VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE As per the latest report,  Yahoo  is all set to make another acquisition. Going by the reports, Yahoo is mulling to buy an online-video service  News Distribution Network (NDN) . Yahoo is speculated to pay $300 million for closing the deal.   NDN is a video streaming service with over 550 million video views. Although it doesn't make any videos on its own, it has a collection of 100,000 videos uploaded by different users about news, sports, politics and other topics. Market experts believe that the latest acquisition will help Yahoo to expand its video offering to numerous new sites, which can further create opportunities for marketers to work with Yahoo.Here, it is worth noting that it is not the first time when Yahoo is planning to buy a video streaming company. Last year, Yahoo was rumoured to buy  Dailymotion (a French video-sharing website) . ....... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Catelas (R)  has entered into a partnership with  NASDAQ OMX  to offer Catelas compliance, risk monitoring, and investigations solutions to corporations, broker-dealers, exchanges and regulators as a complement to, or integrated with NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS. "Catelas's patented relationship and behavioural algorithms automatically uncover and assess the relationships and networks that underpin how business gets done. This allows the analyst unprecedented visibility across email, IM, chat rooms and social media, quickly isolating key communications, allowing the analyst to cover more ground in considerably less time," said  Eddie Cogan, Founder & CEO, Catelas. By combining the Catelas’ solutions with  NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS trade surveillance platform , customers globally will be able to investigate trading alerts by uncovering the relevant people, relationships and communications associated with an alert.....

Microchip Technology  has announced the  PIC16(L)F170X  and  PIC16(L)F171X  family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which combine a rich set of intelligent analog and core independent peripherals, along with cost-effective pricing and  eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology  at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California.  These new devices also offer built-in  Zero Cross Detect (ZCD)  to simplify TRIAC control and minimise the EMI caused by switching transients.  Additionally, these are the first PIC16 MCUs with Peripheral Pin Select, a pin-mapping feature that gives designers the flexibility to designate the pinout of many peripheral functions.  The  PIC16F170X/171X  are general-purpose MCUs that are ideal for a broad range of applications, such as consumer (home appliances, power tools, electric razors), portable medical (blood-pressure meters, blood-glucose meters, pedometers), LED lighting, battery charging, power supplies and motor control....... See More

For the post-paid GSM customers,  Reliance Communications  has announced the launch of two International Roaming Packs - "Unique UK" and "Fabulous Five". Fabulous Five  will allow Reliance customers to save up to 92% on voice calls across 42 destinations. At the same time, Unique UK offers 96% on data charges and up to 82% for voice calls while roaming in the UK for just Rs.849/month. Awesome America launched earlier is revised and now offers calls and data at just Rs.10/- Gurdeep Singh, President & Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance Communications , said, “With the launch of the Unique UK and Fabulous Fives packs, RCOM has added yet another dimension to its offerings for retail customers. This is an extremely attractive proposition designed to offer significant savings to all GSM post-paid customers on both data usage and voice calls during their stay. At Reliance, we consistently strive to offer our customers more for less. Thi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , paper printers will soon become a thing of the past due to the rising popularity of tablets that have more accessible price points. Speaking with the group's  technical expert Kevin Curran , he told that within four years, no one will need to print anything on inkjet or laserjet printers anymore, as we will instead access and review documents and images digitally. "The printer will be a thing of the past and there'll be no need for hard copies. The more time you spend online, the more at home you feel reading on tablets instead where everything can now be done virtually," Curran said. Curran highlighted that the introduction of cheaper tablets, such as the  Aakash a.k.a Ubislate 7+from India , will help push this trend of digital document, image and video viewing to become the norm. Curran compared the time in which paper printers will have