VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ESET warns Indian companies against the practice of asking job interviewers and current employees to share Facebook or other online credentials. It may harm company's reputation and open it up to serious liability, both corporate and individual. Recently Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan has announced that Facebook had seen an increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain access to people's Facebook and that can lead to "initiating legal action" against employers that demand Facebook passwords from the social networking company. "India has second largest number of facebook and LinkedIn users in the world, after US. However Indian cyber privacy laws are not as developed as in some other countries, so despite Facebook's and even some US lawmakers concern about this issue, which is a good trend in whole, in India the scenario can be worse. Considering the poor cyber security awareness among m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Edimax has launched IC-3015Wn 1.3Mpx Wireless Network Camera, a highly cost-effective network camera designed for easy home monitoring. The Edimax IC-3015Wn is built with a wide 1.7mm (28mm equiv.) lens that covers a viewing angle of 74.8 degrees, making it suitable for capturing video footage of a wide area with a single network camera. With a 1.3-mega pixel CMOS sensor. this network camera is able to capture SXVGA (1280 x 960) videos at 30 frames per second. The IC-3015Wn is designed with multi-area motion detection system. When motion is detected in the specified areas, the network camera will immediately take a snapshot of the detected motion and send the snapshot to the user via email or FTP. The multi-area motion detection function also works with the network camera's recording feature. When motion is detected, the IC-3015Wn is able to produce video footage of the monitored area up to 60 seconds in length. The Edimax IC-3015Wn also...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HID Global has announced the expansion of its Genuine HID card printer and encoder portfolio with the launch of its new FARGO DTC1000M Monochrome Printer/Encoder. The DTC1000M provides organizations with a solution that is cost-effective to own and operate and offers a low total cost of ownership. "The new DTC1000M enables more customers to step up to FARGO quality. From the affordable and convenient DTC1000M, to the high duty performance HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/Encoder, HID Global offers the broadest range of card personalization systems. With the release of this entry-level printer, HID is uniquely positioned to meet the complete set of customer card issuance needs with a vast range of cost-effective card printer/encoder options, including card issuance supplies and intuitive ID card issuance software solutions," said Dan DeFore, Director, Product Marketing for Secure Issuance, HID Global. The DTC1000M prints a single-col...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Emerson Network Power has released a list of 10 common surprises for data center and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. The list includes information on a surprising cause of data center downtime, what data center managers might not know about that next server refresh, and the growing trend sneaking up on virtually every IT manager. "When you are a data center or IT manager, very few things are more unsettling than the unexpected. We hope this list helps IT professionals better anticipate these issues and prepares them with the appropriate technologies, solutions and best practices," said Peter Panfil, Vice- President of Global Power, Emerson Network Power. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony India has expanded its Walkman MP3 player family with the new NWZ- B170 series (NWZ-B172 and NWZ-B173), believed to deliver the favourite beats in a flashy new design and enhancing the audio experience by simply pressing the BASS Boost button, which is said to assure rich and pumping low-ends. The new models NWZ-B172 and NWZ-B173 have built-in lithium-ion battery, which is expected to deliver up to 18 hours of music playback and the Quick Charge function delivers 90 minutes of music with just a mere three-minute charge. The NWZ-B170 Series also claimed to exude fashion chic with four colour choices and a new colour-matching power illuminator, which flashes in sync with the rhythm of the music. With the NWZ-B170, one does not have to spend hours trying to manage the music, the sleek and simple USB-dongle design - plug it into the Windows PC1, drag and drop the tracks one want, and one is ready to go. Searching through the hundreds of son...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LifeSize, a division of Logitech, has announced that LifeSize ClearSea now supports iOS 5.1 and is ready for the new iPad. With the addition of the new iPad to its list of supported devices. LifeSize continues to enable video calling on the broadest range of smartphones and tablets in the industry. LifeSize ClearSea also enables users to be connected via multiple devices simultaneously and reached with a single number, an exclusive capability that only LifeSize currently provides. "Demand for extending video conferencing to mobile devices is exploding. Mobility is enabling companies to get closer to their customers, partners and employees, and LifeSize is helping them connect through enterprise-class visual communication. Mobility is a critical trend in visual communication, and LifeSize continues to lead the way through relentless innovation and the broadest support of mobile devices in the industry," said Colin Buechler, CEO, Li...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe has announced the findings from its second Adobe Digital Index report, which provides marketing, e-commerce, and retail executives with critical digital marketing insights. The study evaluated how marketers measure the impact of website traffic from major social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, YouTube, and Yelp. Adobe analyzed more than 1.7 billion visits to more than 225 U.S. companies' websites in the retail, travel and media industries, concluding that marketers significantly underestimate the value of social traffic. Key Report Findings included: The use of last-click attribution, the most common attribution model used by marketers, may cause marketers to undervalue social media's website impact by up to 94 per cent; First-click attribution models more accurately capture the benefits of social media in engaging customers earlier in the buying process and significant differences in the ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Zippo has launched a playful range of Windproof Lighters this spring season with natural colors including lemon, orange and rainbow satin chrome. Alongside the cult designs already in the range, one may also choose their special colorful lighter from www.zippoindia.com or via select retail outlets selling the Zippo range. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wacom has launched its graphics tablet- Intuos5, for creative professionals in India on the 16th of March, 2012. Neoteric Infomatique Ltd. would be the sole distributor for it in India. Intuos5 features multi-touch gesture support for intuitive input, an Express View display to facilitate an efficient workflow and wireless capabilities for convenience and comfort. Shigeki Komiyama, Director and Executive Director, Japan-Asia Pacific Region, Wacom Co. Ltd strongly believes that touch and pen could replace mouse and keyboard in future. He clearly points out the success of Samsung's Galaxy Note. With touch functionality being adopted in all fields, the multi-touch capabilities of the Intuos5 support gestures, like zooming, scrolling, panning and rotating the image. It offers compatibility with Windows and Macs. He maintains that the tablet is for professional artists and look forward to further tie-ups with art institutions in India. Moreove...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has launched Project Avsar - an initiative targeted at developing vocational SAP skills and placement assistance for the underprivileged youth. Project Avsar is a SAP vocational training program that will combine a class room and practical / fieldwork based approach to introduce the selected candidates to the business functions of a company and eventually provide them the necessary IT skill-sets to manage business processes using SAP software. Project Avsar is based on the premise that a short term, practical, skill-oriented vocational training program will provide a strong career foundation and open up several employment opportunities for the underprivileged youth to succeed in the digital era. It provides a basic course to introduce Enterprise Resource Planning - training on SAP Business One solution, covering relevant business processes, workflow navigation, data-entry and usage of management reports. The courses will be conducted a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micro Focus has announced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company's Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organizations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software. New capabilities in Caliber 10.1 include integration between Caliber RM and Caliber RDM. The synergy between visual and text-based requirements provides better shared goals for all stakeholders, giving the software development and business analyst teams the tools needed to establish implementation consensus early on and then maintain a common vision. Using Caliber 10.1, requirements changes and traceability can be managed from inception to production. "Caliber is about managing ideas and making sure inspiration captured on a whiteboar...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Compuware has published a new whitepaper titled: "How End-User Experience Affects Your Bottom Line." The paper explores the business impact of application performance and explains why end-user experience is the ultimate measure of an application's success that can affect an organization's bottom line. This whitepaper outlines: why applications often perform poorly and need to operate at peak performance; how successful companies manage their applications; and how organizations can ensure optimal application performance by using an application performance management solution that monitors the entire application delivery chain. For More Details See www.varindia.com