VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP is believed to constantly look for ways to strengthen the relationship with one and all and enable the organization to deliver to its full potential. The Company has now announced its foray into Education Services. It is claimed to go beyond technology solutions, empowering the people who drive each engagement by focusing on the PEOPLE part of the PEOPLE-PROCESS-TECHNOLOGY equation, offering customer training that increases skills and knowledge, contributing to successful IT implementations and improved business results. With HP Education Services any organization is expected to achieve: Increased IT rolled out success with well trained employees (by IDC); Higher productivity and ROI by building knowledge & skills; Reduced direct and indirect costs; Competitive advantage for organizational growth; and Improved staff productivity, motivation, and morale. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bitdefender alerts about the Mousetrap Trojan which steals ones money by chain reactions. A new bank-robber Trojan sets of a series of downloads and installations to rob one's bank account while dodging antivirus software. The new Mousetrap campaign starts as Java applets injected in popular websites infect visitors. The malicious applet, Trojan.Downloader.Java.OpenConnection.BA, disguised as Adobe Flash Player, pretends the clean html files to ensure its execution along with the opening of the piggybacked html page. Once executed, the applet downloads and installs another malicious executable file on the machine of the website visitors. The attackers likely use 0-day vulnerabilities in blogging web applications or brute-force weak administrator passwords to add their code in the header file.Once on the system, the banker updates itself by downloading newer versions from a second list of links. The updates hide out in different locations...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has launched Galaxy Ace Plus (GT-S7500). An enhanced version of the GALAXY Ace is backed by 1GHz processor and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connectivity along with Wi-Fi 802.11 functionality. "The GALAXY Ace Plus features the Android Gingerbread platform and Samsung services that provide an enhanced mobile experience to its users. In 2012, we will continue to expand our incredibly popular GALAXY smartphone range, which is one of the most successful mobile brands in India and across the world," said Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung Mobile & IT. Running on the Android Gingerbread and featuring Samsung's TouchWiz user interface, the GALAXY Ace Plus incorporates 2GB of storage capacity for multimedia content, expandable up to 32GB along with new music playback functionality that features a play progress bar and the ability to view music tracks in folders. For added productivity, users also have the option of using ThinkFree, a too...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micromax has launched edutainment device - Funbook on Ice-cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.3). The device is targeted at 67% (close-to 20 million) of the total urban youth population in India who aspire to own a computing device for learning and fun. Micromax has partnered with the leading players to provide education and entertainment content. These partnerships include Pearson and Everonn to make available unique and relevant content for the students and BigFlix, Zenga and India games to provide entertainment and gaming pleasure. To make online content available to users, the device will come bundled with Tata Photon plus, with additional 1GB download offer for the first two months. Deepak Mehrotra, CEO, Micromax, said, "Fun and education are two important elements of a youth's life; they always try to balance between what they 'have to do' and what they 'want to do'. With the launch of Funbook, we are offering a smart ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE It is announced that when it comes to the radio frequency (RF) footprint, the latest generation of HELIAX from CommScope helps eliminate worries with a single-source interconnect solution designed for performance in all types of cellular network site architectures. From traditional to remote radio head configurations, HELIAX 3.0, built on Andrew Solutions connectivity technology, offers hybrid fiber and coaxial options. The RFF Cable features a gel-free design, a UV-rated outer jacket, rugged lightning-tested shield, and dry moisture-blocking elements within each fiber component. RFF Cable is available in single-mode or multi-mode with fiber and power conductor configurations and counts to supply a wide range of remote radio unit designs. Built-in redundancy provides insurance and future-proofing for LTE, WiMAX, MIMO or whatever the future holds. "HELIAX 3.0 is poised to become the interconnect solution for LTE. As network complexity i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Comstor, a division of Westcon Group, and a leading global distributor of Cisco products has inaugurated a full-fledged Cisco datacenter solutions experience center in Mumbai. The experience center, also known as the LEAP Center (Learn, Experience, Architect and Plan) showcases various solutions from best-in-class vendors. The center, which is located at Santa Cruz (W), Mumbai was inaugurated by Naresh Wadhwa, President & Country Manager, Cisco India and SAARC, and Russell Blackburn, Cloud & Datacenter Director, EMEA, Comstor. Pramodh Menon, President, Partner Business Group, Cisco India & SAARC, was also present at the inaugural ceremony. Pramodh Menon, President, Partner Business Group, Cisco India & South Asia, said, "The launch of LEAP Center by Comstor is a significant step forward for our reseller partners and is a key milestone in achieving Cisco's objective to scale partner capability in high-growth areas ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has acquired Clerity Solutions. Clerity's capabilities will enable Dell Services to help customers reduce the cost of transitioning business-critical applications and data from legacy computing systems and onto more modern architectures, including the cloud. "Unlike other providers, Dell remains committed to opening architecture computing and to helping our customers implement optimal platforms for their applications. Increasingly, these x86 platforms are enabling super-scale cloud environments, and the addition of Clerity gives us a clear advantage in helping customers modernize and migrate their applications off outdated hardware infrastructure to more current architectures. We are thrilled to welcome the Clerity team to Dell," said Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Services. "The combination of Clerity and Dell provides tremendous growth opportunities for our core application modernization and re-hosting soluti...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GETIT has announced the launch of GETIT Local Search Mobile App for the Indian users with Mobango App Store. Getit App detects users current location using GPS, provides quick links to top/popular categories, refines users search based on attributes and location, shows interactive map with directions, provides click to call feature and shares business contacts via email and SMS. "Mobango is a popular cross platform application store in India. We are excited to be partnering with Mobango to bring localized information via a convenient mobile app to our users," said Sidharth Gupta, CEO, GETIT Infoservices Pvt. Ltd. Badri Sanjeevi, COO, Mobango, said, "GETIT's Mobile App provides the benefit of local search and listing services to its users. Combining GPS capabilities, users of this app get relevant local services available to them. We are very pleased to help GETIT distribute this innovative app amongst Mobango's user ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) line of servers. With intelligent technologies that automate tasks and significantly improve uptime, HP ProLiant Gen 8 with HP ProActive Insight architecture addresses the top concerns of enterprises. HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are the result of a $300 million, two-year programme called Project Voyager. To date, Project Voyager has resulted in more than 900 patents filed and a new systems architecture called HP ProActive Insight architecture, which will span the entire HP Converged Infrastructure. "The skyrocketing cost of operations in the data center is unsustainable, and enterprises are looking to HP to help solve this problem. We are delivering innovative intelligence technologies that enable servers to virtually take care of themselves, allowing data center staff to devote more time to business innovation," said Vikram K, Director, Industry Standard Servers, HP ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nexans held a training program for their channel partners in Mumbai. Participants, who attended the event, were able to qualify for the 'Nexans Cabling Solutions Supervisor certification' after succeeding in a rigorous 3-day expert training session. Alain Geypens, Training and Channel Support Manager, from Nexans Belgium shared his global experience and hold demonstrations for Nexans' partners in India. Chintak Dalal, Country Manager, Nexans Cabling Solutions said, "The transmission quality of a cabling installation depends on the cabling system used as well as on the installation itself. No two projects are the same and our partners' position is important in this business. Hence, it is imperative for our Distributors, VARs, Systems integrators and other channel partners to undergo rigorous training and obtain a 'Nexans Cabling Solutions Supervisor certification'. Our training seminar in Mumbai was a huge success...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel Ltd is set to launch fourth generation (4G) technology based services and is believed to become the first operator in the country to do so. Sanjay Kapoor, CEO - India & SAARC, Bharti Airtel said, "The Company will launch its Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex (LTE-TDD - a 4G technology) network in Kolkata later this month." Bharti has claimed to won broadband spectrum in four circles: Punjab, Maharashtra, Kolkata and Karnataka. China's ZTE Corp is said to be the network vendor partner for the Kolkata circle. Bharti had earlier awarded the Maharashtra circle deal to Nokia Siemens Networks. The operator is also planning to launch LTE in Pune in Maharashtra, Chandigarh in Punjab and Bangalore in Karnataka soon. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The GSMA has announced that India will become the second largest Mobile Broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million Mobile Broadband connections by 2016.In doing so, India will overtake the US, which will account for 337 million Mobile Broadband connections by 2016, but will still be second to China, which will have reached639 million Mobile Broadband connections in the same period. Since 3G licenses were first awarded to mobile operators in India in September 2010, Mobile Broadband connectivity has grown steadily. There are now more than10 million HSPA connections across the country, and this is expected to grow exponentially, by900 per cent, to more than 100 million connections in 2014. This will make India the largest HSPA market worldwide within the next two years, surpassing China, Japan and the US in the process. Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA said, "The mobile industry in India is set for immense ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BloomReach has announced its expansion into India with the official launch of a research and development centre in Bangalore, India. Building on BloomReach's success to-date, the new R&D centre is led by a search engineering leader in India, Vinodh Kumar. "We're pleased to announce the global expansion of our company. We started in Silicon Valley with a small team of amazing engineers and product executives, and some of the brightest minds in machine learning, large scale systems science and search from companies like Google, Cisco and Facebook. Our presence in India will serve as a second heartbeat for our research and development efforts, said Ashutosh Garg, CTO and co-founder, BloomReach. "India-based operations are often outsourcing and support centres, but BloomReach's expansion into the region is wholly focused on developing the complex solutions that help close the gap between web businesses and consumers o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft Corporation has released Kinect Star Wars for India. This game has hit the Indian stores from April 3, 2012. Kinect Star Wars" comes with the five dynamic game-play modes - Jedi Destiny: Dark Side Rising, Podracing, Rancor Rampage, Galactic Dance Off and Duels of Fate. Some exciting features of the game within the Jedi Destiny mode include Space battles. Other features are the New Duels of Fate mode, a battle-by-battle experience. Anshu Mor, Category Lead - Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd., said, "We are very excited about the launch of, "Kinect Star Wars" which makes it possible for Star Wars fans from any age to dive straight into the iconic Star Wars experience. This new title will add to the growing popularity of the family-friendly gaming portfolio for Kinect for Xbox 360." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC India has appointed Angira Agrawal as Head & Associate Vice President for its Cloud business in India. Angira will be responsible for heading the Cloud initiative for NEC India, defining the overall strategy, including cloud offering partners, the Go-To-Market (GTM) partners and the Platform capabilities. Koji Oda, MD, NEC India Pvt. Ltd. said, "Cloud Computing is set to become the most important sustainable revenue opportunity for carriers since voice. With the growing trend towards mobile computing, it is evident that the cloud computing business model is here to stay and will transform the way businesses operate. NEC as a total solutions provider is in a unique position to integrate both IT and network solutions to help telecom operators achieve new business revenues with our ubiquitous cloud computing solutions offering. We are glad to have Angira on board, as he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience by virtu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Facebook has launched 'Facebook for Every Phone mobile application' in three new languages - Hindi, Malay and Vietnamese and seven local Indian languages - Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi. Kevin D'Souza, Country Growth Manager, Facebook said, "With over 50 million people in India on Facebook, we want to make sure that everyone has a great Facebook mobile experience regardless of the device that they choose to use." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kobian has launched mTab Neo2, 3G Voice model which will support Android 4.0. It comes with 8GB internal storage and supports up to a 32GB microSD card and comes with a long battery backup of 6 hours and multi-touch capacitive screen. Mercury mTab Neo2 is powered with a 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 multitasking dual core processor, 512MB RAM and Google Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread platform which can be upgraded to Android 4.0 in the next four weeks by the user. It also features 7-inch (16:9) capacitive screen that comes with 1600K colour capacitive and high-quality HD resolution along with an in-built voice support, 3G module and front and rear-facing dual cameras. High-quality entertainment is offered by HDMI 1080P Video Output and Flash 10.3 Online video. Sushmita Das, Country Manager – India, Kobian Pte Ltd., said, "Work, talk and share your stuff at high speed, with mTab Neo2. This product comes with all the features one can ask for in the curre...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Calibre UK is the HQView530 all-in-one scaler, switcher and scan converter. It is designed for easy and quick set-up using the jog wheel with LCD front panel menu display. It will switch, scale, scan-convert and can edge-blend for multiple projector images over large surfaces. HQView530 will also perform warp mapping so that those images can be video projected on to curved screens or unusual shaped surfaces or for stacking multiple projectors. Tim Brooks Bank, Chairman, Calibre UK, said, "High image quality is what Calibre UK products are rightly renowned for and our new design means that users can set up, maintain and manage their display systems with maximum efficiency. HQView530 is the new universal do-anything converter everyone needs!" Furthermore, HQView530 boasts 3G-SDI input and output capability, as well as backwards compatibility with HD-SDI and SD-SDI formats. The processor will accept a wide range of HD, SD and compute...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SafeNet has announced the industry's first software protection solution to include white box cryptography. The SafeNet Sentinel portfolio of software licensing and protection solutions now includes new functionality that protects security algorithms from attacks in "white box"environments, where attackers traditionally have been able to freely observe and alter dynamic code execution and internal algorithm details at will. "Our white box solution assumes that attackers have full visibility. It replaces the exposed algorithm and encryption keys with special application libraries that minimize the attack surface. This methodology ensures that the protected keys remains hidden from hackers and are less susceptible to reconstruction during attacks," said Michael Zunke, Chief Technology Officer, Software Monetization Solutions, SafeNet. With SafeNet's white box solution, communication between protected applications an...