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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sigrity Inc. has opened multiple offices to support the company's ongoing growth worldwide. In southern California, Sigrity opened its fifth U.S. office; in China it opened a second and a third office to support users in Shenzhen and Beijing; and in Israel Sigrity established its first local sales and support operation in that region. This expansion is believed to reflect the accelerating global adoption of Sigrity's high-speed solutions for chip, package and board design teams. Dr. Jiayuan Fang, President & Founder, Sigrity said, "Sigrity achieved record bookings both in Q4 2011 and for the past year overall. This marks the 15th consecutive year of growth for the company. We are pleased to extend our local support capability for existing and future customers in these key locations." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AOC TV Business has appointed Seema T Bhatnagar as Director for India & SAARC countries. In her new role, Seema will be managing all aspects of sales, marketing & operations for AOC. Additionally, she will also be responsible for organizing AOC's business interest in India by providing strategic business direction to ensure continuous and dynamic growth of the brand. Along with her responsibility to supervise the entire operations of AOC TV in India and SAARC countries, Seema T Bhatnagar will oversee the startup operations of the company such as General Management, Sales, Marketing and Business Development as well as bring onboard a dedicated and experienced team that will help establish their dealer network across the region. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Stellar Data Recovery has announced the launch of Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 5. The all-new version of Stellar Phoenix is updated with advanced scan engine that is said to be 30% faster and can recover original file names of recently deleted files. Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Data Recovery said, "We feel privileged to be part of Macworld show again and this time we showcased our two mainline products at the show floor -Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery5 & Stellar Drive ToolBox2. Phoenix Data Recovery helps to recover back lost, missing or deleted files & folders from any scenario of Data Loss. Drive ToolBox 2 solves day to day system issues such as slower mac, optimizing performance, or data privacy concerns and helps to perform maintenance tasks at home saving your time and precious dollars." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro Technologies has announced that it has been granted a patent by USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for its StORM (Statistics Operations Research Matrix) methodology. Wipro 'StORM' is a system and method for software test suite optimization, achieved by generating an Orthogonal Array (OA) for software testing using the mathematical principles for OA. This method is said to result in reducing the number of test cases many fold downwards and at the same time increases the effectiveness of the testing process, thus reducing the testing cycle and effort required. Wipro has reduced test cases by 75% from the original suite for a large telecom equipment vendor. The resulting efficiency has implied increased coverage and reduced effort. Arun Kumar Singh, VP, Wipro Testing Services said, "We are happy that Wipro's StORM methodology has received this recognition. It was also awarded the Software Testing Bes

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has announced that the seventh edition of the flagship annual conference, ISA Vision Summit will be held in Bangalore on February 6 and 7, 2012 at the Hotel Taj West End. The Chief Guest for the event would be Shri. Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister for HRD, Communications & IT, Government of India. The Inaugural Address would be given by Shri Sachin Pilot, Hon'ble Minister of State for Communications & IT, Government of India. During the Summit, winners from ISA's Technovation Awards 2011 would also be present. Dr. Pradip K Dutta, Chairman ISA & Corporate Vice-President & Managing Director, Synopsys India said "Semiconductors and electronics are at the heart of technology driven products that will drive the US $400 Billion Indian electronics market by 2020. ISA is committed to working with all the stake-holders from industry, academia and government to enable the eco-system

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Consilium and Orange Business Services have launched a paperless navigation solution that extends an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) over the world's largest MPLS-based network. This bundled, flat-rate solution named Current At Sea is said to enable shipping companies to move to a fully electronic platform for navigation and communications. Current At Sea is believed to be a future-proof, modular ECDIS and communication system that can include voyage optimization programs, fleet and ship management systems, and real-time monitoring applications. Orange is expected to bridge the ship and shore by integrating ECDIS with Orange's fully managed network (both terrestrial and satellite, including Inmarsat FleetBroadband connectivity). The Orange network is supposed to ensure accurate, precise data and provides value added enterprise communications such as Business Talk Global, IP Telephony, WAN optimization, M2M and

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SapientNitro India has announced The ABSOLUT INDIA project that reels users in deeper with a sound-based interactive experience. An arrangement of interestingly labeled bottles contains quintessential sounds that take one on an extraordinary Indian journey. The sounds are triggered when a person walks within range and literally eavesdrops onto a bottle. Sohini Pani, Director, Marketing Services, SapientNitro India said, "ABSOLUT Blank embodies brand ABSOLUT. What you make of it is up to you. Keeping this brief in mind, we created an idea that brings alive the different flavors of our country by taking people through an extraordinary journey of nostalgia and discovery." Bikram Basu, Vice President - Marketing, Pernod Ricard India added, "ABSOLUT's is a creative journey. We now venture to the uncharted, using unique Indian everyday sounds and visualize the 'unseen', and discover ourselves. Sapient Nitro bridges its wo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yorktel has selected IFS Applications for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Yorktel has chosen IFS Applications and is said to implement IFS Business Performance, IFS Financials, IFS Distribution, IFS Manufacturing, IFS Engineering/Product Design, IFS Maintenance, IFS Sales and Support, and IFS Human Resources after the conclusion of a thorough ERP selection process. Ron Gaboury, Chief Executive Officer, Yorktel said, "IFS' project-based solution stood out for its ability to adapt to our changing business needs and market changes, right out of the box. We have experienced tremendous business growth over the past few years and we found our current business system wasn't agile enough to support such growth. So our number one priority is the migration of our current system to a next generation ERP solution like IFS Applications to support the future growth of Yorktel." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MTN has announced the extension of its managed services agreement with Ericsson for its Ghana operations. This announcement marks the extension of the first managed services contract between Ericsson and MTN, originally signed in 2009 in connection to the rollout of MTN's 3G network in Ghana. Under the extension, Ericsson is responsible for network operations, field maintenance and optimization. MTN is believed to retain full ownership of the network and responsibility for its strategic direction, while Ericsson will manage the network operations, optimization and field maintenance for MTN's 3Gsites. Jon Hoffmann, Chief Technical officer, MTN Ghana said, "Our first two years together achieved the results we were hoping for: we could focus on subscriber growth, and Ericsson delivered network reliability and efficiencies." Valter D`Avino, Head, Managed Services Ericsson said, "MTN and Ericsson collaborate in many areas ac

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata DOCOMO has rolled out an exciting handset bundled offer for its new CDMA customers in Karnataka. Customers are expected to buy Huawei C2835 color FM handset at Rs. 1099 along with which they will get 500 minutes of free local calling under this offer. A P Sriram, COO, Karnataka, Tata Teleservices Limited said, "Launch of this handset is an extension of our commitment to offer affordability to our customers. At Tata DOCOMO, we have always strived to offer unparallel services with an assortment of handsets and now we have one more handset which comes bundled with the benefit of free 500 minutes of local talk-time keeping the differentiated usage patterns of our customers in mind. We are confident that this offer will be well received by our customers." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Applexus has rolled out its services in the SAP HANA platform. SAP HANA is an appliance that combines SAP in-memory technology with hardware, empowering organisations to analyse the data available and quickly react to rapidly changing business conditions. This platform is believed to empower organisations to hasten best business decisions based on real-time data access. Sam Mathew, MD, Applexus said, "HANA is seen as a game-changer in enterprise IT due to its ability to analyse large amount of data. Organisations can now run complex analyses such as simulations and pattern recognition in seconds, enabling sweeping innovations in the way they run their businesses." Applexus has claimed to offer end-to-end services in SAP-HANA including in strategic services, information management services, infrastructure services, and information access services. For More Details see www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has announced that it has shipped 35 Million Mobile Units last quarter thereby reporting sales of 47.3 trillion won ($42.14 billion) and an operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.7 billion). The Mobile business of the Samsung has contributed roughly 40% of the total sales and half of its operating profit ($2.3 billion). Robert Yi, Sr. VP, Samsung said, "Despite intensified competition amid the global economic slowdown, our telecommunications businesses continued to post solid earnings with an enhanced line-up of high-end smartphones, resulting in higher average selling price." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kalinga Digital Media organized its Fifth Odisha Information Technology Fair (OITF) - 2012 on 27th January, 2012 in Bhubaneswar. The mega conclave marked the presence of Government PSUs, corporates, academicians and IT experts. The Fair was inaugurated by Shri C. J. Venugopal, CMD, IPICOL, Government of Odisha; Rohit Srivastwa, Cyber Expert - India; A. K. Mohanty, M.D., Tatwa Technologies; and Debabrata Panigrahi, MD, IQEMS, Pvt. Ltd, by lighting the auspicious ceremonial lamp. Other dignitaries who graced the occasion included Dr. Gopal Krishna Nayak, Director, IIIT, Bhubaneswar; Anirudh Singh Rautela, security lead, Microsoft; Shashi Kanth Singh, Business Manager - East, ESSN, HP India; and A. K. Panda, MBA Department, Centre for IT Education, Bhubaneswar. Addressing the audience, Shri C. J. Venugopal, CMD, IPICOL, said, "Apart from being known as the temple city, we are now also well known for IT and ITeS. A lot of investments are co

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nearly 1300 offices, businesses and trading community located in Nehru Place, has decided to observe peaceful protest "Nehru Place Bachao" on Wednesday February 1, 2012 to bring into focus deteriorating civic amenities. The call for peaceful protest is lead by Nehru Place Improvement and Welfare Association (NIWA) and four associations dealing with Export Fabrics, Computer Hardware, Peripherals and Media distribution. The core committee of 5 associations is supposed to address a gathering of all occupants under Nehru Place Bachao campaign on February 1 and seek their support to impress upon the Civic authorities (including DDA and Police) to improve the civic facilities due to the genuine occupants of shops and offices in Nehru Place. They are also expected to seek urgent solution to the problems in Nehru Place through intervention by the Lt. Governor of Delhi. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rashi Peripherals has announced that it has been named a national service provider for Plantronics Bluetooth-enabled products in India starting January 2012. With this tie-up, end-customers and partners will now have access to 64 well-equipped service centres in India for Plantronics product replacement. Under this service tie-up, if a product needs to be replaced, a customer simply calls a toll-free number and they are given a unique order reference number. This unique order number enables the customer to then go directly to the service centre and quickly obtain a new unit after a basic testing procedure confirms if replacement is required. Bobby Joseph, Country Manager, Plantronics, India, said, "We are very pleased with this extended level of partnership with Rashi Peripherals. We understand that customer satisfaction is essential for our success. This new service arrangement with Rashi Peripherals will reinforce Plantronics' com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The latest release of McAfee Application Control is integrated with McAfee Global Threat Intelligence to show the file reputation of every file in the enterprise. The solution is centrally managed by McAfee PolicyOrchestrator software and uses a dynamic trust model which reduces costs by eliminating expensive manual support requirements. McAfee Application Control is a solution for corporate desktops with the introduction of a set of desktop-specific features, including friendly end-user notifications and approval requests. Protecting the desktop and the endpoint is essential as that is often a vulnerable point subject to human error. Employees and online users can unintentionally introduce software that installs malware, creates support issues, and violates software licences. McAfee Application Control allows only trusted applications to run on the company's endpoints and servers. "As enterprises face an avalanche of unknown soft

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AMD has announced its strategic alliance with TAG (Technology And Gadgets) for the distribution of its entire portfolio of AMD professional graphics, including its newest generation of AMD FirePro professional graphics in India. Through this arrangement with TAG, AMD aims to expand its presence in India and explore newer market segments for its professional graphic cards business. With the explosion in multimedia and the growing importance of visual computing, the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) and its massively parallel computing architecture is increasingly being leveraged by applications to manage and manipulate data. This is leading to the rapid adoption of latest technologies in the world of graphics not just in the field of entertainment, but other areas like education, retail, mission-critical applications and other professional purposes, thereby representing huge business opportunity for AMD FireProTM professional graphics. Ed Caracap

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE National Instruments (NI) has announced early access support for testing 802.11ac WLAN chipsets and devices. This announcement exemplifies how NI's modular, software-defined wireless test platform continually expands to address the latest cellular and wireless connectivity standards including 802.11ac. NI's 802.11ac WLAN test solution provides flexibility in testing 802.11ac devices. It is supposed to work with a wide range of signal bandwidths including 20, 40, 80 and 80+80 160 MHz for both Tx and Rx for up to 4x4 MIMO configurations. Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO & Cofounder, National Instruments said, "By supporting the latest WLAN standard, 802.11ac, we are demonstrating the power of NI's software-defined, modular test systems. Our modular test platform delivers faster test times and lower total cost of ownership, and by combining it with LabVIEW, we help engineers address the latest emerging wireless standards.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has announced that in just over two years its new Cisco Unified Computing System, (Cisco UCS) which integrates compute, networking, management and virtualization, has captured the attention of data center managers and CIOs alike - over 10,000 customers worldwide, including 3,000 in Europe, have deployed UCS. It has also captured 53 industry benchmark performance world records, and garnered a dozen industry awards for innovation. According to a recent Servers and Virtualization Study by The Info Pro, Cisco took the lead among server vendors in vision, technical innovation, product performance, and sales force. Cisco was named by 33 per cent as "the most exciting server vendor", eight percentage points ahead of the second placed vendor". The 2011 Cisco Cloud Index forecasts that cloud computing is transforming business: over 50 per cent of computing workloads in data centers are predicted to be cloud-based by 2014, and glo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MTNL has initiated and redefined Broadband services ahead of Telecom policy that, minimum download speed for Broadband customers is said to now be 512 Kbps in place of 256 Kbps. Peeyush Agrawal, Executive Director, MTNL Mumbai announced this initiative to be introduced from Republic Day. With this initiative all customers having broadband plans with download speed less than 512 Kbps are expected to be automatically upgraded to 512 Kbps download speed, without any additional charges. He further added, "This customer friendly step has been proactively initiated by MTNL to give the customers faster broadband experience without any extra charges." MTNL has also introduced three new broadband plans for the MTNL Triband customers. DSL 250 plan and DSL 450 plan with 2 Mbps download speed. These broadband plans have a monthly rent of Rs.250/- and Rs.450/- respectively with free data usage of 1 GB and 3 GB and charges after free usage as 50p

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE eTechies.in, a "Door-step, Online and phone" technical support & repair service for Desktops, Laptops, Printers and other digital devices, has introduced its toll free number for providing support to customers. This number is operative from 9 AM to 9 PM, 7days a week, and 365 days a year. The National Toll Free number is 1-800-102-3311. Remote support is said to provide to all the customers' pan-India, be it a software glitch, mail problem or a hardware repair. Operative Field based Technical Repair Services are available for Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad, Manesar and Ghaziabad. Rohit Chaudhary, Co-Founder & CEO, eTechies.in said, "If your digital device (PC/MAC, printer, server, routers, smartphones like iPhone/iPads etc.) gets damaged, you have very little avenues to get the same fixed/repaired with an absolute "peace of mind". eTechies provide services keeping in mind the timeline, re

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ruckus Wireless has announced the opening of a new R&D centre in Bangalore, India. Ruckus's new R&D centre in Bangalore is said to significantly boost Ruckus' capabilities to develop new technologies to serve the mobile Internet infrastructure market worldwide by tapping into a pool of highly skilled engineering talent in India. The new Bangalore operations is believed to be the company's first development centre in India, joining the company's four other R&D centres in Taiwan (Taipei), China (Shenzhen), Israel (TelAviv), and California (Sunnyvale). Selina Lo, President & CEO, Ruckus Wireless said, "The Mobile Internet is driving fundamental change within the telecom industry. Integrating Wi-Fi into cellular networks has become the most popular and cost-effective way to relieve capacity pressures being felt by providers around the world from a deluge of data traffic the likes of which we have never seen b

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Geodesic Limited has announced that its popular Mundu TV app reached a new milestone with more than six million downloads since its launch in 2011. Geodesic collaborated with Nokia to promote the innovative mobile TV app and content delivery service to on-the-go viewers. In less than a year, Mundu TV has garnered more than five million downloads and has held its position as one of the top 10 free apps on the Nokia Store with an average of 400,000 downloads per month. Arvind Venkateswaran, GM & SVP, Geodesic said, "We are very proud of the user experience and overall value that Mundu TV delivers and we are committed to providing our viewers with the best Mobile TV experience available. We look forward to extending our association with Nokia to expand into new regions and add more channels and features in order to deliver an unsurpassed mobile TV experience to customers." Jasmeet Gandhi, Head - Services Marketing, Nokia India sai