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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston has rolled out its urDrive, a free pre-loaded application available on a variety of its DataTraveler USB Flash drives. urDrive transforms USB drives from passive storage to engaged, active storage, allowing consumers to easily access and organize their personal files, photos, music, games and videos. It also comes with a built-in photo viewer and MP3 player. "USB drives have historically served as digital couriers, transporting data from one device to another. Kingston is taking the lead in transforming the way consumers interact with those devices. urDrive enables consumers of all ages to make the USB Flash drive an interactive experience beyond just storing and transferring data between devices," said Nathan Su, Flash Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston. urDrive enhances security on the PC with the inclusion of Norton PC Checkup. The diagnostic tool scans for virus infections and checks for slow performance and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polaris Wireless has announced a customer contract, for a multi-million dollar deployment of the Polaris Wireless Altus and OmniLocate location surveillance product suite. The deal is believed to represents a major increase in Polaris Wireless' business in the MEA region, directed out of the company's regional headquarters in Dubai. This is the latest deployment of the company's high-accuracy wireless location surveillance solution in an area increasingly vital to the global efforts against crime and terrorism. Polaris Wireless high-accuracy location solutions are also deployed in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. The Polaris Wireless Altus application suite is said to be the industry's only software-based surveillance solution that enables accurate mass location, providing users the ability to simultaneously locate all subscribers in a wireless network in real time and on a historical basis. This unique capability en...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HID Global has announced its OMNIKEY Device Service Provider (DSP) software for IBM Tivoli TAM enterprise single sign on (eSSO). The new solution is a software interface that is said to enable customers to benefit from converged physical and logical access control on a single card by using their existing contactless physical access credentials in conjunction with IBM Tivoli TAM eSSO for sign on to IT networks and applications. The OMNIKEY DSP software claims to be certified for use with IBM Tivoli Access Manager eSSO and enables plug-and-play connectivity of HID Global's OMNIKEY contactless readers with IBM Tivoli Service Provider Interface (SPI) for secure sign on to critical network assets. Supporting standard iCLASS, iCLASS SE, HID PROX, MIFARE and other technologies for contactless sign on to IBM Tivoli, the OMNIKEY DSP software can be deployed to large networks and includes an easy-to-use graphical user interface as well as a configu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. has announced its new private cloud computing platform named NuVola. The NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution is an appliance-based offering built with class-leading Fujitsu server and storage products, and paired with advanced software tools and utilities that transform business critical processes by leveraging private cloud computing power, security and scalability. NuVola Private Cloud Platform appliances can transform a host of functional business processes to improve speed, efficiency and performance. Integrating technology from key partners, each NuVola appliance is purposely built to address customer pain points for a variety of functional processes. Initially, NuVola Private Cloud Platform appliances is said to focus on the functional IT process areas of search, storage, multi-media transcoding and data analytics. The NuVola Private Cloud Platform solution will be progressively launched over the n...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ON Semiconductor has introduced NCP1840, a multi-LED driver with the ability to drive up to eight LEDs independently, using any illumination pattern the user creates. The NCP1840 is said to be ideal for multi-LED status indicators that communicate status and diagnostic conditions to the user, and can help differentiate an end product via LED animation. By utilizing the NCP1840, engineers can offload some of the work normally handled by the processor in their system design, as it no longer needs to directly control each individual LED. Current and dimming level programming is conveniently done by writing to and reading registers via a serial interface that uniformly controls the brightness and blink rate of each LED. The device claims to be well suited for portable applications due to its ability to extend battery life by using a high efficiency, low noise, quad-mode charge pump. The charge pump and constant current regulators maintain forward...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amdocs has launched Amdocs Customer Management 8.1(CM 8.1), Designed to redefine and improve the overall user experience for customer service representatives (CSRs), Amdocs CM 8.1 increases agent efficiency and productivity with intuitive tools. Amdocs CM 8.1 provides a simplified and intuitive user interface (UI) for CSRs in contact centers and retail stores (including tablet support); better tools for handling the growing volume of smartphone-related support calls; and process automation for faster order taking. Mary Wardley, VP, Enterprise Applications, IDC said, "With competition for acquiring and retaining customers intensifying, providing a superior customer experience has become a prime differentiator for global service providers. But, providing a seamless, high-quality experience will remain a serious challenge for operators unless they redefine and simplify the user experience for their agents to optimize their current complex a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE QlikTech has announced QlikView 11, introducing social decision-making on its self-service BI platform to help business users collaborate to make more insightful decisions. QlikView 11 also marks the next generation of associative search pioneered by QlikView with the introduction of comparative analysis. Other key benefits of the release include making application development easier and faster, and enhancing QlikView's manageability and security capabilities for large enterprises. Anthony Deighton, CTO & Sr. VP, Products, QlikTech said, "Our vision for QlikView 11 builds on the fact that decisions aren't made in isolation, but through social exchanges driven by real-time debate, dialog, and shared insight. QlikView 11's social business discovery approach allows workgroups and teams to collaborate and make decisions faster by collectively exploring data, anywhere, anytime, on any device. Business users are further empower...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Supercomp has announced that it is extending the product ranges across the all geographical territories of India as because Supertron has the pan India presence with strong channel network. Supercomp has launched a mini portable speaker called "MIMO" for the laptop and netbook users. The speaker MIMO comes with Hi-Fi sound quality, USB power charging systems by which users can charge the speaker from his notebook and netbook. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe Systems Incorporated has acquired Auditude Inc. Adobe is now uniquely positioned to provide an end-to-end video offering, seamlessly connecting authoring, publishing, monetization and optimization with the goal of helping customers build long-term businesses through the delivery of quality video content and superior viewing experience across all IP-enabled devices. David Wadhwani, Sr. VP & GM, Digital Media Business Unit, Adobe said, "Premium video publishers want to capitalize on the foundational shift to digital by providing viewers with great media experiences and maximizing the value of their content on every IP device. With this acquisition, Adobe can now offer an unparalleled platform for authoring, distributing, analyzing and monetizing digital video experiences everywhere - simplifying workflows, increasing consumer engagement, delivering insights and driving increased revenue for content publishers." Supporting vi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ARM has announced that it has acquired Prolific, Inc. The increasing complexity of 20nm and low process technologies is driving the need for automated layout optimization solutions. This acquisition augments ARM's strategy to provide innovative physical IP products that will enable the ARM partnership to continue to lead in the implementation of highly integrated, low-power system-on-chip solutions. Simon Segars, EVP & GM, Physical IP Division, ARM said, "We have been successfully collaborating with Prolific for a number of years. The technology and expertise that will come with this acquisition will expand our capabilities to accelerate ecosystem adoption of advanced process nodes at 20nm and below." Paul de Dood, President & Founder, Prolific, Inc. said, "Prolific has a long history of improving the efficiency of complex physical design process flows. The ARM partnership will benefit from faster time to market for...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aksh has announced that it is all set to launch MAGIQ, a flat drop cable which offers a compact and light weight, self supporting fibre optic design in an easily accessible construction. The small, lightweight flat drop cable, MAGIQ is said to offer a solution for the smaller fibre counts that are needed in the final sections of an optical network, particularly in a fibre to-the-premise (FTTP) installation. The Buffer tube fibre care allows easy access in a fibre design. The rugged, flat construction of the MAGIQ cable is specifically designed for self-supporting aerial developments and is fully compatible with type of aerial hardware allowing faster, lower cost installations. The superior crush resistance and durability of the MAGIQ cable makes it robust enough for below grade installations in ducts or open trenches. Since the cable is metal free, there is no electrification problem. MAGIQ claims to be a product with revolution in gel techno...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos has revealed that 0.06% of the billion logins that they have each day are compromised. That's more than 600,000 per day i.e. one in every 140 milliseconds. The statistic was revealed in an info graphic published alongside an official Facebook blog post trumpeting new security features introduced by the firm. The new security features include Trusted friends (called "Guardian angels" in the infographic). Facebook stated, "one will be able to nominate three to five "trusted" friends who can help you if you have a problem accessing your account - if, for instance, someone else has changed its password and locked you out of your email account. The idea is that if you need to login to Facebook but can't access your email account, Facebook will send codes to your friends that they can pass on to you." Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos said "None of your friends on their own has en...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ObjectVideo has announced the completion of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnership agreement with Ragile Corporation. Ragile is incorporating ObjectVideo OnBoard intelligent analytics software into the company's flagship product, the Ragile Vision Suite 3.0 (RVS). Widely deployed for many well-known end users in China, RVS is a very flexible and scalable video management system (VMS) platform which can support thousands of video feeds; the RVS integration that includes patented ObjectVideo technology is with the RVS Expert and RVS Maximum versions. Ragile has selected ObjectVideo as its sole analytics supplier. Raul Fernandez, CEO, ObjectVideo said, "We understand it's very important for Ragile's customers to be able to access video analytics from an environment with which they are already familiar. We're very happy that having Ragile as a key VMS partner will allow ObjectVideo technology to be more accessib...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Digi-Key Corporation has announced the global addition of ILLUMRA products to its expansive line card. ILLUMRA products are known globally for offering design engineers and product procurers with state-of-the-art wireless solutions including wireless indoor lighting products, sensors, receivers, and outdoor lighting accessories. Mark Zack, VP, Semiconductor Product, Digi-Key Corporation said, "We are excited to offer the range of lighting control and energy management solutions from ILLUMRA. ILLUMRA is renowned for creative products that offer an array of energy management and control functions, without the limitations of batteries or wires." Jan Finlinson, President, ILLUMRA said, "We are pleased to partner with Digi-Key in offering building blocks and market ready solutions to OEMs. The availability of finished products and accessories will allow companies to jump start development of battery-free wireless technology and get ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Moveo Systems has announced that it has completed the merger of its business with IBS Software Services. The merger will enhance and strengthen the Airport Operations Line of Business of IBS as well as drive the enterprise mobility offering for the company by leveraging the IP-based framework developed by Moveo. Moveo Systems brings to the table considerable proficiency in enterprise mobility, providing perfect synergy to IBS' existing operations. Ability to deliver information anywhere, any time through mobile application is of critical importance for a complete travel experience. With this integration, we have significantly augmented our capabilities to offer cutting-edge solutions that help our customers transform their businesses," said V. K. Mathews, Executive Chairman, IBS Group. Sankalp Saxena, Chairman & CEO, Moveo Systems, said, "Product-driven innovation in the airport and mobility segments has been a mantra for ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC has announced that it is showcasing its cutting-edge technologies and solutions at the 80th INTERPOL General Assembly held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 31 October to 03 November, 2011. Several NEC innovations aimed at assisting law-enforcement agencies worldwide to safeguard lives and property through innovation and capabilities building will be demonstrated, including DNA Identification, Intelligent Video Surveillance, Fingerprint Identification, Facial Recognition, Inter-Agency Collaboration and Internet Security. Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director, NEC Asia Pacific's Regional Competency Centre for Public Safety, said, "NEC is a global leader in biometric technologies, where we deliver the most advanced identification, security and public safety solutions for law enforcement, public sector, and commercial applications. Leveraging on NEC's avant-garde technologies in identity solutions, some of which are ranked as the world's m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Matrix Comsec has enhanced its presence with the integration of CHAR middleware with its range of hospitality IP-PBXs. With this integration, Matrix offers the flexibility to use preferred customized hotel PMS through CHAR middleware software with Matrix IP-PBXs. Matrix ETERNITY is a feature-rich IP-PBX designed to meet the communication needs of the hospitality industry. It incorporates specialized hospitality module, third-party PMS and CAS support and many other utilitarian and productivity enhancing features along with support for PSTN, GSM/3G, ISDN and IP networks. The IP-PBX contributes in routine functioning of the hotel with the increased staff mobility and productivity. "Matrix IP-PBXs are acclaimed by Indian and overseas hotel customers. The easy integration with third-party PMS and CAS offers Matrix a competitive edge and Matrix continuously works towards integrating the hotel system with all major PMS vendors globally,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE eScan has conducted a research and come up with a report based on malware URLs collected. This report representing the growth in malware-infected URLs in the last couple of months mainly consisted of polymorphic malware, of which 70% were all email-borne malware. Social engineering is also on the rise in the form of email-based malware pretending to be forwarded by a colleague. SEO poisoning has risen to such an extent that the chances of clicking an infected link has significantly increased in the last year, says the report by eScan lab. Malicious websites looking to cash in on trending news, make use of Botnets to artificially inflate search rankings. 85% of all email is still mostly spam, while 81% contain links to malicious websites. The report provides details on the top Malware Insights, Malware URL Count (hosted countries), Malware count by file extension, Domain Wise Malware Hosting. Malicious Java iFrames and Obfuscated JavaScripts ...