VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) has announced another record quarterly performance.  The territory's Q1 2012 results showed a 19% growth year-on-year in Non-IFRS Software Revenue to €123 million (16% at Constant Currencies). Steve Watts, President, SAP Asia-Pacific Japan, said, "Q1 2012 has been the best first quarter we have ever achieved in APJ - and is our ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth for SAP. APJ region stands out as a consistent growth engine in SAP's global performance. Our key regional markets led the way once more with solid double-digit growth and particularly strong growth in key developing markets. "Our customers continue to respond positively to our breakthrough innovations in in-memory (HANA), database and mobility.  In Q1 2012, we achieved €28 million in HANA revenue and €21 million in mobile revenue globally - a growth of more than 30% in the first quarter. SAP's growth stra

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Oracle has announced that the First Bank of Nigeria (FirstBank) has successfully deployed Oracle Financial Services Know Your Customer and Oracle Financial Services Regulatory Reporting Solution. The bank has also upgraded its Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management Platform for Financial Services and Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering solutions.       The deployment of Oracle Financial Services Know Your Customer, which is fully integrated with Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering, also enables automated customer risk profiling, so FirstBank can have a 360-degree view of their customers' activities for easy monitoring purposes.         S. Ramakrishnan, Group VP & Managing Director, Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications, said, "It is essential that financial institutions like First Bank of Nigeria take a strategic enterprise-based approach to monitoring financial crime a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The D Labs team from BIT Mesra, Patna, has emerged as the winners of Imagine Cup 2012 India finals. The winners will now represent India at the world finals in Sydney, Australia, in July of this year. Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation, announced the winners in New Delhi at a student event.  Thrilled about winning in two categories of the competition, the representative from Team D Labs said, "We are incredibly excited! It is great to be part of something like Imagine Cup - and now we are getting a chance to represent India at the worldwide finals. Of course, we hope our project does well there too, but, either way, we will cherish the whole experience for a lifetime. We have learnt so much."   For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The GSMA has stated that the TRAI's recommendations on the "Auction of Spectrum" will set India back in its goal to deliver "Broadband on Demand" to the citizens of India. The proposals disregard international best practice in spectrum policy and jeopardize the investment of billions of US dollars in new mobile infrastructure in a sector that either directly, or indirectly, employs almost 10 million people and serves more than 911 million consumers.   "Efforts to squeeze money out of mobile operators for some perceived short-term gain will only reduce investment in networks, inhibit growth of mobile services and drive up consumer prices - limiting the value the public will derive from the spectrum resource in the long term," said Franco Bernabe, Chairman of the GSMA and Chairman & CEO, Telecom Italia Group. Earlier this month, the GSMA announced that India was positioned to surpass the US a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   DataWind has launched UbiSlate series of tablets which include UbiSlate 7+ and UbiSlate 7C models.  Providing smartphone communication, internet access, tablet computing and multimedia entertainment, the devices also pack a combination of content and applications.  The UbiSlate tablets are the only devices in the market to offer DataWind's UbiSurfer browser, based on 18 international patents. In India, the devices will offer unlimited web-browsing using DataWind's breakthrough web delivery platform for under Rs.100/month on traditional mobile networks.  Differentiated with a resistive screen on the UbiSlate 7+ to the four-point multi-touch projective capacitive screen on the UbiSlate 7C, both models come with embedded GPRS modems in addition to Wi-Fi connectivity allowing ubiquitous internet access.  The 7" screen tablets support the Android 2.3 operating system  along with a powerful 800 Mhz Cortex A8 processor.  

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Accenture in partnership with Yahoo! announced the winners of the Innovation Jockeys contest. A staggering total of 1082 entries were received from students from 500-odd colleges across India. The premise of this contest was very simple: Everyday innovations. This contest was divided across three categories: Home, City and College.  The winners were announced in each category. In the City category, The team from The Young India Fellowship Programme comprised Tushar Chugh, Jatin Sharma and Rolly Seth were awarded. Their innovation was a belt for the visually-challenged, which is based on a series of vibrations that enable them to avoid obstacles.  In the Home category, the team from the Amrita School of Engineering of Ramesh.N.Nair, Sai Manoj and Mithun Mohan won for their Gest-BOT - a gesture-based wheelchair control system innovation, designed for the disabled and elderly who had lost the ability to move.  The Colleg

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   PNY Technologies Inc.  has announced its wide range of product line-up of USB drives, flash memory card, ear phones, IT Peripheral and HP flash products for the Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, from 27th April to 30th April 2012. The HKTDC Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair is the world's largest event of its kind, celebrating its 27th edition in 2012. The previous fair featured the greatest number of suppliers ever, with more than 4,070 exhibitors from 36 countries and regions. And the show attracted more than 46,000 high-spending buyers from 134 countries and regions. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Opera Software has released the beta version of Opera 12, "Wahoo". Opera 12 is said to be both smarter and faster than its predecessors and introduces new features for both developers and consumers to play with ahead of the final launch.  Haakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software said, "Woo-hoo! After months of hard work, we're nearing the finish line on Opera 12. There are so many new things to try. The paged media project has the potential to change the way browsers handle content, and camera support shows just how web applications can compete with native apps. With so many new features, especially for developers, Opera 12 is a platform to build upon. We're excited to share it with the world and see what people can create." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Homeshop18.com has announced 'lowest price guarantee' on its online bookstore. Under this offer, avid book readers across India can browse through the largest collection of books on Homeshop18.com/books and buy them at the lowest price. Homeshop18.com forayed in to the books category in February this year. It is currently selling over 100,000 books a month. The largest repository of books online, Homeshop18.com has titles to cater to interest of people of all age groups. Narasimha Jayakyumar, COO (E-commerce), HomeShop18.com said, "The needs of Indian consumers are evolving at a fast pace. Taking a leaf out of the needs of these dynamic consumers we are making an irresistible offer and delighting them with our 'lowest price guarantee' on the widest choice of books available online. At Homeshop18.com our endeavor is to provide exceptional value to our consumers from the stage of product selection, to placing t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Embedded System Expo (ESEC) Japan 2012 will hold during May 9th to May 11th in Tokyo, and KINGMAX will demonstrate its series of industrial grade of FLASH storage products on the booth WEST11-65. KINGMAX will present a complete series of industrial solution which has been undergone strict reliability test and verification to ensure the most stable quality.   KINGMAX will also release mSATA SSD and Half-Slim SSD for Ultrabook and small form factor embedded systems. For storage requirements in industrial PCs, POS, terminals and so on, KINGMAX will present industrial grade of SDXC memory card, which is compliant with SDA 3.0 specification and at capacity up to 64GB; and present the high speed industrial grade Compact Flash memory card. Aiming at the market for industrial automation and medical devices, KINGMAX especially release wide temperature DDR3 Long DIMM and SO DIMM at capacity of 2GB/4GB/8GB to provide wide variety to customers

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Epson has launched its first-ever portable A4 scanner, the Epson WorkForce DS-30. The scanner comes in a sleek form factor that can easily fit into most briefcases, and needs only a single USB connection to a notebook or PC to operate.  The Epson DS-30 is able to scan a variety of items ranging from business cards to A4 and letter sized (8.5 x 11 inch) documents. Being a portable scanner, it is designed with an LED light source that has a low-power consumption of up to only 500mA to conserve the battery power of its users’ notebooks.  The Epson DS-30 is packed with Automatic document size detection and skew correction, text enhancement, colour dropout and also comes with powerful third-party scanning software that includes Presto! BizCard 5 business card scanner, and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 9 optical character recognition (OCR) software. For More Details See www.varindia.com