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iPhone 17 Series Powers Apple’s India Growth with 44 pc Shipment Share

New Delhi, July 22: The iPhone 17 series accounted for 44 per cent of Apple’s smartphone shipments in India during the second quarter of 2026, highlighting strong demand for the company’s latest flagship devices, according to industry data.

The impressive contribution from the iPhone 17 lineup reflects growing consumer preference for premium smartphones in India, supported by advanced features, improved technology, and increasing demand for high-end devices.

Market analysts said Apple’s continued expansion in India has been supported by rising purchasing power, wider retail availability, attractive financing options, and growing interest among consumers in premium digital ecosystems.

The company’s performance also highlights the increasing importance of India as a key market for global smartphone brands, with consumers showing greater adoption of premium devices and advanced mobile technologies.

Industry experts noted that Apple’s focus on local manufacturing, stronger supply chains, and enhanced customer reach has further strengthened its presence in the Indian market.

The growth of the iPhone 17 series underscores the changing dynamics of India’s smartphone sector, where premiumisation and technology-driven experiences are becoming major factors influencing consumer choices.

India’s Data Centre Boom Poised to Power Digital Future, Capacity Seen Reaching 6.5 GW by 2030

New Delhi, July 22: India’s data centre industry is poised for significant expansion, with installed capacity expected to quadruple to 6.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, according to a new report, underscoring the country’s emergence as a global digital infrastructure hub.

The projected growth is being driven by rapid digital transformation, increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, 5G services, data localisation requirements, and rising demand for secure digital storage across industries.

The report noted that India’s expanding digital economy, supported by growing internet penetration, e-commerce, fintech, and enterprise digitisation, is creating unprecedented demand for world-class data centre infrastructure.

Industry experts believe continued investments in advanced technology, renewable energy, high-speed connectivity, and reliable power infrastructure will be key to sustaining this growth while improving operational efficiency and environmental sustainability.

The expansion of data centre capacity is expected to strengthen India’s technology ecosystem by supporting innovation, enhancing cloud capabilities, enabling AI-driven applications, and attracting greater domestic and global investments.

The report highlights that the sector is set to play a pivotal role in India’s digital growth story, reinforcing the country’s position as one of the world’s fastest-growing destinations for digital infrastructure and technology investment.

realme NARZO 100x 5G first sale goes live on July 22

New Delhi, July 22: realme, the most popular smartphone brand among youth,  announced the first sale of the realme NARZO 100x 5G. The smartphone will be available for purchase starting July 22, 2026, across Amazon.in and realme.comThe realme NARZO 100x 5G is engineered to deliver ‘Non-Stop Power. Non-Stop Fun’, featuring the segment’s biggest 8000mAh Titan Battery with 45W Fast Charge for extended, worry-free usage. Powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 6nm Octa-Core Processor, the smartphone combines a 6.8-inch 144Hz Ultra Bright Display and the segment’s largest 5300mm² AirFlow Vapour Chamber Cooling System, ensuring smooth gaming, immersive entertainment, and reliable everyday performance.

The smartphone also features a 50MP Dual AI Camera with intelligent features such as AI Portrait Lighting and AI Eraser, along with Gemini Live for a smarter user experience. Wrapped in a sleek 8.8mm Floating Light Design, the realme NARZO 100x 5G comes with AI Pulse Light, offering 9 colour options and 5 glowing modes, along with game and music synchronization for a more personalized experience. It has also passed a rigorous 48-month fluency test for long-lasting smoothness. Built to last, it features ArmorShell™ Protection, MIL-STD-810H military-grade shock resistance, and IP65 dust and water resistance, offering the perfect combination of power, durability, and style.

Samsung Steps Into U.S. Credit Card Market with Galaxy Card Launch

July 22: Samsung has entered the U.S. credit card market with the launch of the Galaxy Card, expanding its digital ecosystem beyond smartphones and consumer electronics while strengthening its presence in financial services.

The new credit card is aimed at offering Galaxy users a more connected digital experience by combining payments, rewards, and mobile services within Samsung’s ecosystem. The launch marks the company’s latest effort to build deeper relationships with consumers through integrated technology solutions.

The Galaxy Card will allow users to manage their accounts digitally, access payment features, and benefit from rewards linked to eligible purchases. Samsung expects the initiative to encourage greater engagement among its growing base of Galaxy device users.

The move places Samsung in direct competition with other technology companies that have expanded into financial services, including Apple’s credit card offering. As technology firms increasingly explore digital payments and financial products, competition in the sector is expected to grow further.

Industry experts believe Samsung’s entry into the credit card market reflects a broader trend of technology companies moving beyond hardware to provide complete digital experiences. By combining devices, software, and financial services, companies are looking to create stronger connections with customers.

With the Galaxy Card launch, Samsung aims to strengthen its ecosystem and establish a greater foothold in the evolving digital finance landscape.

AVer Expands into Commercial Drone Market with AI Vision Intelligence, Targeting High-Value Enterprise Applications

 Taipei, Taiwan – July 21: AVer Information Inc., an award-winning provider of AI audio-video solutions, is expanding into the commercial drone market by focusing its R&D on AI Vision Intelligence — the intelligent vision systems that power autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As the global drone market enters a new phase of rapid growth, advanced optical imaging and AI vision are emerging as key drivers of industry transformation. Leveraging its expertise in professional optical imaging and Edge AI technologies, AVer is extending its innovations into commercial UAV applications, opening new opportunities in one of the industry’s fastest-growing markets while creating a long-term growth engine for the company.

“After years of developing AI-powered imaging solutions for the market, AVer has built deep expertise in Edge AI computing and image optimization,” said David Kuo, President of AVer Information Inc. “These capabilities have become the intelligence to power the eyes of next-generation autonomous drones. Beyond strengthening our core imaging technologies, they also create new opportunities through technology licensing and cross-industry collaboration, supporting AVer’s next phase of growth.”

Within the commercial drone market, AVer is focusing on two high-value applications with strong market potential:

lInspection of Industrial Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Traditional inspection of power grids and pipelines is costly, labor-intensive, and potentially hazardous. As industries increasingly adopt automated drone docking stations for remote inspections, maintaining image stability under strong winds at high altitudes remains a key technical challenge. By applying its precision PTZ technologies to drone gimbals and combining them with proprietary AI image stabilization algorithms, AVer enables drones to capture sharp, high-powered optical zoom images even in challenging conditions, allowing operators to accurately detect structural cracks, oil leaks, and other critical defects while reducing inspection costs.

lSmart Warehousing and Autonomous Indoor Logistics Labor shortages continue to accelerate warehouse automation and the adoption of dark warehouses. However, reliable drone operation under low-light conditions remains a significant technical barrier. Drawing on years of expertise in professional optics, low-light image enhancement, AI noise reduction, and intelligent object recognition, AVer enables drones to accurately identify barcodes, OCR text, and shelf anomalies even in dimly lit warehouse environments, significantly improving inventory efficiency.

Building on its strong foundation in AI-powered audio-video solutions, AVer is extending its Edge AI technologies into the commercial drone market. This strategic expansion not only brings AVer’s proven optical imaging expertise into a new high-growth industry, but also creates a new engine for future revenue and business growth.

Rohde & Schwarz supplies conformance test systems to Marquistech for India’s first GCF RTO and PTCRB ATL lab

July 21: Marquistech has expanded its operations in Noida to build India’s first fully equipped conformance recognized test organization (RTO) lab for GCF and authorized test lab (ATL) for PTCRB testing based on Rohde & Schwarz systems. With this addition, the test house increased its local test capabilities for mobile devices, IoT products and wireless modules with support for 4G and 5G conformance, NB-IoT NTN, CAT-M, NB-IoT, MCX and location based service (LBS) certification.

Caption: Conformance test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz

Marquistech has selected Rohde & Schwarz to equip its conformance and EMI/EMC test lab in Noida, India, with various systems for GCF and PTCRB certification testing. The investment includes the R&S TS8980FTA-3A RF/RRM full type approval system, the CMX500 radio communication tester for protocol conformance, the R&S TS-LBS positioning test system for location based service testing and the R&S TS9982 and R&S TS9975 EMI/EMC test systems.

With this expanded setup, Marquistech has become the first fully equipped conformance test house in India for both certification programs. The lab, strategically located in the Delhi National Capital Region, is aimed at serving companies in the mobile, IoT and wireless module markets, at a time when India is gaining importance as an export focused electronics manufacturing location.

The newly installed systems from Rohde & Schwarz support legacy 4G as well as advanced 5G features, including non-terrestrial networks (NTN) and mission-critical communications (MCX), and lead in numbers of validated test cases covered. Additionally, Rohde & Schwarz has provided regulatory testing capabilities for EMC and EMI at the site to enable abroad range of services offered. This helps the test house minimize costs and reduce reliance on outsourced testing. For customers, it reduces the time to complete a certification campaign.

Marquistech has been active for some time as a GCF field testing RTO. With the expansion of their site in the Delhi National Capital Region, the company has now extended its global operations to conformance testing. This adds a broader local test offering for device makers that need certification support during development and before market entry.

Prashant Jain, VP, Marquistech, said: “Our goal is to provide a globally competitive certification hub for GCF and PTCRB testing, delivering quality, flexibility and faster time-to-market. Together with Rohde & Schwarz, we are helping strengthen the global wireless certification ecosystem.”

The local support structure provided by Rohde & Schwarz was a decisive factor for Marquistech. Rohde & Schwarz operates a major development site nearby with integrated laboratories that cover the wireless product lifecycle for conformance solutions, supported by local engineering and application teams.

India’s Digital Inclusion Drive Gains Momentum as MeitY, Goa Partner for Language-Based Technology Solutions

Panaji, July 21: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Goa government have entered into a partnership to advance language-first digital public infrastructure, with a focus on making technology-driven services more accessible and inclusive.

The initiative aims to strengthen digital platforms that support Indian languages, enabling citizens to access online services and information more easily in their preferred languages.

The collaboration will encourage the development and adoption of language-based technologies across areas such as digital governance, artificial intelligence, and public service delivery. By reducing language barriers, the initiative seeks to expand the reach of digital solutions to a wider population.

Officials highlighted that inclusive digital infrastructure is essential for ensuring that technology benefits people from all sections of society. Language-friendly digital tools can help improve user experiences and encourage greater participation in the digital ecosystem.

The partnership reflects the government’s continued focus on building citizen-centric digital solutions and promoting innovation that addresses the diverse linguistic needs of the country.

The initiative is expected to contribute to a more accessible and inclusive digital future, where language does not limit citizens’ ability to benefit from technology and online services.

The NORD modular product system: From systems to solutions

Robust and economic drive solutions for environmental processes

With its modular product system and application expertise, NORD provides tailor-made drive solutions for more than 100 industries.

With its modular product system, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS offers a wide range of drive solutions composed of flexibly adaptable components, ensuring reliable operation in environmental technology applications such as recycling plants, wastewater systems and drinking water treatment. The industry experts develop application‑specific drive systems that ensure high reliability even during 24/7 operation in harsh environments.

Whether in sludge treatment, screw pumps, water screws, brush aerators, crushers, shredders or screening systems: Every movement requires the appropriate drive solution. NORD takes care of selection, design and calculation – implementing customisable drive solutions consisting of gear units, motors and frequency inverters. These are characterised by their high reliability, even during 24/7 operation in harsh environments. Furthermore, they are particularly energy-efficient – even in retrofitting, thanks to the NORD ECO service. NORD also offers compact and low-maintenance drive concepts. One example is the SAFOMI adapter with integrated oil expansion volume, which reduces the number of wear parts to a minimum. With the IIoT solution NORD DRIVE MONITOR and condition monitoring, system operators can always keep an eye on their operating data. Moreover, the company stands out for its individual project consulting, short delivery times and globally available, fast service.

A modular system offering numerous solutions

Thanks to its extensive industry expertise and comprehensive modular product system, the manufacturer meets the diverse requirements of the industry. In addition to high performance, robustness, availability, reliability and durability, the drives’ energy efficiency also plays an important role in environmental technology. With its IE5+ synchronous motors, NORD offers high efficiency across the entire adjustment range. This ensures low energy consumption even in the partial‑load range.

NORD drives also meet high mechanical requirements in extreme environments. The 3-stage right-angle gear units of the MAXXDRIVE® XC industrial gear unit series, for example, deliver constant torques of up to 282,000 Nm in water screws. The NSD5 surface treatment and the innovative NORD sealing system provide protection against external influences.

NORD’s decentralised frequency inverters offer another solution for industry-specific requirements. They save space in control cabinets, reduce wiring and cabling efforts and simplify maintenance, thereby increasing the efficiency of the entire drive system. Among other applications, they are suitable for use in pump drive systems. With control via frequency inverter, different pump characteristics can be selected through simple parameter adjustments. The parameter sets are stored in the inverter and enable the pumps to be adapted to different media, flow rates or process requirements.

NORD: Complete solutions from a single source

“The industry’s requirements are constantly changing – and we are actively following this path”, Jörg Niermann, Head of Marketing at NORD, emphasises. “We are continuously developing our drive components to provide our customers with solutions that help them progress technically, economically and environmentally.” By combining a wide modular product range with technical expertise and industry knowledge, NORD creates drive systems that are tailored to specific needs and delivered as complete solutions from a single source.

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Netchex Launches Mesh: AI HR Teammates for the Deskless Workforce

Six AI specialists proactively handle payroll, compliance, scheduling, and HR work for restaurants, hotels, dealerships, and other real-world businesses, inside Netchex and inside ChatGPT & Claude

COVINGTON, LA, July 21— Netchex, a payroll and human capital management (HCM) platform for businesses with deskless workforces, announced Mesh, a team of AI HR teammates that anticipate problems and complete work before anyone asks. It goes beyond the ask-and-answer chatbots that define most AI in HR today.

Most HR software is built for the corporate office. But in a restaurant group, a hotel, a dealership, a healthcare practice, or another real-world business in America, roughly 80% of employees never sit at a desk. Shift swaps happen over group texts and timecards come in late. The HR teams behind these operations are lean and chronically understaffed. Often a single admin is running payroll, approving timecards, fielding PTO requests, and onboarding new hires, all before lunch. None of it is hard. All of it adds up.

Rather than waiting to be asked, Mesh’s six specialists continuously monitor payroll, scheduling, time, and HR data. Each handles a complete workflow, with humans approving the decisions that matter:

1. Penny, a payroll assistant who chases missing timecards and flags payroll issues

Atlas, a people ops coordinator who connects onboarding, status changes, documents, and approvalsSentinel, a compliance and risk analyst who watches for patterns and gaps teams don’t have time to seeNova, a workforce analyst who turns scattered data into signals managers can act onMilo, an employee concierge who files PTO, arranges shift coverage, pulls pay stubs, and answers policy questions instantlyNettie, a service partner who troubleshoots issues and answers product questions for admins, drawing on every Netchex knowledge article and training resource

These six are the founding roster. Netchex plans to add more teammates over time. Because Mesh sees across pay, scheduling, time, and HR in one platform, it connects dots other tools see only in pieces: flagging a schedule-loading pattern that is turning a strong employee into a flight risk, or catching expiring technician certifications weeks before they create a staffing gap.

Mesh builds on Netchex’s acquisition of Mesh.ai, a Y Combinator backed, AI-first performance and engagement platform. After the acquisition, the Mesh.ai team set out to scale the technology across every workflow an HR team touches, and built the AI teammates announced today.

“Our mission has always been to build the best software and support for deskless industries. AI teammates are how we keep delivering on that, giving every operator the bench strength that used to be reserved for companies ten times their size,” said Abhinav Agrawal, CEO of Netchex.

“Operators have been told AI will change everything, but so far it mostly just answers questions when you ask. Mesh gets ahead of the work, handles what people hate doing, and lets them focus on what matters. It can do that because it sees payroll, time, scheduling, and HR as one operation, not different disconnected systems,” said Saurabh Nangia, Chief Product Officer of Netchex & founder of Mesh.ai.

Mesh also works where teams already are. Employees can file PTO, swap shifts, and check pay stubs directly inside ChatGPT or Claude. Managers can spot overtime trends and approve requests. Admins can run payroll audits and pull headcount reports without opening Netchex. Nothing sensitive is submitted without human approval.

“Our team is small, and we all wear a lot of hats. Having an AI agent continuously checking for errors, handling the prep work, and taking care of routine steps could be a total game changer,” said Tabitha Lehman of Northwest X Southern, a multi-property hotel group and Netchex customer.

Customers in Netchex’s early access program report winning back roughly half of their Monday admin time and a double-digit drop in payroll corrections (directional results from early access, not audited benchmarks). Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025.

Mesh is rolling out to Netchex customers, beginning with early access. To meet the AI teammates or request a demo, visit netchex.com/mesh.