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Dell UltraSharp Webcam for 4K Video Conferencing With AI-Based Auto-Framing Launched in India.

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The Dell UltraSharp Webcam is a premium offering for 4K video conferences. The cylindrically shaped webcam is equipped with a 4K Sony sensor, which is said to provide improved video communication even in low light. Dell has also preloaded an Auto-Framing feature, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to keep users focused even if they move slightly. The webcam also has a noise reduction feature that is powered by software. The Dell UltraSharp Webcam is being released at a time when video conferencing is becoming more popular as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifications for the Dell UltraSharp Webcam

The Dell UltraSharp Webcam has an 8.3-megapixel Sony STARVIS CMOS sensor with up to 4K UHD resolution and a frame rate of 24fps/ 30fps. The webcam also has full HD and HD resolution with a frame rate of up to 60 frames per second. To capture more light, Dell has included a multi-element lens on top. The webcam has a Digital Overlap HDR capability for capturing vibrant colors. There is also a 3D/ 2D video noise reduction feature that eliminates grainy images using software algorithms.

Unlike traditional webcams, the Dell UltraSharp Webcam has a customizable field of view that can be set to 65, 78, or 90 degrees, as well as 5x digital zoom. The webcam also has a Dell Express Sign-In feature, which detects your presence using the built-in proximity sensor and automatically logs you out when you walk away. There is also an infrared (IR) sensor for seamless Windows Hello log-in. When you walk away, your system is locked for added security.

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The Dell UltraSharp Webcam is constructed of an all-aluminum cylindrical body with a smooth textured metallic finish on top. For easy clipping, the webcam also comes with a magnetic mount and a tripod adapter. The magnetic mount, which has a cable management slot, can also be used on a thin-bezel monitor.

In terms of connectivity, the Dell UltraSharp Webcam has a USB Type-C port that can be used to connect with a PC via the bundled USB-A-to-USB-Type C cable (two meters in length). When not in use, there is also a magnetic snap-on cover that can be placed on the front to protect your stay. When the webcam is in use, you can also snap the cover to the back.

In addition, the Dell webcam has a white LED light indicator to let users know when it is in use. This is similar to how on Apple MacBooks, a green indicator appears next to the webcam. For improved focusing, the webcam employs the AI-powered Auto-Framing feature, which keeps you in focus and in the center of the frame. Your webcam magnetically attaches to the mount and sits well on your monitor without blocking a single pixel, making it ideal for virtually borderless displays. Your setup is simple with the world’s most seamless webcam mounting solution.

Dell’s UltraSharp Webcam now supports both Windows 10 and macOS devices. The device requires the Dell Peripheral Manager software to be customized. It is also compatible with platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

The Dell UltraSharp Webcam is 42 x 90 mm in size, with a mount that is 32 x 65 x 9.4 mm in size. Because there is no dedicated microphone on board, video conferences require the use of an external microphone. When not in use, a privacy shutter cap allows you to easily snap the cover on the lens and keep it safe.

Dell UltraSharp Webcam price and availability in India

The Dell UltraSharp Webcam costs Rs. 18,999 ($199.99 in the US) in India. Starting today, the webcam will be available for purchase worldwide through Dell’s enterprise channels (Tuesday, June 29).

Credant Technologies

Credant Technologies Acquired By Dell After A Decade Of Independent Ruling

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The time is not far when the valuation of data will surpass the value of real currencies. Moreover, the acquisition of more data by a nation will access the net worth of a country. This might seem a little far-fetched right now, but it will arrive soon. With gigantic growth in the sphere of technology, the demand for data for every tiny transaction over the internet, data is crucial! And, anything valuable needs security, right? Irrespective of personal data of an individual or confidential data of a company, it has to be protected. Credant Technologies, a company founded in 2001 served the purpose of providing data security services. Dell announced the acquisition of the company in December 2012. The founders of the company are Bob Heard, Chris Burchett, and Andrew Kahl.

About the Founders

Bob Heard pursued Business and Law and completed his bachelor’s degree in 1974 from Texas Tech University. He stepped into the professional world with IBM where he worked as a Regional Industry Sales Representative. Bob worked there for six long years and joined Information Resources, Inc as Executive Vice President.

Bob had an ample of experiences before co-founding Credant Technologies. Some of them include working as SVP for S2 Systems and Entrust Technologies, working as a General Manager for Sterling Commerce Banking Systems Division, etc. He started working at Dell as an Executive Director but left after seven months and co-founded Credant. Currently, he is the CEO of Credant Technologies and Board Member of eOriginal.

Chris Burchett also went to Texas Tech University and acquired his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He went to Southern Methodist University for completing his MS. After completing his BS, we worked at E-Systems as Software System Engineer for four years. While doing his MS, he joined i2 Technologies and worked there for seven years.

He left the company in 2001 after serving as the Director of Product Development. After co-founding Credant, he served as the CTO of the same and then worked for Dell in the security division. Currently, he is the Group Vice President of Blue Yonder.

Andrew has a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Northern Illinois University and his MBA from Notre Dame University. Before co-founding Credant, he had prior experiences in working for Compaq and i2 Technologies. He left Credant in 2013 and joined NetApp. Andrew is currently serving as the Chief Customer Officer at SailPoint and as a Board Member of MyScript.

History of Credant Technologies

Bob along with Chris and Andrew saw a very big opportunity in the area of computing. When they founded the company, the internet has just started grasping the market. They knew eventually every enterprise will soon need data security as every small activity will depend on the internet.

So, they decided to found Credant Technologies with the prime goal of providing data security services to various companies. The company mainly worked for protecting data and secure it from “leaking”. Credant Technologies started with 110 employees which are pretty impressive for a new company. Moreover, the co-founders of Credant are well-experienced and seemed to have a lot of influence in the business world.

The tools of Credant Technologies had diverse applications, thus serving educational organizations, hospitals, aeronautical industry and well as the financial sector. The company also claimed to produce two million endpoints in these industries. Credant Technologies, since the beginning, has worked for protecting endpoint data and demonstrate compliance. It also worked to reduce costs at the same time.

Investors and Acquisitions

The major investors of Credant Technologies include Crescendo Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Austin Ventures LP, Intel Capital, and Cisco Systems. The company also had a joint partnership with Dell and OEM Record. Credant Technologies, for two successive years (2007 & 2008) became the fastest-growing private security company according to the Inc 500 Survey.

By 2011, over 800 companies, as well as few government sectors, used the product of Credant Technologies. Their tools and software were installed in more than 7 million devices. In 2005, the company was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Within a span of ten years, it made a significant presence in the world of data security.

Dell announced that it will be acquiring Credant in December 2012. The acquisition was made for the sole purpose of strengthening the security system of Dell.

Dell Wants to Bring Automated and Efficient Cloud Infrastructure

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Dell, one of the biggest computer maker company, which started its journey 35 years ago by selling PCs directly to the consumer is now planning to expand its cloud infrastructure to make it more intelligent, automated and efficient.

At the Dell Technologies World 2019 held in Las Vegas, Michael Dell the founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, revealed about the new Dell Technologies Cloud offering, that will be a combined project of Dell, Azure, Microsoft and VMWare. All those companies have partnered with each other to accelerate the digital transformation for their customers and bring a hybrid cloud solution to them. All the three will be combining their data centres, workplace solutions and cloud technologies to attain the very objective.

“Every business, every organisation, every government, and every healthcare organisation needs to re-imagine itself in this digital age. There are an explosion and tsunami of data that is sweeping us into the digital age. Data is our greatest asset and most important resource. Turning that data into action and progress and outcomes and success is the heart of digital transformation,” said Dell.

According to the company, other companies own their separate clouds, and it becomes tough for them to set up a multi-cloud strategy. So to simplify such complex tasks Dell is planning to bring a hybrid cloud solution, that will also render easy to handle interface. Dell’s cloud approach revolves around VMWare and targets to connect with public cloud service providers like AWS.

“For many organisations, the increasingly diverse cloud landscape is resulting in an enormous amount of IT complexity, and no one is more qualified or capable to help customers solve this challenge than Dell Technologies,” said Jeff Clarke, the vice chairman of products and operations at Dell.

Dell’s New 2-in-1 Laptops with XPS Features at Lower Price

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It’s still one day left for the IFA 2018, but, we see that Dell could not wait much and has announced the new series of its Inspiron and Vostro laptops. Dell, on Thursday, made the announcement of the launch of a large range of 2-in-1 laptops. The range includes the Inspiron 7000, Inspiron 5000, XPS 13 Chromebook, Vostro 14 and 15 5000 laptops. Dell had recently launched its XPS 13 models that are on the higher price side. And, these new laptops have also got some premium features from the XPS 13 series in them. So you can get the XPS 13 features at a lower price.

The Inspiron 7000 laptops are in three different screen sizes i.e., 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch, with full HD 4K resolution. All these new laptops are upgraded with the Intel’s latest Whiskey Lake 8th-Gen processors. The 15-inch and the 17-inch 7000 laptops are also going to have the Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics card and Intel Optane Memory. The laptops are also upgraded with the ram up to 16GB. Now, another interesting feature that has been added to that new 7000 laptops is that the support of the Amazon Alexa Assistant.

The Dell Inspiron 5000 2-in-1 laptop has similar features to the 7000 series. But the screen size is 14 inches and it has variants in i5 and i7 8th generation processor with an optional support for Nvidia GeForce MX130 discrete graphics. Also, the Inspiron Chromebook with similar features supports the RAM size ranging from 4GB to 128 GB, powered with 8th-Gen Intel Core i3 processor.

All the 2-in-1 laptops are now available in the aluminium exteriors with slimmer bezels. The sleek screen has also reduced the size of the webcam up to 2.7mm that is located on the top of the screen. The USB-C port is also available in all the three laptops that is useful for both Power Delivery and DisplayPort.

The laptops are supposed to be cheaper than the XPS 13 series, but yet with those features, you can’t have them at that lowered price. The Inspiron 7000 lineup costs $879.99 (around Rs 62,000) for the basic 13-inch laptop and the basic model of Inspiron 5000 costs $599.99 (around Rs 42,300). The price of the Dell Chromebook is not clear yet, but all the laptops will be available from the mid of October this year.

Michael Dell, the Founder of Dell Inc.

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Mid 1970s was the time when computers had started entering every house. The world was introduced to a machine which possessed the potential to complete people’s tasks in the matter of minutes. And, providing these services were just a handful of companies who were dominating the market. This, in turn, resulted in higher profits for the companies and only a particular set of class benefiting from the products due to their higher cost.

But the year 1984 would change the entire scenario of tech industry and bring about a revolution in the market. The year when a young and courageous man entered the business world with a unique concept which focused primarily towards the customer needs. Born on 23rd February, 1965 in Houston, Texas, Michael Dell is the founder and CEO of Dell Inc. Born to a stockbroker father and an orthodontist mother inspired Michael to aim higher and achieve bigger in life. While studying at Herod Elementary School in his hometown, Michael appeared for the high school equivalency exam at the tender age of eight to take a leap into business. By this time Michael’s mind was prepared to venture into the business world.

Michael spent his teenage days working for several part time jobs to earn money which he invested in stock market and precious metals. Dell even confessed that he craved for computers and stock market. He earned $2000 operating a mail-order trading business for stamps and baseball cards at the age of 12. And, just two years later, he did something which, we can say, marked the beginning of the revolution. He purchased an Apple II, disassembled it completely to study the hardware build and took his interest in computers to a whole new level.

Dell also worked part time as a marketing executive for Houston Post where he learnt some master selling strategies. During his college studies, in the University of Texas, Dell finally set up his own computer company “PCs Limited” – a baby step towards his lifetime dream – with his pocket money $1000. Dell’s business strategy was to provide his customers with affordable computers than any other companies like IBM. In his interview for the Success magazine Dell said, “I saw that you’d buy a PC for about $3000 and inside the PC was about $600 worth of parts. IBM would buy most of these parts from other companies, assemble them, and sell the computer to a dealer for $2000. Then the dealer, who knew very little about selling or supporting computers, would sell it for $3000 which was even more outrageous.” This inspired Dell to think out of the box. He thought of assembling the computers by himself and decided to inculcate this skill into his business model.

Dell used the direct selling method which would allow the customers to purchase products without any intermediates like the dealer. Thus, the customers could purchase the product at a surprisingly low price and every penny of the profit earned would belong to Dell. The next big decision he took was to drop out of college to focus on his business. The company was later renamed to Dell Computer Corporation. In 1992, at the age of 27, Dell became the youngest CEO and his company was ranked among top 500 companies by the Fortune Magazine.

In 1996, consumers were able to purchase Dell products online. The launch of company’s official online buying platform increased the demand and profits to numerous folds. The coming years added hundreds of thousands of customer base to Dell’s profile. Thus, making Dell the highest PC manufacturer in the world. In 2003 the company changed its name from Dell Computers to Dell, Inc. In 2004 Kevin B. Rollins took over Michael Dell’s CEO position but within 3 years he succeeded to take back the position.

Dell Inc. is among the top computer companies in the world today with a net worth of $24.8 billion as of February, 2017. The man who earned $1000 as his first income has now acquired tremendous wealth due to his ambition and smart business decisions. Forbes magazine has estimated Dell’s net worth to be about $20.8 billion. He, along with his wife Susan, has donated more than a billion dollars for various charities working for various social causes. He is also the author of Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry. Michael Dell, with his success and achievements, has set a riveting example for the youth to start their own business, introduce newer ideas and take risks.