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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Automation Industry Association (AIA) has announced the appointment of Vijay Srinivasan as its new President. Srinivasan is VP & Managing Director, Invensys India Pvt. Ltd. He takes over from Vijay Paranjape, former Director & Member Managing Board, Siemens Limited. The association also announced the appointment of K. Nandakumar, Chairman & Managing Director, Chemtrols Industries Ltd as its new Vice President. Addressing the members at the recently concluded AGM, the new President emphasized on enhancing top management sensitivity towards the importance of automation solutions in user organizations, building synergy amongst industry, higher educational institutions, policy makers and users through seminars and symposia, support safety and compliance standards in manufacturing industry and attract fresh talent to careers in the Automation Industry. "AIA is committed to achieving transformational change in the perception of Aut

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Alibaba.com is to host the third edition of the India offline sourcing event in Gurgaon to provide additional global trade opportunities for Indian small and medium enterprises. Indian suppliers attending the event is said to have the opportunity to interact and work with leading retailers from across the world including Target Australia, retailer for apparel and homeware, Dorel Juvenile Group, world-leader in the child products industry, Sears Holdings Corporation, leading broadline retailer, Auchan Group, the second largest hypermarket chain in France and Kmart, one of Australia’s largest discount department stores. The day long sourcing event, to be organised on 13 October, 2011, is aimed at providing Indian suppliers with an offline extension of the Alibaba.com online marketplace to promote made-in-India products to the North American, European and Australian markets. Alibaba.com will host an orientation session to offer the attending Ind

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE XLabz Technologies has announced that StockPulse -apps that it has launched for the BlackBerry PlayBook- has been selected as the best Flash/AIR Mobile App for BlackBerry PlayBook in the 2011 BlackBerry PlayBook Challenge. The 2011 BlackBerry Developer Challenge for Best Flash/AIR Mobile App for BlackBerry PlayBook was aimed at finding the best apps by quality, innovation, creativity and compelling user experience. The challenge was open for app submissions between 30th May and 12th August 2011.The submissions were evaluated on four main criteria: quality of development, level of visual appeal, user experience and creativity and innovation. "We are quite excited about this and we would like to take this opportunity to thank Research In Motion and Adobe for offering such a wonderful platform for Adobe AIR developers like us. Challenges like these are a great opportunity for developers like us to exhibit our talent to a larger worldwide au

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has sponsored Futuremark on the 3DMark 11 overclocking contest with up to $1000 prize reward for speed, power and precision users. This worldwide competition is to run from October 10 to November 7. This overclocking contest welcomes all kinds of PC platforms. In two ways prizes are offered: the weekly top score and the precision score draw. Overclockers using 3DMark 11 performances preset to submit the highest score will win the prize. ECS offers a new chance to win weekly. In addition to the weekly high score winner, another winner is to be randomly chosen from the submitted scores ending in the numbers of 99 or 75 each week. Precise numbers draw can be scored from any version of 3DMark with any available preset. At the same time, ECS has prepared bonus rewards for ECS loyal users and Facebook fans. Overclockers who, Use ECS motherboards as their competition platform, Score top ten in 3DMark 11 overclocking

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Unistal Systems has launched a new version of Protegent range of Products for laptop and desktop users. The company has announced the enhanced security features in the latest edition. Protegent is believed to work as parenting software tool by providing complete activity details of one's child on computer and internet and guide them to right direction. This feature provides the complete activity details of any employee in an organization. Protegent also provides a feature of laptop tracking to laptop users, which enables the user to continuously track the laptop location. If laptop is lost or stolen, Protegent tracks the laptop location via internet and if not connected to Internet, encrypts your important data making it unreadable for others. Protegent provides multi-tier protection as: Antivirus with Firewall; Activity monitoring and reporting; Port locker and data leakage prevention; Data Backup and Laptop Tracking with data encryptio

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston has announced Rewarding Drives Offer for channel partners. The scheme will apply to Kingston's extensive USB drive product line and will give partners a chance to win some fabulous prizes like an iPad and getaways to holiday destinations - both domestic and international. The offer is effective from October 1st and is to continue until November 30th, 2011. The offer is subject to certain terms and conditions. Vishal Parekh - MD, Kingston India, said, "Every year, we like to organize something special at Diwali time for our channel partners. It is our way of spreading the happiness and prosperity that the season brings. I believe it is also something that encourages and motivates our partners. This time, we're offering special holiday packages for our channel partners to create happy memories with their loved ones. " Kingston's DataTraveler USB drives carry 5-year warranty and free technical support services. For

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vietnam Bank of Social Policies (VBSP) has chosen Polaris' Intellect Global Universal Banking M180 (GUB) to centralize its operations across the bank.Polaris is said to offer the bank its Intellect Core and Lending Modules, enabling them to handle traditional banking products in an integrated and efficient manner. VBSP is said to replace its legacy system and leverage Intellect offerings for its ambitious growth plans. Intellect GUB M180 is an end-to-end SOA based Core Banking solution with multi-currency, multi-branch and multi-banking capabilities to transform banking across all 64 branches of the bank. Intellect GUB is to offer VBSP a robust and scalable platform, which will enable the bank to overcome its existing operational issues. The implementation will help the bank switch from its manual operations to an automated process, reducing its time and cost of operations significantly. The new Core Banking System will enable VBSP to enj

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Oracle has announced its third-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, which offer enterprise NAS functionality, and best-in-class performance, efficiency, data integrity and integration with Oracle software. Demonstrating definitive performance leadership in the NAS market, Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance delivered 2x the performance at less than half the cost per SPC-1 IOPS of NetApp's FAS 3270A on the SPC-1 benchmark. Oracle's third-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliances include significant enhancements to its industry-leading Hybrid Storage Pool technology which accelerates IOPS performance and enables customers to maintain optimal performance under heavy utilization. With Hybrid Columnar Compression support for Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, customers using Oracle's NAS systems to manage the lifecycle of data using in-database archiving for OLTP databases and data warehouses will be able to increase stora

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The world's cheapest tablet was launched in India by the Honorable Minister of Human Resources & Development, Communications & Information Technology, Kapil Sibal. Called 'Aakash', the tablet has been designed, developed and manufactured by DataWind Ltd., in partnership with IIT Rajasthan, under the Human Resources & Development Ministry's National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology (NME-ICT). At the Plenary Hall in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Minister Sibal enthralled an audience of 1,500 dignitaries, industry leaders, academics and students with a live demonstration of high-definition streaming video on the low-cost tablet, followed by web browsing and demonstration of educational applications. Five hundred devices were also handed out to students in attendance. Minister Sibal explained, "the low cost device was the third leg of NME-ICT: after connecting over 1,000 inst

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC India Pvt. Ltd has demonstrated its technology leadership in the retail space by unveiling a range of latest retail solutions including the innovative compact POS terminal with self check-in system, thermal printer and customized retail and billing solutions at the recently held India Retail Forum 2011. These solutions are aimed at segments like Food and Beverage, Large Format Retail, Cineplex and Hospitality. Amit Bhatia, Head Retail Solutions, NEC India said, "Participating in the India Retail Forum gave us the platform to reiterate our commitment to the India market and connect with opinion leaders and potential customers. The forum provided us an opportunity to showcase our cutting-edge solutions and communicate its benefits for the retail industry. We recognize the growing demand for technology and solutions in the Indian retail sector. Looking at this trend, NEC is offering a wide range of end to end retail solutions to addres

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Steven Paul Jobs, Co-Founder, Chairman of the board, Former CEO, Apple, innovator of Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, iTunes and personal computers, has passed away. Jobs was 56. He lost his battle against Pancreatic Cancer. Tributes to Jobs flowed on as soon as the news broke on Wednesday evening, in formal statements and in the flow of social networks, with President Obama, technology industry leaders and Apple fans. The homepage of Apple displays a full-page image of Jobs with the text, "Steve Jobs 1955-2011." Apple stated, "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts." Tim C