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Google's AI voice assistant 'Duplex' to run a call centre

Opportunity India Desk Jul 06, 2018 - 2 min read

Google's voice-calling "Duplex" which lets Artificial Intelligence (AI) mimic a human voice to make appointments and book tables through phone calls may soon enter call centres assisting humans with customer queries. According to a report in The Information late on Thursday, an unnamed insurance company has shown interest in "Duplex" which could "handle simple and ...

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Garmin launches Forerunner 645 Music GPS Watch in Indian Market

Opportunity India Desk Jul 05, 2018 - 3 min read

Garmin India, a unit of Garmin Ltd., the market leader in satellite navigation and GPS products has launched Forerunner 645 Music GPS running watch with the cutting edge feature of built in music. True to its principles of innovation, convenience, performance, value and service, this product brings high quality and accuracy standards that Garmin stands ...

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Internet Giant Google plans Wi-Fi service expansion To Malls, Universities

Opportunity India Desk Jul 05, 2018 - 3 min read

Internet major Google has big plans for India’s public Wi-Fi market by taking its service called Station beyond railway stations to public places such as malls, cafés and universities. For the expansion, Google is in talks with several stakeholders including telecom operators and internet service providers (ISPs) and state governments. The US-based tech giant has ...

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BALTRA to launch Feel and Electro Infrared Induction Cookers

Opportunity India Desk Jun 29, 2018 - 1 min read

Infrared induction cookers “Feel & Electro” by BALTRA have been designed keeping in mind the concept of modern and user-friendly appliances. In this product category, BALTRA enjoys the first mover and a distinct competitive advantage over its counterparts since none of the other brands have ventured in infrared induction cooker segment as of ...

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NSE selects Cisco solutions for enhanced customer service, process automation, analytics and cybersecurity

Opportunity India Desk Jun 27, 2018 - 4 min read

The banking and financial services industry is in the midst of an evolutionary shift. The pressing realities of agile ‘fintech’ disruptors, changes in customer behavior and expectations, complex regulatory requirements, and digitization throughout the business model are affecting the banking and financial services industry at every level. To keep up with this change, ...

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Fynd Organizes Hackxagon, An Open Source Challenge For Its Engineers

Opportunity India Desk Jun 18, 2018 - 1 min read

As an initiative to give back to the open source community, Fynd, the unique fashion e-commerce portal had launched gofynd.io, a few months ago. This project enabled the engineers of the fashion e-commerce portal to learn new technologies, improve the core infrastructure and enhance the Fynd platform. However, Fynd wanted to streamline the open sourcing ...

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KaHa launches smart wearable T-shirt prototype for body monitoring

Opportunity India Desk Jun 02, 2018 - 1 min read

KaHa, a Singapore-based IoT company in association with SIMTech, a Singapore-based research institute, has developed a prototype for smart wearable body and a wellness-monitoring T-shirt. KaHa worked with SIMTech as a key strategic technology and supply chain partner for the research institute’s Collaborative Industry Project (CIP) on Smart Apparel Innovation, and ...

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Nokia sells its digital health venture

Opportunity India Desk Jun 01, 2018 - 2 min read

Finnish technological firm, Nokia has confirmed to have sold its small digital health business, including activity trackers and smartwatches, and the executive who wound down the company's consumer ventures will leave Nokia after less than a year in the job. Digital health was one of the areas the premium smartphone make ...

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Reliance Retail Limited partners with Motorola to launch Moto Hubs

Opportunity India Desk May 31, 2018 - 2 min read

Mukesh Ambani led India’s largest CDIT (Consumer Durables and Information Technology) retail chain Reliance Digital has announced its partnership with Motorola India for the launch of Moto Hubs to showcase the widest and latest range of Motorola phones at its stores. The Moto Hub zone offers customers easy access and availability ...

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?IIT- Madras to have 100 foreign nationals as faculty by 2020

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min read

With a goal of increasing the industry-institute research partnerships, increasing donations from Indians and alumni, nurturing entrepreneurial skills among its students and drawing top corporates to its campus for job placements, IIT-Madras (IIT-M) is planning to hire 100 foreign nationals as its faculty over the next three years.As a beginning, the institute is planning to ...

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