international college graduates, which was created by NetDragon in 2014. It mainly recruits international students graduate from game planning, industrial design, experience design, interface design, product design and other majors, aiming to stimulate the spark of innovation when collision happens between domestic and overseas design concepts. At the same time, candidates with high potential will be employed finally.

This time, NetDragon has received more than 200 resumes, including high-quality students recommended by institutions that have established friendly cooperation with NetDragon, as well as international students who have signed up by themselves from other colleges and universities. Finally, a total of 17 students entered the internship, including 11 masters and 6 undergraduate students from more than 10 universities, such as the University of North Texas (UNT), University of Novi Sad, Milan Polytechnic University, Waseda University and London University of Arts.

At the live video streaming of the opening ceremony, Lin Chen, senior vice president of NetDragon, delivered a welcome speech. He said, “Design is the focus of our work, which is not a simple thing, it creates value for our users. The significance of the internship program is to share experience accumulated by NetDragon in design methodology and design tools, and help to create a better life and better world together with new designers and who wants to be a designer from all over the world.”

During the 6-week internship, NetDragon will organize a series of activities such as design workshop, methodology exchange meeting, project practice, etc., according to the interns’ specialty. Interns can also participate in the design of NetDragon’s key products, or involve themselves in the project implementation, especially during the internationalization process of Edmodo, Promethean and other products. In addition, NetDragon will also provide interns with the innovative course of Design Methodology independently developed by Liu Dejian, founder and chairman of NetDragon. This is the summary and refinement of design experience that has been proved successful by practice in the process of long-term product development. This course has won high attention in Harvard University, and also in the Design and Learning course of Beijing Normal University. Interns will be improved in the combination of methodology and practice.

According to the reports, NetDragon will provide job quotas to outstanding interns after the internship period, and part of the international graduates have chosen to stay in NetDragon through this program in these years. To strengthen the cooperation with overseas colleges and universities, attract overseas high-quality students and accelerate the integration with overseas market are important ideas for the rapid development abroad. At present, NetDragon has set foot in more than 190 countries and regions such as Russia, Egypt, Nigeria, and Serbia, covering more than 2 million classrooms and benefiting more than 100 million users.

Business, Computers, Gaming, News

AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop Series is Here! No Zen 3 Yet Though.

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AMD finally released their highly anticipated latest Ryzen processor platform for desktops. We mentioned ‘desktop’ specifically because AMD has launched their Ryzen 4000 series for mobile computing earlier this year. So, here it is, the new AMD Ryzen 4000 series for desktop alongside AMD’s latest Athlon 3000 series offering.

MODELCORES / THREADSTDP (Watts)BOOST9/BASE FREQ. (GHz)GPU CORESCACHE (MB)
AMD Ryzen™ 7 4700G8C/16T65WUp to 4.4 / 3.6 GHz812 MB
AMD Ryzen™ 7 4700GE8C/16T35WUp to 4.3 / 3.1 GHz812 MB
AMD Ryzen™ 5 4600G6C/12T65WUp to 4.2 / 3.7 GHz711 MB
AMD Ryzen™ 5 4600GE6C/12T35WUp to 4.2 / 3.3 GHz711 MB
AMD Ryzen™ 3 4300G4C/8T65WUp to 4.0 / 3.8 GHz66 MB
AMD Ryzen™ 3 4300GE4C/8T35WUp to 4.0 / 3.5 GHz66 MB
Athlon™ Gold 3150G4C / 4T65W​3.9 GHz36 MB
Athlon™ Gold 3150GE4C / 4T35W3.8 GHz36 MB
Athlon™ Silver 3050GE2C / 4T35W3.4 GHz35 MB
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This is not the end of the story though. Keen eyed readers will note that we did say that Zen 3 is not here yet (do not look at us, we are as surprised as you are). That is because the AMD Ryzen 4000 series we see here only packs AMD’s Zen2 architecture.

At least you are still getting AMD’s Radeon graphics integrated in the CPU. The previous AMD Ryzen 3000 series came with AMD’s highly acclaimed Radeon Vega graphics. We can safely expect the AMD Ryzen 4000 series for desktop systems that was just announced to come with AMD’s Radeon Vega graphics too in that case. Until they reveal it though, we do not know.

Source: AMD

They also touted that the new AMD Ryzen 4000 series for desktop performs 2.5x better in multi-threaded applications. There are some improvements on single-thread performance too, which is nice. With the integrated GPU, there are some expected added performance there too. All this means that this should perform better in video editing and rendering works and in games. With the integrated GPU, you can even properly game without having a dedicated GPU.

Alongside the regular consumer range of Ryzen 4000, AMD also announced the AMD Ryzen 4000 series with PRO technologies. Like the notebook range of AMD Ryzen 4000 Pro series, this one is made for AMD’s business customers. Like the mobile version as well, the desktop variant gets all AMD’s security features with the PRO series CPUs.

MODELCORES/ THREADSTDP (Watts)BOOST9/ BASE FREQ. (GHz)Graphics CoresL2/L3 CACHE (MB)
AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 4750G8C/16T65WUp to 4.4/3.6 GHz812MB
AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 4750GE8C/16T35WUp to 4.3/3.1 GHz812MB
AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 4650G6C/12T65WUp to 4.2/3.7 GHz711MB
AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 4650GE6C/12T35WUp to 4.2/3.3 GHz711MB
AMD Ryzen™ 3 PRO 4350G4C/8T65WUp to 4.0/3.8 GHz66MB
AMD Ryzen™ 3 PRO 4350GE4C/8T35WUp to 4.0/3.5 GHz66MB
AMD Athlon™ Gold PRO 3150G4C/4T65WUp to 3.9/3.5 GHz36MB
AMD Athlon™ Gold PRO 3150GE4C/4T35WUp to 3.8/3.3 GHz36MB
AMD Athlon™ Silver PRO 3125GE2C/4T35WUp to 3.4/3.4 GHz35MB
Source: AMD

What Do You Mean No Zen3?

The AMD Ryzen 4000 CPU has been touted and teased with a certain upcoming Zen3 architecture that is supposed to be way more powerful than what we see on the older generation AMD Ryzen 3000 series with Zen2. With the new AMD Ryzen 4000 desktop that just launched, it seems that AMD is not including the Zen3 architecture within the CPU just yet. They did not mention also if the architecture within the Ryzen 4000 series is Zen2+, which leaves us assuming that it is still the same Zen2 application that was on the Ryzen 3000 series.

Still, there are some performance gains on all the platforms they announced, including the Athlon offerings. While they may not be as big of a performance leap we expect from the Ryzen 4000 series, any improvements is welcome. The integrated graphics may also help with budget gaming and editing rigs.

Hope for Zen3 Still Alive with Big Navi

Source: AMD

Here is the kicker for the AMD Ryzen 4000 series for desktop PCs that was just announced though; you cannot buy them. To be specific, you cannot buy them on their own. You can only get these processors from OEMs in their desktop system offerings. AMD is teasing Lenovo and HP to be the first to produce a desktop system with the newly launched AMD Ryzen 4000 series somewhere after 21st July 2020.

That also creates a room and a gap for the enthusiasts’ market where Zen3 is yet to be available. Big Navi is also expected to be launched and announced later in 2020. With that also we expect AMD to announced another variant of the AMD Ryzen 4000 series that is available to consumers as an individual part and devoid of any integrated graphics. In that, we hope that the AMD Ryzen 4000 that we expect to launch with Radeon’s Big Navi to come with Zen3 or at least a Zen2+.

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Exadel Meets Growth Projections, Secures New Clients And Expands Senior Management Team In Second Quarter Of 2020

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Despite a global pandemic and business slow-downs, Exadel continues to thrive and grow based on its distributed Agile engineering and development model

WALNUT CREEK, California, July 22, 2020 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), an enterprise software development company, today announced strong momentum in the second quarter of 2020, including increased sales, the addition of new clients, several new projects and the expansion of its C-level team with two senior level appointments. The company’s achievements are particularly noteworthy in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The distributed Agile development model Exadel employs is central to its ability to withstand economic challenges as it helps clients realize digital transformation across the globe.

 Specifically, in the second quarter, Exadel:

  • Maintained its growth projections for 2020
  • Increased repeat business from existing clients
  • Leveraged additional projects via distributed Agile development
  • Deepened its senior management bench strength with new positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Delivery Officer

"Exadel has always had a distributed Agile development approach to help clients achieve success," explained Fima Katz, CEO of Exadel. "We have teams across the globe who have been working in a distributed manner since the formation of the company. While other companies are struggling to adjust quickly to a remote workplace reality, Exadel  provides the infrastructure, resources, technology and talent needed to easily adapt and thrive despite great disruptions such as COVID-19.

Exadel has locations across three continents. Its team of highly specialized software engineers has helped numerous high profile brands and enterprise organizations – many Fortune 500 entities – build and deliver everything from custom software projects to complete product platforms from the ground up.

In addition to impressive results for the second quarter, the company also announced the addition of two new positions and members of its senior management team. Elena Krukovskaya has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer (COO), and Alexey Girzhadovich assumes the role of Chief Delivery Officer (CDO).

Krukovskaya began working at Exadel in 2008 as a human resources manager where she established Exadel’s policies around people, operations and processes. As COO, Krukovskaya will be responsible for managing Exadel’s global operations to meet business goals and objectives.

Girzhadovich is an accomplished leader and previously served in multiple roles at Exadel. He brings a lengthy track record of working with high-growth software companies. As Chief Delivery Officer, Girzhadovich will implement a coherent project delivery strategy with a focus on teams, processes, efficiency and profitability.

"Achieving success during these challenging times is a testament to Exadel’s ability to deliver exceptional software engineering services that help our clients realize their business goals," said Katz. "Exadel has a winning formula and we look forward to continued growth in the future."

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Exadel is an enterprise software development company supporting organizations at all stages of their digital transformation journey. We help companies redefine the way they do business by developing core digital solutions, software products and platforms, and helping them transition to the cloud. Exadel is a leader in distributed Agile development, leveraging resources globally for continuous delivery, even during times of great disruption. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Exadel has more than 1,000 engineers in 23 offices across the USA, Europe and Asia. We produce a variety of original products, frameworks, platforms and solutions for high profile brands across many industries—from media and publishing, finance, retail and e-commerce, to healthcare, wellness, high tech and transportation. Learn more at exadel.com

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TUKA3D Removes Touch and Feel Barrier For Digital Development of Apparel

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LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2020 — Tukatech introduces the first “feel factor value” to fabrics based on a mathematical calculation using bend and surface friction values in all warp, weft, and shear directions. This feature helps in 3D product design as customers can quickly relate fabric feel without having to wait for a physical sample which can delay the development process.

What is a “fabric feel factor?” It is a number which someone may be able to learn and associate in their mind when imagining what the fabric will feel like. The relational value comparison is based on many fabrics familiar to users. This is like understanding a weather report where, for example, the temperature is 56 degrees Fahrenheit but “feels like” 65. This “feels like” conveys that one might feel warmer than the current temperature would indicate. This may be due to various reasons in the environment for that day including wind velocity and humidity. Simply telling the relative humidity is a certain value or that the wind is at a certain velocity does not instantly convey the feel factor of the temperature. However, if it is told that the temperature feels like 65 degrees it instantly conveys what to expect.

A similar analogy has been applied to fabrics. For example, most apparel people know from experience how soft a fine silk scarf feels and know that raw denim or burlap is rough. A number can be assigned to fabrics that will convey to the mind the feel factor of the fabric. If the softest fabric was a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 and the roughest was a 1, then other fabrics fall in between. This determination from most used fabrics now can be classified with reference number for each and a feel factor for new fabric will help the design community to “digitally feel” the fabric while they can see the drape and movement of fabric in TUKA3D. These values can then be tabulated and the mean for each fabric taken and assigned to that fabric.

“What do you feel when someone say it feels soft like baby’s skin, or it tastes too salty, or the sound is too loud. As humans, we do have our sensory abilities to predict taste or listening on a decibel factor, same senses can relate these ‘feel factor’ to predict the feel of fabrics by comparison numbers of known fabrics. We wanted to give designers the ‘feel factor’ to help speed up the product development process in digital format, as well as give consumers the ability to digitally feel the fabric before making their purchase,” explains Ram Sareen, CEO-Founder of Tukatech. 

For more information about our latest fabric feel factor feature, TUKA3D, or any other solutions, please visit www.tukatech.com or email tukateam@tukatech.com.

About Tukatech – Tukatech was founded in 1995 with the objective to have pattern makers create patterns digitally on the computer. On their silver anniversary, Tukatech is an influential fashion technology company known worldwide for innovative solutions and superior technical support. They are the industry’s leading provider of award winning CAD (TUKAcad), Automatic Marker Making (SMARTmark), and 3D software (TUKA3D virtual fit and sampling and TUKA3D Designer Edition Visualizer) and machinery for product development, cloud collaboration, and garment manufacturing. Visit us at: www.tukatech.com 

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