VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys has inaugurated its new Development Center (DC) at the Changi Business Park Crescent in Singapore. Serving as its regional hub in South-east Asia, the new Singapore DC is said to play a strategic role in the company's operations, allowing it to drive business opportunities in the region. Ashok Vemuri, Member of the Board, Infosys Ltd. along with Gerald Chan, CEO & Country Head UBS Singapore, jointly inaugurated the new DC. Other senior leaders associated with the Singapore DC were also present for the inaugural ceremony. Ashok Vemuri said, "Infosys has been present in Singapore for the past seven years and the country serves as our regional hub allowing us to address business demands in the South-east Asian market. We now plan to make Singapore our innovation hub and deliver high-quality service capabilities to clients across verticals. With its excellent infrastructure and a large talent pool of over 8,000 fresh IT eng...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE At BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011, Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled BlackBerry BBX, its mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNX platform to connect people, devices, content and services. In addition, RIM announced a series of developer tool updates, including WebWorks for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, the Native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook and a developer beta of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with support for running Android applications. RIM also provided direction for developers on how to best develop and monetize their BlackBerry applications for today and for the future. Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO, RIM said, "With nearly 5 million BlackBerry apps downloaded daily, our customers have made BlackBerry one of the most profitable platforms for developers. At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we're provid...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE S Mobility has launched the new music phones 'SAMBA' & 'CARNIVAL' priced at a Rs. 3599. The phones are said to equip with 'Party Light' feature that enables the handsets with LED lights. The phones come in Midnight Blue, Fiery Red, Grayish Black and Tangy Orange colours. These phones are loaded with software that enhances the music/ audio processing coupled with high quality Spice wireless speakers & stereo earphones along with multimedia features and social networking applications. The two music phones can be also used with Dual Sim cards. The Samba sports a 2.2 inch QVGA screen and while the Carnival has a QWERTY key pad and a broad 2.2 inch screen. Both the phones sport a 1.3 megapixel shooter that can also capture and play videos. Other features include T- flash support (upto 8 GB) with a Free 2 GB Memory card, FM with recording, a long lasting 950 mAh battery which gives a Talk time of 4 hours and a 3.5m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP India has significantly widened its products and solutions portfolio. HP aims to provide a seamless, simple and comprehensive package to enterprise as well as SMB customers. HP has introduced business notebooks HP ProBook 5330m and 4230s, HP EliteBook 2560p and 2760p, and docking solutions with FORGE (form, optimize, richness, guarded and enduring) design framework and features for maximum reliability. These notebooks offer 60 cm drop height along with BIOS configuration. It also enables fast charge with which 90% of the battery gets charged within 90 minutes and comes with water spill keyboards. Vinay Awasthi, Senior Director, Product Category, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard India, said, "HP is committed to having a robust set of products supported by a well-defined and compelling roadmap, based on constantly changing customer needs. This product line-up will deliver the best value to our enterprise and SMB customers, hence...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Teleservices Limited (TTL) has leveraged its wide range of products and services and reach out to customers with one common brand - Tata DOCOMO, cutting across the CDMA and GSM platforms. With this move, brand Tata DOCOMO now moves into the CDMA space, and all Tata Indicom customers are migrated to Tata DOCOMO. Deepak Gulati, Executive President, Mobility Business, Tata Teleservices Limited, said, "These are exciting times at TTL and mark the Company's evolution from being just an access provider to a multi-platform telecom applications and solutions organization, with one single brand - Tata DOCOMO - for customer connect, ease and delight. This is the birth of Telecom 2.0. Our new strategy will unify our brands and unlock the synergies across the CDMA, GSM and 3G platforms. We are pleased to welcome our Tata Indicom customers into the Tata DOCOMO family, offering them a new world of telecom and lifestyle-impacting experiences...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL has launched their first flagship store in Nehru Place, New Delhi. This store would showcase the entire range of HCL's products - HCL Desktops, ME Laptops, ME Gaming Consoles, All-in-Ones and other IT accessories & peripherals. The flagship store is spread over a vast area of 1,000 square feet and would also include new products like the X1 Tablet and special edition Ra.One laptops. Harsh Chitale, CEO, HCL Infosystems, said, "We are very pleased to announce the launch of our first-ever flagship store. India as a consumer market will increasingly demand better retail formats. And it will be our constant endeavour to create more such customer experiences and touch points in the future. Also, I would like to wish all our customers a very happy festive season!" Princy Bhatnagar, Vice-President, Head - Consumer Computing, HCL Infosystems, said, "We are extremely happy to launch the HCL Flagship Store and HCL Xclusive s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP India has announced that the Essar Group has chosen the SAP HANA platform and the 4.0 release of business intelligence (BI) solutions from the SAP Business Objects portfolio. Additionally, the company has selected mobility solutions from SAP and Sybase to mobilize its critical business functions. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd 2011, being held in Bangalore, India, from October 19 to 21. The Essar Group is also taking a lead step to mobilize critical business functions with mobility solutions from SAP and Sybase. The company will also roll out the Sybase Mobile Sales application for SAP CRM and Sybase Mobile Workflow application for SAP Business Suite. "As a conglomerate operating in various industries globally, we needed a powerful solution to help us reign in and make sense of a vast amount of information as well as have this data easily accessible on mobile devices. Our plan to augment our existing investment in SAP softw...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yahoo! India has announced the winners of the second annual "Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Awards". This year, the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award was awarded to Ogilvy Worldwide for its Fox Crime campaign - Photography Case. Overall, there were 19 winners across nine different categories. Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, Yahoo! India, said, "Yahoo! Big Idea Chair celebrates the growth of the digital media industry which today offers one of the widest creative canvasses to brand marketers to execute cutting-edge campaigns. The entries this year clearly demonstrated deep integration of digital in the campaign planning stage of different brands and a definite step forward in the evolution of digital media." Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather India and Creative Director, South Asia, said, "We are proud to have won the coveted Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award, widely regarded as benchmark recognition in the world of d...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Transcend Information Inc. has added new SSD18C3 Portable Solid State Drive to its SSD family. The new portable SSD is said to combine the benefits of USB 3.0 with all the performance and durability advantages of solid-state technology, providing unparalleled speed and stability that conventional portable hard drives cannot compete with. The new USB 3.0 SSD18C3 is a true Solid State Drive, based on high quality NAND flash memory. It includes an innovative device driver engineered to dramatically enhance USB transfer speeds. Due to the absence of moving parts, the SSD18C3's internal SSD runs silent and cool, and can withstand excessive shock or vibration. The SSD18C3 offers an array of state-of-the-art features, including an extremely convenient One Touch auto-backup button. Users can also download Transcend's exclusive JetFlash Elite data management tools to help them use their SSD more productively, such as for automatic website auth...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tradus.in has introduced "Diwali Dhamaka vouchers" that is said to greet one with exciting gift vouchers and adds happiness to shop online. During this festive season, one is said to win a shopping voucher of Rs. 500, Rs. 1000, or Rs. 1500on purchase of any product from Tradus.in. The shopping cracker allows to fetch back credit amount, as follows- Voucher Rs 500 can be redeemed on a minimum purchase of Rs 1500, and will be valid till Nov 30, 2011; Voucher Rs 1000 can be redeemed on a minimum purchase of Rs 2500, and will be valid till Nov 30, 2011; and Voucher Rs 1500 can be redeemed on a minimum purchase of Rs 3500, and will be valid till Nov 30, 2011. Only one voucher is allowed per email ID. The voucher is to be offered on purchase of Home Décor items, Moblie and Accessories, Consumer Electronics, Diwali Gifts, and Home Appliances. The promotion is valid till 11.59 pm 26th October 2011. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Manthan Systems has released a special report 'Business Intelligence: Moving from View Points to Action Points' which highlights the growing demand for actionable Business Intelligence (BI) in the retail industry. According to the Company's report, the industry is deploying analytics solutions that offer real time decision-support and specific recommendations to action enabling focused performance improvements across each department in the retail enterprise. Atul Jalan, CEO, Manthan Systems, said, "The recent economic downturn has brought pressure on retailers to put a cap on costs and inventory while having to improve all-round productivity and profits. A new range of actionable intelligence solutions have evolved in response to this need offering help to retailers in everyday decision-making and in responding quicker to next-gen retailing models." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SICT Mobiles has launched a new dual SIM iV 156 handset to its range of high end -dual SIM phones creating new price points for end users with one year warranty. The Company is to venture across India with its new phones. The device catalogues features like dual band that can support both GSM Bands 900 and 1800 available in all parts of India. It is enabled with dual languages Hindi and English written on the bigger key pad. It also has 2.4 inch (6.1 cm) QVGA (320x240 pixels) Big LCD for videos and 1.3 Mp camera with 1280x960 pixel. It is said to be a fully multimedia phone which plays all major audio formats MP3/WAV/MIDI/AMR, Dual Speakers for best sound quality 22x35 and 15x24. The Sound Recorder can record up to 8GB memory card capacity, a video player which can play all major video formats: Avi, MP4 and 3GP with 20 fps (Frames per seconds) quality. It also support wireless FM with fine reception quality. Users can play FM on earphone as w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Jabra has launched STREET2. This Bluetooth device available in black and white color has an edgy, urban dog-tag design that's splash proof and can be used in light rain. Choose your style, wear it like a pendant with the beaded chain or use the removable clip at the rear to attach it on your outfit, bag etc. The Jabra STREET2 auto-pairs with phone and music playing device wirelessly within 10 meter range at the same time. Ann Goh, Regional Sales Manager, GN Netcom said, "Following the phenomenal success of Jabra Street, we're thrilled to present Jabra STREET2 featuring latest Bluetooth 3.0+EDR, virtual surround sound, AM3D power bass and other digital sound enhancements. As many young users love their music and regularly carry at least two mobile devices each day, Jabra STREET2 helps them stay connected on-the-go combined with top-end quality audio experience for optimal music enjoyment." The Jabra STREET2 comes bundled wit...