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What’s new in Apple’s iOS 16.4 update for iPhone users?

Currently, in beta testing, the software update will be made accessible to the general public in the spring, most likely in March or April. The iOS 16.4 upgrade from Apple, which brings a number of new features and improvements for the iPhone, is about to go live.

With iOS 16.4, Safari on the iPhone now has opt-in compatibility for web-based push alerts.

Through this feature, users can receive notifications from webpages through Safari just like they would from applications downloaded from the App Store. Push message requests can only be made by websites that users have saved as web apps on their home screens.

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A shaken face, a heart in 3 new color choices, a jellyfish, a moose, a donkey, and other new emoji are among the new Unicode 15.0 emoji that are included in iOS 16.4.

With iOS 16.4, a new “Beta Updates” menu has been added under General Software Update in the Settings app. This menu will make it easier for participants in Apple’s Developer Program to obtain developer betas of iOS without having to download configuration profiles from the website for developers.

The same menu also makes it simple to activate iOS’s public betas. Only if one’s iPhone is signed onto the same Apple ID that they used to join up for Apple’s Developer Program will the developer beta option be visible.

This new menu will serve as the sole method to allow developer betas in subsequent iOS releases, according to Apple, stopping config profiles from being utilized and distributed for free online.

In the Podcasts app for iPhone and CarPlay, iOS 16.4 adds a number of new features. The Up Next queue now includes episodes that listeners have stored in their Library and episodes that they stream from programs they do not follow.

A new Channels menu in the Podcasts app offers a list of podcast streams all in one place on the iPhone. The Listen Now and Recently Played queues, as well as audio suggestions in the Browse tab, are now accessible through CarPlay’s Listen Now tab.

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iOS 16.4 brings back Apple’s revised Home app architecture, which was originally introduced with iOS 16.2 but later removed due to problems.

After updating to iOS 16.4, the Home app offers an optional upgrade with the new underlying architecture. Apple claims that the new design will improve the app’s usefulness, potency, and dependability for controlling smart home devices. The new design comes after iOS 16.1 added support for Matter accessories to the Home app.

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KPIT Technologies, Founded by Two Accountants working In The Same Accountancy Firm.

KPIT Technologies Limited is a leading Indian Multinational firm formerly known as KPIT Cummins Infosystem Limited. It was established in 1990, with its headquarters in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It is a software development company that provides software to automotive corporations and is an integration partner leading mobility to an advanced, clean, and safe future. Its business contains six domains i.e. Autonomous Driving, Connected Vehicles, Electric and Conventional Powertrain, AUTOSAR, Mechatronics, and Vehicle Diagnostics, working with leaders in the automotive and mobility industry.

It has its development centers in the USA, Germany, Korea, Japan, Thailand, India, and China. Over 7,000 (2019) employees are working in the firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence, embedded software, and digital solutions. The firm works on speeding up the clients’ performance of the next-gen technologies for the future mobility blueprint.

History

KPIT Technologies was founded in 1990 by Ravi Pandit and Kishore Patil, two accountants working in the same accountancy firm. In the year 2002, A firm known as Cummins Infotech merged its Information technology Department with KPIT, and from then on it was known as KPIT Cummins Infotech limited. After eleven years of this arrangement, Cummins technologies decided to reduce the shareholding in KPIT, focusing on its primary business in Generator and engine manufacturing. Therefore, in 2003, It changed its name back to “KPIT technologies”. It has created many software solutions one of the great ones is Revolo, which became the first ARAI- certified JNNURM II flexible with On- bus intelligent transport system. KPIT launched its new firm logo on June 6, 2019.

Renowned Customers

Its renowned clients are BMW, Cummins, Paccar, Lafarge, GM, DICV, and others.

Revenue

The firm made its stock launch in 2019, which was 50 times oversubscribed. It has achieved a revenue of Rs. 2432.38 crores i.e. 320 million USD (2022), and has a net value/income of Rs. 274.24 crores i.e. 36 million USD.

Split-Up And Merger

In January 2018, an It company known as Birlasoft and KPIT decided to merge and promptly split up into two new firms. This proposal was approved by the competition commission of India. Afterward, two new firms, an IT firm, and an automotive firm were formed. The IT company was called Birlasoft and the automotive corporation was called KPIT Technologies. Birlasoft received 22 shares of the combined company for every nine shares they have in Birlasoft. KPIT received one share of every share they have in KPIT. According to the founders, this deal was made to segregate Information technology and automotive tech business to focus on each.

Founder – Ravi Pandit

Ravi Pandit is an Indian Entrepreneur, Co-founder, and chairman of KPIT Technologies Limited, born in Pune, Maharashtra. He holds a master’s degree in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management. He holds membership in two renowned institutes of India of chartered accountancy one is the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and the other is the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Also, He has been the president of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industries between 2004-2006.

CEO – Kishore Patil

Kishore Patil is a great Entrepreneur, co-founder, managing director, and Chief Executive officer of KPIT. He led his team through its crucial time. His achievements are endless such as he was presented with the CA business leader Award in 2014 and the prestigious golden lotus national award.

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Silicon Graphics – Founded By Professor From Standford University.

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The American company, Silicon Graphics was founded late in 1981 in Mountain View, California. SG was built as a manufacturer and producer of high computer hardware and software products. The brand of Silicon Graphics was renamed after it went bankrupt and Rackable Systems acquired it. The assets of the company were split and two new brand names emerged but none of them were able to acquire their original position in the market. Eventually, Silicon Graphics lost its existence in the market under its original name. Back when the company was founded, its initial product was 3G graphics computer workstations but eventually, priorities shifted with the evolution of the technology market.

Establishment of Silicon Graphics

Jim Clark is the founder of Silicon Graphics and he was working at Standford University before founding the company. The foundation of the company started at the university as the early systems used by SG were based on the Geometry Machine developed by Clark and Marc Hannah. After developing this machine, Clark shortly left his position at the university as an electrical engineering associate professor. He started working on founding SG along with seven graduate students from the university and a few research staff. The main people who were involved in laying the foundation for the company are Kurt Akeley, David J. Brown, Tom Davis, Rocky Rhodes, Marc Hannah, Herb Kuta, and Mark Grossman along with Abbey Silverstone and a few others.

So, from 1982 the company became operational and Ed McCracken served as the CEO of the company from 1884 to 1997. During these thirteen years, the annual revenue of SG grew from $5.4 million to $3.7 billion. Though the annual revenue of the company was rising, SG faced a decline in demand for its product line during the late 1990s. There were several challenges in the marketplace and the share price was also falling. Due to this McCracken was replaced by Richard Belluzzo and under his leadership, the company started accelerating again. During this time, the company was trying to shift its main product line which also led to the creation of a new logo (making SG to SGI). All these initiatives taken by the company didn’t help much in its net growth and in 2005 the company was delisted from NYSE.

Ups and Downs

To cope with the immense financial and growth crisis, the company hired Alix Partners in 2005 to advise the company on how to return back to profitability. The best way to deal with the NYSE delisting was a reverse stock split. Next year, the company appointed Dennis McKenna as the new CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. In the same year, the company also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the company itself and its US subsidiaries. It also decided to end the production of the MIPS/IRIX line and the IRIX operating system. By October 2006, the company emerged from bankruptcy protection and it was again listed on NYSE but under a new symbol. As the company eventually stabilized, it reentered the virtualization market in 2008.

Unfortunately, in December 2008, the entire phase of delisting was repeated once again as the company share price declined under the minimum requirement. In 2009, the company decided to sell all its assets to Rackable Systems for $25 million. Ultimately, the deal was finalized for $42.5 million and Rackable Systems announced that they would adopt the “Silicon Graphics International” global name and brand. In 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquired Silicon Graphics International.

Jim Clark – Founder of Silicon Graphics

Jim Clark (full name James Henry Clark) is a famous computer scientist who founded several companies apart from Silicon Graphics. His other ventures include myCFO, Netscape, and Healtheon. Clark’s main contribution to the research field led to the development of high-performance computing systems for the fast rendering of 3D computer images. He went to the University of Utah and after completing his Ph.D., he started working at NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab.

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ForgeRock – Accessing the Internet With Security.

Leave a Comment / Story, Tech Story / By Yashica Vashishtha

The past two decades have brought a lot of changes in almost every industry. From personal computers to having multiple personal virtual accounts on various sites and for work, we are all about usernames and passwords today. Having a different account for each client helps the companies manage them better, hence, from having a work identity to a shopping identity, we have to have those IDs for almost everything. But when we are logging in to various such sites, whether for shopping or work only, we have constant doubt of identity theft. Therefore, companies like ForgeRock are there.

ForgeRock is an American company building an enterprise-grade platform for managing, securing, and governing different types of organisations. The ForgeRock platform from the company helps the organisations to work faster and in a safer environment. With the changing technologies, the company is using cloud architecture to make every site, app or any other platform using ForgeRock accessible from anywhere securely.

About ForgeRock

ForgeRock is an identity and access management software company founded in February 2010. A group of people who worked at Sun Microsystem had founded the company in Norway, and the headquarters of the company resides in San Francisco, California, United States. It is a publically traded company and trades as FORG on NYSE. Its flagship product is identity management software named after the company’s name, i.e., ForgeRock. The company produces identity solutions for big organizations and offers its service in over 50 countries. As per the 2021 records, over 700 people are employed at ForgeRock, whereas it has gained more than 1300 permanent clients globally. The company made annual revenues worth $100 million for FY2019.

The Back Story

A group of people, who were employed at Sun Microsystems founded ForgeRock in 2010, in Norway. ForgeRock was a concept upon which Sun was already working, but after Oracle acquired the company, it discontinued the project, and the founders of the Company started to work on the same project and eventually founded the company. In the very beginning, only the employees of a company using computers for their work needed identity protection, but the founders of ForgeRock had a larger vision. They knew that the concept of identity management has a bigger scope in general. This vision helped the company build a platform that is sufficient to manage identities across and for the workforce, consumers, and things.

The company provides two different types of products, i.e., a platform for organisations and SDKs for building apps. The company also offers training and certification programs for developing and deploying identity solutions under its ForgeRock University.

For the establishment of the company, the founders bagged investments worth $250 million from investors like Accel Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Riverwood Capital, etc., in venture capital. Names like BMW, Toyota, BBC, Philips, Geico, Richmond, etc., are a few of the permanent clients of ForgeRock, and the company serves industries including financial services, healthcare, government, retail, manufacturing, telecommunication, media, auto, smart mobility, etc.

ForgeRock is a publically traded company and went public on NYSE in September 2021. The ForgeRock platform offers services like Access Management, Identity Gateway, Directory Services as well as Identity Management, etc. The company has also won some recognition, including the SC2020 Awards, 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award, Silver 2020 Stevie Award, etc.

The CEO at ForgeRock

Fran brings is the current CEO at ForgeRock. He has over twenty years of experience as a management leader in various leading name companies, including VeriSign and Symantec. Rosch holds B.S. in industrial engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

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Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim, Two Masterminds Behind Developing The World’s Most Powerful Technologies.

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IonQ is the world’s most renowned quantum computing company that was founded by two professors. The company was established in 2015 and currently it is based in College Park, Maryland. IonQ’s most unique factor is the approach they are using to generate and carry out functionalities with quantum circuits. This approach is called ion trapping and with the help of this technology, the errors can be minimized with better calculations, something the world has never seen before. IonQ claims that accuracy is not the only factor why ion trapping is a better approach, it also improves scalability, coherence time, and predictability.

About IonQ

IonQ is developing quantum computing and taking it to a new level such that complex mathematical problems can be solved with a better approach. The true potential of a quantum computer is not yet unleashed but if one can develop a stable and powerful quantum computer, it can overdo the best supercomputers in the world. IonQ is using ion trapping technology to develop the best quantum computing.

In this technology, an atom is first converted into an ion followed by using a linear iron trap (specialized chip) to hold that ion in a 3D space. Electromagnetic force helps to hold the ion in place and is completely isolated from the environment. Linear chains are formed by holding several ions in the ion traps which helps in running the complex algorithms. IonQ has proved only in a few years that their concept is very powerful and offers the world the most powerful quantum computer. In March 2020, IonQ was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

The Idea of Ion Trapping

Christopher Monroe, a professor at the University of Maryland, and Jungsang Kim, a professor from Duke University are the two masterminds behind developing one of the world’s most powerful technologies. They co-founded IonQ with the help of two partners at a venture firm, namely, Harry Weller and Andrew Schoen. IonQ was born as a result of rigorous research that these two professors carried out for 25 years. Their research field was quantum information science and today it has become a public company.

Monroe went into the quantum computing research field when he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a Staff Researcher. During this time, Monroe worked with the famous Nobel-laureate physicist, David Wineland. Wineland’s team was working on the application of trapped ions to produce controllable qubits and controllable quantum logic gates. This was the initial stage for building a large-scale trapped-ion computer.

Founding IonQ

Monroe and Kim became acquaintances of each other through various research activities that were funded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). They were collaborating formally and wrote a review paper together whose title was Scaling the Ion Trap Quantum Processor. Their collaboration for research purposes eventually led to the founding of IonQ, especially after New Enterprise Associates showed interest in investing in the technology mentioned in that review paper. So, the company received initial funding of $2 million to commercialize the technology.

Eventually, the team was expanding and the company hired David Moehring as the new CEO of the company in 2016. In 2017, the company received $20 million in Series B funding and it was led by Google Ventures and the existing investor. Peter Chapman joined the company in 2019 directly as its new CEO followed by which the company made a deal to make the quantum computer public through AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Peter Chapman – CEO of IonQ

Peter Chapman is the CEO and President of IonQ as well as a member of the board. Before joining IonQ, Chapman was leading a team for Amazon Prime where his main work was being responsible for Prime’s 2-Day delivery. His position was Director of Engineering at Amazon. Chapman is a remarkable software engineer with more than 40 years of experience including several managerial positions and writing software from scratch as well. He went to MIT and worked there at Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chapman has also served as the President and CEO of Media Arc and eMusic.

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Nemetschek: Digitalizing the Architecture, Engineering, Construction Industry.

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The software has made almost every kind of work easier, the designing and architecture work being one of them. There are several software development companies that have introduced multiple software packages that have become essential for engineer professionals, such that they cannot do without them. Companies like Nemetschek are among those companies that make those architecture software products used to plan, design, and build critical architectural parts. The company works through its four business units, i.e., Planning & Design (Architecture and Civil Engineering), Build & Construct, Manage & Operate and Media & Entertainment. So along with the construction and architectural software, Nemetschek also creates software for the entertainment and media industry.

About Nemetschek

Nemetschek, aka the Nemetschek Group, is a German software development company that makes software for the architecture and construction industry. The company is over 70 years old (founded in 1963) and has headquarters based in Munich, Germany. Prof. Georg Nemetschek was the founder of Nemetschek and Yves Padrines is the cureent CEO at the company. As the company develops the software for the construction industry, this software includes works like planning, designing, building, and managing buildings as well as real estate. The company also builds software for the media and entertainment industry. As per the 2022 records, over 3300 people are working for Nemetschek, and the company made revenues worth € 597 Mio for the financial year 2020.

The Founding

The company history dates back to 1963, when Professor Georg Nemetschek founded Nemetschek as Ingenieurbüro für das Bauwesen. The founder was a certified engineer and wanted to bring a new change in the construction industry. The company was into structural designing from the very beginning and became the first company to make use of computers for designing purposes and also developed software for engineering professionals. Georg himself joined a programming course to make more development in this regard.

In the beginning, the company produced software for its own use, but in 1977 it started to commercialize its Statik 97/77 program for civil engineering professionals. In 1980, Company introduced another software package (a computer-aided engineering software) that enabled instant calculations and designing of some important components used in solid construction. The software was a revolutionary product (and relevant for many years) that was the first to be used on a microcomputer.

In 1987, Nemetschek brought a fully equipped workstation for architects and engineers that also included a printer and a plotter. The next year, the company introduced Allplan, a premium software to create 3D models, and in 1992, Company launched a new high-performance version of the same. In 1994, the company was renamed Nemetschek AG, and it went public in 1999. The company operates in about eight European countries through its different subsidiaries.
The company also started to expand through acquisitions and acquired names like Graphisoft (2006), Data Design System (2013), Bluebeam Software, Inc. (2014), Solibri (2015), dRofus (2017), RISA (2017), MCS Solutions (2018), etc.

The CEO at Nemetschek

Yves Padrines is the current CEO of Nemetschek and has more than twenty years of experience. He started as a consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and worked as a financial & business development manager at Creative Labs, Inc. In 2002, he joined Canal+ as the area sales manager. Padrines worked at NDS for about eight years, where he held posts like Vice president and director of sales and business development. In August 2012, he joined Cisco and later switched to Synamedia. He has also been an advisor for multiple companies. In March 2022, Padrines was appointed as the CEO of Nemetschek Group.

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