Apple has signed up another vendor to help its iPad to the enterprise push – IT consulting and outsourcing specialist Accenture. The two companies have finalized a deal that will see Apple staff shack up in Accenture offices around the world. They’ll work with the consultancy to create iOS versions of Accenture’s own custom applications and systems for their clients, as well as migration services to get older code running on iPads and iPhones. Accenture also says it will be using Apple’s iOS platform to control internet-of-things templates and code it offers customers, including the ability to control some Accenture…
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Several social media companies in the West have been criticised for a perceived lack of transparency in alleged talks with the Iranian authorities on censoring content to the approval of the country’s strict religious authorities. Instagram, currently available in the country – as well as Twitterand YouTube, which are blocked but widely visited by Iranians using proxy servers – have all been reported by local media in recent weeks as as co-operating with the authorities to aid them in blocking or censoring “immoral” content. Newly installed communications minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi has been clear that he intends to shake up the status quo, promising citizens easier…
SAP on Wednesday is announcing a new integration between its SuccessFactors Workforce Planning tool and SAP RealSpend, its cloud finance application. The integration should help move companies away from using spreadsheets for personnel budgeting and enable them to fine-tune HR and finance decisions throughout the year. “In any organization, you get the annual budget, and that tells you how many people you can hire and what you’re trying to aim for from a revenue and spend perspective,” Amy Wilson, head of product at SAP SuccessConnect, said to ZDNet. “The people part of that is really important, especially in today’s age…
Two Indian students enrolled at a university in Texas were in an intensive care unit after tropical storm Harvey pummelled and flooded the state since Friday, with 200 others marooned at another university being moved to a safer place, according to Indian officials in the US. Efforts were on to ensure relatives of the hospitalised Texas A&M University students — identified as Shalini and Nikhil Bhatia — were able to reach them at the earliest. They had gone swimming and were overwhelmed by the rapidly rising water level on Sunday, officials said. Those marooned were at the University of Houston.…
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday told the Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) that Hindu college authorities have to resolve on their own the issue of charging of higher fee at the girls hostel. According to a DCW statement, the Executive Secretary of the UGC, PK Thakore, on Monday appeared before the DCW following summons issued by the latter on the issue. Thakore told commission chairperson Swati Maliwal that the issue is related to the college authorities and they will have to solve it on their own as “UGC has no role in this matter”, the statement said. Maliwal…
The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) would work upon certain courses about history of India’s tradition and culture, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said in New Delhi on Monday. He was speaking while inaugurating a lecture series on Bharat Bodh (Idea of India) at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). “Bharat’s (India’s) education system became such that we kept on forgetting Bharat’s culture and insisted on remembering the rest of the world’s. “It is necessary to know and remember the world but this does not imply that we can forget Bharat. It is necessary to understand the Bharat…
Cancelling minority status of two universities will do little to help regulate institutions or improve the quality of higher education in India, when the problem lies with the regulatory system–consisting of at least eight central-level bodies, some of which are inefficient while others have been investigated for corruption. The Union government is opposing the minority status of two universities funded by the taxpayer: It indicated it will soon withdraw its support for Jamia Millia Islamia’s minority status (the case is ongoing in the Delhi High Court), as it did for Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) in the Supreme Court in July 2016, arguing that…
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) on Monday released the admit cards of officers Scale I preliminary examination 2017 for recruitment in participating regional rural banks (RRBs). The admit cards will be available for download until September 16, 2017. The online preliminary examination for officer scale I will be held on September 9, September 10 and September 16, 2017 (if required). Steps to download the call letter/admit card for officer scale I exam: 1) Go to official website of IBPS 2) Click on the link to download preliminary exam call letter for CRP RRBs-VI officers scale I running on the top of the…
A 13-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK has got the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, placing him in the top one per cent people in the world who achieved this feat. Dhruv Garg, from Wokingham in south east England, was looking for something to occupy his time during the summer holidays and decided to try out for the intellectual society. The schoolboy achieved 162 in his entry IQ test – the maximum possible, which places him in the top one per cent of people in the world, the Daily Mirror reported. He also scored in…
Chennai The DMK has lashed out at the BJP-led government at the Centre and the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) issue, charging them with “betraying” scores of medical aspirants in the state, especially those from rural areas. The party led an agitation which was attended by a number of other parties, on the issue here on Thursday, two days after the Centre told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of the recent ordinance passed by Tamil Nadu to exempt it from NEET, for admissions to medical and dental colleges this…