VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP India has conducted NCR Edition of the annual SAP Invitational F15 Invitational Cricket Cup 2012, a tournament played as a means to bring together the SAP India ecosystem of customers for friendly competition on the cricket fields. Kicked off on 18th February, 2012, the tournament witnessed a stiff competition between 12 teams representing most illustrious companies vied for the top title in the region. As a part of the event, SAP India along with the customers announced a grant of Rs.120 thousand to Mobile Creches. "Ensuring early child care and development of children of economically deprived people helps towards building a strong foundation and strengthening the community at large. This tournament is a way to demonstrate our commitment and extending our support to the people in need," said Alok Goyal, Chief Operating Officer, SAP India. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan has launched G-Shot 507 digital camera from Genius. With a body weight of 103g and size of 90 x 58 x 13mm (LxWxH), G-Shot 507 is available in black, blue and purple colours. Genius G-Shot digital camera is a 5.0-mega pixel, which can take photos up to 12MP by interpolation. It uses a Li-ion battery charged by the USB interface and features a 2.7" color display and 8X digital zoom. With the long-lasting li-ion battery, one can capture over 200 CIPA photos in 1.5 hours of continuous photo taking. In addition, it also can record video clips in 640 x 480 at 30 fps resolution; one can take pictures in over 10 scene modes and includes features for anti-shaking and continuous shots. "Capture every beautiful moment of your loved ones this vacation with Genius G-Shot 507. It comes with all the latest features and at an affordable price. We are very excited to introduce this product to our channel partners," said Sudhir S, Managi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia India has announced its latest addition to the Asha series - the Nokia Asha 303, a touch and type smartphone with a QWERTY keypad designed for web browsing, social networking, entertainment and gaming. Packed with a powerful 1GHz processor and a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen, it features pre-installed entertainment and applications along with DRM-free Nokia Music Unlimited service. Viral Oza, Director - Marketing, Nokia India, said, "Nokia has been bringing smart innovation on mobile devices to newer price points, feeding the vast appetite for digital consumption for consumers who are young, urban, hyper-social and want the smartest phones at affordable prices. The Nokia Asha 303, loaded with Nokia Browser, Webapps, preinstalled Zenga TV, Whatsapp and Angry Birds Lite, stands very strong as an affordable smartphone." Nokia Asha 303 comes with Bluetooth connectivity, an internal memory of 170MB with support for up to 32GB me

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS has hosted a series of global seminars, which provided a stage for several new proprietary technologies, all featured on upcoming ASUS motherboards that use Intel 7 series chipsets. They include the pioneering Dual Intelligent Processors 3 with SMART DIGI+ Power Control for significant performance boosts along with ASUS Wi-Fi GO! and Fan Xpert 2. On display at the seminars were brand new motherboards from ASUS' celebrated ROG brand, including the micro ATX Maximus V GENE, as well as the ruggedized SABERTOOTH Z77 from the ASUS TUF range. The Maximus V GENE comes with SupremeFX III audio and network traffic management via Intel Ethernet and ASUS GameFirst technology. Meanwhile, the SABERTOOTH Z77 features Thermal Armor for cooling and reliability. In addition to these boards, the ASUS 7 Series includes workstation models with 4-way GeForce SLI and dual Intel Ethernet. In addition, ASUS 7 Series motherboards also include Intel Smart Re

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL has launched their HCL Desktop "Fly for Free" offer for its customers. Customers of HCL desktops can now avail of an attractive offer of winning a completely free air ticket to major destinations in India. In addition, customers can also avail of a free Wizpack worth Rs.10,000 which includes CBSE Syllabus-based education content for Classes 1 to 12 and a Britannica Student Library. This specially designed scheme for HCL customers can be availed on the purchase of only second-Generation Sandybridge-based desktops. The offer is valid on HCL's range of desktops powered by the Intel Corei5, Corei3 and Intel Pentium processors. Princy Bhatnagar, Vice-President, Head - Consumer Computing, HCL Infosystems, said, "Interacting innovatively with our customers and coming up with attractive offers has been an integral part of our market outreach. We are giving a very compelling offer to enable our customers to adopt the Second-Gen

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cyberoam has reached out to customers and partner of SonicWall. The UTM vendor, committed to the growth of its market footprint in the UTM space, has offered a lucrative trade-in offer on Sonicwall appliances, following the latter's takeover by Dell. Existing Sonicwall customers can take advantage of this offer to upgrade their UTM protection to Cyberoam's identity-based UTM appliances which render end-to-end user visibility through Layer 8 technology. Hemal Patel, CEO, Elitecore Technologies, said, "Cyberoam is committed to become a leader in the UTM solutions space. The recent takeover of Sonicwall by Dell has created a good opportunity for us to increase market penetration of our UTM products and diversify across to new verticals and industry segments." Cyberoam will be providing a free one-year subscription on Web Content & Application, IPS & Anti-X subscriptions who trade in SonicWall appliances to buy Cyberoa

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys and Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) have marked the first classes of a new 18-week programme to provide Infosys software development training programme to grow Detroit's technology talent pool. A job fair will follow the programme, with Infosys and other prospective employers participating. "This partnership is an opportunity to build strong career pathways in an important and fast growing sector of Wayne County's economy. We are excited about partnering with a global IT leader such as Infosys and appreciate their generosity in helping provide this training to direct more people into rewarding information technology careers," said Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, Chancellor, WCCCD. "Infosys sees a great opportunity to provide our world-renowned training to produce skilled software developers in Detroit. Career training to produce more top software developers is something we are delighted to offer to those

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apple has announced that it has sold three million new iPads the same day that the company said it will put its nearly $100 billion cash reserves to use by beginning to pay a quarterly $2.65 dividend and through a 10 billion dollar share buy-back programme. Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer, Apple said, The company had a "record weekend" for its latest iPad but had not given the exact sales figures." Philip Schiller, Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing, Apple said, "The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold, the strongest iPad launch yet." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MilagrowHumanTech has announced that it is offering a Rs. 4,000 discount on their Women TabTop. Anku Sharma, Product Marketing Manager, MilagrowHumanTech said, "Owing to the overwhelming success of the Women TabTop and also the softening of the dollar against the rupee, Milagrow is happy to pass this advantage on to its loyal customer base. The TabTop (MGPT02-8GB) can be bought for Rs. 9,990/- instead of its regular price of Rs. 13,990/- which translates to a discount of almost 30% on the MRP." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polycom Inc. has announced that Global Nomads Group (GNG) is using Polycom RealPresence video collaboration solutions to support "Youth Talk," an interactive video collaboration program for students ages 14-18 that helps build increased awareness and understanding between teens in the United States and the Arab world. This is the latest joint effort by GNG and Polycom, who have been working together for 14 years to connect tens of thousands of youths globally to discuss topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the natural habitat of the Mountain Gorilla in Rwanda, resulting in increased understanding and tolerance for the world's diverse cultures. The two organisations also recently announced another joint effort to bring UNESCO's "Teaching Respect for All" initiative into Brazil and the U.S. Chris Plutte, Executive Director, Global Nomads Group said, "Through our Youth Talk program, we pair schools for a year,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE nivio's Chief Wizard and Co-founder Sachin Dev Duggal has been named to MIT Technology Review India's 2012 TR35, an award granted to the top 20 Indian technology innovators under 35. Sachin was recognized for his work with nivio, a company that is moving traditional desktop software and storage into the cloud. With nivio, users can run desktop applications like Microsoft Office on any desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone with an HTML5-compatible browser, paying on a month-to-month basis and never again having to worry about upgrades, viruses, or maintenance. This revolutionary model for software delivery also comes with cloud storage that lets users sync and access files effortlessly across all their devices. Sachin shared, "nivio was started with the goal of finding a way to bring down the cost of technology so that more schools and students could gain access; our 100m kids in 50 years dream. Along the way, we realized we were s

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Juniper Networks has announced AGC Networks as the winner of its 2011 APAC Commercial Partner of the Year at its first annual Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas. The annual awards honor the outstanding achievements and commitment from Juniper Networks' top channel partners in the areas of sales, customer service excellence, technology expertise and service specializations. Bhavin Barbhaya, VP - Sales (Network Infrastructure), AGC Networks Limited said, "This acknowledgement confirms our commitment to deliver customer service excellence, technology expertise and service specializations as an honored partner of Juniper Networks. This recognition also helps us strengthen our position as a leading solutions integrator that is focused on delivering innovative solutions thus maximizing business efficiency." Ravi Chauhan, MD, Juniper Networks India said, "We congratulate AGC Networks for winning Juniper Networks' 2011 APA