Techstrong News Recap – September 27, 2022
On Sept. 27, William Willis covered Apple’s announcement that they will manufacture their iPhone 14 models in India, Samsung’s release of two credit cards in India and Australia’s consideration of stricter cybersecurity regulations for telecommunication companies. He also talked about Amazon’s new holiday shopping event announcement in October. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, DevOps.com and Container Journal, which covered a report looking at a new phishing attack, the benefits of moving toward cloud and serverless computing and three ways Kubernetes can help scale IT’s digital transformation.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 27th. First up Apple is announced that will make iPhone 14s in India is predicted that Apple will shift about 5% of his iPhone 14 production to India this year and about 25% by 2025. Currently Apple manufacturers most of its products in China, but the company has been trying to diversify its supply chain amongst growing concerns of trade sanctions between the US and China as well as pandemic restrictions that have impacted Supply chains.
The plan to produce more iPhones than India could also lead to Apple dropping its price there to be more competitive in the world's second largest smartphone market. While speaking of India Samsung has announced the launch of two credit cards in India. Samsung is one of the largest smartphone vendors in the country and it said that these new credit cards are aimed towards consumers and smaller Indian cities and towns.
While the space is crowded there is opportunity for growth here over a billion debit cards have been issued in the country but fewer than 25 million Unique Individuals have credit cards in India. This announcement is in line with other smartphone makers as there seems to have been a growing movement towards broadening services to its consumers including credit cards. Next the Australian government is thinking of enacting stricter cybersecurity rules for telecommunications providers.
8 million customers almost half of Australia's population. With all this being said though, Australia currently doesn't have any laws that allow for Optus to be fined. As far as the perpetrator though, Australia is currently working with overseas law enforcement to determine who was behind the attack.
In other news Amazon is announced that they will be holding a second prime day like shopping event in October. Retail business is currently slowed down in the recent months. Even for the e-commerce Giant and this new shopping sale is indication as well as a recognition of the need to provide for inflation hit consumers as the holiday season approaches, which is expected to be a challenging one for retailers.
Other companies have also started making changes to get more sales during the holiday season with Target announcing that would be offering holiday deals as early as October in Walmart expanding its window for gift returns. Amazon hopes to get a bigger slice of the pie as consumers shopping patterns have changed in recent months according to inflation and supply chain issues causing shortages. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at a report showing cyber criminals have found a new way to impersonate web pages of popular brands and this time it's targeting Netflix.
Inky technology an email security platform discovered instances of HTML attachments in zip files that when opened sent users to a form that look to be sent from Netflix Brand impersonation isn't new but it seems that this is just the latest attempt at it. com. com.
We have an article looking at the benefits of moving towards cloud and serverless computing. This being said though, you can't just simply migrate your current environment exactly as is cloud and serverless needs us to redefine how we think about software development as a whole. But if we can though we can gain massive benefits such as increased Roi and cost control.
com. Finally on container Journal we have an article that looks at the three ways that kubernetes can help scale its digital transformation. Kubernetes can balance productivity and safety and development teams optimize it budgets and tap into open source communities and software.
To get more in-depth analysis about how each of these ways kubernetes can scale digital transformation. com. And that's today's texturing news recap.





