CES 2021 is fast approaching and all major tech giants are preparing to unveil their new and upgraded products. Recently, Dell announced that it is going to refresh the Precision 3550 model for CES 2021. The new upgraded machine will be called the Precision 3560 and will feature Tiger Lake-U series processors instead of the Comet Lake-U ones that Dell included with the Precision 3550.
The OEM announced that the Precision 3560 is designed with ‘reclaimed carbon fiber and bio-plastics’ and also that the machine has a new Pro2 keyboard and a larger trackpad than the one found in the Precision 3550. But the dedicated buttons have been removed from the larger trackpad. Not only are the dedicated trackpad buttons missing but the pointing-stick from last year’s model is also missing.
The company announced that the Precision 3560 will be available from January 12 in the US, but the company is yet to reveal when it plans to bring the mobile workstation to other markets. The cost, for now, will start at US$1,189.
Security researchers have found that Juspay, an Indian e-money transaction company, has had a server breach. Sensitive data of over 100 million debit and credit card users have been leaked on the dark web.
Reportedly, the data of the cardholders leaked on the dark web includes full names, phone numbers, and email addresses, along with the first and last four digits of their cards. The Bangalore-based company, which offers payment processing services for e-merchants like Amazon and Swiggy, has also acknowledged that in August 2020 also data of some of its users was compromised.
It was found that between March 2017 and August 2020 the breach and data leak took place. According to a report by Gadgets360, the data found on the dark web included “personal details of several Indian cardholders along with their card expiry dates, customer IDs, and masked card numbers with the first and last four digits of the cards fully visible”. Notably, though, the leaked data did not include transaction and order details.
Another report by Inc42 reveals that the leaked data on the dark web includes “user’s card brand (VISA/Mastercard), card expiry date, the last four digits of the card, the masked card number, the type of card (credit/debit), the name on the card, card fingerprint, card ISIN, customer ID, and merchant account ID, among several other details. In all, over 16 fields of data relating to their payment cards have been leaked for at least 2 crore users, as conceded by Juspay, a subset of the total number of user records (10 crores) that have been leaked.” Another subset of data which included the phone numbers and email addresses of users was leaked, reportedly.
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Even though it was found that the leaked information reveals only partial copies of card numbers, phishing scams can be on the rise due to the breach. The dark web is being used as a market for selling the leaked data for an undisclosed amount.
“On 18 August 2020, an unauthorised attempt on our servers was detected and terminated when in progress. No card numbers, financial credentials or transaction data were compromised. Some data records containing non-anonymised, plain-text email and phone numbers were compromised, which form a fraction of the 10 crore data records,” Juspay founder Vimal Kumar said, according to First Post. “The masked card data (which is not sensitive) has 2 Cr user records. Our card vault, in a different PCI-compliant system with encrypted card data, was never accessed,” he added.
Seven years ago, Grand Theft Auto V was released and we were dropped into the world of gangsters. The game was mesmerizing as is popular even to this day. For seven years the gamers around the world have been anxiously waiting for the sixth edition of the franchise to be released.
The gamers are getting anxious because Rockstar Games, the company behind the franchise have not given any official confirmation about the next edition. When we thought that the company was finally teasing GTA VI for PlayStation 5 it turned out to be GTA V instead.
GTA6
Former Rockstar Games employee says work for GTA6 #GTAVI started in 2015.
Rockstar officially confirmed GTA5 #GTAV expanded & enhanced coming to #PS5 in 2021.
Thoughts 💭 Wonder if #PSVR coming to GTAV? Seems GTA6 may be completed by 2022/2023, 7 to 8 years build time. pic.twitter.com/ejb5Dy0hNU
However, the leaker @Yan2295 claims that GTA VI is indeed in development. According to him, GTA VI is very well under development, but there’s no ETA at the moment. For that’s the only information that we can provide about the new leak. But the information about GTA VI has surfaced online more than once. Back in November, a Twitter user @welltest789 (account now suspended) discovered additional clues about the game. In the GTA Online Cayo Perico surveil.exe teaser, the co-ordinates “38.527A N; 79.6129A W” appeared briefly.
Yes GTA 6 is being developped. No it's not coming soon. No I don't know when it's gonna be announced or released. You can stop asking now.
In the video, the shape of this road seemed to resemble the Roman numeral VI, which in all probability is a tease for GTA VI. On other news, it was earlier reported that Rockstar Games may have very well started the development of GTA 6 back in 2015. Since it has already been eight years since the release of GTA V, it is to be expected that the new title will be a massive open-world game with excellent features. We can expect the game to be released in 2023.
‘Vaio’ – hearing the brand name after a long time? You’ll be glad to know that the company sets an eye to comeback in India but with a different partner, named ‘Nexstgo’. If you remember, this is the company that brought Avita’s laptops to the Indian market. Now Nexstgo has done a license agreement with VAIO Corporation to come back alive in the scenario.
According to the agreements of these two companies, now Nexstgo has the proper rights to manufacture, market, and sell the Vaio laptops in Asian Countries including India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. In India, Flipkart will sell the Vaio laptops.
Once, Vaio was a part of Japanese tech giant Sony. In 1996, the company was first introduced as a Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer (VAIO). At that time, Sony’s Vaio laptops were pretty much expensive which led Sony to be in the top position in the competition with the other rival brands.
Do you know, even Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple was a big admirer of the Vaio laptops? In 2001, Steve approached with an offer to the former Sony president for launching a Sony Vaio laptop with the macOS. However, the deal failed as Sony decided to stick with the most demanding Windows OS.
Being in the competition with Apple, Vaio laptops had much expensive price tags on their laptops. Meanwhile, other PC companies were offering the same specification in the lower price range. Back in 2010, Sony faced an overheating problem in Vaio laptops, and later the company had admitted that about half a million Vaio notebooks were facing this issue. Also in 2006, Sony had to replace ten million Sony-made batteries used in Sony, Apple, and Dell laptops, which costs Sony around $250 million.
After facing huge losses multiple times, in 2014 Sony made decision to sell off the Vaio PC brand to a Japanese investment fund. Still, Sony has a 5% stake in the new company. Since 2015, Vaio is selling independently the Vaio-branded laptops in Brazil and the US.
Now we have to wait and see how Vaio is going to grab the Indian market with Nexstgo. If Vaio comes with the premium high-end notebooks in the country, it will not be surprising where Dell XPS 13 and Apple Mac Book Pro is already dominating the market.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is one of the cash-rich cricket boards across the globe. According to the reports, the Indian board was worth an enormous amount of INR 14,489.80 crore at the end of the financial year 2018-19, adding to that Rs 2,597.19 crore to its financial potent. However, the balance sheet of the year 2018-19 hasn’t been publicly announced, while the board is still busy preparing the earnings of the financial year 2019-20.
According to a report by IANS, more than half of the Rs 4,017.11 crore, the BCCI earned under “income” during the year was a majority from the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 which is approximately INR 2,407.46. During the Financial Year of 2018-19, BCCI’s second-highest income was from media rights of the Indian team which was Rs 828 crore. At the same time, the BCCI incurred an expenditure of Rs 1,592.12 crore during the year.
“As per the Societies Act, under which the BCCI is registered, it should submit its balance sheet within six months of the end of each financial year, besides sharing it with its members (state associations), and the International Cricket Council. Without submitting its balance sheet with the ICC, the BCCI will not get its share of distributions from the world body,” a source told IANS.
BCCI’s other incomes include the Men’s senior international tournaments and tours and series, it hosted in the financial year 2018-19 and earned INR 446.26 crore from it, while it received interest from the bank of about INR 290.73 crore also and the income from the ICC/Asian Cricket Council is INR Rs 25.03 crore.
Moreover, from the past few years, BCCI’s income has gone up mainly because of the sale of the media rights of the Indian team for the bilateral Tests, ODIs, and T20 matches played at home, the IPL media rights, national team (jersey) sponsor, and series sponsor.
BCCI’s broadcast rights holder, Star India Network, pays BCCI Rs 43.20 crore per international home match. During the financial year 2018-19, India hosted 22 international games –seven Tests, 10 ODIs, and five T20s, which comes up with a total of Rs 950.40 crore, and for the telecast of IPL, STAR Network India, made a stupefying bid of Rs 16,347.50 crore for five years, which is Rs 54.50 crore per match.
Not only this, another source of earning for BCCI is the sponsors for the national team with a total of seven sponsors with Byju’s, the team sponsor, STAR Sports for the broadcaster, PayTM as the title sponsor, Hyundai, Dream11, and Ambuja Cement as the partners and kit sponsor with MPL Sports. Series sponsor PayTM pays Rs 2.42 crore per match, national team jersey sponsor, Oppo pays them Rs 4.61 crore per match, before Byju’s took over on September 5, 2019, to March 31, 2022.
India announced it’s playing XI for the third Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Rohit Sharma makes his entry back to the team after missing the limited-overs series and the first two Tests due to his rehabilitation from an injury during the Indian Premier League and joined the team after the quarantine period.
He is included in the playing XI for the opening slot replacing Mayank Agarwal after Agarwal returned with scores of 17, 9, 0, and 5 in the first two Tests. Rohit Sharma has been named as the vice-captain for the remaining two Tests and Rahane as the captain.
Source- NDTV Sports
Navdeep Saini is also all set to make his debut, who is included in the squad, in place of the injured Umesh Yadav. While the rest of the line-up remains the same as the Melbourne Test.
In the absence of Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami, who was injured during the first Test, India will have two inexperienced pacers, Siraj, who made his Test debut in Melbourne, and Saini who is about to make his debut on Thursday.
The bowling lineup will be led by Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah, who is the most experienced of the lot and adding to that in the playing XI Ravindra Jadeja is the all-rounder.
Also, Rishabh Pant continues to be the wicket-keeper replacing Wriddhiman Saha, as Pant returns to the venue where he scored his first and only Test hundred in Australia.
NEWS – #TeamIndia announce Playing XI for the 3rd Test against Australia at the SCG.
Most importantly the middle order is unchanged as Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, and Hanuma Vihari still occupy the middle-order spots to make it rock-solid. Meanwhile, Shubman Gill is most likely accompany Rohit as another opener after his impressive performance in the second Test.
Apart from this, Captain Rahane has left the decision for the fourth Test at Brisbane with The BCCI and the team officials saying, “our focus is on winning the Sydney Test,”.
In a bid to further establish its SMB &enterprise footprint in the Indian market, BD Soft has announced a more focused approach to its channel partner network in the country. The Brand is looking to expand its presence in key verticals via a robust channel network.
BD Software, one of the emerging Value Added Distributor (VAD) of security solutions has engaged several strategic partnerships with Domestic and International Cybersecurity brands (Proget MDM, SAFEDNS, ZeroSpam, MailVault (Mail Backup), Zecurion DLP & UBA, Supermail – Simple business mail solutions) so as to address the growing Cybersecurity needs in India. BD Software already represents Bitdefender, who are global cybersecurity leaders in the world and Endpoint Protector (DLP) – the best Data Leakage Protection available in the market.
The brand also plans to launch its ‘partner to partner’ program that aims to build a larger channel partner ecosystem through deeper engagement with the core partners. The three-tier Channel partner program shall offer training, tools and support to grow their business with BD Soft. BD Soft plans to exploreTier 2& 3 cities to tap the channel partners and to involve them in pushing their solutions in their respective regions.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Zakir Hussain – Sales & Marketing Head, BD Soft, said, “The ‘partner to partner’ program is not another set-it and leave-it initiatives. It aims to ensure deep engagement, build relationships & extend collaborations, to build alliance with new partners who form a part of the Value Added Resellers who have displayed distinct expertise in markets which are key verticals for BD Soft. The activity will be a key focus, for our channel activations in 2021”
“This however, does not put our existing partner network in less focus, as their contribution has helped us achieve new heights of success in the very dynamic Indian markets” he further adds. BD Soft aims to add over 100 partners across 20 cities by the end of 2021, at Pan India Level. The plan is to have 250 dedicated partners across India who would take BD Software solutions in their respective markets. The partners will be divided between those doing business in consumer segment and others into solution selling.
About BD Soft:
BD Software Distribution Pvt. Ltd. (BD Soft) is the country partner in India for Bitdefender solutions. Bd Soft is a value-added IT software security distributor offering industry-leading consumer and enterprise-level solutions in the Indian market. Together with our channel partners, we focus on bridging the most comprehensive protection from malware and cyber threats to government and educational organizations, businesses and consumers. Our background, technical strength and partner network across the country enable us to lead some of the best practices in challenging and complex IT security environments.
Derrick White had only suited up once for the San Antonio Spurs this season on Friday, in a loss against the Los Angeles Lakers in which he played for 23 minutes. He was on a minutes restriction. Else, he had been limited by a toe injury that has gotten worse since it’s initial diagnosis.
In August of 2020, White had offseason toe surgery and was dealing with a sprain on that left toe. He missed training camp, the preseason and the first four games of the regular season. On Sunday, he stubbed that toe, aggravating the injury. On Monday, it was learnt that he has suffered a fractured of that toe, and no timeline has been mentioned for his possible return, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
OFFICIAL: Derrick White has suffered a non-displaced fracture of the proximal phalanx of his left second toe. The injury occurred after White fell at the 3:33 mark in the second quarter of the Spurs-Lakers game on Jan. 1. pic.twitter.com/HHviduUiDh
White missed San Antonio’s loss to Utah on Sunday which was the team’s fourth straight defeat following two wins during the opening of the season. Lonnie Walker and Keldon Johnson have both taken substantial steps forward, and the silver lining to White’s injury or that it could mean more playing time for the first-round pick and rookie Devin Vassell.
Before the season, White agreed to a four-year, $73 million contract extension with the Spurs. Now that White has seen recurring issues with that same toe, that long-term security looks invaluable. The Spurs do not need to rush White back to the court as they have so much young talent on the backcourt.
The 20th pick in the 2017 draft out of Colorado, White has been one of San Antonio’s key scorers and distributers since the past two seasons. He averaged a career-high 11.3 points with 3.5 assists last season. In seven games post the restart, he averaged 18.9 points, 5.0 assists and 4.3 rebounds in 29.8 minutes.
IPX7 water-resistant, Powerful 31W output with massive bass
All products will be available on Amazon.in and in offline markets
Delhi, 6th Jan 2021: To further strengthen its roots in the Indian market – Flix by Beetel, a Make in India smart accessories brand, forays into the audio segment with its first Bluetooth speaker ‘Tripper’. , Designed with the latest technology, the new Bluetooth speaker appeals to youth who are seeking reliable and high quality products.
With this launch, the brand also reinforces its online presence with all products being available on Amazon.in apart from offline stores.
Priced at INR 4,199/- ‘Tripper’ is engineered to deliver deep, loud & immersive sound from its compact construction. The true 360-degree speaker comes with side radiators for deeper & unmatched bass, that provides a uniform and complete surround sound experience. Its 31W output gives earth-shaking, powerful stereo sound by incorporating 3 speakers in 1 – having 8WX2 + 15WX1 powerful driver set up, including the large bass radiators, amounting to a thumping 31W loud Output.
Its TWS feature allows it to pair devices including speakers wirelessly. Giving an edge to connect 2 (1+1) speakers at one time, Tripper amplifies the listening experience. Its IPX7 Water-resistant design covers the spill at the table or the accidental drop in the water – Just dry the body and keep playing, worry-free! Stylish yet rugged, the speaker’s exterior resists dents, cracks and scratches.
The speaker can be paired for up to a distance of 20 feet. With 2200mAh battery, the speaker supports uninterrupted up to 12-hour playtime. Adding to the unique features, it also offers various connectivity options – Bluetooth, and AUX. The speaker comes with easy access integrated controls, for ease of use.
You can also check out the FLiX (Beetel) Bar Mini 10W Bluetooth Speaker with Mic on Amazon.in for just Rs 1,399.
Speaking on the new category launch, Mr. Puneet Gupta, Business Head – Beetel India, said, “Despite having introduced Flix amidst the pandemic in India, we have received an overwhelming response both from our partners & consumers. The success and response are testimony to Beetel’s commitment to the Indian markets. Encouraged by the growing needs, we are now excited to introduce Flix Audio solutions in India, designed as per the preferences of the Indian consumers, especially youth, who seek innovation with quality, and are willing to spend a bit more, to buy reliable products.”
“Along with the addition of new categories, we are thrilled to associate with India’s largest e-commerce marketplace – Amazon.in for Flix range of products. We look forward to leveraging Amazon.in’s wide reach, to offer a hassle-free shopping experience to consumers residing even in the remotest parts of the country This is an exciting and promising beginning in the new year for Team Flix.” he further adds.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Akshay Ahuja, Category Leader – Consumer Electronics & Personal Computing, Amazon India. said, “In a very short span of time, Flix has built a credible following in the country and we’re excited to bring their products for customers on Amazon.in. With this launch, we continue to build a strong portfolio in the audio category providing customers with vast selection, unmatched value, fast, safe & reliable delivery and a great shopping experience.
The Flix family of products in the audio range includes – Neckbands, Headphones, Earphones and Portable speakers. In next few weeks, Flix also plans to add Wearables to its growing product portfolio.
About Beetel:
Founded in the year 1987, Beetel is one of the oldest and reputed brand name in the Industry, a pioneer in the landline phone category. With its manufacturing unit in Ludhiana – Punjab, Beetel is focused on manufacturing as well as distributing a huge range of products in the form of mobile devices, mobile accessories, IT peripherals, enterprise solutions, as well as fixed landlines. Beetel distributes a host of iconic brands like Avaya, Polycom, Samsung, Panasonic, QSC, RADWIN, Ruckus, RAD, and Actelis. Beetel is known for its innovative product solutions and latest in technology, which are offered to customers at the most prudent prices. In India, Beetel is spread via 10,000 retailers, 500 distributors, as well as 10 warehouses. The company till date has manufactured over 100 million landline phones till date. A household Indian brand which truly needs no induction has served over 20 million customers since 1987!
The year 2020 was an important year for the gamers as Microsoft and Sony both launched their next-gen consoles, Xbox Series S and X and PlayStation 5, respectively.
PS5 was globally released in November 2020 but due to some unfortunate trademark reason, it failed to show up in the Indian market. But as we stepped into 2021, Sony has finally been able to hit the Indian shores with their new PS5.
Sony will be launching the new PlayStation 5 on 2nd February in India but you can start pre-ordering from 12 pm on 12th January.
The PlayStation 5 is going to launch in the Indian market with a price tag of Rs. 49,990. But if you are ready to consider the game discs and can exchange them with friends then you have an affordable option – PS5 Digital Edition. This version has been priced at Rs. 39,990 in India.
For the DualSense controller, you have to pay Rs. 5,990 in the Indian market. The clean white aesthetic look gives a premium feel. Also, it features a built-in microphone, a USB Type-C for charging, and a new adaptive L2 and R2 trigger system. Check out the price list attached below:
The stock for the PS5 will be pretty lower than the demand, assuming based on the worldwide scenario. So if you really want to buy the PS5, you need to quickly pre-order on the very first date.
