Day: July 25, 2022

HONG KONG, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Premium in picture and sound quality with ultra-easy access, Toshiba TV’s Z770 showcases just how the master television craftsman is channeling its technological prowess into concrete design by bringing viewers even more brilliant viewing experiences. With an impressive 43% increase in volume delivered and a 43.7% uptick in sales, Z770 found strong signs of consumer approval in the second quarter of the year.

At the core of this television is the REGZA Engine 4K Pro, Z770’s flagship AI-powered engine that threads every pixel seamlessly into scenes with stunning picture quality – even for originally non-4K content. Combining real-time AI picture quality analysis and adjustment, the world-class engine with its deep neural-network accelerator is designed to deliver precisely the nuanced authenticity of every single image displayed.

Fronted by a pair of cinema-grade speakers, Z770’s audio system is an equally impressive feat. To deliver the most realistic impression of a pitch-perfect surround sound system, Toshiba TV’s REGZA Power Audio Pro+ constantly tunes the television’s sound wave, making certain that the audio output stays on point, clear and vibrant at all levels without cracking. And if that’s not enough, you can always choose to switch on Dolby Atmos or IMAX Enhanced mode. Designed to amplify the audio via precisely placed multi-channel speakers, they recreate every pitch in its full contextual originality, making your experience at home a more wholistic acoustic immersion rivaling that of a well-establish movie theater.

To add further subtle but significant qualitative improvements to the overall viewer experience, Z770’s far-field speech function gives you a wide range of access to the TV without having to click on the remote control; coupled with a voice recognition ability that responds swiftly and accurately to the familiar sounds of your voice, the television brings content from all over the world with an efficiency that safeguards your leisure like none other.

With a remarkable entourage of visual and audio features aided by easily accessible interactive designs Z770 is the perfect companion for immersing in the homely coziness of your leisure.

To find out more about the Z770 series and the brand’s latest products that deliver the most brilliant cinematic experiences, stay tuned to Toshiba TV on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube.

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TORONTO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Toronto-based global cyber insurance specialist BOXX Insurance today announced the appointment of Eric Newman as its Chief Operating Officer, and Steve Penney as Chief Technology Officer.

BOXX is modernizing cyber insurance and uses advanced technology to identify and address cyber threats proactively.

Newman will support the development of BOXX’s strategic growth agenda leading strategic planning, governance, legal and compliance functions. He will further strengthen BOXX’s leadership team as the company continues to scale globally.

“I am delighted to be joining the team at BOXX and am thrilled about the growth agenda ahead of us,” said Newman. “This is an incredibly exciting time for BOXX.”

Based in Palo Alto, Newman brings deep expertise in building and scaling innovative security and fraud prevention technologies. Prior to joining BOXX, Newman held leadership roles at both publicly held and private companies, including PayPal, Simility, RiskIQ, Pindrop, RSA Security, and Silvertail Systems.

As Chief Technology Officer, Penney will lead BOXX’s technology and data strategy, championing BOXX’s product-led growth and market expansion.

“The challenge to develop BOXX’s technology organization from the ground up, sitting at the junction between insurance, technology and data, delivering ground-breaking innovation is a fabulous opportunity one rarely gets,” said Penney.

Penney joins BOXX from Deloitte, where he led digital technology, commerce and transformation initiatives for many leading organizations. Prior to this, Penney led the Digital Transformation team at TELUS Communications, where he was responsible for the delivery, management and governance of TELUS’ digital consumer applications products and platforms.

“I am delighted to further strengthen our leadership team,” BOXX’s Co-founder and CEO, Vishal Kundi said. “As we gear up for the next phase of growth, I am excited to welcome Eric and Steve. They bring deep expertise and experience and their appointments underline our ability to attract talented individuals to our team.”

BOXX Insurance Inc. helps businesses, individuals and families insure and defend against cyber threats. BOXX Insurance Inc. is privately-held with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. BOXX’s vision is to help businesses, individuals and families stay ahead of, respond to and recover from cyber threats, putting their digital safety first. For further information, please visit www.boxxinsurance.com

Media contact: alex.tomaszewski@boxxinsurance.com

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SINGAPORE, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — During the Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2022, Huawei proposed the Multi-domain collaborative, Efficient, Green, and Autonomous (MEGA) financial digital infrastructure, and unveiled solutions empowering digital transformation of financial industry.

MEGA infrastructure is a global trend for finance.

Riding on the megatrends of fully connected, fully intelligent, and all scenarios finance, digital innovation is the key competitiveness for business growth, operational resilience, and sustainability, which has also become the crucial engine of the global digital economy. The ultimate user digital experience and business innovations are accelerating digital transformation of the financial industry.

Dr. Margaret Hu, President of Marketing and Solution Sales, Global Digital Finance, Huawei, said: “For digital and intelligent transformation of finance, Huawei will work with partners to embrace challenges ahead, and help the financial sector build MEGA digital infrastructure.”

MEGA represents multi-domain collaborative, efficient, green, and autonomous. Huawei believes these directions of MEGA is important for financial digital infrastructure evolution in the new era. To build MEGA digital infrastructure, the computing power, storage, and connectivity will be reshaped to empower financial institutions achieve high-efficiency, high-availability, and high-performance services through in-depth Cloudification Collaboration, Cross domain Collaboration and Heterogeneous Collaboration.

Nicholas Ma, President of the Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Asia Pacific Region, Huawei, said: “To build the green, digital and intelligent finance, we can move faster together only with healthy and sustainable ecosystem collaboration. We plan to enhance the ecosystem collaboration with global partners to match the digital demands from financial industry based on our fundamental research capability, innovative solutions, technology platform and Huawei Cloud.”

Driving digital transformation with innovation, Huawei Unveil MEGA Infrastructure Solutions

Based on Huawei’s leading innovative technologies and capabilities, Huawei works with partners to develop innovative digital infrastructure solutions.

• Industry’s first Storage-Optical Connection Coordination (SOCC): The combination of millisecond-level optical transmission link fault detection and fast storage switchover algorithm reduces the I/O link switchover from 120 seconds to 2 seconds when a transmission line is faulty, ensuring zero transaction failures and 24/7 online service for financial customers.
• Multi-Domain Controller (MDC): Financial customers’ public clouds, private clouds, and traditional data centers are isolated from each other, which makes it difficult for multiple departments to collaborate on network O&M. The MDC solution implements network-wide simulation verification and one-click configuration delivery, reducing the network change efficiency from days to minutes.
• Converged Storage Pool: To meet customers’ multi-environment requirements, all data from physical machines, VMs, containers, or public clouds, can be stored in one data resource pool and centrally managed using Huawei Data management engine (DME). This solution consolidates the data resources, improving the overall resource utilization from 40% to 70%, and lowering the TCO by 30%.
• Guaranteed Data Protection: In antivirus and anti-ransomware scenarios, the firewall, all-flash production, and all-flash backup are combined to achieve integrated protection ranging from virus detection, prevention, and isolation to data recovery. The virus detection rate is increased from 99.5% to 99.9%, and the backup and recovery time is shortened by five times. This solution effectively prevents virus attacks such as ransomware and ensures financial service security.
• Huawei works with Netis to jointly develop a service-level intelligent O&M solution for the financial industry, to address a series of IT O&M challenges.by this solution O&M of services, applications, clouds, data centers, networks, and devices can be visualized from end to end, covering all links.
• Huawei & Tongdun jointly developed Intelligent Risk Decision: Combining Tongdun’s industry-leading decision-making engine, model management capabilities, and with Huawei Cloud, leading data & AI technologies, such as Hetu, DGC, Lakehouse, and GES. This solution helps financial customers improve decision-making efficiency by over 70% in scenarios such as anti-fraud and credit rating. The average response time in large-scale concurrency scenarios can reach less than 50 ms. In addition, hundreds of typical rules and models are built in, facilitating quick deployment and meeting service challenges.

To date, Huawei has served over 2,000 financial customers in more than 60 countries and regions, including 49 of the world’s top 100 banks.

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