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Byline: Soma Tah Infosys' Metaverse Foundry services offer businesses the on-demand ability to securely and efficiently create their own metaverse environment by letting them choose from the already existing templates [...]

Byline: Soma Tah COVID has changed the hiring overnight. Being unable to conduct in-person interviews, large organizations turned to virtual hiring solutions. Automated resume screening and auto-generated assessments not only [...]

Byline: Soma Tah Homegrown bike-taxi platform, Rapido has embraced an extensive array of technologies to build a robust and scalable business. Besides cost optimization, adoption and innovative application of cutting-edge [...]

Byline: Soma Tah Studies indicate that most of the enterprise software issues are not system-related. Instead, they are mostly related to the design, users, or processes. Businesses end up wasting [...]

The article highlights that people are now getting hooked on to the OTT platforms where Premium entertainment features are also now available at attractive prices. It also discusses that smart Television market is growing rapidly at 55 percent year-over-year (YoY) in 2021 and 65 percent YoY in Q4 2021 to reach its highest ever shipments.

The article highlights that the smart bands market reached a volume of 46.5 million units in 2021 and is expected to reach 59.1 million units by 2027. It also discusses that Few people have good faith in Xiaomi, but this time it has been toppled by Samsung, who is the clear winner with 95 percent score. Fastrack became the first runner-up with 89 percent score, followed by Xiaomi 82 percent, boAt and OnePlus 81 percent and Noise 78 percent.

The article highlights a report from Counterpoint's research that India's Samsung smart watch market saw record growth of over 274 percent year-over- year ( YoY ) in 2021 shipments. It also discusses that in the year 2020, the Apple was the winner by a razor thin margin and Samsung was the first runner-up. This year 2021 Samsung is the winner and Apple is the first runner- up, followed by Fastback, boat, and Oppo.

The article highlights that audio experience has also increased drastically with the increasing smartphone adoption and mobile internet consumption. Wireless technology has been replacing the need for wired devices. It also discusses that Sony has some spectacular audio products which made it a preferred choice for most Indian consumers.

The article highlights the reports according to Acumen Research and Consultancy forecasts that the global smart speaker market is estimated to grow at 19.4 percent Compound annual growth rate and above over 2021-2028. It also discusses that Amazon smart speakers are the most popular ones but Google is not far behind, with its Nest and Home series of smart speakers, grabbing the first runner-up spot.

The article highlights that Businesses and consumers adopted online culture, prepared themselves to be ready for the digital future. Therefore, It shows the usage of tablets grew across industries like retail, healthcare, education, etc. and even as personal entertainment devices. It also discusses that the Indian tablet market grew 68 percent year-on-year (YoY) in the first quarter ended March 2022, and tablet shipments are likely to register a healthy 10-12 percent growth in 2022.

The article highlights that Smartphone market in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.5 percent and reach 281 billion U.S. dollars by 2028, according to a Research and Markets forecast. It also discusses the domination of Samsung is seemingly unchallenged in the smartphone category, especially when it comes to premium Android smartphones.

The article highlights the reports of the Indian gaming market is expected to hit USD 4.88 billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of 20.83 percent between 2021- 2026. The growth is fueled by the growth of smartphones and the mobile internet availability. It also discusses that C gaming is also growing at a rapid pace where professional video gamers play competitively, demands for gaming laptops are also growing significantly.

The article highlights the statistics where Personal Computing Device Tracker, the Indian PC market, laptops, desktops, and workstations, grew by 44.5 percent year-over-year (YoY) in 2021. This is because due to COVID-19, most employees are working from home and that raised the demand for laptops. It also discusses that here has been an increasing demand from the teachers and the student community also due to the rise of online classes during COVID.

The article highlights that Professionals and gamers generally prefer desktops over laptops, as desktops are more suited for carrying out intensive workloads and their graphics processing power. It also discusses about the Brad affinity Index where Dell is ruling the laptop category, while HP is ruling in the desktop category, closely followed by Dell.

The article explorers how Digital world has internet-based applications to make our life easier and the metaverse has potential to become a transformative medium for human engagement. Topics include expanded the cyber attack surfaces leaving individuals and organizations exposed to cyber risks; and Experts even warned that disruption in digital security owing to innovations in the Metaverse could have far-reaching consequences due to the multisensory nature of the environment.

The article reports that Remote work, virtual meetings along with digitalization and cloudization at a rapid pace, proliferation of Internet of Things unleashed new cyber attack tactics, as many organizations have been slow to adapt to security climate. Topics include pandemic has accelerated the adoption of hybrid cloud, microapps, and forcing enterprises to rethink security postures; and impact on how networks and data center architectures are designed to keep up with the influx of data.

The article explores how burgeoning cybercrime marketplace offering Cybercrime-as-a-Service has made it easier for less technically-minded criminals to engage with cybercrimes, it created a perfect breeding ground too for organized cybercrime groups to exploit businesses and individuals. It mentions that growing business model of Cybercrimeas-a-Service makes malicious activities affordable while the increasing sophistication of tools makes detection and prosecution of cybercrimes difficult.

The article presents the tech trends that business can't look away from in 2022.

It is noted that India prepares to create electronic medical/health records for each individual as part of the National Digital Health Mission to develop affordable HealthTech solutions. It is noted that the collaborative nature of the open-source software or Free and Open-source Software development can potentially bring technology innovations into the healthcare space much more quickly than independent development.

The article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on quickservice restaurants. It mentions that barring a few, a whopping majority of the quickservice restaurants saw dramatic sales declines during the pandemic, but restaurants that had invested in digital tools, especially artificial intellegence, social, mobile, analytics, and cloud were in a better position than others in riding the waves.

The article focuses on Gig-Economy continues to thrive with smart cross-border payments. Topics include the future of work has been changing rapidly with the entrance of millennials and Gen Z, the workforce and manifesting in their increasing tendency to treat jobs more like gigs and not some career destinations, and the various study reports suggest that a growing majority of millennial full-time workers do side hustles.

Much-needed innovations to change Healthcare in India The year 2020 was a watershed moment for the HealthTech sector, as healthcare investment across the board reached record levels, mainly propelled by the way Covid-19 pandemic exposed "The consumer/personal health space has picked up a lot of affordable innovations of late, both on the health monitoring as well as health management side." Key HealthTech growth drivers The year 2020 also saw a few government initiatives to transform the healthcare sector such as delivery of medicines through e-commerce as an essential service, announcement of Telemedicine Practice Guidelines, and most importantly the introduction of National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) to bridge the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of healthcare ecosystem through various digital and HealthTech solutions. Pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest pcquest@cybermedia.co.in 14 PCQuest M a y 2 0 2 1 cover story Gaming Soma Tah somat@cybermedia.co.in HealthTech innovators need to look beyond the e-pharmacy and B2B solutions, as newer areas such as telemedicine, e-diagnostics, personal health, preventive healthcare are screaming for their attention Wha t's fueling the next W ave of healthtech innov ations?. [Extracted from the article]

An interview with Ravi Kumar S, President of Infosys, is presented. Topics include Metaverse Foundry services offers businesses the ondemand ability to securely and efficiently create their own metaverse environment by letting them choose from the already existing templates of ready-to-use; and Metverse use cases and execution roadmaps as well as letting them work with the creator-partner in the Infosys Innovation Ecosystem.

An interview with Naren Ravula, Head of Product Strategy and Deployment, Flipkart Labs, is presented. Topics include Non-fungible token (NFT)-related use-cases look promising in terms of solving some of the long-standing challenges faced by the e-commerce companies; and buyers on the e-commerce platforms are likely to benefit from embracing Metaverse and Web 3.0-based solutions.

An interview with Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, is presented article. Topics include how artificial reality, virtual reality, extended reality needs to become mainstream to bring the met averse to the masse have the hardware to render realistic virtual environments and avatars in 3D; and Qualcomm Technologies is well positioned to support the development for creating experiences that span both the physical and the digital worlds.

The article focuses on the agritech innovations which will be key to farmer uplift. Topics discussed include the agritech space in India is seeing healthy tailwinds due to government impetus on affordable innovations improving farmers' incomes, and on widespread digitalization which drives across the agricultural value chain; and the views of sangeeta Bavi, Director, startup ecosystem, Microsoft India, on it.

The article focuses on COVID-19 crisis has caused a watershed moment for EdTech solution providers in India, who have been focusing predominantly on supplementary education and up skilling only. Topics include the series of unprecedented and hastened digital experiments, and the public education systems have widened the scope of EdTech further to break into mainstream education.

The article focuses on Indian businesses have started leveraging Cloud technologies to a great extent as they attempted to cope with these uncertain times, and power innovation for greater adoption of Cloud across various industries. Topics include the views of Lionel Legros, General Manager of OVHcloud, on the multi-cloud approach provides the most comprehensive mix of public and private clouds, and the unprecedented global crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic has not only rendered states.

The article discusses how several Indian drone startups, including ideaForge, General Aeronautics and Marut Dronetech, are acting as force multipliers for the municipal bodies and the police forces to aid government efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Topics covered include how drones can useful during the pandemic, such as surveillance and enforcement of lockdown measures and whether drones will become mainstream in the post-pandemic world.

An interview is presented with Apratim Purakayastha, Chief Technology Officer, Skillsoft. Topics include cybersecurity skills that businesses are looking for and the skills that a cybersecurity professional must acquire; kind of skill gaps in the cyber security domain; and some of the most sought-after skills in the cybersecurity domain.

The article informs that when Egg Farmers of Canada (EFC) was looking for a price forecasting mechanism, they decided to invest in artificial intelligence and data learning models. It mentions that they entrusted Corporate Renaissance Group Solutions to unscramble its data for forecasting price trends.

The article focuses on leveraging tech extensively to solve the urban mobility puzzle. Topics discussed include Technologies such as Cloud, Automation, and Machine Learning have became the force multiplier for Rapido, as they have been able to manage business efficiently, transform at scale and pivot business whenever needed; and the views of Srivatsa Katta, Head of Engineering, Rapido tells the story behind, on it.

The article discusses that the businesses' requirements go beyond traditional backup and recovery, they need help with the portability and mobility of their workloads in a multi-cloud environment and in meeting the governance and compliance requirements as well. It mentions that the enterprise data spread across physical data centers and clouds through file shares, shared storage, and even saas platforms and applications.

In this article the author talks about the post-pandemic world which likely to see people and businesses evolving to make room for newer experiences and newer modes of engagements enabled by digital technologies. Topics discussed immersive technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality that blend real and virtual world seamlessly to create an immersive experience played a big role, and the views of Narendra Ghate, Chief Designer-User Experience Design, Tata Elxsi, on it.

In this article the author talks about coronavirus crisis opens up an opportunity for tech companies and healthcare providers to look at the immense possibilities offered by the technologies and embrace them for the greater good of humanity. It mentions that the Alibaba's research wing, DAMO Academy developed a genome sequencing solution that is faster and efficient and also developed Artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze CT scan images which significantly improve testing for Covid-19.