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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wind River has announced that Clarion is collaborating with Wind River to develop Android-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. Wind River is creating a custom Android software platform for an automotive environment and providing software integration services. Leveraging Android's flexibility for innovation, Clarion Malaysia's new IVI device is designed to deliver a compelling user experience, especially in areas of multimedia, entertainment and connectivity. The Clarion Malaysia IVI device is based on the Freescale i.MX applications processor family. Georg Doll, GM, Automotive Solutions, Wind River said, "With two decades of automotive experience, as well as extensive Android project knowledge, Wind River provides an ideal mix of expertise to address the latest IVI trends. Wind River delivers commercial-quality Android software and takes care of the complex matters of custom software development, integration and testing t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kofax plc has entered into an OEM agreement with and made a $500,000 minority investment in MobiFlex, Inc. The announcement is said to be the result of a joint development effort that began in early 2011 and creates the basis for a long term strategic partnership between the two companies. Reynolds C. Bish, CEO, said, "We evaluated a number of alternative approaches to addressing mobile capture needs and selected MobiFlex as what we consider to be the best fit with our software products and solutions. As a result, we're very pleased to now enter into these agreements with MobiFlex. Our customers have expressed a great deal of interest in these capabilities for some time now and we're excited about being able to meet this demand with the release our first mobile capture software products during the first calendar quarter of 2012." The OEM agreement is supposed to provide Kofax with the basic software tools and infrastructure ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ecce Terram, has introduced version 2 of its Photo2lab Online Client covering the complete range of photo products - from prints, posters, and canvas to photo gifts, personal to print products. It is based on critically acclaimed software architecture ("PMA Retailer Hot Pick 2010"), and optimized to support HTML5. Frank Simon, President & CEO, Ecce Terram USA said, "For large retail chains and photo service providers, the launch of our new Photo2Lab Online Client sends a clear message. They will be able to offer the full range of modern photo products and mobile ease-of-use that today's customers demand. Due to Ecce Terram's strong commitment to HTML5, they will also be able to avoid the costly burden that comes with having to develop for outdated or highly proprietary mobile technology platforms.” According to Ecce Terram, recent surveys indicate - and most industry analysts agree - that 2012 will be year where wor...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CREDANT Technologies has announced the addition of Pangea Systems to CREDANT's EMEA partner team. Pangea Systems adds CREDANT's Mobile Guardian in a strategic move to provide increased data protection capability to both their existing and future customers. Leanne Partner, MD, Pangea Systems said, "Pangea Systems provides a niche portfolio of expertise and capabilities and partnering with CREDANT underlines this practice. In the best interests of our customers we operate on a focused approach and are only interested in partnering on a very selective basis. With their world-class data encryption product range, CREDANT certainly ticks all of the boxes, and complements our current offerings to expand potential markets for us." CREDANT's solution is believed to address enterprise security issue, manage the security of sensitive data, whether it is located on laptops, smartphones, removable media or private or public cloud inf...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE OKI has launched its EXaaS Centralized Call Reception Service, a new item on its EXaaS cloud computing service menu for financial institutions operating in Japan. The EXaaS Centralized Call Reception Service is said to reduce call-handling burdens at specific sites by offloading calls to a call center. Skilled operators take calls to achieve call-handling services of the highest quality and customer satisfaction. In addition to providing standard call reception functions as a cloud service for customers seeking to centralize call reception operations without setting up their own facilities, EXaaS can be tailored to meet the specific needs of individual customers. This includes various optional general call center staffing needs. Calls made to retail locations differ in various aspects, including site location, hours of operation, products, orders, and the nature of the requests and claims received. Handling all these calls often requires staf...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE QuEST has acquired GKN Aerospace Engineering Services and entered into a long-term agreement to provide the engineering skills and resources to support GKN Aerospace's long term growth strategy. Ajit Prabhu, CEO, QuEST Global Engineering said, "This acquisition will enhance our engineering capability close to our customers in Europe. We are very pleased to bring rich engineering talent from UK and Australia as a result of acquiring this asset from GKN. QuEST has been supporting GKN for the past several years as a preferred supplier and this move only reinforces our quality of delivery and confidence shown by GKN to our partnership. With this enhanced capability and our low cost centres in India using our unique local-global approach, we will be able to deliver high quality services at optimised costs to our aerospace and defence customers, especially in work streams such as design, stress, concessions, continuous product development ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE On the issue of Cisco Global Cloud Index (2010 - 2015), The Company has estimated that global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The Cisco Global Cloud Index is generated from a modeling and analysis of various primary and secondary sources, including more than 30 terabytes of data generated each month over the past year from a variety of data centers around the globe, measurements of more than 45 million broadband-speed tests and third-party market forecasts. The Cisco Global Cloud Index also includes a "workload transition"forecast on the workload shift from traditional data centers to the cloud as well as a "Cloud Readiness" analysis of major geographic regions regarding their networks' abilities to support various types of business and consumer cloud-computing services. Suraj Shetty, VP, P...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe has announced its support for the Van Gogh Institute with the development of the iPad app Van Gogh's Dream using Adobe Digital Publishing solutions. Through the Van Gogh's Dream app, the Van Gogh Institute hopes to introduce users to the life, works and writings of the artist in a new and interactive way. Loc Sander, Creative Director, MNESTRA, said, "Thanks to technology, we've been able to create multiple ways to approach the app's content. Users can enter Van Gogh's world via a number of avenues: not just through his paintings but also by looking at his letters and watching video contributions from a number of specialists in the artist's work." The Van Gogh's Dream app is just like a book - but with a far more human, interactive dimension. "This app is giving readers a whole new interactive perspective on Van Gogh's work and life. It's an intuitive, tactile, sensitive experience. Tec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wadhwani Foundation and NASSCOM Foundation have together announced the campaign facilitating employment to over 2000 youth across the country. Collaborating for the two year advocacy and job placement campaign, the Foundations aim at enabling IT-BPO companies to recruit and place the maximum number of young adults with disabilities. The launch of the 'Web Accessibility Handbook’ is the first step to creating awareness on building barrier free workplaces - both physical and digital. Ajay Kela, President & CEO, Wadhwani Foundation said, "India has a very unique talent pool of an estimated two to three million educated disabled. Corporate India could derive better business value in terms of higher productivity, reduced attrition and lowered training costs by employing this proven and tenacious talent pool. Wadhwani Foundation since 2010 has been working towards promoting recruitment of the disabled as a business value proposition. ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ibibo has taken its most popular social game, Mumbai Underworld, to Android phones. Users can now download the Mumbai Underworld game from the Android market place on to their mobiles for free & play with their friends on ibibo and Facebook. This follows the launch of India's multiplayer game ibibo TeenPatti on Android, and which is now claimed to be the one of the top games in its category in the Android market place. Rahul Razdan, President - Products & Operations, ibibo web (p) Ltd. said, "We are extremely happy to extend our most popular social game, Mumbai Underworld, to the Android platform. The Android platform is the fastest growing mobile platform globally, as well as in India. With this development game players will be able to carry on their existing game to their Android phones as well. We expect a great response not only from the users but from other partners in the mobile space as well. We have some very excit...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has upsurged in mobile traffic during the holy Hajj pilgrimage, which in the western calendar took place this year between 3 to 9 November. Nokia Siemens Networks, STC's preferred mobile equipment and services supplier, ensured connectivity for thousands of STC subscribers and millions of pilgrims. There was an average increase of 500%, and a peak increase of 760%, in STC's 3G traffic during the pilgrimage. Despite this huge increase in traffic and capacity load, network performance remained high, providing an optimal service for pilgrims. Nokia Siemens Networks is the sole GSM and 3G radio supplier for STC's network in Mecca, Medina, and other pilgrim areas, and has been providing Hajj service support for over a decade. Bandar Algafari, VP, Networks Sector, STC said, "Nokia Siemens Networks has once again stepped up to the task, giving us the necessary support to handle high density traffic during...