VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, New Delhi has tied up with Akmin Technologies Pvt Ltd to launch mobile website builder service. MTNL's mobile website builder is a unique service that allows a non-technical user to create and publish a customized website within minutes using his mobile phone or PC. The service will be a boon for everyone from small businesses to government offices that are looking to create a mobile & PC web presence. To initiate the service, MTNL mobile users will need to send SMS "MSITE" to 55012 from their MTNL mobile phone. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google is to offer 16 games from third-party game developers, including the popular Angry Birds game. A new page on Google+ will let users access a variety of games and view updates about games that their friends are playing. Games have proven to be among the most popular features on Facebook. The addition of social games fills in a key piece of the puzzle as Google strives to take on Facebook. Google launched its social networking service in late June, signing up more than 10 million users in the first two weeks. Social networking has become a top priority at Google, whose position as the main gateway to online information could be at risk as people spend more time on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has announced the winners of its National Networking Skills Competition, NetRiders India 2011. Aakanksha Mishra and Ravi Agarwal from CRISP (Centre for Research and Industrial Staff Performance) Bhopal won the contest while Dhanapal Santhosh and Manish Bavne from CRISP Bhopal and Gaurav Singh Ahlawat and Rupinderjit Singh from Thapar University, Patiala, were the first and second runners up respectively. The winning team will represent the country at the 2011 APAC NetRiders Team Challenge scheduled for October 27th, 2011. The APAC winners will be awarded a one week paid trip to San Jose, California, where they will spend time at Cisco and other leading IT organizations apart from meeting with Cisco Chairman and CEO, John Chambers. NetRiders is an annual competition held by the Cisco Networking Academy, a comprehensive e-learning program that enables students to develop valuable information and communications technology (ICT) skills

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd are badly hit due to the introduction of Mobile Number Portability. Reliance has lost more than 11.5 lakh subscribers and Tata Teleservices has seen 3.7 lakh subscribers leaving its network ever since MNP was introduced in November last year, Department of Telecom claimed. Mobile number portability was introduced in Haryana on November 25 and extended it across the country on January 20 by Indian operators. As per the data from the telecommunications regulator, about 13 million subscribers have requested for a change in service providers until the end of June, when India had 851.7 million mobile-phone users. Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel are the biggest gainers with net addition of 8.2 lakh, 7.1 lakh and 6.5 lakh subscribers respectively. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd lost 40,366 and 5,73,142 subscribers, respectively. New netwo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In an attempt to increase their sales, MSI is teaming up with NVIDIA for marketing their Motherboards in India. As part of this collaboration, consumers who buy MSI Motherboard along with MSI Nvidia Graphic card stand a chance to win attractive prizes such as pen drives, Blackberry smart phones and an iPad. Eric Kuo - Managing Director, MSI India said, "This promotion-partnership between MSI & NVIDIA has been created the ultimate end-user in mind. We are looking at addressing the hard-core gaming community in the country which has come of age. With NVIDIA & MSI's cutting edge technology, it would a lethal combo for the gamers." This promotion execution would be done through authorized distributors and regional dealers of MSI & Nvidia all over India. The promotion would run from August 15 to September 30, 2011. The promotion would run on MSI's official website and facebook page. For More Details See www.varind

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has released its latest Threat Landscape report, which details a new variant of Zitmo (Zeus in the mobile) that was written to run on the Android operating system, allowing the malware to continue its expansion across mobile platforms beyond the Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry operating systems. The first variant of Zitmo on Symbian OS (SymbOS/Zitmo.A!tr) was found in September 2010 and was based on commercial, Russian spyware for Symbian 3rd and 5th editions (SMS Monitor Lite). Zitmo has since evolved and is now capable of intercepting two-factor authentication that banks use to validate the identity of the account-holder when logging in (it is a one-time password that is sent to a mobile device via SMS). Even if a mobile user does not rely on the two-factor authentication method for banking activities, Zitmo can forward and spy on all SMS messages, making it a valid threat. On July 24, FortiGuard Labs observed a surge of

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Astaro has extended next-generation firewall capabilities to the Astaro Security Gateway with the availability of version 8.2. The new version introduces 60 new features and enhancements, including Application Control, Interactive Web Reporting and a new authentication agent. These will improve network performance, visibility and control. Astaro Security Gateway version 8.2 provides organizations with the resources they need to meet the ever-changing challenges of securing a business network. The increased control and visibility will allow organizations to make better decisions based on the company's unique needs and network usage trends. "As technology changes, so too must the tools organizations use to control their networks," said Jan Hichert, Senior Vice-President, Network Security, Sophos. "With version 8.2, we once again ensure our customers can face current and future network and security challenges by offering

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Research In Motion (RIM) has launched a new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone with the BlackBerry 7 Operating System in India. Bold 9900 features a range of powerful hardware enhancements, including a 1.2 GHz processor, HD video recording, 24-bit high-resolution graphics, and advanced sensors enabling applications such as Wikitude that can be seamlessly integrated with BBM 6. "We are thrilled to bring this outstanding new smartphone to the Indian market. We believe that customers will be extremely impressed with the exciting new features and exceptional performance delivered by the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry 7 OS," said Frenny Bawa, Managing Director, India, RIM. It is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone and offers the perfect union of a high-performance keyboard and touch display integrated within the iconic BlackBerry bold design. It includes built-in support for NFC, a new technology that is enabling many new and excitin

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE When the IT and telecom industries are intermingling, opportunities arise for operators to innovate and enter new business models and partnerships. To meet the evolving needs of operators for support and operations IT services is investing further in competence in its Global Service Center (GSC) in India. Magnus Mandersson, Head of Business Unit Global Services at Ericsson, says, "Staying close to our customers will always be important in services. However, we now see a large share of services that can be delivered remotely for the benefit of our customers. Today, the majority of the subscribers served by the managed services deals are managed out of our two global network operations centers (NOCs) in India and Romania. We foresee that the remote delivery share will increase when we move further into the cloud and the IT sphere." The continued focus on managed services in the center in India makes Ericsson to handle remote operat

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend) has released a new addition to its StoreJet line of portable hard drives, the StoreJet 25A. This new drive boasts an attractively slender yet shock-resistant design, and is available in both SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 versions. The StoreJet 25A3 portable hard drive is equipped with a next-generation SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connection interface that provides 10 times the bandwidth of USB 2.0. Although slender and lightweight in design, the StoreJet 25A offers robust durability, with thorough defense against data loss resulting from accidental shock or collision. Much more than just a place to store files, the StoreJet 25A can also function as an advanced data backup station, with a convenient One Touch Auto-Backup button for swift, effortless data backup and synchronization when used with the bundled Transcend Elite software. Additionally, the StoreJet 25A includes Transcend's own RecoveRx software.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung and Google are planning for a Hindi version of the Android operating system (OS), claimed sources. There is no Hindi version of the Android OS yet, despite of being one of the most popular smartphone operating systems in India. This OS currently supports the major European languages and Chinese. According to the buzz, Asim Warsi, Director of Marketing, Samsung's mobile business said, "Since it is a third party OS, we do not have much control over it. We are presently in talks with Google for such a version. However, we can't comment on when it will be done as that is not in our control." Only 11 per cent speak English out of the total population of India. India is said to be the world's one of the fastest growing mobile market with more than 540 million active mobile users, and some studies even suggest that close to 15 per cent of these people are smartphone users. Despite Hindi being the fourth most commonly

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Lava International is all set to invest $15 million for expanding into overseas markets. The Company plans to expand in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka over the next three years. SN Rai, Co - Founder & Director said, "We do not want to just have a trading presence in these countries. Rather going forward each country will be a separate business unit that will have responsibility for generating growth and profits in the country. Established in 2009, Lava today has four per cent market share in India with 25-30 active mobile handsets in the Indian domestic market. The company claimed it was working on launching a tablet computer by the year-end. Rai added, "Lava does much more than sourcing from the east. We do not just shop for handsets in China and come back. We have a full fledged R&D team in Bangalore which validates the design before it is approved for manufacturing in China." For More Details See www.varindia.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Spice Digital Limited has unveiled the next generation mobile portal, SPICE GANG. Spice Digital has been working on various applications for majority of the handsets vendors like Blackberry, Nokia, etc. through its subsidiary Spice Labs. Spice Gang empowers the user via mobile phone to selectively subscribe and discover various infotainment & entertainment services. The bouquet of services range from, Jokes, Greeting cards, News, Songs Cricket scores etc. Premium content is also available from Coke Studio, Hungama, and many other premium brands thus showcasing authenticated content. The portal gives user the freedom to choose favorite content from the provided options and customize the home screen. Spice Gang has notched up with monthly page views of 20 million. With around 15,000 users joining the gang on daily basis, Spice Gang content downloads stand at 1 Million per month. Saket Agarwal, Global CEO - Services said, "With th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aditya Infotech Ltd in association with their key IT vendors ZOTAC, CORSAIR & AVerMedia has rolled out its multi-city product training and partner meet program, to reach out to their channel partners in 4 major cities. The meets are scheduled on 10th, 11th, 19th and 24th August in Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur and Kolkata respectively. Aditya Infotech Ltd expects around 100 plus partners at each of the locations. Through this channel initiative, the companies aim to impart complete products and sales training to its partners and educate them about movement to the next level where they can offer variety of solutions as per the customer's needs being offered by ZOTAC, CORSAIR and AVerMedia. "Channel Partners will get an opportunity to get introduced with new advanced technology in IT & gaming industry and the meet will witness briefing from AIL official & business heads of ZOTAC, CORSAIR & AVerMedia on their offerings" sa