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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Synopsys has announced that LG Electronics has selected Synopsys' CustomSim FastSPICE simulator for the verification of its analog intellectual property (IP) and mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs. "Rapidly-changing market forces in consumer electronics are driving us to deliver SoCs in a continuously shrinking time frame. To achieve aggressive tapeout schedules, we need a circuit simulation solution that not only delivers superior performance but also has the capacity to simulate our largest designs with required accuracy. Our evaluation clearly demonstrated CustomSim's superior performance and capacity advantage over other competing analog simulators. We have seen an average improvement of 10X in analog IP verification throughput and are confident that CustomSim will meet our present and future transistor-level and mixed- signal verification needs," said Dr. Kirt (Kuk-Tae) Hong, mixed-signal group leader, LG Electr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HTC Corporation has unveiled the HTC Radar with Windows Phone smartphone. HTC Radar features a hardware camera button which is said to capture images while the f/2.2 aperture lens and back-illuminated sensor provide improved low-light performance. With 28mm wide-angle lenses one can capture more of the scene in front of you while the new panoramic feature creates dramatic pictures of skylines and landscapes. HTC Radar can shoot bright and vibrant HD (720p) videos and HTC Photo Enhancer quickly touches up pictures and uploads them to Facebook. "The new HTC Radar smartphone raises the bar with new advanced photography, multimedia and social capabilities that enable you to take full advantage of the latest Windows Phone innovations. The HTC Radar's aluminum uni-body, compact size and finish will capture people's attention," said Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager, HTC India. "Phones were originally designed for communicat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has unveiled the next phase of its Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with a series of offerings and innovations that can deliver desktop virtualization experiences. Cisco has announced endpoints that enable high-quality voice and video in virtual desktop environments. Arthur King, Privacy & Security Officer, Metro Health Corp., said, "It was very challenging to stay current with the constant changes and additional technologies coming in, especially the mobile devices. We needed to support a variety of form factors. That is why we chose the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) solution." Jake Hughes, Chief Technical Architect for Infrastructure, Seattle Children's Hospital, said, "For the same reasons that Cisco Unified Computing System is the right thing for desktop virtualization, it is also the right thing for our server virtualization, our security infrastructure, and for managemen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has launched the Windows Phone in India. Windows Phone claims to enable people to quickly find, connect and consume the things that they care with user interface of Live Tiles and Hubs. The new OS sports a transitional user interface called "Metro". Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, said, "We are incredibly excited about unveiling of Windows Phone. With Windows Phone, we have looked at the consumer experience in an absolutely fresh way, and the end result is an operating system that is stylish, innovative, and one that seamlessly integrates the most sought-after user experiences such as search, gaming, email and social networks across Bing, Office, Xbox LIVE, Facebook, Twitter and more." The application icons have been replaced by Live Tiles on the Windows Phone start screen, thus boldly displaying critical information at a glance. The Live Tiles come to life with updates from the Web such as news, ap...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has introduced the next generation of its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) appliances - the Cisco family of WAN (wide area network) optimization solutions. The Company is aiming to serve its customers deliver more Web-based software applications and rich media content across networks at scale and with high quality to any user and device. The new Cisco WAAS appliances help customers improve application performance for bandwidth-heavy applications such as virtual desktops, cloud services, video and mobile devices at branch locations. The new appliances also help organizations substantially improve the user experience across their entire network infrastructure by providing up to five times the bandwidth and supporting up to three times the users than the previous generation. Mahesh Gupta, VP, Borderless Networks, Cisco India & SAARC said, "According to a worldwide Nemertes Research, 90 percent of employees do not work at head...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Silicon Power has spread its service centers across India introducing thirty-two Service spots and enhances local accessibility to the company's customer service. Kuldip Sengar, Country Manager, SP India said, "Service Excellency is always a key component of the SP's business philosophy. We are committed to deliver excellent product quality and customer satisfaction. Through our dedication we have achieved positive development in India over the past four years, and since the launch of our first service center in January, 2011, we have delivered the promise to renew and penetrate our service network in India by the end of 2011." The new service centers provide both end customers and authorized distributors' great convenience in post-sale services which improves RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) service efficiency by 50%. SP is said to offer a lifetime warranty to all USB flash drives, memory modules and memory cards ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has just hosted its first annual Global Partner Conference in Miami, Florida, on October 2-4. The Company gathered more than 500 distributors and resellers from 63 countries around the world to present and exchange on its plan for business growth, and reward its best performing and most committed partners. Fortinet also hosted an award ceremony and rewarded its best performing and most committed partners. Patrice Perche, Sr. VP, Sales & Support, Fortinet said, "Thanks to our strong focus on technology innovation and performance, Fortinet has rapidly grown to become one of today's top network security players. As we're continuing to gain market share across the globe and in the different market sectors, the alignment, expertise and quality of our channel network is even more instrumental to our success. We were very pleased to gather, for the first time, partners from all regions, to hear about their experience in sel...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems Inc. has announced that the four largest FORTUNE Global 500 companies from India utilize Blue Coat solutions. Worldwide, 85 percent of FORTUNE Global 500 companies, more than 50 of the largest companies and the 35 most profitable companies in the world are Blue Coat customers. Blue Coat counts among its customer base 75 percent of companies on the list from Asia Pacific, including 100 percent of all companies on the list from Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. Steve Daheb, Sr. VP & CMO, Blue Coat Systems said, "Blue Coat has long focused on driving innovation in both Web security and WAN optimization without compromising network or application performance to help enterprises address their strategic IT requirements. We are proud that we have continued to cultivate loyalty among the largest companies in the world, and it is a true testament to the value we deliver to our customers." Blue Coat is said to deliver We...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE STAR Plus has launched its app for iPhone and iPad in India and over 120 countries around the world. This initiative is said to make entertainment content available for the viewers to access their favorite shows anytime by download the app on to their devices from the iTunes App store and instantly start enjoying the rich and inimitable content from STAR Plus. In addition the app is to offer unique features like, live TV, catch up on missed episodes of last two days through Video-on-Demand, updates/news from STAR Plus current and upcoming shows. A unique, built-in interactive feature will allow users to connect with their favorite Star Plus characters through audio-blogs & pictures. Besides, the app also allows users to share the content they like with friends and family through Facebook & Twitter. Sanjay Gupta, COO, STAR India Pvt. Ltd. said, "We have always provided our growing viewers with discerning content using cutting edg...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has added new VMware-optimized solutions that channel partners can offer their clients to build a path to the cloud while better utilizing their virtualization investments. These solutions, along with new training and sales enablement tools, are designed to enhance channel partner business success by ensuring client satisfaction as they move to the cloud. HP is also introducing HP Virtualization Smart Bundles for VMware vSphere 5, predefined solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure designed for channel partner delivery to SMBs. These bundled solutions, built on the same technologies used in the virtual data centers, are optimized for the range of applications most used by SMBs. They provide cost-effective, virtualized infrastructure that channel partners can customize to meet their clients' business needs. With HP Virtualization Smart Bundles, partners can offer clients optimized configurations that deliver predictable performanc...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE JRE Group of Institutions, an academic partnership with two world class education service providers - Raffles Education Corporation Ltd., Singapore and Educomp Solutions Ltd., India have signed up with the Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU). This association intends to bridge the gap between programs currently available and programs required by the market for enhancing employability by developing optional programs. Areas like MBA, Executive MBA, BBA, Diploma in Corporate Law and a few Certificate Courses have been indentified to deliver programs through regular classes and hybrid model with VSAT. Harpreet Singh, President, JRE Group of Institutions said, "In our Executive MBA & BBA Programmes, our learning process would be face to face with, the best faculty in the industry and academia. It will be enhanced with Case Studies, Live Projects and Industry Guest Lectures." Pankaj Gupta, Director School of Management said, "W...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate has announced GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, the battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device and comes with 500GB and Wi-Fi access over 802.11 b/ g/n and a rechargeable battery. Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the GoFlex Satellite drive by use of the free GoFlex Media app available now on iTunes, the Apple App Store and Android Market or a web browser. "With the growth of the tablet and iPad markets and the larger volumes of high-quality media now being consumed, there is a clear need for access to content that is not plagued with the challenges of streamed video over the Internet. The unfortunate fact is that these popular new mobile devices are hampered by their limited storage capacity while one of their primary functions is that of media consumption. With the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, we wished to create an elegant so...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE XgenPlus provides Xgen Switch, an Enterprise e-mail routing and delivery. It allows IT administrators to focus on tasks other than managing the email system. It provides a 'web based' administration console that centralizes critical system management tasks, improves security and control and eliminates duplicated efforts among several departments. Functionality includes overseeing mail queues, aggregating traffic reports, automating email traffic alert notifications, monitoring specific health attributes and providing statistical reports for each email transaction of rejection / acceptance. In addition, it allows a single administrator to manage email traffic for several domains. Xgen Switch supports redundant, high-availability configurations and is designed to ensure complete recoverability of message traffic due to power failures and other service disruptions. Ajay Data, Founder, XgenPlus said, "Xgen Switch has been designed to...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE McAfee has announced its network security framework which integrates advanced network intrusion prevention with essential next-generation controls. The solution addresses a need for security tools to prevent increasingly sophisticated attacks, with sufficient intelligence and automation to take the guesswork out of attack prevention and resolution. The network security framework includes significant enhancements to the McAfee Network Security Platform, including application visibility and integrated threat-context, aligning it with Gartner's criteria for next-generation network IPS in its report, "Defining Next-Generation Network Intrusion Prevention". According to the report, "Threats are focusing on installing targeted malicious executables onto user PCs, which use advanced techniques to avoid detection and use botnet delivery mechanisms to perform multistage attacks. Simply stopping attacks that are looking for unpatched...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Transworld Group has bagged three coveted awards at the second edition of MALA 2011 (Maritime & Logistics Awards 2011). Shreyas Shipping and Logistics, a Transworld Group company was awarded 'Shipping Line of the Year - Coastal Operator', Balaji Shipping Lines FZCO - another group company won 'NVOCC of the year'. The group was further acknowledged amongst the key stakeholders at the event, when Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Chariman, Transworld Group was recognized as 'Maritime Personality Of the Year 2011'. The awards were presented by K. Mohandas, Secretary Shipping, Dr. S.B Agnihotri, Director- General Of Shipping, S. Hajara, CMD of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) to Transworld Group at the event. Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Chariman, Transworld Group said, "We are pleased to be recognized as India's leading Shipping and Logistics group. The All-India MALA awards reinforce our commitment to the industry at large an...