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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS Technology expands its reach to 100 Indian cities from the previous 54 locations across the country. These onsite service locations will provide Support and Service for the entire range of ASUS Notebooks and Eee PCs. Consumers who reside within the 40km radius of the nearest ASUS service center in the 100major cities across India can now avail Onsite Service without any extra charges. With the introduction of this facility, consumers can save their valuable time and resources by simply calling the TOLL Free Number. The introduction of this Onsite Support and Service facility promises to make lives of consumers easier as they just have to call up on the toll free number at 1800-2090-365 and a service engineer will visit their premises. To ensure complete customer satisfaction, ASUS will proactively call back the customer within a week of call resolution & derive feedback and suggestions thus helping to further streamline the process.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE InterGlobe Technologies (IGT) has launched an integrated solution for managing crew travel. The solution is focused towards suppliers of travel like airlines, railways and cruises. Traditionally considered as a non-revenue part of the travel, crew travel plays an important role in ensuring operating efficiency for airlines, rail and cruise companies. Even though many airlines invest into tools for managing crew travel, they are unable to bring efficiency and flexibility to the process due to inter-departmental dependencies and lack of timely communication. Having worked with some of the leading travel suppliers globally, IGT has developed a unique integrated solution called Crew Travel Management Center (CTMC) that combines the efficiency of automation and technology with the support of a centralized contact centre. CTMC focuses on providing 24x7 multichannel support for end-to-end crew travel, right from rostering to billing to visa processi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Snapdeal.com adds another new and exciting feature to its platform. "Deals NearMe", will address the need of consumers to avail relevant offers, at the location closer to them. "The objective is to provide more personalized and specific deals that suit consumers at the present moment. The process works similar to before with an additional filter where the consumers will be able to choose the category they are most interested in along with the preferred location, down to the level of their residential locality or office location. This ease of deal discovery will tremendously benefit our consumers" said, Kunal Bahl, CEO-Snapdeal.com Deals NearMe is currently available in 10 cities, and will be expanding to other cities as well, shortly. Snapdeal continues to drive innovation in the daily deals industry in India. Deals nearMe closely follows another first in the industry launched by Snapdeal last month which enables users to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Foxconn was hit hard by a string of well-publicised workers' suicides in China last year. It now plans to replace factory workers with more than 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labour costs and improve efficiency, according industry report. Terry Gou, Founder & Chairman, Foxconn, said, "the company will deploy robots to do simple and routine work such as spraying, welding and assembling, which are now mainly conducted by workers." "The company has set up an automation robotics division and currently has 10,000 robots. The number will be increased to 300,000 next year and 1 million in three years", Gou added. If experts are anything to go by, robots could handle about 50 per cent of the production process of electronic devices in the future. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Exhibitors like Xerox, TPH, and Advanced Graphic system participating in IPEX South Asia 2011. Xerox office printing solutions offer printers with a range of features and office printing solutions, including award-winning Phaser printers and eco-friendly solid ink printers. The Printers House (TPH) is a leading exporter and manufacturer of Single width, Single circumference Web offset Printing Presses from India. Globally renowned TPH manufactures Orient range of Web Offset Printing Machines. Advanced Graphic Systems (AGS) is the Exclusive Authorized Distributor of X-Rite and Digital Information in India. X-Rite is the world leader in Instrumental Colour Analysis offering a complete range of Auto-Tracking Devices for Offset Presses, Densitometers, Spectrodensitometers, Plate Readers, Colour Management System, Colour Quality Control & Formulation Software, etc. Since its launch in 2007, the event has been a recognized hallmark for sourcing

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LifeSize has announced LifeSize Passport Connect, an HD video conferencing system optimized for cloud-based platforms with plug-and-play technology and a price that can enable broader deployments for telecommuters and remote offices. LifeSize Passport Connect is a product that leverages both Logitech and LifeSize technology. Combining features and capabilities from LifeSize Passport, the industry's leading price performance and interoperability endpoint, LifeSize Passport Connect includes a Logitech HD camera and delivers a video and audio experience that's open and interoperable. Cloud-based platforms are poised to expand the video conferencing market from the SMB to the enterprise, changing the way businesses use HD video collaboration. LifeSize Passport Connect is specifically designed to provide a simple user experience when communicating through cloud-based platforms. Because the product also works with SIP-based IP PBX systems,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has launched its first 25.4-cm (10-inch) tablet in China, but India has to wait for the device for some time. The new tablet from Dell is based on Android and directly competes with devices like the iPad 2 and several other 10-inch tablets already available in the market. According to market report, the Dell India spokesperson confirmed the future availability of this device in India but did not give any concrete date as to when it would be launched in the country and hinted that the Dell Streak 10 Pro is expected to be launched in India later this year or by early next year. The Dell Streak 10 Pro has an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor running at 1GHz with a 1GB or RAM for speedy operations. It offers 16 GB of internal storage with an expansion slot supporting 32GB more memory. It has got a 5 MP rear camera along with a 2 MP front camera for video conferencing. The Streak 10 features Google Android Honeycomb v3.1 with Dell's pate

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirTyme Communications Pvt. Ltd. has launched GTX75 TORRID - a 3G HSDPA phone for Indian consumers, carrying the AirTyme brand. Designed to be of special interest to image-conscious consumers in their teens and twenties, the TORRID features a 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen that slides open to reveal a spacious QWERTY keyboard for easy texting. "AirTyme is committed to creating the best user experience through the innovative features we bring to the market," said Gaurav Narang, Director of Operations, AirTyme Communications Pvt. Ltd. "We are proud to unveil the TORRID and have priced it competitively to ensure that this feature-rich phone is accessible to larger audiences." Loaded with many premium mobile device features, the TORRID comes with a stereo Bluetooth option for a music experience without wires. Other profiles for Bluetooth include A2DP and DUN which allows users to tether the phone as a modem for their com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TAKE Solutions Ltd. has announced their first-quarter results. The Company posted healthy increase of 47% in revenues to INR161 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 as against INR110 crore for corresponding quarter ended June 2010. S. Sridharan, Managing Director, TAKE Solutions, said, "We are thrilled to deliver our best quarter revenue increase up by 47% and profit up by 51% compared to the scorresponding quarter last year. This is the third straight quarter where we have witnessed highest quarter revenue growth and we are focussed and excited about building on this success." He further added, "We are equally excited about the opportunities and growth unfolding in the cloud computing space, to capitalize on this, we are also in the process of launching more products in this horizon to complement our existing OneSCM solution." He concluded by saying, "Our performance in this quarter has not only strengthened our

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has announced the availability of its 3G services in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In the first phase of rollout in these states, Airtel has launched its 3G services in 12 major towns, including Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Raipur, Dewas, Rau, Pithampur, Mandideep, Malanpur, Bhilai and Durg. Airtel 3G will be introduced in 35 more towns across Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the weeks to come. With this, Airtel mobile customers across these states will now be able to experience the Airtel 3G advantage and enjoy a host of innovative service capabilities including fast mobile internet access, Mobile TV, video calling, video streaming and social networking - at anytime, from anywhere. Airtel also offers high-speed USB data cards that provide customers with 3G access on laptops. Rajnish Kaul, Chief Operating Officer, Mobile Services, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Bharti Airtel Ltd., said, "With the launch of A

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The second edition of the Eastern India Information Technology Fair - 2011 (EIITF - 2011) concluded successfully on 29th July, 2011 in Kolkata. The event attracted once again one of the largest gathering from the IT industry from Eastern India. The event started with the lighting of the traditional lamp and personages like Arindam Dutta, Chairman Innovation & Incubation Mentor; R. Ravi, Head -Global & Strategic Initiatives, HCL Infosystems Ltd.; Kapil Awasthi, Security Consultant, Check Point Software Technologies; and Mohammed Nasir, Sr. Marketing Manager - CSP, Canon India Pvt. Ltd., were present at the ceremony. During the morning session, Arindam Dutta spoke about the need for the involvement of more and more young entrepreneurs as the youth are highly tech-savvy and brimming with new and evolutionary ideas. He further said that the government should provide the initial handholding to the newcomers. Secondly, Sumith Satheesan, Hea

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Maxx Mobile has plans to enter the tablet space. The company is working on features for the proposed products. Maxx tablets is said to compete with Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Playbook, Apple iPad, Motorola's Xoom, Dell's Streak, Creative Technologies' ZiiO and HTC Flyer. While the bigger brands are selling their tablets at prices starting above Rs. 25,000, the Indian brands are looking at introducing their devices at much lower price points. Since the launch of Apple iPad, the tablet market is witnessing huge competition, with new contenders launching their devices. The report suggested that the sales in the tablet PC segment in India are expected to touch one million units over the next 12 months. Ajjay Agarwal, Chairman & Managing Director, Maxx Group, said, "The Company is working on developing some tabs. It will take a long time. We have to do a lot of work on it. The primary raw material for these mobile ph

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE An Indian-origin scientist-led team in the US has packaged lithium ion batteries into a single nanowire, which they claim could soon be a rechargeable power source for new generations of nano electronics. Prof Pulickel Ajayan and colleagues at Rice University claim their creation is as small as such devices can possibly get, in their research published in American Chemical Society journal 'Nano Letters'. In their research, the scientists tested two versions of their battery. The first is a sandwich with nickel or tin anode, polyethylene oxide electrolyte and polyaniline cathode layers; it was built as proof that lithium ions would move efficiently through anode to electrolyte and then to supercapacitor-like cathode that gives the device ability to charge and discharge. The second packs the same capabilities into a single nanowire. The researchers built centimetre-scale arrays containing thousands of nanowire devices, each 150 nanomete

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mphasis Ltd has signed a pact to acquire U.S.-based software vendor Wyde Corp. Post acquisition, Wyde, which has over 200 employees with insurance domain expertise, would operate as a product business of Mphasis. Wyde's revenue was over $30 million in 2010, its website showed. The mid-sized Indian software firm had acquired AIG Software Systems in 2009, its first buy in the insurance space. “The acquisition demonstrates our focus on strategy execution,” Ganesh Ayyar, CEO, Mphasis said. “Mphasis will provide Wyde access to new markets and scale to provide implementation and integration services to our clients,” Pierre Barberis, Chairman of Board of Directors, Wyde said. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Madurai is on its way to become an IT hub. There are numerous job opportunities available in the software industry in Madurai and the southern districts are to be showcased to the students of engineering colleges in the region through a series of awareness programmes called "IT opportunities @ Madurai" The ICT panel of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Madurai Zone (CII) has taken this initiative along with the Software Industries Development Association of South Tamil Nadu (SIDA). An awareness session was recently held at Kamarajar College of Engineering, Virudhunagar, where around 500 students participated with their parents. Sivarajah, Convenor, ICT Panel, CII, Madurai Zone & President, SIDA, said, "A large portion of the workforce of multinational companies in the cosmopolitan and metro cities such as Chennai and Bengaluru have been sourced from the institutions in the region." For More Details See www.varindia