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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hewlett Packard has acquired Autonomy Corp., a developer of information management and infrastructure software for $10.3 billion. HP and Autonomy directors have both approved the deal, which requires shareholder approval. HP said it expects to close the deal by the end of calendar 2011. Autonomy's product portfolio has made it a major player in the market for cloud-based data management services. The company reported sales of $870 million for fiscal 2010 ended Dec. 31, up by 18 percent from $740 million in fiscal 2009. HP CEO, Leo Apotheker claimed that Autonomy presents an opportunity to accelerate our strategic vision to decisively and profitably lead a large and growing space. Autonomy has an attractive business model, including a strong cloud based solution set, which is aligned with HPs efforts to improve our portfolio mix. "Together with Autonomy, we plan to reinvent how both unstructured and structured data is processed, ana

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Corporates is said to open local-language sites with their company names as extension. This will help businesses expand their reach to the largely untapped audience in India and abroad that remains unattended to because the Internet is English-centric. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing or C-DAC is driving an initiative to push such usage. Desi V. Valli, Executive Director of Net 4 India said, "Only 10-11 per cent of 120 crore Indians speak English. With this small base of users, we have emerged among top three Internet users in the world after China and the US. If we could break this English barrier, we really can penetrate deep into the Web market." Mahesh D. Kulkarni, Associate Director, C-DAC said, "India had received the nod to introduce IDNs in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu. To begin with, domain names in Hindi with .bharat (in the Devanagari script) extension will be issued from No

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Schneider Electric India has got orders worth Rs. 110 crore to supply turnkey power and automation solution for three photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants in India. According to market buzz, all three PV solar power plants have a combined capacity of 22.3 megawatts (MWp).The orders comprise of two 5MWp PV solar power plants and one 12.3MWp PV solar power plant. On completion by the end of December this year, these plants will have an annual generating capacity of up to 35Gigawatt-hours of electricity, the company claimed. Schneider Electric India is said to be responsible for the design, engineering, manufacturing, installation commissioning of the plants and will deliver the turnkey electrical and control solution. These solutions include supply of all components except modules which will be supplied by the customers only in these projects. The equipment is designed to minimize power losses and maximize efficiency offering best-in-class ef

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MoMagic Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with MediaTek Inc in order to cater to the ever-increasing demands of Mobile VAS in the Indian market. This business cooperation aims to boost the Mobile VAS market to a new high with the cooperation of both companies. MoMagic was incorporated with a vision to cater to the escalating demands of Mobile VAS for users across all segments with special emphasis on entry and mid-level segment in 2011. MoMagic has plans to offer innovative solutions using different mobile connectivity mediums of SMS, USSD, Voice, WAP, 3G & Mobile Applications. MediaTek's middleware technology, Maui Runtime Environment (MRE), will allow traditional feature phones to download and run applications to enable the huge VAS market of non-Java feature phones. MediaTek targets to accelerate the speed to market and reduce deployment cost for the whole ecosystem including local brands, Content Providers, Oper

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE T.J. David and Kudikala Shravan Kumar, from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad has won the coveted Intel India Embedded Challenge grand prize 2011 for their project Solar Powered Crop Harvesting Robot. The nationwide competition is an initiative by Intel in India to recognize and reward outstanding ideas in embedded technology, based on the Intel Atom processor. H K Mittal, Head, National Science and technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, (NSTEDB) Dept of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi said, "We want to cultivate technical talent in India and promote our knowledge economy, so we can cater to emerging markets. Companies like Intel who share their technological expertise and foster the development of these skills in India play a crucial role in this endeavor. Our association with Intel India on the Intel Embedded Challenge awards helps to create a pipeline of ideas in the field of

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION has launched the DB-EA4D, a two-sided direct thermal label printer. The DB-EA4D can print directly onto a label's backing paper, thus increasing usability without effecting functionality. It is said to be an ideal for applications requiring dual output, providing an efficient alternative to single sided solutions - perfect for the transport and logistics industry. Compact and solid, the DB-EA4D's small footprint is said to be the perfect solution for the tightest of spaces. Printing using two thermal heads to simultaneously print on the front and back of direct thermal labels, this high performing printer can reach speeds of up to 6ips in a single pass eliminating waste and reducing labelling errors. Offering customers a low cost of ownership, TOSHIBA's DB-EA4D saves organisations money by using fewer consumables in the print process, and thus reduces storage space and shipping costs. Easy to operate, th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Lakshmi Access Communications Systems (LACS), Bangalore has unveiled a tablet at Rs. 4,500 approx. LACS has launched different variants under the MAGNUM brand, but the best is the MAGNUM 'Pepper', which at sub-Rs. 5,000 significantly lowers the entry barrier for first time users. This entry level tablet comes with a 7-inch screen, 800 MHz processor, 4GB RAM, has a wi-fi connectivity (3G dongle connectivity) and runs Android 2.2. LACS' MAGNUM tablets is to be available early September. They will be sourced from China. Tech expert Kishore Bhargava shared, "Given that the price point of some of these products is below Rs 15,000, the market is huge. Some of these players are looking to catch first time users with attractively priced 7-inch screen devices, hoping that the next logical upgrade will be the 10-inch device." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mike Narula, Founder, President & CEO of Reliance Communications, LLC has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 New York Award in the Business Services category. Reliance is headquartered in Hauppauge, NY. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Mike Narula was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at the New York Marriott Marquis recently. Mike said, "I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award recognizing entrepreneurial excellence. It's a tribute not only to me, but to our management team and all our employees for their personal commitment to excellence and exceeding expectations in servicing our customers." For More Details See www

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services was recently ranked as the number one service provider across the entire Nordic region on key performance indicators surveyed in KPMG/EquaTerra's Nordic Region Service Provider Performance & Satisfaction Study 2011. This is TCS' second concurrent year in top position. TCS had consistently high industry scores on all major Key Performance Indicators including Customer Satisfaction, Recommendation, Quality, Flexibility, Innovation, Relationship Management (Strategic), Risk and Transition Management and Governance, and had consistently high industry scores in all other KPIs. The company was ranked number one for general satisfaction in the Nordic region, attaining a general satisfaction rate of 79 percent (significantly above the average industry satisfaction rate of 69 percent). The independent report is an annual vendor performance survey completed by CIOs and CXOs representing the top 300 Nordic compan

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Trane has offered heat recovery on its entire range of AquaStream3G chillers and heat pumps to help achieve significant savings. AquaStream3G heat recovery uses the heat rejected by the condenser to produce hot water for a variety of purposes. This includes the production of hot water, dehumidification and process applications. The re-use of otherwise wasted heat allows building managers to realize energy and cost savings, as well as environmental goals. To meet specific customer needs, both partial and total heat recovery are available. The AquaStream3G model with a cooling capacity of 165kW offers a heating capacity of 48kW (30 percent) in partial heat recovery mode and 115kW (70 percent) in total heat recovery mode. "The AquaStream3G already offered a combination of high efficiency and low noise that is unique to the market. With the addition of heat recovery, the AquaStream3G delivers additional cost savings by eliminating the sepa

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Black Hat USA at a presentation has entitled "Macs in the age of APTs", researchers from IT security consulting firm iSec shared Mac OS X authentication falls short when it comes to defending against APTs. The researchers claimed that the Mac OS X platform contained a gaping security hole in the authentication protocols that enabled hackers to execute brute force attacks. Paul Youn, Researcher, iSec Partners said, "The attack targets even non-privileged users, decrypting the contents of the login keychain and giving the attackers access to network credentials. Hackers are quite advanced. Users pick bad passwords so that attack might be very successful. Once you compromise a machine, you have access to that user's information. There's quite a bit that is immediately available. If they haven't felt more vulnerable, that might make them more susceptible to social engineering. These targeted attacks, they don't c

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google is offering live weather forecast and cloud data from across the world on its Google Maps application to make travel and activity planning easier. The weather update is visible through a widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps. Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city opens a window with data such as current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days. Users can also click on the left-hand panel to change the units for measurement of wind speed and temperature and enable or disable the viewing of clouds when zoomed out from the map. The company is said to offer this facility through an arrangement with weather.com and the US Naval Research Laboratory. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Smart Technologies has launched Smart Board interactive whiteboard line, Smart Notebook collaborative learning software and the Smart Table interactive learning centre for Indian classrooms. Sanjiv Pande, MD, India and South Asia, Smart Technologies said, "Educational institutes globally have adopted interactive IT solutions and now India is recognizing the growing demand for wholesome and comprehensive value-add educational solutions as well. As the pioneer of the interactive whiteboard and the global product category share leader, Smart has gained significant insight into the Indian education system and continues to provide solutions for the market." Anju Visen-Singh, Director, Education Product Marketing, Smart Technologies said, "As the global leader in interactive whiteboards, we bring more than two decades of collaboration research and development to a broad range of easy-to-use, integrated solutions that free people fr

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Idea Cellular has spread its 3G service to cover 10 major cities and 100 other towns in Maharashtra. Idea's 3G networks is now available in Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Goa, Kolhapur, Solapur, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Akola, Nanded and 100 other towns including Shirdi, Shrirampur, Jamkhed, Pathardi and Loni in Maharashtra and Goa Circle. Idea has rolled out 'sachet' pricing offering trial pack as low as Rs. 8. Customers can choose from a range of 3G plans starting from Rs. 8 to Rs. 5,000 on both prepaid and post-paid for usage promotion. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys has introduced a radio station viz. InfyRadio, exclusively for its staff. InfyRadio is currently running as an experiment in Bangalore, will be launched on other Infosys campuses in the next three months. The radio service is to run for six hours a day, five days a week and will be a combination of music (Hindi/English), RJ Talk, Infosys-related communication, leadership interviews, song requests as well as interactive contests. The initiative is to involve employees and some celebrity guests in the running of this station, claimed HR sources. There is a special Web site for the radio station, where employees can request songs, participate in contests, download the InfyRadio jingle as well as provide feedback about the shows. Nandita Gurjar, Executive VP & Global Head of HR, Infosy shared, “Employees just need to download an application on their iPod and other handheld devices and listen to music on demand.” For More Details

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE UMAX has launched its new concept "Begin". The new initiative encompasses new promotional strategies as well as upgraded services with an added emphasis on post-sales support services. The focus is on the Audio categories of products which include Speakers, and Headphones, the speakers will offer the complete range from 2.0 speakers to 5.1 channel home theatres. Also the new addition to the product portfolio is Cabinets and Gaming Cabinets under the existing product range. Snehal Shah, Business Manager, neoteric said, "It is the fresh energy and approach by UMAX to revitalize and take the business to the next level and as always team neoteric is all charged up to support them and help achieve the objective. The strategy is to work on brand visibility and availability using various innovative demand and market generation activities in the core metro markets and increase the penetration in the upcountry markets as well."

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM India was awarded 'Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award' for the year 2011 in the IT sector. The award is in recognition of the overall effectiveness of HR and people management practices at IBM, contributing to the needs of the business, profession, employees, industry and the nation. The category for HR excellence received 129 applications across different sectors and was scrutinized by a three-tier assessment process by a panel of experts comprising of seven training and management experts. Each application was further reviewed by two assessors independently and then discussed by a special committee for normalization of assessments/ reviews. The applications were gauged on a set of parameters covering all areas related to HR strategy, recruitment, leadership development, volunteering activities, and the like, on a total score card of 1000 marks. The applicant scoring the highest among each of the respective industrial categor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has reported financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended July 30, 2011. Brocade reported quarterly revenue of $503 million, representing flat revenue performance year-over-year and resulting in breakeven diluted earnings per share (EPS) on a GAAP basis and $0.09 on a non-GAAP basis. The Company's reported third quarter revenue and non-GAAP EPS results are consistent with the anticipated ranges it provided on August 5, 2011. Revenue for Brocade's Storage business, including product and services was $334.3 million in the third quarter, down 6% year-over-year. Whereas, revenue for Brocade's Ethernet business was $168.5 million in the third quarter, an increase of 13% year-over-year. The Federal Ethernet business was down 33% year-over-year, but up 32% sequentially, as Federal spending improved in the third quarter. Michael Klayko, CEO, Brocade said, "Headwinds in the IT market, federal spending, and overall gl