VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Acer has released its new ‘Carnival design’ Limited edition Aspire One D270 netbook. The brightly coloured 10.1” netbook is said to feature the unique Carnival motif, sporting a bouquet of color droplets splashed upon a pure white backdrop and runs on an Intel Atom dual-core processor that provides smooth performance while conserving power. A hard disk drive up to 500 GB stores all your multimedia, and HDMI connectivity. This diminutive machine boasts a 93% full-size keyboard, and its multi-gesture touchpad makes navigation easy. The Aspire One D270 provides wired and wireless web surfing, email and social networking status updates anytime. S. Rajendran, Chief Marketing Officer, Acer India, said, “It is extremely important for everyone to have a dependable computing choice, especially school and college going students who are looking for a computing device that is lightweight, cost-effective and equally beneficial. Netbook is the p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Allahabad born  Rashmi Sinha and her brother Amit Ranjan, will receive Rs 640 crore from Linkedin by selling there own developed site slideshare.  The website, which was the brainchild of Sinha's husband and co-founder Jonathan Boutelle, is headquartered at San Francisco with an office in Delhi. Ranjan, an alumnus of Delhi's Faculty of Management Studies, runs the India office. About Slideshare ,The community, which was founded in 2006, has 16 million registered users and about 60 million monthly visitors. LinkedIn will pay 45% in cash and the rest in stock, the social networking firm said in a statement on its website on Friday.Nearly 7.4 million presentations are hosted by SlideShare, which has received about $3 million in funding from angel investors and venture capital firm Venrock. SlideShare's Indianness runs deeper than just the founding team or its office in Delhi. For More Details See www.varindia.c...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Datawind has entered a strategic alliance with Reverie Language Technologies Pvt. Ltd. of Bangalore to ensure that the Ubislate series of tablets will offer an end user experience in all major local languages of India and the world. Users of Ubislate tablets will be able to use the tablet in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and various other languages of India and the world. Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, Datawind said, “We are very happy to have formed this strategic partnership with Reverie for supply of language solutions. We feel strongly that technology should reach every corner of the world and knowledge of English should not be a barrier. This language solution will benefit the users by offering a new world of services and products to a segment of world population that has been ignored for so long.” Arvind Pani, CEO, Reverie Language Technologies said, “We are very excited to be part of Datawind family and getting a chan...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM has announced Pune and Ahmedabad as the only cities in India to be awarded with IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant for 2012. This grant provides the city with access to IBM's top experts to analyze and recommend ways that will enable Pune and Ahmedabad to become even better places to live and work. The IBM Smarter Cities Challenge is a competitive grant program in which IBM is awarding a total of $50 million worth of technology and services to 100 municipalities worldwide through 2013. In general, teams of specially selected IBM experts will provide city leaders with analysis and recommendations to support successful growth, better delivery of municipal services, more citizen engagement, and improved efficiency. Anup Yadava, IAS, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation said, “This is a great initiative from a global technology leader to focus on Indian cities and citizens. The Pune Municipal Corpor...