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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has released its Report for the month of November. The following statistics were compiled in November using data collected from computers running Kaspersky Lab products: 204,595,286 network attacks were blocked; 89,001,505 web-borne infections were prevented; 238,045,358 malicious programs were detected and neutralized on user computers; and 98,047,245 heuristic verdicts were registered. November was relatively calm in terms of traditional threats. The Duqu Trojan, which was detected in September and hit the headlines in October, remained the center of attention for IT security experts and the mass media in November. The headline news was the discovery of how the malicious program penetrated computer systems. The attacks took place via email with the help of a Microsoft Word document that contained an exploit to a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows. An error in win32k.sys allowed the malicious code to be executed from

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have announced that they have collaborated on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various storage devices. Under the "Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative," the five companies claim to start preparing for licensing and promotion of HD (high-definition)-capable security for SD Cards and embedded memory for use in advanced consumer applications such as tablets and smartphones. This content protection solution is said to be robust enough to protect HD content. A high level of content security will be realized through the use of the initiative's technologies, including unique ID (identification) technology for flash memory and robust copy protection based on public key infrastructure. The five companies believe this technology will enable various HD content applications s

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aeroflex has announced a major expansion to the S-Series family of innovative benchtop RF measurement instruments. Aeroflex is adding two new S-Series digital signal generators, the SGD in both 3 GHz and 6 GHz models and is also launching two new vector signal analyzers-the SVA, available in a 6 GHz and a 13 GHz model. The S-Series uses Aeroflex's PXI technology. The S-Series was first introduced a year ago with the launch of the SGA analog RF signal generators. The S-Series has established a reputation for providing top-of-the-range performance at a mid-range price, and for its ease of use via the innovative touch-screen interface. At just 4U in height and half-rack width, the instruments are compact and lightweight, with a form factor that allows a signal generator and analyzer to be accommodated side-by-side in a 19 inch rack. All S-Series instruments feature high performance features such as low phase noise and rapid settling time tha

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Site analytics on Alibaba.com has showed that the female membership base on the site saw a healthy growth of 71% Y-O- Y. Women entrepreneurs in India registered on Alibaba.com represent a diverse set of industries from hair & beauty to gems & jewellery, machinery to food processing. This demonstrates how e-commerce has the potential to provide Indian businesswomen a flexible, accessible and cost-effective platform. Shanaya Modi, Director Mazda Ltd. said, "The most critical benefit that I have derived from the Internet and e-commerce is that it removes gender bias as the online medium gives us a layer of invisibility. With such platforms, we can break the socio-economic barriers prevalent in our society. Through e-commerce, our division has grown phenomenally, with customers from Russia, U.K., UAE, Saudi Arabia and The U.S. There's really no need to use any other promotional channel." Sandeep Deshpande, Country Manager, A

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Check Point has announced a new Anti-Bot Software Blade that protects against bots and APTs (Advance Persistent Threats). A bot is malicious software that enables cybercriminals to take over computers and execute illegal activities. Bots are remotely controlled, typically disguised and operate without the users' knowledge. Check Point's new Anti-Bot Software Blade is designed to stop bots in their tracks by leveraging advanced technology that helps businesses discover, remediate and prevent future threats. The solution features Check Point's Multi-tier ThreatSpect. When a bot is identified, customers can quickly analyze their level of risk through intuitive dashboards that highlight bots and their business implications -such as data loss or an increase in fraudulent spam distribution. Check Point's Anti-Bot solution provides administrators with the information they need to investigate infections with extensive forensic capabil

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GETIT has introduced a special website for Christmas and New Year called GETIT Celebration. This website claims to guide the users in planning for the Christmas and the New Year. It is said to provide all information about parties and events, food and drinks, carols, gifts, holiday movies and travel. It also claims to have Christmas and New Year stories for the little ones and customers can access the website through the link http://celebration.getit.in/. One of the most unique features of this site is said to search widgets on the home page as well as the internal pages of the website. Sidharth Gupta, CEO, GETIT Infoservices Pvt. Ltd. said, "Festivals are the best time to get closer to our customers by giving them reliable and useful services. We at GETIT wanted to simplify the festive season for our users by providing all relevant information under one roof which would facilitate them to plan for the coming year. As the website connect

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation has announced the signing of a multi-million dollar supply contract with the global consortium of communications companies, including NTT Communications, KT, Chunghwa Telecom and others to construct the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) system. The APG system is designed for a transmission speed of 40Gb/s per wavelength, utilizing the latest Digital Coherent detection and OADM (Optical Add-Drop Multiplexing) technologies. Total length is expected to be 10,400km, linking China Mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. APG is expected to meet the demand for intra-Asia connectivity between South East Asia and North Asia. Nobuyuki Yanaginuma, Associate Senior Vice President, NEC said, "We are honored to have been selected as the supplier of the APG system and firmly believe that once completed, APG will have a significant impact and NEC's state of the art advanced Digital Coher

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The robustness, reliability and low cost of ownership associated with projectiondesign technology have been underlined by an installation in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Six of the Company's F32 series DLP projectors have been installed as part of a major technology upgrade of the Planetarium, which holds 125 people and is used to screen a range of immersive films, some produced at the Museum itself. Tim Nicholson, Exhibit Technology Manager & Senior System Developer, Denver Museum, Nature and Science, said, "Our previous system was an 11-projector setup which proved unreliable and had an extremely high cost of ownership. The six F32 projectors have been blended together by our system integrator to form a seamless full-dome display of 360 degrees by 160 degrees, at a high resolution of 3,300 by 3,300 pixels." Neil Wittering, Marketing Director, projectiondesign said, "Immersive en

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Juniper Networks has announced that Bajaj Capital has deployed an integrated wired and wireless campus network running on the Juniper Networks Junos operating system. The Juniper Networks solution enables Bajaj Capital Group to increase network performance and availability at its head office, while increasing security and reducing its operating costs. With its entire network infrastructure running on Junos, Bajaj Capital is able to simplify its management and apply fine-grained security and quality-of-service control across wired and wireless networks. Ravi Chauhan, MD, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks said, "Bajaj Capital is very much the marquee firm in the field of financial planning and investment advice, and is another strong player in India's banking and financial services sector that has opted for Juniper Networks. By embracing our 'Simply Connected' campus networking solution, it is now well-positioned maximize th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Top Notch Infotronix has launched 2.1 multimedia speaker set, the ZEB-SW3500RUCF with digital display. The new model features a bass reflex subwoofer with full functional remote control. This speaker system features a soft surface and has volume control and power buttons, indicated by orange LED. It is suitable for iPOD's and PC's with a stereo line cable and 3.5mm stereo adaptor. The ZEB-SW3500RUCF offers a very friendly user interface coupled with a fully functional remote control along with the bass/treble and volume controls. It also features SD/USB input facility which enables direct playback of music from memory cards and data storage devices, so users can just plug in a pen-drive or an SD card and enjoy their preferred music. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cyber Media Research (CMR) in a study titled India 45-City Monthly PC Printer Market Review, 3Q 2011 (December 2011) has revealed that the overall India Computer printer sell-throughs in top 45 cities touched nearly 6 lakh units during the July-September 2011 quarter recording a 4% sequential growth on account of pre-festive buying by consumers and investments in capital goods by corporates and SMBs to avail full fiscal year depreciation benefits. The present coverage of the CyberMedia Research study indicates that southern India contributes the maximum, as much as 30% of all A4 PC printer sales, followed by northern India, western India and eastern India, in that order. "Printer sales in the eastern India region were slow in 3Q 2011 due to heavy monsoon rains during July and August that impacted the movement of goods by road and rail. At the same time, overall printer supplies were impacted due to political agitations over the Telengan

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate Technology has announced the closing of the transaction to acquire the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics. Under the terms of the transaction, Seagate has gained select elements of Samsung's HDD business, including assets, infrastructure and employees that enable Seagate to drive scale and innovation. These assets include Samsung's leading M8 product line of high-capacity, 2.5-inch HDDs. Samsung employees joining Seagate include a number of senior managers and design-engineering employees from Samsung's Korea facility, who will focus on development of small form-factor products for the mobile compute market. N.Y. Park, senior vice president and general manager, will oversee Seagate's product development activities in Korea and serve as country manager of the Korea design center, reporting to Bob Whitmore, Seagate's executive vice president and CTO. "Together, Seagate and Samsung have aligne

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Smartlink has celebrated its successful 20 years in the IT industry. Smartlink will be launching a series of initiatives and program to celebrate its "Two Decades of Smart Success" which intends to touch both partner and customers. The year 2011 has also seen the birth of fastest growing motherboard range of products under the DIGILITE brand. K. R. Naik, Executive Chairman, Smartlink Network Systems Ltd said, "As we move from the year 2011 to the year 2012 we are excited to see great response and support from both customers and channel partners who have shown their preference for our brands. In turn we are committed to work closely with partners and customers. Smartlink's core values include Quality, Trust and Commitment and we will look forward to further take Smartlink to greater heights." Naik further said, "We wish to be among the top three Networking Brands in India in the next three years. Our confidence

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced the opening of a branch office in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in South India, as part of the company's continued geographic expansion initiative to increase its presence in key growth markets. "Companies and governments in regional cities are looking to IT as a way to further drive innovation and optimization. Small and medium enterprises have long been the engines driving economic growth across India and play a key role in regional development. Visakhapatnam is an important city for IBM. By increasing our local presence here, we are providing advanced IT solutions and services to all segments of the economy," said Nipun Mehrotra, Vice President, General Business, Geographic Expansion, IBM India/South Asia. IBM's software solution has helped Phoenix IT in winning significant central and state-level business contracts. "Partnering with IBM has played an important part of our business growth this yea

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Watchdata has announced that its JAVA-S SDA card product TimeCOS-JV-S-T0-1, Java 2.2.1 DDA card product TimeCOS–JV–C–T0-1, "Sticker" Timecos/Fly TransWave v1.0, have passed the rigorous certification standards for use by the Visa. TimeCOS-JV-S-T0-1 and TimeCOS-JV-C–T0-1 are the two latest products by Watchdata. With Timecos/Fly TransWave v1.0, an expanded and upgraded version of the "Sticker" products which have already been certified by VISA, Watchdata’s clients will enjoy a wider variety of product choices. Lin Lifeng, Secure Payment & Trusted Computing Product Director, Watchdata said, "We are glad to be certified by VISA, which demonstrates that Watchdata has the ability to continuously explore and design high quality products suitable for VISA and commercial use. Watchdata has successfully and securely fulfilled all the requirements within a wide range of uses in the EMV market. " For More Details See ww

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Alcatel-Lucent has been chosen by France Telecom-Orange to considerably increase the capacity of its optical fiber network linking Paris and London and therefore meet increasing demand by its customers in bandwidth. After a field trial carried out in the autumn, a first 100 Gigabit per second (100G) connection was put into operation at the end of last November and a second connection will be available by the end of December. High-speed data networks are at the heart of the digital economy, supporting services such as video and multimedia content distribution, social networking, e-commerce and a vast array of business transactions. To meet the ever-growing demand for such services, operators need to be able to continually increase bandwidth, while maintaining exceptional transmission quality and keeping costs in check. The solution deployed is part of Alcatel-Lucent's Converged Backbone Transformation Solution, a key domain of the Alcatel

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Western Digital has commenced volume shipments of its WD Scorpio Blue 9.5 mm, 2.5-inch mobile hard drive with 1 TB capacity. Designed for mainstream notebook computers, the new WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB hard drive is said to utilize 500 GB-per-platter areal density and is now available in the highest capacity for 2.5-inch hard drives in the industry-standard 9.5 mm, two-platter (2-disk) form factor. WD Scorpio Blue mobile hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability and data-protection features. The WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB mobile hard drive also achieves excellent power and performance, operation. Sushil Bandi, Country Manager, WD India said, "With the release of the 1 TB WD Scorpio Blue notebook drive in a 9.5 mm package, WD is able to offer the greatest storage capacity available for use in portable computing environments, Mobile users no longer need to choose maximum capacity over thin and light, WD is ready with storage options, ach

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL Technologies (HCL) has been selected by AstraZeneca as a strategic infrastructure outsourcing partner. As part of the five year engagement, HCL is supposed to be responsible for managing AstraZeneca's entire Data Centre environment across over 60 locations globally including hosting and migration of some of the existing large Data Centers into state-of-the-art facilities. In addition, HCL is said to manage AstraZeneca's global Collaboration environment including Email, Messaging and Collaboration Services for users worldwide. HCL will also deliver transformational projects including Server Virtualisation, Storage and Backup transformation and implementation of the hybrid cloud. R Srikrishna, Executive Vice President and Head - Global Infrastructure services, HCL ISD, HCL Technologies said, "In today's economic environment, organizations across the world are facing unique challenges of rising operational and input costs,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation has announced the development of super-resolution technologies for fine magnification of surveillance camera images, including persons' faces and license plates. NEC's new technologies is said to create a super-resolution image from just one shot of a subject, such as a person's face or a car's license plate, by utilizing a database (library) of categorized images. This claims to enable images to maintain fine details even when magnified by more than 4 times (more than 16 times the number of pixels), making it possible to distinguish small and distant subjects, which was difficult with conventional technologies. These new technologies are expected to be applied with surveillance cameras that cover such large areas as airports or traffic intersections. Key features of these technologies follows: Creating images with fine details when highly magnified; and Small size image library data. For More Details See www.v

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony has introduced 'PlayStation Experience'. Sony PlayStation has set-up a PS Move zone to showcase some of the latest move titles. Some of the PS Move titles showcased included - After Hours Athletes, Start the Party, Sports Champion, Medieval Moves. 'RA.ONE: The game' was also showcased for the PS2 platform. Displaying 6 unique characters and more than 20 game play environments from the 'RA.ONE Universe', the game allowed the public to participate in infinite numbers of challenging matches. Cars 2 and Chandragupta also were a favorite amongst children as well as adults competing against each other for the championship. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Subex Ltd. has announced that Telekom Slovenije is spreading the Subex Revenue Operation Centre (ROC) Fraud Management solution across its entire group. Subex's ROC Fraud Management solution is said to be installed centrally in Ljubljana to cover all the group's fixed and mobile operations in Slovenia, Macedonia and Kosovo, helping protect over fourteen million subscribers in the Telekom Slovenije Group. Subex's ROC Fraud Management is built to help CSPs move towards fraud prevention by eliminating known frauds, reducing free run time, augmenting internal controls and through continuous fraud management process improvement. It has several industry-leading features, enabling real time reaction through its in-line controls and transaction controls and prioritizes investigation of potential fraud cases through its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. For More Details see www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VoicePort, LLC has launched its new cloud-based interactive voice recognition service that enables newspapers to provide automated customer-service support services to subscribers with an all-inclusive cost-effective hosting solution. The cloud-based IVR is said to combine VoicePort's proven CircPort automated IVR services with advanced SIP telecommunications. The solution claims to provide toll free telephone calls into the IVR and any required transfer calls either to the newspaper or to a third party call center, via a SIP refer process, thereby only requiring a single leg call. This is believed to provide lower telecom costs and ensures that calls can be transferred to anywhere the newspaper requires. The cloud solution is also effective in improving containment. In moving the management to VoicePort as an independent provider of the IVR customer service, it allows a paper to maximize IVR containment further reducing third party call

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE APC by Schneider Electric has announced a price increase across all its products as an outcome of the depreciating value of the rupee and the constant increase in costs of key commodities, transportation and freight. The increase is expected to be between 3-10% per cent across the product portfolio, depending on the SKU's form, size and usage of raw material. This year, price increase has been observed across multiple industries due to huge impact made by the steep 18-20% depreciation of the rupee in the last four months and 30-50% inflation in the cost of commodities such as lead, copper and steel over the last 15 months. Power conditioning industry has been no exception, and many players have been forced to increase prices as early as January 2011. Shrinivas Chebbi, Country General Manager and Vice President - India, APC by Schneider Electric said, "Uninterrupted power is the nerve of all mission critical applications, and for a t