IRAI Titbits -- 200711

IRAI Titbits -- 200711

TCS to hire 40,000 freshers like last year. Further, plans to double its US campus hires to nearly 2,000 this fiscal, as part of an effort to reduce dependence on H-1B and L-1 work visas, which are becoming increasingly difficult to get.

The Supreme Court on 10th Jul 2020,  agreed in principle that serving notices and summons to people, integral to judicial processes, through instant messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram, in addition to emails, would be legally valid.

Mastercard and Visa may be challenged by a new European payment system referred to as the Pan European Payment System Initiative (PEPSI), which will process card payments in addition to making fund transfers and mobile payments without using Mastercard's or Visa's network  to help banks generate more revenue from payments

The first online end-semester examination at Central University of Punjab (CUP), Bhatinda came to a halt after hackers hacked into the question banks on Wednesday, 8th Jul. The university and faculty members received a mail from ‘ProtonMail’, with a link, clicking which gives access to all the questions of the ongoing exams which started on Tuesday, 7th Jul.

Mewat, Bharatpur and Mathura, which form the tri-junction of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, have emerged as cyber fraud's new ‘Jamtara’ — the sleepy district of Jharkhand often known as the country’s phishing capital and home to many scamsters involved in hacking.

According to research firm IDC, the India smart wearables market clocked 80.6% year-over-year (y-o-y) growth to 4.2 million unit shipments in the March 2020 quarter of which, watches accounted a y-o-y growth of 43.3% with about 2,09,400 watches being shipped in the country.

Harvard University and MIT have announced to sue the Department of Homeland Security and the federal immigration agency on new guidelines barring foreign students from remaining in America if their universities switched to online-only classes in the Fall.

Truecaller claims it is an app of Swedish origin and provides service for over 170 million people in India, identifying and blocking hundreds of millions of spam calls and SMS every single day.

Currently, over 95% of POS (Point of Sales) terminals  used in India are imported from China. The POS market is dominated by three global manufacturers – US-based Verifone, France-based Ingenico and Hong Kong-based Pax Technologies with all  having manufacturing bases in China. 

There is  surprisingly, no Made in India POS device while 1.5 million new POS terminals were deployed in India last year and sales of new devices is expected to grow 10-15% whose market size is in the range of 1500-1800 crores per annum.

A company aiming to set up a POS manufacturing unit in India will need certifications from EMV card networks, PCI-DSS and ISO certifications, which generally take 10-12 months.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in Abu Dhabi, is said to be  the world’s first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence university.

The Department of Information Technology and Electronics, Govt. of West Bengal takes this opportunity to announce the release of beta version of SelfScan, an android-based mobile scanning app for easy scanning, sharing, storing of documents, anytime, anywhere across the globe. The bilingual website for the SelfScan app can be accessed at https://selfscan.nltr.org

Karnataka allows flexible hiring across industry. Employment under the fixed term workmen (FTW) category allows flexibility to the industry to hire and fire easily, and is seen as more flexible than the contract system.

JioMeet, which was launched on 2nd jul 2020 , supports HD audio and video call quality with up to 100 participants  for unlimited duration and offers features like screen sharing, meeting schedule features, and more.

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