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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rashi Peripherals has been awarded as the 'Partner for the Year 2010 -11 - INDIA' by Plantronics India, at a recently held function at Goa. The "Partner for the Year 2010 -11 - INDIA" was presented by Mr. Bobby Joseph, Country Manager, Plantronics - India to Navin Mishra, Product Manager - Plantronics, Rashi Peripherals. Handing over the award, Bobby Joseph, Country Manager, Plantronics India, said, "Retail has been an integral part of Plantronics overall strategy and Rashi has complemented by being an effective partner investing their resources in achieving 100% growth over previous year. We look forward to their continuing the same momentum in the years to come." Rashi Peripherals was selected as the Best partner amongst the top eight Plantronics distributors in India, Sri Lanka & Pakistan on the basis of YOY business, channel marketing strategy, prompt payment and business consistency. Commenting on the oc

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yahoo! Inc. drove its largest traffic numbers for a single event last week when the world turned to the company for coverage of the Royal Wedding. Over a 24-hour period on Friday, April 29, 2011, Yahoo! drove more traffic and video to its coverage of the wedding than any previous event. Preliminary internal data shows that Yahoo! sites serving Royal Wedding content drove 400 million page views on Friday, slightly higher than the traffic levels experienced following the Japan earthquake. Yahoo! delivered Royal Wedding content at a record-breaking 50,000 requests per second on Friday, seven times the average daily peak of approximately 7,500, and video traffic was 21% higher than the previous record. In comparison, there were approximately 33,000 requests-per-second following the Japan earthquake and today, at press time, peak requests-per-second was40, 000 for content related to the death of Osama bin Laden. Yahoo! also drove approximately 30

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cyberstar Infocom has announced the inauguration of two new offices in Bhopal and Raipur, as a part of its ongoing efforts to expand its reach across Tier 2 and Tier 3 locations in the country. The new offices will act as channel development centers and provide regional distribution support for its channel partner network in central India. "We are registering strong business growth, quarter on quarter, across all our product lines from central India," said Raj Rathi, Managing Director, Cyberstar Infocom, "Setting up direct offices in Bhopal and Raipur will now enable us to offer better logistics and just-in-time distribution support to our growing base of reseller partners across these regions," he added. Cyberstar Infocom is on a 3 year roadmap to achieve 1000 crore in turnover by 2014. It has also set new service benchmarks in distribution logistics, partner development and product marketing campaigns "In the firs

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Epson has inaugurated its first Exclusive Epson Experience Zone (E³) in Delhi and has announced its roadmap of opening at least 10 more such stores later this year. This is the 4th store launched by Epson, the other 3 to have respectively been inaugurated in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The Exclusive Epson Experience Zone is situated at Nehru Place in the hub of the Delhi's IT market. The store showcases all the Epson products available including those for Home, Commercial and Office applications. Sharing details Samba Moorthy, Senior General Manager, Sales & Marketing, Epson India said "Epson achieved a turnover of Rs. 506 crore in the fiscal just completed (2010-11) - a growth of 25% from last year's turnover of Rs. 400 crore.” With ambitious plans in place he said Epson would be confidently targeting the Rs.1000 crore mark by 2015, if not earlier. He said retail presence would have a very key role to play to ensure the

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GIGABYTE INC. has announced that the G1. Assassin motherboard has received the "Design and Innovation" award from TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade and Development Council). The GIGABYTE G1.Assassin motherboard is the first-ever motherboard product to be awarded the coveted "Design and Innovation" award, and was selected as the best example of unique component design, addressing the needs of elite gamers, a growing niche within the PC gaming market. "At GIGABYTE, we are both excited and proud to accept this award as recognition from our peers in the industry for the work we have done in developing the unique G1.Assassin motherboard," commented Richard Chen, VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at GIGABYTE. "This accolade underlines our commitment to offering elite gamers and system builders the absolute best PC gaming experience possible, delivering unique features you simply cannot find on any other motherboard

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM India has joined other IBM offices around the world for celebrating the company's centennial. Marking the 100-year anniversary of its founding on June 16, 1911 with a year-long initiative, IBM will engage local communities and thought leaders with a series of activities themed around changing the way the world works. Over its century of existence, IBM has played a leading role in transforming business, science and society. These areas form the basis for the three themes driving IBM’s Centennial globally, including India: Reinventing the Modern Corporation, Pioneering the Science of Information, and Making the World Work Better. Together, they provide a basis for understanding how the rise of information technology has changed society and the world. "IBM's inventions are the underpinnings of today’s technology industry. They illustrate how IBM has consistently adapted to remain relevant to the changing needs of the modern wor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Spice Global has launched its online shopping portal Saholic.com. This portal provides Indian consumers a unique online shopping experience where they can do high quality research about the product and also experience its features. The portal sells only genuine products from trusted brands and all products have full manufacturers' warranty. The other highlight of the portal is its superfast delivery. It promises free next day delivery for most products and locations in India. This has been made possible due to Spice's extensive experience of managing inventory efficiently which it has gained through its presence in physical retail. Speaking about the portal, Pankaj Jain, CEO of Saholic said, "Initially we will be selling mobile devices (of all the major brands) and accessories. We will soon expand into other related categories and will continue to delight our customers with our unique shopping experience. Our vision is to becom

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hip Street has launched a new Bluetooth headset with noise reduction and echo elimination features. This brand new HSLITE headset is ideal to take calls on the move in complete comfort and style. With a 30 feet range, this compact, lightweight headset supports various functions like call waiting, call ignore, voice dialing and redial functions. The company is rolling out the product through its national distributor Global Infonet Distribution Pvt Ltd. "With the upwardly mobile workforce, hands-free communication has become extremely important. Hip Street HSLITE is one of the most durable offerings from our stable. Its sound quality, all-day comfort and solid reliability along with a long battery life is a complete value for money option for our customers," commented Sukhesh Madaan, GM- South Asia, Hip Street. Sleek and lightweight, one can wear the HS LITE with an ear-hook and ultimate comfort ear-gel to suit the personal pref

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has launched the Genius Traveler 6000- latest wireless mouse from Genius. "This wireless mouse from Genius is aimed at tapping the consumer segment that is price sensitive. While it is aggressively priced there is no compromise on the features it offers" said Sudhir S, Managing Director of Inspan Infotech. "Partners will be able to tap this segment well and we anticipate good benefit for them" adds Sudhir. Launched first time by Inspan, this mouse offers rich features for the price it is asking. Featuring a precision 1200 dpi optical engine, Traveler 6000 provides great cursor movement control for browsing documents or Internet pages. The Pico receiver is ideal because of its mini size, so that one can leave it the notebook when is carried around in the office. To save on battery purchases, Traveler 6000 is designed with only one AAA battery and a power switch is added to extend the battery life. It also h

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Posted on - Thursday, May 5, 2011 By VARIndia Correspondent With growing physical security threats around, the need for a safe & secure environment has become the need of the hour. Most organization these days are looking for smart surveillance solutions that can help them detect suspicious behavior & automate physical security. Being a solution driven company D-Link not only offers efficient & effective network camera's but also offer a comprehensive standards-based management tool in form of Network Management Surveillance Software. D-Link's recent introduction D-ViewCam Professional (DCS-220) & D-ViewCam Enterprise (DCS-230) are comprehensive IP surveillance software's designed for SMB/Enterprise users. D-Link DCS-220 & DCS-230 can centrally manage up to 32/64 network cameras and is compatible with current D-Link network cameras and video servers. Additionally it also provides backend VMS solution for IP

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ramco Systems has secured the esteemed Watts S Humphrey award for Software Quality and Process Improvement at the SPI Conference 2011 organized by Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), Chennai. Ramco Systems won the award for a paper presentation on 'Automation of Maintenance Process' which was adjudged as the best paper and won the first place in the first-ever Watts S Humphrey Award of Best Practices from SPIN Chennai. M. Raghuraman from Quality Management Group and M R. Srinivasan from Technology presented the winning paper during the Best practices session at the conference. SPIN Chennai instituted the 'Watts S Humphrey Award for Best Practice' in memory of its mentor Watts S Humphrey known as the "Father of Software Quality". The organization invited nominations from industry experts to present unconventional, innovative and interesting papers on the best practices that have benefited their organizatio

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Naaptol has come up with an android-based application to reach out to the smart phone users. This new platform will be enabling android smart phone users to make the quick and convenient shopping. There is no doubt that the new android based application will facilitate the most convenient, and time saving shopping experience to the users. Through the new application, Naaptol is providing a comprehensive list of home shopping products to the users. The application will enable users to browse more than 2 lakh products from more than 500 categories and garner detailed information (image review, MRP), reviews, specifications of the products and experts' reviews. This procedure helps the user to do a comparative analysis of the available products and can avail the products at the best price point. The user can also mark a product - favorite - so that he can use the same later and if the user wishes to purchase a particular product from a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE With the news of Osama Bin Laden being dead, spam e-mails with videos disapproving his possible death are doing the rounds in cyberspace. These e-mails lure users into clicking the link which are then directed to a site that downloads a small file onto your system. This file, detected currently as either "Heuristic.LooksLike.Win32.EPO.F" or "Artemis!7C4314D9690D" is a Trojan that does nothing but steal data. McAfee has also seen links and scams that lead to FakeAV, RBot and ZBot binaries. McAfee warns users to look out for any of the above words in the subject lines of emails, links via Facebook or Twitter as such mail/links will be malicious. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NComputing has announced a vertical market expansion strategy to accelerate the adoption of desktop virtualization in India. The company will introduce a range of 'In A Box' vertical market solutions designed to deliver desktop computing access and productivity at a fraction of the cost of traditional PC deployments. The first solutions, Office In A Box and Classroom In A Box, will be available from leading IT resellers throughout India later this year. Raj Dhingra, CEO, NComputing, "NComputing is a global innovator and market leader in end-to-end virtual desktop solutions. Our 'In A Box' solutions are the ultimate combination of simplicity and powerful productivity. By removing barriers of complexity and economics, we have made previously unviable desktop computing deployments viable; and are creating entirely new use cases of desktop virtualization in the SMB and education markets. In collaboration with our ch