SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2021 — Following a shift to providing RPA solutions and business support to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in 2020, ElectroNeek’s MSP-focused revenue increased by 750% in the past 12 months.
Through RPA tools such as Studio Pro, Bot Runner, and SaaS Orchestrator, ElectroNeek’s focus on empowering MSPs resulted in exponential growth in revenue, with Q3 doubling the efforts of the first half of the year. Revenue from sales to MSPs increased by 750%, and ElectroNeek’s MSP customer base increased by 2.5 times compared to the end of Q3 2020. Our innovative product ecosystem, MSP-focused services, and subscription-friendly business model allows MSPs to have control over pricing for end-clients with flexible terms that aid partners in winning new segments and beating old-fashioned RPA platforms partners.
ElectroNeek’s network of MSP partners continues to grow, and now includes partners globally. By leveraging the ElectroNeek ecosystem, our MSP partners have evolved their service offerings to provide RPA services for not just small- and medium-sized clients, but enterprise as well.
"ElectroNeek’s shift towards a focus on MSPs and their clients started in the fourth quarter last year. To best serve our clients, this transformation demanded that we grow our products and business processes. The result was closing all product gaps with our Summer ’21 release, along with evolving our business framework to accommodate a MSP-focused business model. With these accomplishments, our team delivered outstanding results.
The revenue growth from our target audience of entrepreneurs that provide RPA services to end-clients increased by 750% through Oct. 1, 2021, from the end of Q3 2020. The successes of our teams throughout the year so far has equipped us with the ability to fulfill our new sales plans in Q4."
Sergey Yudovskiy, Co-founder & CEO, ElectroNeek
ElectroNeek’s MSP-oriented RPA ecosystem
At ElectroNeek, we help MSPs drive high profits by providing a robust lineup of products, joint business and technical efforts with partners, and free bot licenses. ElectroNeek’s focus to help MSPs succeed delivers a clear vision for innovation in the RPA industry: the ease of development and deployment of RPA solutions.
ElectroNeek’s ecosystem continues to evolve to meet the demands and needs of our MSP partners. Our support teams understand the complexity of our partner’s RPA solutions and business models; ElectroNeek partners serve a wide audience of end-clients — from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises in a variety of industries — and the ElectroNeek ecosystem empowers them to deliver the best RPA solution for each end-client.
About ElectroNeek
ElectroNeek is the top RPA vendor for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with offices in North America, India, Europe, and Latin America. More than 500 customers and partners trust ElectroNeek worldwide to deliver hyper-automation solutions and support.
ElectroNeek is the preferred RPA vendor for many globally recognized and leading regional MSPs, such as BDO, HLB, and Compasso, and enterprise clients such as Electrolux, Epiroc, Sage, and 7-Eleven.
Sustainable is a bigger thing today than ever before. The drive to consciously limit your carbon footprint. It is more than just about reducing your own carbon footprint though. It is also about making decisions to use products and from brands that are limiting their carbon footprint. In the world of electronics though, waste is almost inevitable.
But living sustainably and responsibly goes further than just buying products that creates a smaller carbon footprint also. It is about understanding a cycle. It is about understanding that each item you use will produce waste. It is about understanding where these waste items go to or reusing the waste in a different form. In the case of the Acer Vero line-up, it is about using one of the largest and most damaging waste items since the World War II era and repurposing the materials in new products that looks like no other.
Aspire Vero
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The Aspire line-up is Acer’s staple notebook line-up that is created for casual users. It is especially popular with students and the budget conscious buyers. At the same time, it is one of the more feature packed laptops in the market. Now, it is also sustainable with chassis made from recycled plastics (30% recycled plastics on chassis, 50% recycled plastics on keycaps).
The Aspire Vero packs a lot of power still with up to an 11th generation Intel Core i7-1195G7 processor. You get to spec it up with up to 16GB of RAM too for good measure. For maximum flexibility, you get 1TB (up to) of SSD storage too.
For all kinds of graphical needs on Windows 11, the Aspire Vero has Intel’s Xe Graphics (up to). The integrated GPU powers a 15.6-inch IPS display. The substantial display size allows the laptop to fit a large battery that can last up to 9.5 hours of typical use.
The benefit of using mostly plastics for its construction is weight, or rather, the lack of it. The Aspire Vero weighs only 1.8kg. Its included packaging can also be repurposed as a laptop stand. At the same time, the lightweight high-quality recycled plastic body is designed to be easily removed for future serviceability and repair.
Acer TravelMate Vero
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One of the most popular business laptops out there has been Acer’s TravelMate series. Because reliability is important in the business world, the TravelMate is made to be as reliable as possible. Of course, It has to be secure as well, since some of the most sensitive documents from your company might be housed in the PC. Again, the Vero variant will come with just more than just security and reliability. It comes with sustainability.
Like the Aspire Vero, 30% of the TraveMate Vero’s chassis is made of recycled plastics. 50% of its keycaps are also made of the same material. It also features a reusable packaging. You can turn the packaging into a laptop stand for example.
It comes with Intel’s 11th Generation Core i7-1195G7 processor paired with an Intel Iris Xe Graphics for power. The Windows 11 device packs up to 1TB in SSD storage and also up to 16GB in RAM to handle all sorts of multitasking and storage needs. It also boasts a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display with Acer’s ComfyView to ensure that your eyes are well protected in extended working conditions.
The 1.8kg package also comes with up 9.5 hours in battery life. Of course, it comes with an enterprise level TPM for security while working on-the-go. At the same time, for the most flexible centralised enterprise system set-up, the Acer TravelMate Vero also comes with their Commercial type BIOS. The enterprise level BIOS can also be locked and reversed should there be a security breach or any concerns of a cyberattack on the TravelMate Vero.
Acer Veriton Vero Mini
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Who said your desktop PC tower has to be a 100% metal chassis? Acer does not think so with the new Veriton Vero Mini. The Veriton series are made to be industrial machines to be placed less than ideal situations while remaining as reliable as possible.
The Veriton Vero Mini is designed to be placed in environments where space is an absolute premium as well. At the same time, it is designed to blend with any environment it is put into and still remain functional at the same time.
For that, the Windows 11 mini PC comes with Intel’s latest Core vPro processors to ensure that the Veriton Vero Mini is capable of handling all sorts of workloads you might require of it. You can spec it with up to 64GB in RAM too to ensure that your multitask workflow remains smooth and reliable. It is not meant to handle 3D workloads though, since it is only relying on Intel’s integrated graphics platform. You can opt for up to 2TB in HDD storage, or up to 1TB in SSD space, or both. At the same time, you get Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity with the Veriton Vero Mini for maximum flexibility in its placement.
The Veriton Vero Mini’s chassis is made of 25% recycled plastics too, which explains its unique design. Because of the plastic construction also, it only weighs 1.3 kg, which would mean that you can mount it almost anywhere without a fuss.
Acer Vero BR277
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Of course, any work environment with the Acer Veriton Vero Mini is not complete without a monitor to match. The display must be on theme as well with the Veriton Vero. It must be made of the same materials to match the unique look that only the Vero series can offer. That is the Acer Vero BR277.
The Acer Vero BR277 is Acer’s first sustainable market monitor. It is also probably most sustainable product from Acer. Half its chassis is made of recycled plastics. That is pretty amazing considering that the Full HD monitor can offer the same motions as the regular monitors. You can tilt it, swivel it, adjust its heights to a comfortable level, and pivot it to your heart’s content, or rather your preferred use case. All that while remaining mostly plastic.
27-inch IPS panel boasts 4ms in response time and 75Hz in refresh rate. It clearly is not a gaming monitor for the power users. It does offer 72% NTSC colour gamut though, which is accurate enough in most use cases. While it does not offer more than 6-bit (16.7 million colours), it will still be a good enough monitor in most industrial use cases too.
Macaron Vero Mouse
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It is not Acer’s special dessert. The Macaron Vero Mouse is an actual electronic mouse that is meant to be used with your PC products. Of course, because it is a Vero product, it is made of sustainable materials. It is mostly made of recycled plastic that also contributes to its unique look.
The Vero mouse is also made to complete the look and feel of the Vero series. It is made to match the Vero laptops and even the Veriton Vero Mini if you want it to. It is just a regular wireless mouse that is made to complete the whole Vero look though.
Acer has been busy creating a new image for Predator with some products that are out of the left-field like the Predator Shot. However, their expansion into the gamer lifestyle space also includes collaborations like the Predator Gaming Chair. This time Acer is completing your setup with their new Predator Gaming Desk.
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The Predator Gaming Desk is a large 55-inch gaming desk that is available in two finishes. The first is a custom Predator mouse pad finish which provides a resilient surface. The finish makes it easy for you to use your gaming mouses. The second option is a carbon fibre finish which is not only durable but easy to maintain and clean.
The gaming desk is kitted out with two cable management cutouts making it easy for you to channel your cables. It allows you to maintain your clean, minimalist set-up easily. It also has a cup holder so you won’t have to battle watermarks when you’re battling the orcs and demons. You’ll also be able to stow away knick-knacks in the built-in storage tray. Your headphones will also have a hook to call home on the new Gaming Desk.
The frame of the Gaming Desk is made to be sturdy. The steel structure should be able to weather pretty much anything. It’s able to hold 120kgs on the top. However, if you’re looking for something height-adjustable, it’s the only feature that hasn’t made it to the Predator Gaming Desk. However, if you have the Predator Gaming Chair, it’s the last piece to complete your gaming set-up.
Pricing & Availability
The Predator Gaming Desk will be available in two finishes: Carbon Fiber and the customer Predator Mouse Pad surface.
The Gaming Desk will be available in Europe, Middle East and Asian regions starting in December 2021. Prices will start at €UR229 (MYR1101.67).
Acer’s Predator Gaming lineup has been one of the popular gaming brands out there. It really comes as no surprise with the company pushing quality products like the Orion 3000 and X34 GS gaming monitor. This time, the company is really upping the ante with new products and refreshes that bring new, more immersive experiences to the table.
Predator LED Gaming Projectors – Bigger, More Immersive Visual Experience
There’s nothing that gives you a more immersive experience that when you’re wrapped by the graphics you interact with. Acer’s Predator line up already has some of the best monitors, but the company is turning things up to 11 with two new Gaming Projectors: the Predator GD711 and the Predator GM712.
Predator GD711 (Source: Acer)
The two new LED Gaming Projectors are able to project in 4K UHD. Both are capable of resolutions up to 3840×2160 pixels. The projectors are able to produce true 4K resolution thanks to Acer’s decision to incorporate TI XPR technology which allows for true 4K resolution with 8.3 million pixels regardless of the native resolution of the DMD chip. The Predator Gaming Projectors project natively in a 16:9 aspect ratio. That said, they have support for 4:3 resolution as well.
Both the Predator GM712 and the Predator GD711 are equipped with a Quad cored Cortex A53 processor with clock speeds of up to 1.3GHz. This is complemented by a Mali 450MP2 graphics processor with support for OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL 2.01. Both have 2GB RAM and 8GB onboard memory. The projectors also support WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bandsas well as Bluetooth 4.2. They also have a single 10W speaker. They also share the same number of inputs – 2 HDMI 2.0 ports adn 1 USB Type A (2.0). The GM712 has an additional component video input and PC Audio Jack.
Predator GM712 (Source: Acer)
The Predator GM712 is able to project a 75-inch display at 2 metres throw distance while the GD711 is able to do 74-inches at the same. However, Acer did say that they are capable of throwing images of up to 300-inches. The GM712 is equipped with a Philips 245W lamp with up to 12,000 hours of lamp life while the GD711 has an RGB LED with up to 30,000 hours of lamp life. The former also has up to 3,600 ANSI lumens of brightness while the latter has up to 1,450 ANSI Lumens.
Predator Orion 7000 – Bigger, Better, Sleeker and More Powerful
The Predator Orion line up is being expanded with a new Orion 7000 desktop. The new desktop is a mid sized tower which ditches the familar design of the Orion 3000 and Orion 9000 for a sleeker, more streamlined design. While it retains the hard lines of the Orion series, it adopts a more angular, square design which is a welcomed refresh to the line up.
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It comes with configurations supporting up to the 12th generation Intel Core processors and either the NVIDIA GeForce RTX3090 or RTX3080 graphics cards. On the RAM side of things, it can have up to 64GB of dual channel DDR5 4000 MHz RAM. For storage, it has 2 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots and 2 3.5-inch SATA3 HDD Slots. This gives support for up to a total of 8TB of internal storage. It also supports PCIe Gen 5. It comes with Killer E31000G 2.5G Ethernet and Intel WiFi 6E 2×2.
The Orion 7000 will be cooled by Predator’s FrostBlade 2.0 fans and a Predator AIO CPU liquid cooler. Acer is also introducing the IceTunnel airflow management system to help keep the Orion 7000 cool. Of course, the Orion 7000 is equipped with all the ARGB you could ever want!
It will be launching with Windows 11 Home.
Pricing & Availability
The Predator GD711 Projector will be available in the Europe, Middle East and Asian (EMEA) regions starting in December 2021 for €1,499 (MYR7,210.32) and in Q1 (January – March) 2022 in China for CN¥ 11,999 (MYR7,761.53).
The Predator GM712 Projector will be available for €1,399 (MYR6,730.09) in the Europe, Middle East and Asian regions starting January 2022. It will be available in China starting in November for CN¥ 10,999 (MYR7,114.69).
The Orion 7000 willl be available starting in Q1 2022 in China and EMEA. North America will see the new desktop starting in Q2 (April – June) 2022. Prices will start at CN¥20,000 (MYR12,934.32) in China and €2,199 (MYR10,574) elsewhere.
Leading Independent Solar Power Producer in the UK and Europe Eliminates Use of Spreadsheets and Improves Planning and Reporting Capabilities with Planful Platform
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 13, 2021 — Planful Inc., the pioneer of end-to-end financial close, consolidation, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) cloud software, today announced that Amarenco Group, a leading solar IPP active in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific that develops, finances, builds, and operates commercial and utility-scale solar PV projects, deployed the Planful platform to automate the financial close processes and to upgrade the company’s planning and reporting capabilities. RSM UK, a valued Planful partner and the leading provider of audit, tax, and consulting services to middle market leaders, worked alongside Planful on the customer implementation.
Amarenco Group, headquartered in Ireland with offices around the globe, was previously using spreadsheets to consolidate more than 300 separate entities that use a variety of currencies. Siobhán Rice, Group Financial Controller at Amarenco, was looking to modernize how her team manages the company’s complex consolidation needs and bring efficiencies to their statutory reporting.
"Our goal was to replace spreadsheets with a modern cloud platform that automates our complex monthly elimination and consolidation processes," said Rice. "The Planful platform delivered those capabilities, while integrating with our existing technology stack, resulting in a 60% reduction in our monthly close cycle time. We’ve found the Planful consolidation and reporting solutions to be intuitive and with the level of support and engagement from RSM UK and Planful, we expect to further reduce our close process time and are excited to expand to additional Planful use cases."
At Planful Perform 2021, the company announced a range of customer experience enhancements, from focused customer engagement programs to pre-packaged Planful Now quick-start offerings. These transformative customer experience initiatives produced impressive customer satisfaction results, including an average Support CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) score of 92%, as well as a 96% customer referenceability rate for Planful implementations.
"Bringing rapid time-to-value, via the best user experience, to our customers worldwide is of the utmost importance to the Planful team," said Kimberly Simms, Chief Customer Officer, Planful. "Our cloud platform is allowing Amarenco Group to streamline their finance and accounting processes, so they can spend more time analyzing information to help the business make better financial decisions."
About Planful Planful (formerly Host Analytics) is the pioneer of financial planning & analysis (FP&A) and consolidations cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. More than 900 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.
BANGALORE, India, Oct. 13, 2021 — TUV Rheinland, a global leader in independent technical services, has announced that its four product testing laboratories located in Bangalore, Gurgaon, Visakhapatnam and Pune have been designated as Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) by the Indian Ministry of Communication’s Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) to conduct testing under the newly published Phase III and Phase IV Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MTCTE) Regulations.
Acceptance of applications on MTCTE portal shall be effective from 11th October, 2021 and the certification of newly added product categories will become mandatory from 1st July, 2022 in stages. It is applicable for all Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Importers and Dealers who sell or import notified telecom equipment in India. Testing is to be conducted by a TEC recognized laboratory and certification is to be obtained from TEC before placing the product in the market. The applicant shall be required to submit test wise compliance along with test reports, in respect of parameters included in Essential Requirements (ERs) from a designated CAB. The test results shall be evaluated for compliance against respective ERs and certificate will be awarded by TEC upon meeting the requirements. Our state-of-the-art TEC designated laboratories are capable of carrying out testing as per MTCTE regulations and can support end-to-end certification process.
Commenting on the development, Mr. Arun Deshpande, Managing Director, TUV Rheinland India said, "For the past few years, TUV Rheinland has been investing in India to build necessary competences and capacities as per TEC requirements to address market needs. TUV Rheinland’s facilities are one of the first few laboratories designated by TEC in the areas of Electrical Safety, EMC, Wireless and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) requirements." He added, "With our four anechoic chambers and laboratories across four different regions of India, and multiple accrediations such as TEC, NABL, BIS, A2LA, IECEE CB Scheme, we offer one-stop-shop solutions for global market access."
TEC is dedicated to creating a progressive environment to standardize new telecom technologies and products and strengthen India’s testing and certification infrastructure. Mr. Kalyan Varma, Director – Global Wireless Program, TUV Rheinland Group said,"Telecom products are built with complex technologies and type testing is always a challenge especially in the areas of EMC and Wireless. With our global network of laboratories and capabilities to fulfill customer requirements as per various national and international standards, our experts can support on testing and certification as per globally harmonized processes and provide cost-effective solutions."
About TUV Rheinland:
TUV Rheinland stands for safety and quality in virtually all areas of business and life. Founded almost 150 years ago, the company is one of the world’s leading testing service providers with more than 20,500 employees and annual revenues of 2 billion euros. TUV Rheinland India was established in 1996 and is a subsidiary of the TUV Rheinland Group, Germany. With its local headquarters in Bangalore, TUV Rheinland is active across multiple locations with multi-discipline labs catering to the Indian as well as global markets. TUV Rheinland’s highly qualified experts test technical systems and products around the world, support innovations in technology and business, train people in numerous professions and certify management systems according to international standards. In doing so, the independent experts generate trust in products as well as processes across global value-adding chains and the flow of commodities. Since 2006, TUV Rheinland has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact to promote sustainability and combat corruption. Website
The Apple iPad has really come into its own in the world of content creation today. It has become one of the go to or must have tools in a remote production set up to quickly get at least photos edited and uploaded quickly. Adobe’s Photoshop app on the iPad is mostly the weapon of choice in that matter. Adobe’s Photoshop for iPad is one of the most powerful photo editing tools you can find on a mobile device, just short of laptops.
It has just become even more powerful though with the added ability to edit RAW files. This not only includes Apple’s ProRAW file format. You can even edit photos in DNG formats from other proper DSLR type cameras if need be.
While you might not see value in taking photos in RAW and editing them on your mobile device, there are good reasons why you want your photos taken and post edited in RAW. For one, RAW photos usually will take full advantage of your camera’s full dynamic capabilities. If you are using your smartphone to take RAW photos, you can even take advantage of its full sensor size. In terms of post editing, there are a lot more manipulation you can do with RAW photos, down to the granular details.
Now you have that ability to edit RAW photos on-the-go with the Apple iPad thanks to the Camera Raw ability on the Adobe Photoshop software. Camera Raw is a known plugin for Adobe’s suite to add RAW decoding capabilities. It gives even Adobe’s Lightroom the ability to open and edit RAW photos.
That also means you have a greater control over photos on your iPad. You can now turn your iPad into a professional photo editing station, and you do not even need a PC to work on your photos now. There is small caveat here though.
The new function is not actually available for current Apple iPad users. Adobe says that the function will be ‘coming soon’, whatever that means. They managed to showcase and tease the power of the Adobe Photoshop on an iPad with Camera Raw capabilities too on YouTube. This feature is also announced ahead of Adobe’s Max 2021 conference, so we may be able to expect the function to come to Apple iPad devices, especially the iPad Pro with m1 chips after the fact. For now, we can only wait.
LONDON, Oct. 12, 2021 — Award-winning UK technology start-up Aidrivers has received a visit from Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP and Prime Minister Boris Johnson at its headquarters in Uxbridge, London.
Aidrivers provides artificial intelligence-enabled solutions for retrofitting into new and existing vehicles including trucks and cranes so they can be operated autonomously in mixed traffic environments without any infrastructure upgrade. The company has offices in London, Singapore, India, China and Turkey, as well as joint ventures with vehicle and logistics organisations in Europe and Asia Pacific.
During the visit, Boris Johnson met Aidrivers’ founder Dr Rafiq Swash and was shown how the technology works. The Prime Minister also tried the technology, operating simulated autonomous port vehicles using Aidrivers’ digital twin.
Aidrivers helps fleet operators in industrial settings such as ports, airports, smart cities and warehouses to maximise their efficiency. It reduces waste by minimising idle-engine time, for example, and allows fleet operators to work 24/7 at optimum energy efficiency, enhancing the resilience of global supply chains. Aidrivers software is used in Singapore, China and Turkey, and the company is committed to providing autonomous mobility solutions that meet industry needs when it comes to sustainability, resilience and safety.
Founded in 2018, Aidrivers today employs 60 people, with the majority working from London. It expects to continue to grow rapidly in response to market need. Many brownfield port terminals, for example, are affected by a shortage of skilled labour and are looking to implement effective autonomous automation to continuously meet the requirements of global supply chains.
Dr Swash said: "We were honoured to receive a visit today from our Prime Minister Boris Johnson and it was a pleasure to show him our cutting-edge technology, which is being used in demanding industrial applications around the world to help make supply chains more resilient and sustainable. His visit recognises the positive impact Aidrivers is having in terms of creating jobs for the new economy, meeting the need of fleet operators to reduce harmful emissions, and helping society and industry become sustainable."
About Aidrivers
Aidrivers is a UK-based award-winning technology company focused on the autonomous vehicle sector. It supplies software for retrofitting into existing vehicles operating in a variety of demanding environments including ports, airports, smart cities and warehouses without the need for infrastructure change. It is involved in a number of joint ventures and collaborations, including with Turkey’s Largo Robotics, a manufacturer of tow-trucks and indoor robots, Singapore’s B-Robotics, which makes lightweight and micro robots, and with German sensor producer SICK. In 2018, it signed a proof-of-concept project with PSA Singapore, the world’s largest trans-shipment container hub, to retrofit two diesel trucks to convert them to fully autonomous vehicles. Aidrivers employs 60 people worldwide, with offices in London, Singapore, India, China and Turkey.
GrabPay is arguably one of the largest eWallets in Malaysia. Now a crucial component of Grab’s “SuperApp”, it’s the primary means of racking up GrabRewards points and paying for services. That said, it’s also one of the features that requires the most user information. As such, it comes as a welcomed update that GrabPay is getting more features to ensure data safety. The announcement is a timely given the rise of the number of cyber security incidents in the past week.
The GrabPay eWallet has been enhanced with multi-layer security features. These features are touted to enhance the security of real-time transactions that are done on the platform. As a first layer of defence, GrabPay has been fortified with two factor authentication (2FA). This measure will ensure that logging in is more secured. All users will need to setup their 2FA with a GrabPay PIN. In addition to the PIN, users will also be able to use biometric authentication as well. This means you can use facial recognition and fingerprint authentication on supported devices.
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In addition to 2FA, Grab has adopted AI technologies to help with fraud protection. They have implemented machine learning and AI that monitors user account activity. These algorithms will detect any anomalous activity and flag it as potential fraud. Once flagged, it will lockdown the account for further action. Grab is also working with internationally recognised security systems that will also assist and verify detection to ensure that transactions are genuine.
This AI integration is complemented by privacy and security policies. Grab states that any information pertaining to GrabPay transactions is secured. Payment, transaction, credit card and account information are all kept under lock and key. These policies are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). GrabPay as a platform is also regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
The last component of their security, according to Grab, is a strong customer service arm. Grab has made information readily available on their Help Center. Grab is touting its Help Center as a key educational tool for users to learn about GrabPay and also self serve solutions for common issues. If the help center isn’t sufficient, users are able to access live customer support through the Grab application.
With these steps and mechanisms in place, Grab is ensuring users that their data and transactions will be private and secure. So, you can use GrabPay with peace of mind.
OPPO’s ColorOS has always been about customisability and self-expression. The company’s latest iteration: ColorOS 12 is no different but it does take a load off when it comes to OPPO’s visual customizations of the Android OS. OPPO said that the company’s decision to jump from ColorOS8 to 11 to match Android’s version number is a literal alignment of the OS with Android.
ColorOS is maturing as an OS. With ColorOS 12, the company is fine-tuning its approach to be able to adapt to multiple languages and layouts better than ever before. OPPO says the main theme of ColorOS this time around is “Inclusivity” and that changes made to the OS this round were mainly focused on catering to their 440 million users across 68 countries.
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The biggest difference you will see in the approach is a reduction in OPPO apps and the use of many stock Android apps. The company has decided to reduce redundancy in its offerings by using Android’s built-in phone and messaging app and integrating more of Android’s built-in features for the new take on ColorOS. The company has “decoupled” the experience to allow users access to their own apps via an optional download from their app store.
Back to Basics with a Focus on Customization & Usability
However, that doesn’t mean that OPPO is leaving its own features to the wayside. Their approach to the design of the new iteration of ColorOS builds on their Infinite Design concept which carries forward from 11. Visually, the OS looks cleaner with more modern icons. On the backend, OPPO has optimised the OS to use a fraction of the resources it used before. ColorOS 12 sees a reduction of 30% of memory usage and 20% battery consumption – making it the most efficient ColorOS to date.
The efficiency doesn’t come at the cost of personalization. In fact, the latest iteration of ColorOS may be the most customizable yet. OPPO has enhanced customisation with more themes, icons and fonts in its theming engine. In addition, the company has also been working on optimising the OS further to be more intuitive and easier to use.
ColorOS 12 is focusing on the essentials. Instead of focusing on gimmicky features, OPPO has been working on enhancing more usable features like PC connect, FlexDrop and Phone Manager which allow users to have a more seamless experience across multiple devices. OPPO’s approach to providing a more seamless experience between phone and PC brings features like drag and drop, screen mirroring and even seamless file transfer between PC and phone. PC Connect only works with Windows for now.
OPPO is also focusing on device security. The company’s new OS brings Android’s privacy and security features front and centre. The OS makes features like Privacy Dashboard more accessible and comes with a better-optimised experience when to Approximate Location Sharing and Microphone and Camera Indicators. The company is also enhancing the security of their OS with in-house features such as private system, private safe, and app lock.
Open to Developers
OPPO is also committing to be open when it comes to the development of ColorOS. The company is making its camera SDKs openly available to developers moving forward. These SDKs will make some of the company’s best camera features such as Ultra Steady Video Shooting, HDR, and Super Wide-Angle available to developers.
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Timely Update Schedule
OPPO is committing to updating its devices consistently moving forward. This applies to devices released from 2019 onwards. Their flagship Find X series will be getting three major Android updates. The mid-range Reno, F- and higher-end A-series devices will be getting two major updates. Lower end devices will be getting a single Android update. According to the company, the single update is due to the lower memory specifications of lower-end A-Series models.
In addition to major updates, OPPO’s Find X series will also be getting four years of security updates. The Reno, F-, and A-series will be updated for three years.
