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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Flytxt has launched QREDA, an end-to-end mobile advertising platform. The platform allows all brands and advertisers to reach out to mobile subscribers by leveraging mobile operators’ subscriber data and reach while strictly honouring privacy and security. QREDA unlocks the full potential of mobile advertising and delivers unprecedented value to all players in the ecosystem, including mobile operators, advertisers, brands and consumers. Through this platform, Flytxt hopes to redefine the mobile advertising value chain by extending the assets uniquely possessed by the mobile operators to provide value to advertisers and subscribers and simultaneously creating a major new revenue stream for these operators. The platform supports flexible ad campaign models and all types of inventory. "QREDA enables mobile operators to play a key role in advertising using the mobile channel. This will transform the mobile advertising business as we know it

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has announced its December 2010 Threat Landscape report, which identifies a concerning evolutionary step cybercriminal operations are taking to more effectively diversify the distribution of their ill-gotten gains. "This month, we saw a wide variety of money mule recruitment campaigns that, for the first time, targeted specific countries in an orchestrated manner," said Derek Manky, Project Manager, Cyber Security and Threat Research at Fortinet. “The campaigns, which were seeded in a number of Asian and European countries, solicited local individuals who already have or had established relationships in the banking industry or were looking for work as 'online sales administrators'." To make these "localized" campaigns even more effective, they incorporated regional-sounding domain names, such as cv-eur.com, asia-sitezen.com and australia-resume.com. Upon closer scrutiny, Fortinet's FortiGuard tea

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Invensys Operations Management has unveiled a host of new and upgraded components of its InFusion Enterprise Control System (ECS) at its OpsManage'10 customer and partner conference in India. Invensys's InFusion Enterprise Control System (ECS) enables new opportunities for Invensys clients and partners to deliver Operational Excellence across four key areas: Control, asset, Productivity and Environment & Safety. The role of Invensys' s brands like Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, SimSci-Esscor, skelta, Triconex and Wonderware were also explored. "The new and updated products and solutions we are demonstrating at OpsManage'10 exemplify how the InFusion Enterprise Control System can holistically unify old and new system applications to create a unified 'system of systems'," said Ravi Gopinath , President, Invensys Operations Management, Asia Pacific. "Each of these products and solutions delivers

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has announced the availability of Classic Series CH94 2.5" Portable Hard Disk Drive USP from A-DATA . With a thickness of less than 20mm, the A-DATA Classic Series CH94 Portable HDD is designed with elegant curves to feel just like a fashionable compact pocket diary. The built-in wraparound USB cable provides both convenience and secure portability for any road warrior, saving you the trouble of cable storage or loss. With the included colourful alphabet stickers, CH94 becomes more than just a portal drive. Give it a name, or let others know whom this cool drive belongs to by personalizing it in colours that suit your taste and sense of style. This unique DIY feature makes the Classic Series CH94 a hard drive that provides data storage and portability and fun. "With the increasing demand of external hard drives A-DATA's CH94 serves the market with a complete package on high-speed, lightweight, storage capacity a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has announced the availability of Classic Series CH94 2.5" Portable Hard Disk Drive USP from A-DATA . With a thickness of less than 20mm, the A-DATA Classic Series CH94 Portable HDD is designed with elegant curves to feel just like a fashionable compact pocket diary. The built-in wraparound USB cable provides both convenience and secure portability for any road warrior, saving you the trouble of cable storage or loss. With the included colourful alphabet stickers, CH94 becomes more than just a portal drive. Give it a name, or let others know whom this cool drive belongs to by personalizing it in colours that suit your taste and sense of style. This unique DIY feature makes the Classic Series CH94 a hard drive that provides data storage and portability and fun. "With the increasing demand of external hard drives A-DATA's CH94 serves the market with a complete package on high-speed, lightweight, storage capacity a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Accenture India has appointed Avinash Vashishtha as Chairman & Country Managing Director to boost up the revenue in the booming Indian IT market. For some time now, Accenture, with a global revenues of nearly $24 billion, has been trailing behind IBM and HP in the domestic market and is all set to grab a larger share with Vashishtha's understanding of the local market. Avinash Vashishtha, 49, is a doyen outsourcing professional and a turnaround expert. He will work with the current Chairman Harsh Manglik until he retires in August this year. Till then, Manglik, 62, and Vashishtha will serve as Co-Chairmen of the company's India operations. Around mid-nineties, Vashishtha has helped Nortel by building its biggest offshore operations in India, which went bankrupt last year. He was also a customer for India's top outsourcing vendors including TCS, Infosys and Wipro . Later, in 1999, he founded outsourcing advisory firm neoIT an

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has flagged off the nationwide rollout of mobile number portability which means that now mobile users can switch operators without losing their phone numbers and compel service providers to improve the quality of their services. MNP services were first launched in Haryana in November last year. Nevertheless, companies like Idea Cellular and Vodafone started marketing their services to subscribers in other parts of the country that are looking at switching operators even before MNP services were rolled out. "I think its a great step forward for the consumer, as it enhances choice and brings in more competition, because the more efficient you are as a service provider, the more likely that consumers will choose you," said Kapil Sibal, Telecom Minister. Idea Cellular, which started the "No idea? Get Idea'' campaign to win the subscribers of rival telcos, has also set up a toll-free line to as

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL Infosystems and Tikona Digital Networks Limited (Tikona) have signed an agreement on the latter taking up the entire equity stake of HCL Infinet Limited, a wholly- owned subsidiary of HCL Infosystems. The sale of shares is subject to and shall be given effect post necessary regulatory approvals. The move comes as a part of HCL Infosystems' transformation strategy under which the company will be further strengthening its core business and expanding into identified growth areas. "HCL Infinet is today poised to take on a different growth trajectory and is best suited to further strengthen an enterprise like Tikona focussed on delivering ISP and NLD services in the fast-emerging telecom industry. HCL Infosystems, on the other hand, has been rapidly emerging as a leading systems integration and product engineering company, enabling projects across the country in the areas from e-governance, power, telecom, education and learning to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL Infosystems and Tikona Digital Networks Limited (Tikona) have signed an agreement on the latter taking up the entire equity stake of HCL Infinet Limited, a wholly- owned subsidiary of HCL Infosystems. The sale of shares is subject to and shall be given effect post necessary regulatory approvals. The move comes as a part of HCL Infosystems' transformation strategy under which the company will be further strengthening its core business and expanding into identified growth areas. "HCL Infinet is today poised to take on a different growth trajectory and is best suited to further strengthen an enterprise like Tikona focussed on delivering ISP and NLD services in the fast-emerging telecom industry. HCL Infosystems, on the other hand, has been rapidly emerging as a leading systems integration and product engineering company, enabling projects across the country in the areas from e-governance, power, telecom, education and learning to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE iValue InfoSolutions has organized a partner's event for Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. This was Huawei Symantec's first exclusive partner event in Bangalore to create awareness of their products and solutions. The event attracted over 30 partners focussed on Storage and Network Security segments like Cubic Computing, 22by7, Frontier Business, Kinfotech, Fortune Computers, Veeras Infotek, Ninth Technology, Raksha Technologies, Softcell, Safezone. System Integrators, and the key consulting companies also attended the event. Huawei Symantec is firmly committed to continuous customer-centric innovation. The company develops its innovative network security and storage solutions on the fundamental belief that customers need converged, easy-to-manage and reliable solutions that provide them with the capacity and security to maximize business opportunities. Sriram S, CEO, iValue InfoSolutions, said, "iValue and Huawei Symantec

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced that 3i Infotech has selected HP's Application Software Quality (ASQ) automation suite to improve application testing and compliance efficiencies. 3i Infotech will leverage the HP ASQ platform to develop the company’s Domain Test Accelerator, which addresses vulnerabilities and enhances IT system security. "These services are aligned to our vision of offering new business engagement models to our customers, with focus on improved end-user experiences," said Som Sarma, Global Head, IT Services, 3i Infotech. "Based on HP's ASQ platform, our Domain Test Accelerator will address cost optimization for our customers, while ensuring tighter alignment of solutions to the needs of their domain." "In the face of shrinking budgets, there is a greater need for defect-free and compliant IT systems that can drive automation efficiencies within limited resources," said Kamal Dutta, Director, HP Softwar

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA Technologies has launched a full lineup of innovative Green computing products, including the ground-breaking sub-Rs.10k SIMM PC and a wide range of power-efficient VIA PC-1 mainboards integrating VIA's leading-edge energy-saving technologies. Simmtronics will assemble the motherboards exclusively in its advanced manufacturing facility in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, under the terms of an agreement recently signed by the two companies. In addition to India, Simmtronics will also distribute the products through its channel partners in a total of 15 other countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Dubai, UAE, Turkey, Iraq, Algeria and Ghana. "The global technology market is witnessing a growing race among manufacturers to introduce the lowest carbon emission and most environmentally friendly products in order to enable their customers to become a part of a healthy and green society tomorrow. Simmtronics is taking aggressive

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA Technologies has launched a full lineup of innovative Green computing products, including the ground-breaking sub-Rs.10k SIMM PC and a wide range of power-efficient VIA PC-1 mainboards integrating VIA's leading-edge energy-saving technologies. Simmtronics will assemble the motherboards exclusively in its advanced manufacturing facility in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, under the terms of an agreement recently signed by the two companies. In addition to India, Simmtronics will also distribute the products through its channel partners in a total of 15 other countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Dubai, UAE, Turkey, Iraq, Algeria and Ghana. "The global technology market is witnessing a growing race among manufacturers to introduce the lowest carbon emission and most environmentally friendly products in order to enable their customers to become a part of a healthy and green society tomorrow. Simmtronics is taking aggressive