NEC provides face recognition tech to Surat City Police

IT solutions firm NEC India today said it has deployed its face recognition technology for Surat City Police in Gujarat as part of Surat's safe city initiative.
NEC's NeoFace Watch for Live CCTV surveillance and NeoFace Reveal for forensic criminal investigation will be deployed for Surat City Police, NEC said in a statement.
"We have found NEC's face recognition solution to be the most appropriate solution with respect to face detection and investigation, and it will help Surat Police resolve crime cases in a very speedy manner," Rakesh Asthana, Indian Police Service, Police Commissioner of Surat City said.
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Netmagic to provide cloud services to HDFC * Netmagic today said insurance solutions provider HDFC Life has chosen cloud services firm's platform to support its business growth and expansion.
HDFC Life's business processes and technology backbone revamp will lead to improved customer experience, stronger employee engagement, simpler and efficient operations as well as enhanced information security, Netmagic said in a release.

HDFC Life partnered with Netmagic for an effective cloud strategy which includes a mix of hosting data on private, public and hybrid cloud as per the sensitivity, it added.
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Snapdeal appoints Jeyandran Venugopal as Technology Advisor * eCommerce major Snapdeal has strengthened its technology leadership with the appointment of Jeyandran Venugopal as a Technology Advisor.

Venugopal will be associated with Snapdeal in an advisory capacity and work with the leadership team to lay down the strategic technology roadmap for the future, Snapdeal said in a statement.
Snapdeal has been ramping up its engineering team, which now has over 1,000 people.