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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia and Reliance Communications has launched India chapter of Ovi Store, Nokia's immensely popular mobile application store. Reliance Communications will offer integrated operator billing for their consumers in India enabling access to a host of paid-for content on the Ovi Store. The amount will be either included in their monthly mobile phone bills or deducted from the pre-paid balance, as per their data plans. Prashant Gokarn - 3G Head, Reliance Communications, said, "Nokia and RCOM have had a longstanding and an extremely fruitful association, and this new venture will only strengthen our joint mission to offer enriched services to our loyal consumers. This relationship brings exclusive apps through Ovi Store coupled with a convenient purchase process. This service will usher in significant growth in adoption and usage of apps in India. This service is a big step in a series of innovation-led products from RCOM." V. Ramnat

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE eScan has announced the eScan Power Play Contest starting from 19th February, 2011, celebrating the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. eScan is also offering the "eScan Free Hit Scheme" to customers who purchase eScan during this cricket season. The eScan Power Play Contest will be held on every match day till the finals of the World Cup. Participants will need to predict the winner of the match and the one lucky winner will get a free eScan licence. Sunil Kripalani, Vice-President - Global Sales & Marketing, eScan, said, "Cricket has always been a passionate sport with a large following in India. Celebrating the spirit of the Cricket World Cup 2011, we have created an exciting package in the form of the FREE HIT scheme for our consumers. The Power Play contest will add an excitement factor to our customers where we are giving out free eScan licences every day." eScan has also announced the Free Hit Scheme for customers who

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has announced a series of customer and technology milestones across the Unified Fabric, Unified Computing System and Unified Network Services technology portfolios which form the foundation of its Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework. Cisco has announced that it has shipped its one millionth Nexus 10Gb Ethernet port, bringing the total number of Nexus ports in customer production environments to more than 7,000,000. The company also surpassed 10,000 NX-OS customers and neared 4,000 Unified Computing Systems customers at the end of its fiscal second quarter, demonstrating the platforms are quickly becoming the infrastructure of choice for next-generation data center virtualization and private clouds in the enterprise, public sector, commercial and service provider markets. The Nexus and UCS families of products are vital assets in Cisco's cloud computing portfolio. They provide the building blocks for highly virtu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft India has launched Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail, a focussed offering for the retail sector in India. This solution offers a consolidated, integrated system that promises the capabilities of a stronger profitable retail supply chain and connected retailing to significantly reduce business complexities. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail brings for enterprise and mid-sized speciality retailers a deep level of integration across point of sale, store management, supply chain, merchandising and financials, to deliver business productivity while enhancing customer service through a single integrated solution. "With key industry verticals such as retail evolving aggressively, customized vertical solutions have become a huge differentiator. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail is a single, end-to-end solution that drives visibility across the organization enabling Indian retailers to reduce complexity, react quickly, seize new opportuni

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced the successful implementation of latest SAP ERP ECC 6.0 for ROCA India, a leading name in sanitaryware and tiles. The new set-up has given Roca, a robust IT infrastructure to manage end-to-end business processes and scale to match its aggressive growth plans. Also this implementation has helped Roca India to sync with the global parent company's systems more effectively - operationally and financially. ROCA globally has deployed IBM hardware for its IT infrastructure to run all business applications which has demonstrated proven benefits like high uptime, scalability and ease of maintenance. As a result, the Indian operations of ROCA also decided to implement its new solution on IBM hardware comprising x86 servers and storage box. IBM completed this project just in time before the change of fiscal year for the company. This is a significant milestone for Indian operations of Roca to help sync with

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA Technologies has announced its participation at Digital Signage Expo 2011, February 23-24, 2011 at Las Vegas. The new VIA eH1 graphics card will take top billing at DSE 2011, bringing multiple HD content streams, support for DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 and the latest Stereoscopic 3D technologies to digital signage markets. VIA will also present forthcoming dedicated graphics solutions that power up to eight displays simultaneously. "By bringing the industry's first discrete graphics solutions to digital signage markets, we are offering a simple upgrade path for any existing systems with a PCIe slot to enter a new realm of graphics and HD content delivery," said Daniel Wu, Vice-President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. The VIA eH1 is a low-profile PCI Express add-in-board designed for next-generation embedded applications in a range of segments, including digital signage and advertising

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston Technology has announced a series of ValueRAM Server Premier memory solutions that have been independently validated for use with Super Micro Computer server boards. The independent certification was undertaken by Advanced Validation Labs (AVL), a technology services company specializing in testing and validating pre- and post-production memory. AVL fulfils the validation and testing needs of major OEMs and motherboard manufacturers worldwide. AVL fulfils the validation and testing needs of major OEMs and motherboard manufacturers worldwide. "System builders and integrators have long used Supermicro's high-quality server boards in a multitude of platforms," said Ann Bai, DRAM Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston. "Our Server Premier line offers unique features, in addition to being fully AVL-validated and compatible with these builds. To make it easier for our mutual customer base to get more information

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ViewSonic has appointed Rashi Peripherals as its National Distributor for its range of monitors. Kuldeep Ramaiya, National Sales Head, ViewSonic India, said, "We will leverage on Rashi's national sales network as well as channel strength for our LCD monitor business. As Rashi is one of the leaders in the distribution market, we are expecting a great boost on the sales of monitors in the coming days." Commenting on the tie-up, Rajesh Goenka, Vice-President - Sales & Marketing, Rashi Peripherals, said, "Partnering with Viewsonic is a value add to our distribution kitty. We can now aim at providing complete range of PC components and will now be able to provide world-class components and accessories to the Indian consumers through our supply channel. We will work closely with the Viewsonic team to facilitate branding and marketing of the products." ViewSonic's strategy will be to leverage its leadership position

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GIGABYTE Technology India has commenced a motherboard technology knowledge-sharing seminar series, named "The No. 1 Choice - GIGABYTE", for engineering students across the country. Over 2,000 students are expected to attend these seminars that will be held at 30 engineering colleges during the next three months. In addition to the tier-I cities, the seminars will be held in cities / regions that include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Jaipur, Kota (Rajasthan), Sagar, Dehradun, Nainital, Faridabad, Pune, Panjim, Hubli, Erode, Kottayam, Kochi, Madurai, Tirupur, Bhubaneswar, Imphal, Cuttack, Ranchi, Vijayawada, Jammu and Patiala. The series was recently flagged off at the annual technology festival of a reputed engineering college in Mumbai, in which the GIGABYTE event was attended by more than 70 students from multiple colleges. The "The No. 1 Choice - GIGABYTE" seminars will primarily focus on PC assembling and the "Do It Yourse

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Canon India has appointed K. Bhashkar as the Director of Office Imaging Solution Division (OIS). This B2B business has been one of the major contributors in Canon's overall business contributing more than 25% to the Company's revenue in 2010. Bhashkar will continue to report to Alok Bharadwaj. Commenting on the appointment, Alok Bharadwaj, Senior Vice-President, Canon India, said, "India continues to build strong consumption as well as investment momentum. With sustained 9-per cent GDP growth, we should begin to witness a higher level of entrepreneurial depth. India Inc prints and copies over 60 billion documents a year. This costs Rs.10,000 crore in a year and is growing @ 20% per annum. Most of this is inefficiently done. Canon has been handling this biz through teams of Enterprise Solutions Division for large enterprises and channel network for SME segment through a separate division. As both these businesses represent two en