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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE WinMagic has announced that after evaluating all major encryption vendors TUV Rheinland i-sec GmbH has added WinMagic's SecureDoc with PBConnex to its portfolio of products. TUV Rheinland selected WinMagic due to its consistent leadership position in mobile data security. Olaf Siemens, MD, TÜV Rheinland i-sec said, "As a vendor neutral provider of security solutions we are always searching for innovative and business relevant security solutions. In WinMagic we have found a partner who offers a solution which provides major benefits for our customers due to its high security standards and low administration complexity." Georg Gann, Director, DACH & Eastern Europe, WinMagic GmbH said, "TUV Rheinland i-sec is a very important strategic partner for WinMagic as it brings both an excellent reputation and global security expertise. With offices worldwide, TUV Rheinland is an ideal partner to further expand WinMagic's globa

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company has unveiled that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier - a program claimed to be designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and businesses with Windows Server applications are expected to take advantage of 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers are now supposed to have access to the same free resources on AWS as Linux developers - providing the ability to launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain hands-on experience with AWS. The AWS Free Usage Tier addition is said to join a number of recent AWS service extensions to support Windows customers, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the high power Cluster Compute inst

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe Systems has announced its 2012 growth strategy for India. As part of this strategy, the company has further expanded its focus on Enterprise customers and announced the appointment of Kulmeet Bawa as Director - Enterprise Business, India& South Asia. To capitalize on the burgeoning opportunity in India for Digital Media and Digital Marketing solutions, the Enterprise team led by Kulmeet will focus on seven important vertical sectors which include BFSI, Media and Entertainment, Telecom, Manufacturing, IT/ITES, Retail and Government. Umang Bedi, MD, South Asia said, "We see two distinct phenomena driving our growth in 2012 and beyond. One is the rise of India's creative economy and two, the evolution of Indian enterprises to become true Digital Enterprises. And for both these phenomena, Adobe is uniquely positioned to help its clients not only create compelling digital content and experiences, but also manage and monetize tho

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Indianeye Security has presented this state-of-art mobile application for the Indian Army Personnel's families, Veteran and Ex- Servicemen to connect with their loved ones. Eyewatch has been launched by the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. V.K. Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, and ADC for the safety and assurance of Army families, Veterans and the Ex-Servicemen on Army Day, 15th January 2012. Eyewatch is believed to be an emergency alert system on your mobile phone, which at the press of a button sends multiple messages, images, videos, sound bites and your location status to your near and dear ones automatically alerting them of one's emergency situation. Indianeye Security claims that this technology can prove to a great help in curbing out issues like assaults on women, especially when they are returning from work late in the evening, ragging in colleges, medical emergencies, road accidents, any personal security threat and the list can go on. As

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google India has announced its launching of 'India Get your Business Online' programme in Punjab. Google India is believed to be organising road shows across the country to sensitise SMEs on how the programme could benefit them as a part of its ongoing campaign to bring SMEs online. Nikhil Rungta, Country Marketing Head shared, "Google India maintained the program 'India Get Your Business Online' is aimed at helping Small and medium business houses grow business online. As per estimates, there are over 30-35 million SMEs in India with 8 million SME having potential to do online business." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Signals Research Group, LLC (SRG) has announced the findings of the data performance benchmark test of commercially-available LTE chipsets. Although the SRG report highlighted the ability of some chipsets to realize the promise of LTE's high data rates, large performance differences were found between commercially-available implementations in devices. Using a lab-based testing approach on the Spirent 8100 solution, SRG collected and analyzed the data performance of five commercial devices from LG, Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, Samsung and Fujitsu, which use chipsets from four different vendors. Michael Thelander, CEO, Signals Research Group said, "Overall the industry has made tremendous strides in the last few years, with theoretical peak data rates increasing from 3.6Mbps in 2007, when SRG and Spirent first started working together on benchmark testing, to today’s 70Mbps in a 10MHz radio channel. It is also very heartening to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has reported a new phishing attack on Facebook that uses hijacked accounts to pose as the social network's security team and trick users into divulging credit card numbers. David Jacoby, Security Expert, Kaspersky Lab, said, 'The latest scam is unique because it doesn't just try to get Facebook users to click on a link to a malicious Web site. The attackers also use the stolen information to log into the person's account and swap the profile picture with a Facebook logo and change the name to 'FacebookSecurity'." Once the account is compromised, it is used to send out a message to all contacts, warning them that someone has reported a problem with their accounts and they will be turned off unless reconfirmed by the accountholder. Within the message is a link that takes victims to a Web sited dressed to look very similar to a Facebook page. Once on the Web site, the cybercriminals ask for name, e-mai

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos has announced the availability of Sophos Virtual Web Appliances providing web protection, a streamlined management experience, and broad deployment flexibility in virtual environments. The new Virtual Web Appliances can be set up in minutes, bringing the company's hardware security capabilities to businesses of any size with ease. Sophos provides web protection with a three-stage filter, which combines URL reputation filtering, advanced real-time malware scanning with behavioral analysis, and content control to guard against the latest threats. Sophos appliances also include advanced capabilities such as HTTPS scanning, dynamic anonymizing proxy blocking, and call home detection to cover essential blind-spots. "Organizations are increasingly looking to squeeze more out of less by further leveraging their investment in virtualization, but simply implementing virtualized versions of the same maintenance-heavy applications only

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced that Symphony Services has selected HP Software solutions to help its customers reduce software development times by up to 30 per cent. Symphony Services provides testing services to independent software vendors (ISVs) seeking the latest technology to deliver high-quality applications to businesses and government agencies. However, the manual testing processes used by some of Symphony Services' customers resulted in long development times and failed to ensure consistent quality for new software applications. To address this, Symphony Services chose HP's IT Performance Suite software solutions to automate its application testing services. With enhanced testing and quality control components, HP's IT Performance Suite will help Symphony Services improve the efficiency of its testing processes as well as the effectiveness of identifying application defects. These improvements are expected to increase quality assuran

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NICE has announced that it is a member of the Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration (SECUR-ED) consortium. The SECUR-ED consortium is comprised of 39 members, which include all the major stakeholders from across Europe. SECUR-ED's rationale is to create a pan-European improvement in mass transportation security which promotes the entire public transport sector in order to better serve the needs of European citizens. SECUR-ED develops packaged modular solutions that are validated through local demonstrations. These demonstrations will serve as the product pilots that will run in Madrid, Paris, Milan and Berlin. These solutions are aimed to be transferable onto transport systems in the medium and large-sized cities of Europe. Yaron Tchwella, President, NICE Security Group & Executive Vice-President, Business Operations, said, "NICE is very pleased to have many elements of our Public Transport solution as part of t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has announced the publication of its spam report for December 2011. The last month of the year was predictably quiet as compared to November the share of spam in email traffic fell 4.4 percentage points and averaged 76.2% for the month. Maria Namestnikova, Senior Spam Analyst, Kaspersky Lab shared, "We still have not detected any malicious attachments disguised as coupons, although we expect that these will show up in spam sooner or later. Anything and everything that is in demand on the Internet is eventually added to the spammers' arsenals in one way or another. Primarily, new approaches are typically used by the participants of affiliate programs that send out spam advertising medications and replicas of luxury goods. They are later joined by distributors of malicious code." Malicious files were detected in 4% of all email traffic in December, which was an increase of 1 percentage point compared to November'

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CMC has announced consolidated operating revenue of Rs.395.84 crore in the quarter ending December 31, 2011, which represents 45-per cent growth over the corresponding period last year and sequential growth of 11 per cent. The company earned profit after tax of Rs.41.37 crore, representing sequential growth of 27 per cent. On a cumulative basis, the Company earned operating revenue of Rs.1,058.04 crore in the first nine months of the current financial year, resulting in growth of 34 per cent over corresponding period last year. The company has added 1,474 employees during the current quarter buoyed by the growth in business. The attrition rate during the quarter fell to 18.7 per cent from 22.2 per cent in the previous quarter. "The company has built strong growth momentum in challenging business environment with all geographies contributing to growth. The company added 21 clients across geographies," said R. Ramanan, CEO & MD.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Airtel has launched Comedy FM, a dial-in radio service for its mobile customers. The service is believed to offer jokes, fillers, stand-up comedy acts, excerpts from TV sitcoms including Comedy Circus, FIR, Office-Office, Lapataganj, Rangeela Raju and others. Airtel mobile users are supposed to dial the short IVR code 52747 to subscribe to the service to listen to clips from these shows. The service is available at a subscription rental of Rs. 2 per day in addition to browsing charges of 2 paise per second. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Government has given sanction for the prosecution of 21 social networking sites like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo India under section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code to proceed against the accused persons in the complaint for allegedly promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration. In the report given to metropolitan magistrate Sudesh Kumar, it is noted that, "The sanctioning authority has personally gone through the entire records and material produced before magistrate Sudesh Kumar and after considering and examining the same, he is satisfied that there is sufficient material to proceed against the accused persons under section 153-A, 153-B and 295-A of the IPC." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is believed to be the first Linux distribution available for Dell's new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers the broadest application portfolio, as well as optimization with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Now, Dell customers are supposed to efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications, on demand with maximum performance, while receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is said to deliver the reliability, interoperability and performance customers need in order to easily leverage the benefits of cloud. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has claimed to be the broadest ISV support among enterprise Linux operating systems, with nearly 8,500 application certifications, expanding customer choice in cloud environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Serve