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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