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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