VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE iVdopia is a finalist in the Red Herring 100 Global award competition. Starting in 1996, technology leaders, executives, strategists and investors have turned to the Red Herring 100 lists as a way to find the most promising private ventures from around the global. "iVdopia's innovations in video and rich-media mobile advertising have brought in a new level of immersive engagement that has changed the way advertisers reach users on smartphones. Being recognized by Red Herring 100 Global reinforces the impact we are having on the fast-changing industry that we are leading," says Chhavi Upadhyay, COO, iVdopia. "We are extremely delighted to be selected from among hundreds of applicants, and for iVdopia to be recognized as one of the best of today's technology companies." Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision-makers in a v...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Zomato.com (previously known as Foodiebay.com) has launched its mobile application for Android phones. The application is the first local-search application for Android phones made by an Indian player. It allows users to search for nearby restaurants based on the user's location. Available in the Android market for free, the application replicates all the features of the website and lets the user look at the menus, contact details, reviews, photographs, location and discounts for restaurants on the phone itself. The website is more than two years old and gets more than 2.5 lakh monthly users across 6 cities in India - Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata. Zomato recently raised an investment of Rs.4.7 crore from Info Edge, one of the largest internet companies in India, to fund its product development and marketing. Deepinder Goyal, Co-Founder & CEO, Zomato, said, "We are proud to be the first restaurant porta...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aditya Infotech has introduced ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Cards in India. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 Ti delivers best-in-class features and stunning visuals to create a superior gaming experience that goes beyond the traditional frames-per-second metric. "We have been receiving overwhelming and encourging response from the channel partners as well as target consumers on Zotac's offerings. We have already devised our sales and marketing strategy to reach ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 Ti covering target groups from metros to small cities. To start up, we are offering game coupon for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, worth at Rs.3,000 with the purchase of GTX 560 Ti graphic card," said Sanjay Gogia, Country Manager, Aditya Infotech Ltd. "ZOTAC continues to raise expectations of gamers all over the world. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 Ti delivers the performance gamers crave and the power they need to play the latest DirectX...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cognizant has helped global retailers successfully manage the peak shopping season using its business process as a service (BPaaS) platform, Intellipeak. The BPaaS platform combines software, services, and industry-specific best practices to provide an end-to-end business solution. Using Intellipeak, Cognizant supported more than a dozen retailers across three continents in the 2010 peak season, representing more than 30,000 stores and billions of dollars in online transactions. Intellipeak enables retailers to manage key risks and achieve trouble-free high-volume sales during the peak shopping season by assessing the readiness of business processes, IT systems, and underlying infrastructure. It covers all key business process assets and supports the entire retail life-cycle from merchandizing, warehousing and distribution, to multichannel sales and fulfilment. Equipped with collaborative Enterprise 2.0 features such as community blogs and d...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Trend Micro has introduced the Trend Reward Program for its Small Business Partners sales staff. The scheme is applicable to the sales persons of the partners on Worry Free Business Security and Office Scan product lineup. "We have been acknowledging the contribution of our partners towards the growth of our business in India through various initiatives. We have introduced the particular reward program to acknowledge our channel partners sales persons efforts and help them to achieve targets and enjoy the benefits in a better manner," commented Amit Nath, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Trend Micro. The scheme is valid from January 1 to March 23, 2011. According to the scheme, every Sales Person gets rewarded and he can earn up to Rs.12,000/- in a single deal of 100 users. In 2011, Trend Micro will be aggressively focussing on its volume business and will work closely with its channel partners to achieve the leadership position...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC India has organized a three-city seminar to present its enterprise display solutions. The solutions were demonstrated during the seminars held in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. At the seminars, NEC India launched its latest X431 Bar Type display solution, best suited as retail signage and transportation application where space requirements demand non-standard display format. Abhilesh Guleria, Head, Display Solutions Group & IT Platform, NEC India, said, "We are committed to our partner community and it is our endeavour to empower them with our latest innovative products and solutions." He further added, "Bar type displays are very popular among retail outlets and transportation applications. NEC's X431BT display has a compact structure that allows display in space restricted areas that makes it ideal for signage applications with non-standard display formats." NEC's revolutionary X431 Bar Type holds a high r...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Following the recent acquisition of a new corporate property in Mumbai, D-Link has taken another giant step towards strengthening its company infrastructure by acquiring a new warehouse facility in Goa. Located in Verna, D-Link's new warehouse facility holds strategic importance due to its proximity to Goa Airport, Goa Dockyard and National Highway NH-17 which opens up multi-mode transportation opportunities in a big way. Inaugurating the new warehouse in Goa, Gary Yang, Managing Director, D-Link India Ltd. said, "As we always say India is a huge market that holds great potential & we are extremely focused on building networks here. Consumers today associate D-link with quality & reliability and hence we have been seeing an upswing in demand for D-Link products/ solutions. In order to cater to this growing demand we have been streamlining our support Infrastructure in India, and so that we are in a better position to support...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE RSA has announced RSA Authentication Manager Express, its newest strong authentication solution designed to meet the cost and convenience requirements of SMBs. The same risk-based RSA technology used to protect millions of online transactions every day and more than 250 million identities worldwide is being made available in a package that businesses of any size can use. "There has always been a need for strong authentication in small and mid-size organizations. Yet, adoption has been slow because most offerings have fallen short of meeting the cost and convenience needs of these customers," said Sally Hudson, Research Analyst at IDC. "Previous enterprise-class solutions have traditionally been too costly to deploy and manage for smaller organizations; cheaper alternatives lacked end-user convenience and didn't provide multi-layered protection. RSA Authentication Manager Express combines the best of RSA's expertise and...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced a suite of new products and services that enable businesses and governments to leverage the power of the cloud while ensuring they meet required levels of security, performance and availability. Cloud computing is an important and growing platform for Instant-On Enterprises, where everything and everyone is connected. Instant-On Enterprises require IT environments that are flexible, automated and secure, and able to quickly adjust to changing demand. While cloud computing delivers benefits such as faster deployment of new services, reduction in IT headcount and a pay-as-you-go model, it has traditionally lacked in areas that enterprises need, such as security, availability and ease of integration. The new HP Hybrid Delivery solutions provide the benefits of enterprise-grade cloud computing, while meeting the specific needs of businesses and governments. "Cloud computing is going mainstream and HP is leading the way,...