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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Essar Group has implemented Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud services platform to deliver some of its applications in an effort to offer its customers Web-based applications with high performance and scalability. Jayantha Prabhu, Chief Technology Officer, Essar Group said, "With Windows Azure, we don't have to spend money on hardware and software, and we don't have to spend time on administrative tasks related to infrastructure. A scalable, well-defined platform gives us much fewer problems to solve and more time to focus on the overall experience of the application. Since implementation, Essar has already experienced the multiple benefits of Microsoft's cloud technology. We quickly knew that we had made the best choice in selecting Windows Azure. In fact, we can maintain the high level of scalability needed at a lower total cost of ownership compared with an on-premises solution." In coordination with...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched a facility to monitor complaints from telecom consumers, called Telecom Consumers Complaint Monitoring System (TCCMS) portal www.tccms.gov.in.  It is believed to facilitate the telecom consumers in locating the "Consumer Care Number", "General Information Number" and contact details of the complaint centre and Appellate Authority of their service provider. The portal would also help access the website of their service provider's complaint monitoring portal to track the current status of their complaints or appeals lodged with their service provider complaint centre or Appellate Authority. This portal is also said to help TRAI in monitoring the status of redressal of complaints lodged by the consumers with the service providers.   For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the first quarter overtook Nokia Corp. to become the world's largest cellphone brand for the first time. However, Samsung remained in second place in the smartphone segment of the cellphone market, behind Apple Inc. The South Korean electronics giant shipped 92 million cellphones worldwide in the first quarter, compared to 83 million for longtime market leader Nokia.While Samsung's shipments declined by 13 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, Nokia's dropped by 27 percent, as presented in Table 1. This allowed Samsung to raise one position to take first place. Wayne Lam, Sr. Analyst, Wireless Communications, HIS said, "With cellphones now accounting for more than 40 percent of Samsung's overall revenue, it's clear that the company's continued investments in smartphone hardware and software R&D are paying off. The company is not only cashing in on the mark...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CHAZE has signed on the upcoming Bollywood actress Sunny Leone as their brand ambassador. Sunny Leone has been roped in to endorse a slew of CHAZE's mobile handsets, which are positioned as products with mass appeal. As a part of the association, Sunny Leone has recently completed her first ever TVC for CHAZE Mobile which shot at exotic locales of Bangkok, is ready to hit the screen soon. Sunny Leone said, "I am very excited to be associated with such a young and vibrant brand like CHAZE. I chose to associate with the 'Brand CHAZE' because I am really impressed by CHAZE's ideology of bringing out mobile technology for the masses and personally feel connected with their vision." Keshav Arora, CEO, CHAZE Mobile said, "CHAZE is one of the most promising players in the country and we are very pleased to have associated with Sunny Leone, another rising star of Indian Cinema, for endorsing our mobile ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Virat Kohli has been appointed as their Brand Ambassador of Celkon Mobiles. Rohit Dhawan (son of David Dhawan), Director has directed his first TV commercial with ace cricketer Virat Kohli for a handset brand, Celkon. Executive Director of Celkon, Murali said, "We are in the process of developing mobiles with latest technology like 3G, Android, dual Sim along with lot of entertainment. Since our mobiles are targeted for the youth.Virat was definitely an ideal choice for the "Brand Ambassador" as our brand has come out with the most youthful features as our first focus and we are also kick starting our multimedia campaign with the release of this ad in the running IPL season". Virat said, "I love challenges and associating with Celkon presented me with an opportunity to partner with a brand that is not satisfied with being one of the most successful brands in South and has now set their sight on the na...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   eScan has appointed Leo Veluthukaran as new National Sales Manager for India. Leo has been appointed to the position with the responsibility to drive the continued growth of eScan in enterprise segment and enhance its position in the Indian market. Veluthukaran will be reporting to Sunil Kripalani, Senior Vice President - Global Sales and Marketing. Kripalani said, "We are delighted to have Leo Veluthukaran on board. With his vast sales experience and strong understanding about IT market and products, Leo is well qualified to ensure eScan continues to be the most preferred security Software brand in the region." Veluthukaran said, "I am honored to be associated with eScan, a brand that has been constantly redefining the IT security landscape with its innovative and futuristic technologies and thus, actively contributing to the IT Security industry in combating the evolving cyber threats. It is a privilege for...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   PNY Technologies Inc. has introduced The 'In Ear Stereo Earphone series' the pleasing series and the lovely series. It comes in 3 adjustable ear sizes (S/M/L) and is said to suit the comfort and demand of the listener. It also comes in Vibrant and fluorescent colors encased in metallic finish and is available in pink and blue colors. It claims to offer superb bass and treble sound and further enhancing the listening pleasure. The soft tipped earbuds and lightweight flexibility is supposed to provide maximum comfort and usage. The pristine audio output offers crystal clear sound that connects effortlessly into IPods, IPhones, PC and MP3 players. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Sophos has revealed a disturbingly high level of malware on Mac computers-with both Windows and Mac threats being discovered. Sophos experts analyzed a snapshot of 100,000 Mac computers running its free anti-virus software, and discovered that one in five machines was found to be carrying one or more instances of Windows malware. Although Windows malware on Macs will not cause symptoms (unless users also run Windows on their computer), it can still be spread to other computers. Additionally, Sophos's analysis shows that 2.7 percent (one in thirty six) of Macs were found to be carrying Mac OS X malware.  Graham Cluely, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos said, "Some Mac users may be relieved that they are seven times more likely to have Windows viruses, spyware and Trojans on their Macs than Mac OS X-specific malware, but Mac malware is surprisingly commonly encountered. Mac users need a wake-up call about the growing ma...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) has announced another record quarterly performance.  The territory's Q1 2012 results showed a 19% growth year-on-year in Non-IFRS Software Revenue to €123 million (16% at Constant Currencies). Steve Watts, President, SAP Asia-Pacific Japan, said, "Q1 2012 has been the best first quarter we have ever achieved in APJ - and is our ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth for SAP. APJ region stands out as a consistent growth engine in SAP's global performance. Our key regional markets led the way once more with solid double-digit growth and particularly strong growth in key developing markets. "Our customers continue to respond positively to our breakthrough innovations in in-memory (HANA), database and mobility.  In Q1 2012, we achieved €28 million in HANA revenue and €21 million in mobile revenue globally - a growth of more than 30% in the first quarter. SAP's growth stra...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Oracle has announced that the First Bank of Nigeria (FirstBank) has successfully deployed Oracle Financial Services Know Your Customer and Oracle Financial Services Regulatory Reporting Solution. The bank has also upgraded its Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management Platform for Financial Services and Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering solutions.       The deployment of Oracle Financial Services Know Your Customer, which is fully integrated with Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering, also enables automated customer risk profiling, so FirstBank can have a 360-degree view of their customers' activities for easy monitoring purposes.         S. Ramakrishnan, Group VP & Managing Director, Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications, said, "It is essential that financial institutions like First Bank of Nigeria take a strategic enterprise-based approach to mo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The D Labs team from BIT Mesra, Patna, has emerged as the winners of Imagine Cup 2012 India finals. The winners will now represent India at the world finals in Sydney, Australia, in July of this year. Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation, announced the winners in New Delhi at a student event.  Thrilled about winning in two categories of the competition, the representative from Team D Labs said, "We are incredibly excited! It is great to be part of something like Imagine Cup - and now we are getting a chance to represent India at the worldwide finals. Of course, we hope our project does well there too, but, either way, we will cherish the whole experience for a lifetime. We have learnt so much."   For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The GSMA has stated that the TRAI's recommendations on the "Auction of Spectrum" will set India back in its goal to deliver "Broadband on Demand" to the citizens of India. The proposals disregard international best practice in spectrum policy and jeopardize the investment of billions of US dollars in new mobile infrastructure in a sector that either directly, or indirectly, employs almost 10 million people and serves more than 911 million consumers.   "Efforts to squeeze money out of mobile operators for some perceived short-term gain will only reduce investment in networks, inhibit growth of mobile services and drive up consumer prices - limiting the value the public will derive from the spectrum resource in the long term," said Franco Bernabe, Chairman of the GSMA and Chairman & CEO, Telecom Italia Group. Earlier this month, the GSMA announced that India was positioned to surpass the US a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   DataWind has launched UbiSlate series of tablets which include UbiSlate 7+ and UbiSlate 7C models.  Providing smartphone communication, internet access, tablet computing and multimedia entertainment, the devices also pack a combination of content and applications.  The UbiSlate tablets are the only devices in the market to offer DataWind's UbiSurfer browser, based on 18 international patents. In India, the devices will offer unlimited web-browsing using DataWind's breakthrough web delivery platform for under Rs.100/month on traditional mobile networks.  Differentiated with a resistive screen on the UbiSlate 7+ to the four-point multi-touch projective capacitive screen on the UbiSlate 7C, both models come with embedded GPRS modems in addition to Wi-Fi connectivity allowing ubiquitous internet access.  The 7" screen tablets support the Android 2.3 operating system  along with a powerful 800 Mhz Cortex A8 p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Accenture in partnership with Yahoo! announced the winners of the Innovation Jockeys contest. A staggering total of 1082 entries were received from students from 500-odd colleges across India. The premise of this contest was very simple: Everyday innovations. This contest was divided across three categories: Home, City and College.  The winners were announced in each category. In the City category, The team from The Young India Fellowship Programme comprised Tushar Chugh, Jatin Sharma and Rolly Seth were awarded. Their innovation was a belt for the visually-challenged, which is based on a series of vibrations that enable them to avoid obstacles.  In the Home category, the team from the Amrita School of Engineering of Ramesh.N.Nair, Sai Manoj and Mithun Mohan won for their Gest-BOT - a gesture-based wheelchair control system innovation, designed for the disabled and elderly who had lost the ability to move.  ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   PNY Technologies Inc.  has announced its wide range of product line-up of USB drives, flash memory card, ear phones, IT Peripheral and HP flash products for the Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, from 27th April to 30th April 2012. The HKTDC Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair is the world's largest event of its kind, celebrating its 27th edition in 2012. The previous fair featured the greatest number of suppliers ever, with more than 4,070 exhibitors from 36 countries and regions. And the show attracted more than 46,000 high-spending buyers from 134 countries and regions. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Opera Software has released the beta version of Opera 12, "Wahoo". Opera 12 is said to be both smarter and faster than its predecessors and introduces new features for both developers and consumers to play with ahead of the final launch.  Haakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software said, "Woo-hoo! After months of hard work, we're nearing the finish line on Opera 12. There are so many new things to try. The paged media project has the potential to change the way browsers handle content, and camera support shows just how web applications can compete with native apps. With so many new features, especially for developers, Opera 12 is a platform to build upon. We're excited to share it with the world and see what people can create." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Homeshop18.com has announced 'lowest price guarantee' on its online bookstore. Under this offer, avid book readers across India can browse through the largest collection of books on Homeshop18.com/books and buy them at the lowest price. Homeshop18.com forayed in to the books category in February this year. It is currently selling over 100,000 books a month. The largest repository of books online, Homeshop18.com has titles to cater to interest of people of all age groups. Narasimha Jayakyumar, COO (E-commerce), HomeShop18.com said, "The needs of Indian consumers are evolving at a fast pace. Taking a leaf out of the needs of these dynamic consumers we are making an irresistible offer and delighting them with our 'lowest price guarantee' on the widest choice of books available online. At Homeshop18.com our endeavor is to provide exceptional value to our consumers from the stage of product selection, to placing t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Embedded System Expo (ESEC) Japan 2012 will hold during May 9th to May 11th in Tokyo, and KINGMAX will demonstrate its series of industrial grade of FLASH storage products on the booth WEST11-65. KINGMAX will present a complete series of industrial solution which has been undergone strict reliability test and verification to ensure the most stable quality.   KINGMAX will also release mSATA SSD and Half-Slim SSD for Ultrabook and small form factor embedded systems. For storage requirements in industrial PCs, POS, terminals and so on, KINGMAX will present industrial grade of SDXC memory card, which is compliant with SDA 3.0 specification and at capacity up to 64GB; and present the high speed industrial grade Compact Flash memory card. Aiming at the market for industrial automation and medical devices, KINGMAX especially release wide temperature DDR3 Long DIMM and SO DIMM at capacity of 2GB/4GB/8GB to provide wide variety to cust...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Epson has launched its first-ever portable A4 scanner, the Epson WorkForce DS-30. The scanner comes in a sleek form factor that can easily fit into most briefcases, and needs only a single USB connection to a notebook or PC to operate.  The Epson DS-30 is able to scan a variety of items ranging from business cards to A4 and letter sized (8.5 x 11 inch) documents. Being a portable scanner, it is designed with an LED light source that has a low-power consumption of up to only 500mA to conserve the battery power of its users’ notebooks.  The Epson DS-30 is packed with Automatic document size detection and skew correction, text enhancement, colour dropout and also comes with powerful third-party scanning software that includes Presto! BizCard 5 business card scanner, and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 9 optical character recognition (OCR) software. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft Corp. has released the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 12 (SIRv12), which found that the Conficker worm was detected approximately 220 million times worldwide in the past two and a half years, making it one of the biggest ongoing threats to enterprises. The study also revealed the worm continues to spread because of weak or stolen passwords and vulnerabilities for which a security update exists. According to the SIRv12, quarterly detections of the Conficker worm have increased by more than 225 percent since the beginning of 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2011 alone, Conficker was detected on 1.7 million systems worldwide. In examining the reasons behind Conficker's prevalence in organizations, research showed that 92 percent of Conficker infections were a result of weak or stolen passwords, and 8 percent of infections exploited vulnerabilities for which a security update exists. Tim Rains, Direct...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to a recent survey conducted by Acronis, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are planning to adopt server virtualization in 2012 at a faster pace than large enterprises. However, the survey also identified widespread backup and disaster recovery shortcomings for virtual servers amongst SMBs.  IT managers at 6,000 SMBs in 18 countries were surveyed for the Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index 2012. They predict that 29% of their servers will be virtualized by the end of the year, a growth rate of 21%. This is 50% higher than the pace identified in a recent Gartner report that predicted virtualization adoption by enterprises is to increase by 14% over the same period. Bill Taylor-Mountford, President, Asia-Pacific, Acronis, said, "Virtualization has become more affordable and relatively easy for SMBs to implement - the high growth rate of virtualization adoption should not be a surprise. Si...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as "Green Cards", issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security programme. "The proven security of our multi-technology eID cards contributes directly to the overall security of U.S. immigration and border control. We are proud of our contribution to homeland security through both generations of Green Cards, which are among the most physically secure and counterfeit-resistant, machine-readable IDs ever issued," said Kevin McKenna, Vice-President - Sales, Government ID Solutions, Americas, HID Global. Governments worldwide are rapidly moving from traditional national IDs to more secure eIDs. Launched in mid-2010, the re-designed, new-generation U.S. Green Card was the world's first ID card t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fortinet has introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are appliances that are designed to detect and help protect against DDoS attacks. The appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating DDoS attacks.  "DDoS attacks aren't just an annoyance and minor inconvenience. They are a serious problem that could cause significant liability to businesses today. The damage from a DDoS attack can include loss of revenue, loss of customer confidence, loss of brand equity and potentially huge legal liabilities. A FortiDDoS appliance installed in front of a network infrastructure can act as a shield against DDoS attacks," said Michael Xie, Chief Technology Officer & Vice-President, Engineering, Fortinet. "FortiDDoS appliances are easy to deploy and manage, and are designed to recognize today...