VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE WonderMedia has announced the WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 SoC. Combining an ARM Cortex-A9 core running at 800MHz with advanced graphics and stunning 1080p video playback capabilities, the WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 is said to further extend WonderMedia's leadership in the fast-growing Android media tablet market. The WonderMedia PRIZM platform and software suite claims to provide customers an easy migration path to a Cortex-A9 SoC and offers support for the Android 4.0 and Windows CE 7.0 operating systems. The WM8950 is also optimized for a wide range of innovative system design applications, including smartbooks, Smart TV, SmartStream for wireless display and multimedia streaming, networked projectors, digital signage, and thin clients. "Our line of PRIZM platforms has spurred the explosive growth in the Android media tablet market. The new WM8950 delivers greater computing power and richer multimedia experiences to meet the ever-growi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nikon India has showcased its product lineup and technological advancements at India's photography exhibition - The CEIF & Photofair 2012. The exhibition is being held at the Exhibition Grounds (Goregoan East), Mumbai till January 8, 2012. The Nikon India Zone covering over 400 sq. m. was inaugurated by Hiroshi Takashina, Managing Director, Sajjan Kumar, General Manager - Imaging; Jitender Chugh, Deputy General Manager (Sales & Marketing), Nikon India, and other senior members from Nikon India were also present during the occasion. Hiroshi Takashina, Managing Director, Nikon India, said, "We are very excited to be a part of India's largest photography exhibition as it gives us an opportunity to showcase our latest in technology innovation to amateur and professional photography audiences. Nikon India has seen exponential growth in 2011 and our revenues have increased substantially and we plan to keep the momentum going i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sify has announced that the trading of the company's shares of common stock will be upgraded to the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Sify has also been notified by NASDAQ that its securities will be listed on this market effective January 3, 2012. "We are proud to receive this recognition from NASDAQ, a market applying the most stringent financial listing standards and corporate governance in the world. This is a significant acknowledgement of our Board's consistent pursuance of ethical corporate governance, financial and business practices; a strategy that has delivered continued growth despite fluctuating global economic challenges," said M. P. Vijay Kumar, Chief Financial Officer, Sify Technologies Limited. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Corsair has announced its participation at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas till 13th January, 2012. "We are very excited about our presence at the 2012 International CES. Not only is it a fantastic showcase for the new products we'll be announcing, it allows us to present all of our high-performance product lines," said Andrew Paul, President & CEO, Corsair. The Corsair booth will be located at Veronese Hall #2405 at the Venetian Congress Centre. Corsair will be displaying and demonstrating the new products, along with displays and hands-on demos of current products from Corsair's lines of components and peripherals. The Corsair booth is open to all registered 2012 CES attendees. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Newgen Software has held its annual customer meets in Delhi and Mumbai. The event is claimed to have attracted some of the most reputed leaders of the Indian business Industry, who shared their experiences regarding the business benefits from Newgen's BPM and ECM solutions. Diwakar Nigam, Newgen Software MD & CEO, said, "We take this opportunity to thank our customers for displaying absolute trust in us and will continue to make customer satisfaction one of our key differentiators in the years to come." He has also announced Newgen's inclusion in Ovum's BPM Decision Matrix 2011, that recognized the company as one of the top three value-for-money BPM vendors. The keynote speakers in the Delhi Chapter included Manpreet Singh, Sr. Director & Global Operations Leader, MetLife; Sunil Singh, Associate Vice-President (Business Systems Group), Coca-Cola; Dr. Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Director (Technical), RajCOMP; Suneel Kh...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BigFlicks, a part of Reliance Group's Digital Entertainment Business, has announced the launch of online Movie on Demand service BigFlix plus, which is supposed to let the user just click and play a catalogue of over 500 movies at a subscription fee across PC, Tablets and BIGFLIX plus is a user's Personal Blockbuster Theatre, which allows the user to stream and download HD quality content for a subscription fee of Rs.249 per month. Manish Agarwal, COO, Digital Business, Reliance Entertainment, said, "BIGFlix plus is the first movies on demand subscription service, which offers a vast choice of HD Quality movies to the net-savvy Movie Buffs in India, at their convenience, across all Internet connected devices. We are looking at replicating a 'NetFlix' in India, In order to provide this world-class experience, Reliance entertainment has hug...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hon'ble Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has launched Intranet Prahari Project (IPP) at HQ DG BSF, CGO Complex, New Delhi. MHA has sanctioned that the Intranet Prahari Project worth Rs.229 crore on 25th February, 2010. This Project essentially is believed to be an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution through NIIT Technologies Ltd. for Border Security Force (BSF), wherein all Finance, Inventory Management, Operations and Personnel Information have been automated and integrated to act as a robust and quick Decisions Support System and for consolidated view of data by higher echelons and for various analyses. Under this Project, network connectivity is said to be extended up to the Battalion level. State-of-the-Art Data Centres have been established; the Main Data Centre; a Disaster Recovery Data Centre (in a different seismic zone) and Mini Data Centres at Frontier HQrs for data storage. Sufficient cyber security measures to ensur...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has announced that it is aggrandizing its 'Har Friend Zaroori Hai, Yaar' (HFZ) campaign by rolling out an all-new online viral initiative at its YouTube channel. Created by Taproot, these 20 videos are believed to be influenced by interesting 'friend types' or tags created in a brand activity on Facebook. The company has claimed to periodically release these videos on the Web and use the concept of 'gamification' over the coming weeks. Bharat Bambawale, Director (Global Brand), Bharti Airtel said, "We have now chosen the most interesting friend tags of this crowd-sourced lot (like 'Status Update Friend, Activist Friend, Dhinchak Friend') to create new HFZ online viral videos." Viewers are said to be able to view the videos by unlocking 'video levels.' Tagging others and sharing these videos on social networks is supposed to allow them to gather points. It is claimed that they ca...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate Technology has provided preliminary financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended December 30, 2011. The acquisition of Samsung hard disk drive business closed on December 19, 2011 and these preliminary financial results include Samsung operating activity from that date. The company shipped approximately 47 million disk drives, which included approximately 700,000 Samsung disk drives, and expects to report revenue for its fiscal second quarter 2012 of $3.1 - $3.2 billion. Before giving effect to charges related to the acquisition of Samsung's hard disk drive business that are not yet determinable, the company expects gross margin as a percentage of revenue to be at least 30.5%, operating expenses to be approximately $390 million, and diluted shares to be 440 million. "The better than expected results for the December quarter are attributed to the company's outstanding operational performance and overall strong e...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vodafone Essar, in association with Research In Motion, is organizing a service camp at select Vodafone Stores in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. As an extension of their "Happy to Help" ideology, Vodafone is inviting all users of BlackBerry, irrespective of their service providers to come and get their BlackBerry smartphones serviced free of cost at these camps. BlackBerry service camps will be held throughout this period at select Vodafone Stores in cities such as Bangalore, Mangalore, Manipal, Hubli, Belgaum, Tumkur, Hyderabad, Vijaywada and Vizag between 11 AM and 8 PM till 10th January, 2012. Customers can avail exciting offers and purchase new handsets in exchange of the old one. Additionally, BlackBerry users can also get trackball changes, back panel replacements, upgrade software’s and get free applications from BlackBerry App World. For More Details See www.varindia.com