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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Belkin India has organized its channel partner meet for its Structured Cabling Solution (SCS) partners in Chennai recently. The channel partner meet was held across all major metros in India - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. This five-city event, which was held from May to June this year, aimed to connect with dedicated Belkin SCS partners. The event has enabled Belkin to connect with over 500 partners across all five cities. The gala event showcased Belkin's latest structured cabling solutions, explained its new product roadmaps, ongoing marketing initiatives and discussed the emerging market trends and opportunities with its growing base of partners. "We have been consistently growing our structured cabling business, quarter on quarter since its launch late last year, both in revenue terms and market share," said Mohit Anand, Managing Director, India Subcontinent. "In addition, we have also expanded our...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM India has announced that Gartner Inc has named IBM Software Group as the India market share leader in the business integration, collaboration, systems management and development software categories in 2010 with 31.4-per cent market share and grew at 15.4 per cent vis-a-vis 2009, based on revenue. IBM Software Group is providing organizations with smarter software to tackle with some of their most complex business and industry challenges, while helping drive profitable growth. Everything from cars, appliances, roadways, power grids, clothes, and even natural systems such as agriculture and waterways are increasingly instrumented, interconnected and infused with intelligence. "Clients work with us because we help them deliver real results. IBM has consistently built high- value capabilities, unmatched by our competitors, to help clients transform their businesses. And we back this up with delivery expertise, resources with skills and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP Enterprise Services has launched new security services delivered through the cloud to help enterprises mitigate risk by reducing security vulnerabilities, leading to loss of private, protected information. If a security breach occurs, the affected organization may suffer damage to both its reputation and market value. The new HP Enterprise Cloud Services includes vulnerability scanning which reduces the risk of data loss or unauthorized access by eliminating common security mistakes and vulnerability intelligence which provides information on newly discovered potential threats that have been identified by vendors or researchers, since the last vulnerability scan took place. The new security services help clients redirect capital and operations costs towards driving innovation for future growth. HP Enterprise Cloud Services keep costs under control through flexible billing based on the amount of resources consumed, instead of the fixed-c...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced that it has emerged as the leader in the recently released India's Top Supercomputers list for 2011, complied and published by Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Of the sixteen installations featured by SERC, IBM topped the list with six high-performance computing (HPC) installations across India. These include IBM Blue Gene Solutions at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as well as IBM Power 6 cluster solutions at the India Meteorological Department, Delhi and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad SERC has been compiling and publishing the Top Supercomputers list in India since December 2008. This year, there were a total of sixteen entries in the list with minimum performance criteria over 3.11 TFlops. The combined supercomputer performance featured on the SERC list, and hence India is now about 308 TFlops. Bangalore l...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CELKON Mobiles, an Indian mobile handset brand, will set up a Rs.100-crore mobile assembly unit in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu or Karnataka in 2011 with a capacity to produce 36 lakh pieces annually. It also lined up an Android phone to mark its entry into the smartphone segment. Y. Guru, Managing Director, CELKON, said that they will pool up funds internally and from banks to set up the facility and that they are in talks with the local governments in this regard. In about 12 months, the company sold 10 lakh units, mostly in Andhra Pradesh and registered a turnover of Rs.150 crore. "We have entered into a tie-up with the US-based Bright Point to distribute our handsets in North India," he said. Addressing a press conference, he said the company would initially sell the products in States like Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi and Uttarakhand. From July, it would start selling in Maharashtra and West Bengal markets, too. For More Details...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has announced that it has started to embed the Mobile Money client in all Nokia devices in India going forward. The Mobile Money service provides the unbanked and under-banked masses, access to financial services through their mobile phones, thus empowering people and their businesses. As part of Nokia's vision of enabling a broad community with financial services, the Money client is available not only on high-end Symbian smartphone devices, but also on Nokia's Series 40 feature phones, as well as the Series 30 entry-level devices and support both keyboard, touch and combined devices. Nokia is building an open ecosystem for mobile payments in India and the Nokia Money mobile financial services initiative is already being implemented in India through partnerships with Union Bank of India (UBI), Yes Bank, Obopay and a wide range of merchants, retailers and business correspondents. The services, called Union Bank Money and Mobile...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung Electronics has been awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Eco-innovation for its ultra-premium Notebook Series 9. The award was presented to the Company at an award ceremony held in the presence of business leaders and senior government officials at New Delhi. Some of the key features that make the Samsung Series 9 Notebook a environmental standard Note-PC include: Maximized recyclability and usage of material with specialized Duralumin; extremely low-energy consumption both in idle and standby mode, reducing climate impact and the fact that both product and product packaging are designed for recycling with 80% parts and materials being recyclable. Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung Mobile and IT, "We are, indeed, delighted to have been recognized at such a prestigious Forum and been awarded the Golden Peacock Award for our Notebook Series 9. At Samsung, we strive to introduce products that combine the latest in tec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ciena Corporation has announced the strategic evolution of its packet-optical portfolio designed to enable intelligent infrastructures using advanced silicon, software and switching technologies. With these new platform configurations, Ciena's market-leading intelligent switching, optical control plane and coherent optics combine to provide the most economical way to support existing and emerging services over a network that is efficient, resilient and differentiated. By integrating these innovations across multiple packet-optical products, Ciena provides its customers with a complete, applications-optimized portfolio that offers maximum flexibility for their next-generation core and metro networks. As the industry trends toward more mobile and cloud-based applications, the delivery of private line and Ethernet services, which today represent 77 per cent of the $91-billion market for telecom business services, must become more dynamic an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab, in partnership with B2B International, a global research agency specializing in business research, has conducted a Global IT Security Risks Survey. The survey results highlight that 91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source in the last 12 months. More than 1,300 IT professionals in 11 countries participated in the survey. The most common security threat comes in the form of viruses, spyware and other malicious programs. 31% of malware attacks resulted in some form of data loss, with 10% of companies reporting the loss of sensitive business data. Only 70% of companies have implemented anti-malware protection fully across their businesses; 3% have no protection at all. The level of anti-malware implementation varies from country to country: in emerging markets 65% of companies have adopted it, while in the UK and the US levels of implementation stood at 92% and 82%, respectively. De...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel is moving towards a restructuring exercise that will merge three separate businesses, triggering a large-scale job cull for the first time in the services sector since the 2008 economic slowdown. Under this exercise, Bharti Airtel plans to merge its mobile, satellite TV (DTH), and fixed-line and broadband telemedia business, which jointly account for about 90% of the company's revenues and the vast majority of its workforce, into a single entity. The merger, apparently aimed at cutting costs and boosting efficiency at the country's biggest telecom operator at a time of falling profits, is expected to lead to big job losses, with estimates putting the number at more than 2,000. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia's latest smartphone N9 would not be available in India even as it launches in Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and Vietnam. According to industry sources, the absence of countries like the US is understandable as the company does not have carrier support for its devices there. They say for India the company may follow strategy it followed for N900 which was launched in the Indian market a few months after its launch in other countries. The new smartphone in the company's flagship N-series, comes with in a curved design and features a 3.9-inch active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The N9 smartphone will be available in three colours - black, cyan and magenta - and would offer storage of 16GB and 64GB. The smartphone would ship with an 8-MP came...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 3i Infotech Ltd. is eyeing the growing spending of government in an attempt to improve its performance. The company, which has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.7, is hoping that the Government, along with its mainstay BFSI sector, will pull it out of its difficult times and reduce the debt-to-equity ratio to 1.1 by March 31, 2012 or sooner, though some analysts have expressed scepticism regarding this. Pankaj Chawla, President, India, APAC and MEA Markets, shared, "In the calendar year 2012, 40-50 per cent of the India business will come from Government spending. While BFSI is growing at around 15-20 per cent, Government spending is growing at double the rate and in India it is growing at a rate of 40-50 per cent." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 3i Infotech Ltd. is eyeing the growing spending of government in an attempt to improve its performance. The company, which has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.7, is hoping that the Government, along with its mainstay BFSI sector, will pull it out of its difficult times and reduce the debt-to-equity ratio to 1.1 by March 31, 2012 or sooner, though some analysts have expressed scepticism regarding this. Pankaj Chawla, President, India, APAC and MEA Markets, shared, "In the calendar year 2012, 40-50 per cent of the India business will come from Government spending. While BFSI is growing at around 15-20 per cent, Government spending is growing at double the rate and in India it is growing at a rate of 40-50 per cent."

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Salora International has joined its peers Videocon, LG and Samsung to foray into the multi-crore rupee Indian mobile handset business and plans to expand its product portfolio over the next few months. In the first phase, Salora plans to launch its handsets in eastern India, Delhi-NCR, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. "There are already a huge number of players, but we will look to differentiate our product on the basis of quality. We have a television business and people trust our brand, which will help us in the market," Salora International Managing Director Gopal Jiwarajka said. Salora has launched two handsets in the market and will add another eight devices over the next one year. The handsets launched include SM501 (Rs.2,999) and SM401 (Rs.2,499). The handsets would be sourced from China and would be supported by Salora's network of 170 service centres across the country. For More Details See www.varindia...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apple Inc. has removed, at Israel's request, an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that called for a Palestinian uprising. Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein has written to Apple, complaining that the "ThirdIntifada" application - a reference to a future uprising - conveyed information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel. A statement issued by Edelstein's ministry welcomed "Apple's swift action" in removing the application and praised the company's decision as "another important step in preventing violent incitement in the new media". A search for "ThirdIntifada" in the iTunes store found no matches. The application offered users a stream of news stories and editorials in Arabic, announced upcoming protests and included links to nationalistic Palestinian videos and songs. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahindra Powerol has launched Intelli series of UPS products packed with advanced features for use in home and small offices. The company, which currently markets its UPS systems in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and a few select parts of the country, plans to have a pan-India presence by next year. The Powerol division currently has revenues of Rs.1,000 crore, with diesel gen sets business contributing a major share. The UPS division contributes about Rs.30 crore and is likely to be a Rs.10-crore business this year. Launching its new range of UPS systems, Palaniappan said that the company is looking at being a total energy solutions provider for not just businesses through backup diesel gen sets but also to home and small office segment users. The company now has Eco, Hi-speed and Intelli range of UPS systems, which are manufactured at two facilities based in Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh. The company's power solutions range s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Eurotech Technologies has announced its expansion in Tier-II and Tier-III cities since these locations are fast becoming hubs of IT/ITeS, manufacturing, BFSI and other industry verticals. Eurotech Technologies plans to take these road shows to a series of Tier-II cities in the coming months. Starting from Mangalore last week, it witnessed an attendance of a large number of VARs, keen to understand and acknowledge the BestNet Brand product suite, followed by a seminar series to educate and equip the technical manpower to enable them handle the BestNet product line efficiently. Initiating nationwide Channel and VAR engagement programme, Eurotech is showcasing the BestNet brand that offers complete range of networking solutions that is cost-effective and easy to install, deploy and manage and also provides greater flexibility to innovate and more easily respond to changing business requirements. "BestNet brand is optimally positioned to ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS partnered with Intel to participate in the Intel Channel Conference (ICC) event which was conducted across 12 cities of the country between May 27 and June 20, 2011. The cities included Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Vishakhapatnam, Cochin, Lucknow, Indore, Jaipur and Pune. Partners were given details on the latest ASUS' innovations incorporated into their motherboards like ROG Thunderbolt, ROG Connect with GPU TweakIt, UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode) and Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM Digital Power Design. The event aimed to educate the channel partners on the benefits of Intel's latest Sandy Bridge Platform. ASUS displayed its latest ROG and TUF series motherboards based on Intel chipsets and at major locations ASUS also had high-end machines powered by ASUS' P8Z68-V PRO motherboard for demonstration. With these machines ASUS demonstrated its exclusive UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode) and LucidLogix V...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced an expansion of its software portfolio to help organizations embrace the power of social business. As part of news IBM is delivering IBM Connections, the social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities. The new IBM Connections software allows organizations to track and trace data on the fly throughout their organizations. This information can be analyzed and is discoverable in real time using the IBM Connections active compliance service versus waiting until day end for analysis. The adoption of social software is on the rise and rapidly becoming a vital business tool, enabling organizations to transform virtually every part of their business operations from marketing, customer service and sales, to product development and human resources. The market opportunity for social platforms is expected to grow by a factor of nearly two billion worldwide by 2014, according to IDC. Organizations, both in regulated i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Technologies has embarked on a strategic initiative with the opening of its new Global Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, Karnataka. This reinforces the company's commitment to offering manufacturing clients innovative solutions for product development from Bengaluru. The new centre has been envisioned to cater to the growing Tata Technologies global portfolio of clients in the automotive, aerospace and construction/heavy engineering verticals, engaging high-end engineering talent available in Bengaluru. Samir Yajnik, President Global Services & COO Asia-Pacifi,c said, "Our Bengaluru team has been meeting product development engineering challenges posed by our global clientele in the automotive, aerospace and heavy engineering industries exceedingly well. The new centre is a natural extension of our growth plans around Bengaluru as a base." "While we have been active here for the last few years, we want to signifi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Avaya has announced its latest corporate branding initiative titled "Avaya. The Power of We". Initially previewed at the International Avaya User Group in late May, the new company campaign will highlight the importance of bringing the right people together with the right information in the right context as well as the role of Avaya's technology and services in making it possible. "A lot of companies are talking about collaboration, but they are short on specifics," said Kevin Kennedy, CEO, Avaya. "Avaya's vision is very clear: We help our customers bring the right people together with the information and context they need to help deliver business results in real time. Our objective is to give them the best collaboration experience, regardless of the devices, locations, or media they choose." The new brand builds on Avaya's long-standing heritage of delivering mission-critical unified communications...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mobotix, which has been positioned second in Europe and fourth globally in terms of market share in IP camera, enters the Indian market through TelExcell. Mobotix has been providing HiRes Video innovations for the past one decade. A Mobotix camera with 3.1-mega pixel records around 30 times more detail (it is like watching the IPL matched on HD). As a result, larger image areas with up to 360A degree panorama are possible, thus reducing the number of cameras and therefore the costs. Mobotix cameras can record events even without a running PC and digitally record videos with sound for archiving purposes. Mobotix video solutions provide Low Operating Cost and takes only 4 Watt of power and is powered on PoE. Mobotix does not use dedicated Chips for Encoding and video Processing and all the cameras are field upgradeable with the latest Encoding and Image quality Algorithms. With the Free Upgrades MX Control Centre, your investment is protected ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd. has announced the revamp of its entire Micro and Small UPS range as well as enhancements of other key products, including Liebert ITON-600 BX, Emerson Adapt Series Parallel Modular UPS(6 kVA), Liebert GXT-MT +(1,2,3 kVA online UPS system) In-Pulse Inverters (30 kVA) and OptimizeIT. The product revamp has been done to further enhance features and provide latest technologies which can have an impact on customer's business as well as reduce energy consumption. Emerson will work with its network of channel partners to create awareness about the new range of products. Ankesh Kumar, Sr. Manager Micro and Small UPS and MarCom Head, said, "Our primary focus for 2010 is 'energy-efficient solutions for next-generation infrastructure needs'. We are happy to be leaders in the space, and will strive to maintain our position by giving customers increased control of their power infrastructure. Thes...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rhino has appointed Micro Village Communications as its distributor for the South Asia markets of India, Srilanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, and Mauritius. Under the agreement, Micro Village Communications will distribute the entire range of Rhino products to address market demand for enterprise and service provider solutions for Asterisk based IP Telephony and standard VoIP applications. The agreement with Micro Village is a major step in Rhino's South Asia growth strategy to expand sales channels for IP Telephony environments. Micro Village serves all key segments of the regional enterprise market: large enterprises, the mid-market including call centers, and the SMB (small and medium business) office and mobility markets. “After the early success we have seen within the South Asia region, we believe that partnering with a distributor like Micro Village can further grow Rhino's support and presence to local partners an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP Labs India has released its "Personalized Video" application. This application delivers a high level of content personalization to its users through innovative algorithms and smart use of local computing power. Researchers at HP Labs believe that video will dominate the Internet experience in non-English speaking countries such as India. "At HP Labs, we believe that video will dominate the Internet in India primarily due to the ease with which content in local languages can be accessed," said Sudhir Dixit, Director, HP Labs India. "A key focus at HP Labs India is to innovate for the next one billion HP customers and we believe innovating for them requires a more collaborative approach." The application also allows for the creation of a special channel that can be used by third parties to push video content to a user based on viewing habits and location. According to Krishnan Ramanathan, Senior Research Scien...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rhino has appointed Micro Village Communications as its distributor for the South Asia markets of India, Srilanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, and Mauritius. Under the agreement, Micro Village Communications will distribute the entire range of Rhino products to address market demand for enterprise and service provider solutions for Asterisk based IP Telephony and standard VoIP applications. The agreement with Micro Village is a major step in Rhino's South Asia growth strategy to expand sales channels for IP Telephony environments. Micro Village serves all key segments of the regional enterprise market: large enterprises, the mid-market including call centers, and the SMB (small and medium business) office and mobility markets. “After the early success we have seen within the South Asia region, we believe that partnering with a distributor like Micro Village can further grow Rhino's support and presence to local partners an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TRAI had announced the new rules regarding Do-Not-Call (DNC) last year under which telemarketers who call customers registered with DNC would face fines of Rs.75,000 for the first violation and up to Rs.2.5 lakh for the sixth offence, after which they would be blacklisted for a period of two years, but this had not been implemented so far. After a long wait, rules aimed to bring relief to millions of customers from pesky telemarketers and unwanted commercial text messages may be implemented from August 2011, finally. Close-to 100 million mobile phone users, or one in eight cellphone subscribers, had signed up under the old DNC introduced in 2007, but the regulator was forced to act after rampant complaints from users of its ineffectiveness. Earlier, the penalties were only between Rs.500 and Rs.1,000. As per the new rules, mobile users will have a choice of blocking only telemarketing voice calls while choosing to receive SMSes. Even when rec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, ASUS has unveiled the ROG MATRIX GTX Series. It combines a dual-fan DirectCU II thermal design and 19-phase Super Alloy Power components with instant hardware overclocking tools like TweakIt, ProbeIt and an innovative Safe Mode button. "The ROG MATRIX GTX 580 is a high-performance graphics card for enthusiasts and gamers who demand the very best with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU," said Vinay Shetty, Country Head - Component Business, ASUS (India). "The 19-Phase Super Alloy Power technology provides greater overclocking headroom with enhanced power efficiency and component durability." The ROG MATRIX GTX 580 series is clocked at 816MHz and features 1.5GB of 4.8GHz GDDR5 memory. The new GPU Tweak overclocking tool has integrated the GPU-Z with TechPowerUp to provide accurate information about the graphics card, real-time clock frequency, voltage, fan speed and profile adjustments for u...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirStation High Power N150 Wireless Modem Broadband Router in India has been announced by Buffalo Technology. This wired and wireless solution comes with a 5dBi detachable antenna that provides increased range, better performance and an easy and hassle-free install. It includes features like low-energy consumption and Buffalo's AirStation One-Touch Secure System. This modem is a combination of speed, security, and automatic channel support for their wireless network. "Today, people are connecting a variety of devices at their home and office networks. These wireless routers are not just a way to share a broadband connection but an essential tool to deliver new social, business and entertainment," said Susumu Kobayashi, Country Head, Buffalo India. "Buffalo broadband and wireless routers are synonymous with high-performance, increased range, low-failure rates, robust security and easy set-up. This latest addition to our wid...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung Electronics has announced its provision of LTE solutions to KDDI, a Japan-based telecom operator. KDDI and Samsung plan to launch a commercial LTE service in 2012. During the past ten years with the close business relationship based on shared values, KDDI and Samsung have established the goal to provide a high-quality of product and service. On the same lines, KDDI and Samsung intend to provide differentiated LTE service to consumers as well. Samsung aims to introduce the industry's first and the most optimized LTE solution for hotspots in extremely dense user areas that require higher capacity mobile broadband, whilst simultaneously improving service quality in weak-signal areas. In India, Samsung is in talks with service providers to provide its LTE Solutions so that the Indian consumers can be provided with the complete experience of 4G services once the implementation schedules are worked out by the Indian service providers. ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has announced the Dell Empower program, a two-fold incentive programme for the channel partners. This one-of-a-kind channel program is aimed to provide differentiated experience to the customers and helps create opportunities for enhancing benefits to channel partners. As part of the Empower Program, the channel partner whether from Dell's retail or reseller network will add value to the customer experience by providing a complete demonstration of the product, highlighting and explaining key product features and also make an accurate and complete record of the end-customers' information, as provided by the customers. This data is then thoroughly verified and fed into the Dell systems to update the warranty in the name of the end-customer. The Empower Program recognizes the effort of the Dell channel partner in collating valid customer information, through a fixed incentive for every completed document uploaded by the channel par...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google plans to digitize quarter of a million books from the British Library's collections covering a period from the French Revolution to the end of slavery as part of its ambitious books project. The search engine giant has already scanned 13 million books through partnerships with more than 40 libraries around the world, which it makes available through its search results. The British Library project involves a selection of books published between 1700 and 1870, including feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange. Google will bear the costs of digitization, and the items will then be available for full-text search, download and reading through Google Books as well as being searchable through the British Library's website and stored in its digital archive. Google does not make any money from its library partnerships, but says the inclusion of material from...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Go Daddy.com has a cloud trick up its sleeve and is said to offer cloud computing services that will compete head-to-head against Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Hosting. Go Daddy claims to introduce a service called Data Center On Demand, a cloud hosting play and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering. As per Go Daddy's user forums, "Data Center On Demand lets users create a virtual data center with multiple servers working together. This 'cloud' hosting option lets you dynamically grow or shrink your environment as needed. You have complete control over the number of servers you use and their configuration. Further, Go Daddy's Data Center On Demand also lets users add load balancers, multiple networks and create templates for their cloud environments." The Data Center On Demand service is expected to be officially launched sometime in July. Marketing documents published by GigaOm showcase Go Daddy's pending cl...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos is alerting people aboutBeautifulPeople.com, the dating website that only accepts members who pass an attractiveness rating is claiming that it has been hit by a computer virus. Sophos has questioned these claiming that a "Shrek" virus made it possible for "30,000 ugly people" to join the site, without going through the usual attractiveness approval process. Greg Hodge, MD of Beautiful People, said, "We got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period. We responded immediately, repairing the damage from the 'Shrek Virus' and putting every new member back into the rating module for a legitimate and democratic vote. Resulting in a loss of over 30,000 recent members, we have sincere regretted for the unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site." Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, questions, "Why the website hasn't needed ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE On World Refugee Day - Ericsson, Refugees United and UNHCR launched a multi-country campaign with mobile operators to extend the use of mobile services to reconnect separated refugees. This campaign uses the latest Android app technology to extend the reach of the Refugees United service - enabling millions more refugees to use SMS, mobile-enabled browsing and the Android market to find their loved ones.via an anonymous database, and subsequently to connect using SMS or the internet. Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said, "UNHCR is pleased to join with Ericsson to broaden the availability of the Refugees United application to a number of markets, in both the developed and developing world. Helping refugees locate their loved ones using mobile text messages and mobile internet is one of the many ways in which technology is changing our world and helping people reconnect. Ensuring this is done in a way that respects th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TAKE Solutions organized a two-day event, Convergence which concluded on June 13 at the Crystal Springs Golf Resort, New Jersey. In its second year, the event saw the convergence of TAKE's valued customers, analysts and industry experts. The event started with the keynote address by speaker & author, Guy Kawasaki. His speech revolved around "Rules for Revolutionaries" Srinivasan HR, Vice-Chairman & Vision Holder, TAKE Solutions, elaborated on the vision and direction for TAKE Solutions. Analysts from IDC and Chain Link Research discussed issues impacting SCM and Life Sciences industry including, managing complexity, collaboration, Cloud and leveraging mobile. The event was attended by over 60 customers, representing the cross-section of TAKE's customer base from Small & Medium to Fortune 500 companies from Life Sciences and Supply Chain. All the presentations and panel discussions were focussed around the theme f...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NetApp has unveiled the NetApp E5400 storage system, which is available to OEMs as part of the E-Series Platform, to help customers manage the massive amount of data resulting from big-bandwidth and high-performance applications. To help meet the growing needs of customers in high-performance environments, NetApp has announced that the E5400 has been benchmarked for use with the Lustre file system, an open-sourced high-performance file system used by the majority of organizations on the Supercomputer 500 list. Together with Whamcloud, NetApp recently benchmarked the E5400 with the Lustre file system on the Lawrence Livermore Hyperion test bed. In a 4U storage system, Whamcloud achieved 5GB/s for read performance and 3.5GB/s for write performance with the E5400. This combination enables customers with a 40U rack to achieve up to 50GB/s in read performance per rack. This benchmark, along with NetApp and Whamcloud's ability to provide Lustr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE With the Government targeting rural and poor students, the Tamil Nadu Government is getting ready to distribute 68 lakh free laptops to students from September 15. The State-run Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) has floated an international competitive tender for sourcing 9.12 lakh laptops in the first phase of the scheme, which is spread out over five years. Elcot hopes to provide training to handle the laptops. It is interesting to note that the Corporation has directed manufacturers to burn the State Government's logo on the chip so that it is displayed when the machine is switched on. "We have done this to prevent misuse of the laptops, such as unauthorized sale or diversion into the open market. The firms should incorporate on-screen display of the TN Government logo," an Elcot official told. "The design and layout approval should be obtained from Elcot before production," he said. With the laptops ex...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Quest Software has appointed Krishnan Thyagarajan as Vice-President, Strategic Alliance, of the Worldwide Data Protection unit. Krishnan will be responsible for strengthening relationships with global OEM, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Service Providers for Quest's Data Protection solution stacks. Quest's data protection solutions help clients prevent data loss and ensure business continuity through real-time data capture and replication for mission-critical data. The Data Protection Unit embeds intelligent Quest technology into partners' go-to-market offerings to offer effective business solutions. Krishnan Thyagarajan said, "I am very excited to take on the new role and will look forward to working more closely with our partners, combining their expertise with Quest's technologies to offer innovative solutions to the customers." Prior to the new role, Krishnan was the MD, Quest Software India, and was...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti airtel has launched new broadband plans, with minimum Broadband speed at 2mbps in its Top 10 cities and from 1mbps onwards for all other cities across the country. On the new broadband plans, the minimum Broadband speed that will be offered in Top 10 markets - Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, will be 2mbps. For all its other markets, across its service areas in the country, the new plans offer a minimum Broadband speed of 1mbps. The experience comes with enhanced usage limits. The airtel Broadband customers can choose their Plans suiting their High Speed Data Usage needs starting from 3GB right up to 150GB. In select markets, customers can double their speeds to 4mbps for Rs.100 more. The 4mbps plans start at Rs1,099. Girish Mehta, Chief Marketing Officer, Telemedia Services, Bharti airtel , said, "Over the past several months, we have been continually adding to our broa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE A Fast Ethernet Dual Stream IP Camera, AirLive VGA IP-150CAM has been released by AirLive. With its smart, compact design, this model is suitable for a wide range of surveillance applications from securing small businesses to homes, use in estates surveillance, indoor, office and warehouse monitoring. The camera offers easy and flexible installation to the network. It delivers high-quality video images at up to 30 frames per second in full VGA resolution. For two-way audio communication, this model includes an integrated microphone. It supports dual-streaming of MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG (MJPEG) simultaneously to provide both high-quality and bandwidth efficient compression formats. MJPEG delivers greater file integrity to make it ideal for detailed monitoring situations. MPEG-4 video has smaller file sizes making it more useful for extended recording periods or for use in low-bandwidth networks. “AirLive VGA IP150CAM is a high-performance came...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CommScope has signed an agreement to acquire Argus Technologies by the end of the third quarter of 2011. The acquisition will enable CommScope to broaden its antenna solutions portfolio, deepen its research and development capabilities, strengthen its global market presence and accelerate its growth in the wireless market. Paul Bell, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Base Station Antennas and Microwave Products, said, “Argus will be a strong fit for us as we continue to support wireless operators globally in their evolution to new technologies and their drive to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth needs of consumers and businesses.” The demand for bandwidth and growth in network traffic continues to drive wireless carriers, enterprises and broadband service providers to invest in communications infrastructure. Wireless subscriber growth in developing markets, the adoption of 3G and 4G services in more mature markets, and network c...