Category: Information Technology (IT & Software)

** Azim Premji Foundation, Salesforce to launch app to accelerate Covid-19 vaccination

‘To cover 110 million people in 25 States by June 2022’

Salesforce, a customer relationship management player, and Azim Premji Foundation have entered into a collaboration to introduce VaxIT, an app to help accelerate Covid-19 vaccination in India.

The programme would use VaxIT across 25 States to cover a population of 110 million (11 crore) across over 3,500 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) by June 2022.

The VaxIT app, developed on the Salesforce platform for Azim Premji Foundation and its partners, would capture the status of vaccination to help individuals plan and stay updated on their progress in the healthcare programme. VaxIT is available on the Android app store and offers multi-lingual, and offline capabilities.

** Bengaluru Man MD Ahmed Bags Guinness Record For Memorising Most Three-Digit Flash Numbers

Bengaluru-based author and coach Mohammed Ali Athar Ahmed, also known as MD Ahmed, entered the Guinness World Records for memorising the most number of three-digit flashcards.

Ahmed bagged the world record for recalling 32 three-digit flash numbers. The previous record was held by an Iranian (30 three-digit cards).

** Hearzap app launched

Hearzap, a hearing aid provider launched their mobile application and six stores in Bengaluru, located at Indiranagar, Jayanagar, HSR Layout, Nagarbhavi, R.R. Nagar and Sadashivnagar recently.

The inaugural ceremony was conducted at Jayanagar 5th Block.

Dr. S. Raja, senior audiologist and founder of Hearzap, said, “There is an urgent need to identify and manage hearing problems at an early stage, and follow some healthy habits to primarily avoid hearing related issues.” 

** HAL signs Rs 2400 crore contract with Bharat Electronics, the biggest order ever placed with an Indian company

The five-year contract spanning from 2023 to 2028 is valued at Rs 2400 crore and involves supplying critical avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), flight control computers and night flying LRUs. 

** Karnataka second in digital transactions on PhonePe in Q3 2021

Maharashtra took the top spot

Karnataka recorded the second-highest number of digital transactions on fintech platform PhonePe in the July-September quarter of calendar year 2021. Maharashtra took the top spot.

Bengaluru Urban was the top district accounting for around 63% of the total digital transactions in Karnataka, with the value of the transactions in the metropolitan area being ₹48 crore. This was followed by Mysuru with transactions valued at ₹2.5 crore and Bengaluru Rural with ₹1.82 crore, according to the company.

* 7500 patents and counting… How Samsung’s Bangalore centre fires up innovation

Dr Aloknath De, CTO of the Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, tells indianexpress.com how the company’s dedicated research centres have seen a 100% growth over the past four years on patents.

Over 7500 patents globally and 3500 patents just in India. This is not the count of a global university with top of the line research facilities, but the Samsung Research Institute (SRI) in Bangalore, the Korean tech giant’s largest R&D centre outside Korea, which has been able to inculcate a culture of innovation among its engineers.

** Dial 112 to report cyber crime in Karnataka

Police are trying to make the number available 24×7

By the end of January 2022, citizens in Karnataka can dial 112 to report cyber crime 24×7. At present, helpline of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (155260) of the Ministry of Home Affairs is available between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

“We are working on co-locating 112 with 15520 and make the service of reporting cyber crime 24X7. In another two months, people across Karnataka can call 112 to immediately report cyber crime,” Director General and Inspector General of Police Praveen Sood told The Hindu.

** Karnataka digital library: 1.91 crore viewers, 20 lac books read

As many as 1.91 crore people have already got themselves registered for the Karnataka Digital Public Library started by the Karnataka department of public libraries. This figure is expected to touch two crore by the end of this month. This will be the highest by any state in the country as a whole.

The digital library was started two years back with the aim of ensuring that books should be made available to everyone in the state and to give a boost to the habit of reading.