VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony India has announced its strategy to double VAIO sales in India by selling 5 lakh laptop units in FY11. VAIO S, C, E & Y series caters to the demands of business executives, style-conscious youth, students or even PC beginners. Masaru Tamagawa, Managing Director, Sony India, said, "VAIO contributes 20% to the total sales revenue of Sony India and hence a very important part of our business. This year, our objective is to ensure that we offer a VAIO to meet the lifestyle requirements of every customer. We have an exciting product lineup of 62 models, a robust distribution network of 1,500 outlets and heavy marketing investment of Rs.50 crore to reach our business target of 5 lakh units in FY11. Talking about the new brand campaign, he said, " 'More Colour.More Style' campaign is all about making a lifestyle statement and with Kareena Kapoor as the face of this campaign, we hope it will resonate well with our customer

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MSI has launched the Z68A-GD80 (G3), large bandwidth PCI Express Gen 3 mainboard, and the latest UEFI technology: Click BIOS II which features a homogenous interface both under Windows and the UEFI interface. Conforming to Intel's latest design standard, the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) with PCI Express Gen 3 provides a data transfer rate that is 200% faster than PCI Express Gen 2, enhancing the performance of graphics cards without bandwidth limitations. Click BIOS II allows simple and intuitive system adjustments in both Windows and the UEFI interface. In addition, Z68A-GD80 (G3) utilizes MIL-810STD Certified Military Class II components and are equipped with OC Genie II technology which increases the performance of hard drive up to 457%. The MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) enables next-generation superior performance with PCI Express Gen 3 and OC Genie II, ultimate stability with certified Military Class II components and an extreme user-friendly Click BIOS

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that it has signed a new agreement with Juniper Networks to offer a premier line of diverse networking and security products. This partnership will offer customers a comprehensive networking portfolio with high-performance, reliable network routing, Ethernet switch platforms and optimized application delivery. "The distribution agreement enables Avnet and its partners to accelerate the delivery of high value and converged applications in Vietnam. Avnet is already distributing Juniper solutions in India and the UK, and this extended relationship of Juniper in Vietnam allows us to combine our knowledge of the local market and intelligence to accelerate efforts to support both business partners and their customers," said Nguyen Nhu Cuong, Country General Manager, Avnet Technology Solutions, Vietnam.Kenneth Koh, Director, Avnet Technology Solutions, ASEAN, commented, "Juniper Networks'

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced full technology support, services and the industry's most comprehensive integration with the new VMware cloud infrastructure suite, including VMware vSphere 5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5, and VMware vCloudR Director 1.5 at general availability. This pervasive and immediate support further validates EMC as the industry-leading storage vendor in VMware virtual and cloud environments and highlights EMC's commitment to its shared vision with VMware to help accelerate customers' journey to the cloud and extend their technology investments. Customers will be able to more easily and quickly enjoy the availability, ease-of-management, performance, security, and cost-reduction benefits of virtualization in their mission-critical application environments. RSA, the security division of EMC, has also announced collaboration with VMware vShield 5 to deliver, for the first time, embedded data loss pr

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In India, there is a growing market demand for Unified Communications (UC) - and companies are finding it increasingly important to be able to rely on open, standards-based architectures to support collaboration between partner organizations, and between customers and suppliers. Underlining the growing convergence of IT and telecommunications, Fujitsu India and Siemens Enterprise Communications, India are partnering to provide Indian customers with Unified IT & Communications solution. As a result of the new alliance, the two companies intend to jointly offer IT & Communications solutions leveraging Fujitsu's IT competence and Siemens Enterprise Communications' UC expertise. Mark Wilson, Senior Vice-President, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, said, "Together, we expect to redefine innovations and raise the bar in terms of customer offerings. We are certain that this relationship will broaden our scope, increase market cover

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Just login to Google's Transit or Google Maps on your mobile to make your travel in the city much easier and save time. Using a variety of search queries, one can have a graphic idea of roads and bus routes to get to. Users can also key in queries using 'from'and 'to' to get a map, a nearest bus-stop to get there. Google has added Chennai and Hyderabad on to the Transit and maps, allowing people and visitors in these cities to quickly check and use bus and train routes. Google already tagged Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS). Google maps cover bus and local train/Metro routes for Mumbai and Delhi, bus routes for Pune, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Besides, it has local train, metro routes for Kolkata and Chennai. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTL) has written to the Department of Telecom to release start up spectrum for its GSM services in 39 districts across the country. The company, which had got 2G licences in 2008, had not got start up spectrum of 4.4 MHz in Delhi and 39 other districts. Recently, the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) upheld an appeal by the company and ordered DoT to allocate GSM spectrum to Tata Teleservices in Delhi. Buoyed by the TDSAT order, Tata Teleservices has written to the DoT claiming spectrum in other regions as well. DoT had put TTL's application under the new operator's category. This category was behind the existing operator's category in terms of spectrum allocation. TDSAT upheld TTL's argument that it was an existing operator and, therefore, entitled to spectrum along with other dual technology players. The company has sought spectrum in 4 districts in Uttar Pradesh (west) including Ag

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EAFT Technologies has launched a 700-gm tablet 'Magictile-Marathon'. The tablet is priced at Rs. 29,990 and is among the two lowest priced tablets in India. All Marathon-users have access to over 70,000 Android-based applications, and EAFT has partnered with Giga Store for this. It has also partnered with Hungama for the entertainment content, and Vikas Publications and Cyber School for the educational content for the tablet PC. "With these features, we expect to compete with market leaders like Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy," said Giri Prathivadi, CTO, EAFT Technologies. The 10.1" tablet PC runs on Android 2.2 Operating System, powered by Nvidia Tegra Processor. "The market size is about 65 million tablet PCs and even if we get less than 1 per cent of the market share, we will to sell about half a million tablets in the next 18 months," Jaishiv Saxena, Director, EAFT Technologies, said. For More Details See w

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has chosen Via Telecom to supply the CDMA chipset for new Droid 'CHARGE' handset that it is providing to the US market via Verizon. This may represent the first salvo of a market assault on Qualcomm's long-undisputed command of CDMA markets in the US and elsewhere. In addition to the Via Telecom CDMA chip, Samsung is using its own proprietary baseband chip for the LTE. Vice President of Engineering, James Mielke said, "We have been following Samsung's decision-making closely for some time, and we see a trend towards using suppliers from closer to home, in the East-Asia region. For example, the RF for both CDMA and LTE in this phone is supplied by Korean vendor FCI." This represents Via Telecom's first venture into the CDMA market in the United States, although ABI Research believes versions of this phone will ship into all of Samsung's CDMA markets worldwide. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Three major telecom players - Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel - have entered into agreements to provide pan-India 3G services. The three will now use each other's networks through intra-circle roaming arrangements where they do not have licences. Airtel, Aircel and Reliance Communications each own 3G spectrum licence in 13 of the 22 telecom circles, while Vodafone, Idea and the Tatas each have licence in nine circles. Just Vodafone has officially confirmed the arrangements. Vodafone said, "It has entered into a bilateral roaming agreement with Idea and Airtel in circles where we have not built our own 3G network. With this agreement, Vodafone / Airtel / Idea will bring a pan-India experience of 3G services to their customers." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has declared on its blog that it's time for the Windows XP Operating System to retire. Windows XP was hugely successful for about 10 years. Microsoft said that they have begun a countdown of 1000 days, after which they won't provide support for Windows XP. Around three years from today, on 8 April 2014, Microsoft won't provide security patches and hotfixes of different versions of Windows XP. "Many third-party software providers are not planning to extend support for their applications running on Windows XP, which translates to even more complexity, security risks, and ultimately, added management costs for your IT department if you're still managing Windows XP environments. To learn more about Microsoft's Support Lifecycle policy, please visit Microsoft Support," commented Stephen Rose, IT Community Manager, Windows commercial team on the Windows team blog. For More Details See www.varindia.com