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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The 17th annual Cards & Payments Asia has announced that it now includes 7 other co-located events, namely, Prepaid Cards Asia, Near Field Communication World Asia, Digital ID World Asia, RFID World Asia, Retail World Asia, Online Retail World Asia and Digital Signage World Asia. More than 7,500 executives from various industries across 57 countries were present at the event. The event saw an increase of 17% visitors from various countries.  A total of 198 exhibitors showcased many game-changing innovations and products. As Cards & Payments Asia is the most recognized industry event of its kind in the region, many exhibitors also premiered their new products and worldwide launches at the event.  Complementing the showcase of cutting-edge innovations and solutions, 8 high-level conferences and 4 workshops were held alongside the exhibition to provide attendees with in-depth knowledge and valuable insights into ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Epson has launched its first series of portable stationery label printers under its own "Epson" brand. This is to form part of a comprehensive set of labelling solutions for its customers ranging from large volume industrial labelling with the Epson SurePress L-4033 launched last year, to the stationery labelling market. The new printers are: Handheld stationery label printers: Epson LabelWorks LW-300 & Epson LabelWorks LW-400 and PC connected stationery label printer: Epson LabelWorks LW-900P. The new Epson LabelWorks printers are ideal for office environments, including large corporates, small and medium businesses (SMBs), small offices home offices (SOHOs) , or even homes for labelling anything from archival files and documents to household items, scrapbooks, school books and stationery items. They can also be used to print on cable wraps and iron-ons that are part of the large variety of media Epson offers for...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   WatchGuard has conducted its channel partner meet for APAC partners in Phuket, Thailand. The 3-day channel partner conference started from 15th to 17th May, 2012 was organized for elite partners. The objective of the meet was to discuss the strategy for further accelerating the growth of the company. 2011 witnessed a record-breaking growth for WatchGuard and the company aims at maintaining the same by introducing new products and increasing the number of channel partners. Recently WatchGuard announced launch of XTMv & XCSv, which is virtualized version of award winning XTM & XCS, content and network security solutions.  "We organized this conference exclusively for elite channel partners to efficiently strategize as to how to sustain and further channelize the growth of the company. Keeping pace with the record breaking growth, we wanted to confer with all the APAC partners under one roof. We are certain that with ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The popular MSI HD 7870 Hawk, which based on the same design principles as world's fastest graphics card series "Lightning", has now set multiple world overclocking records. Utilizing MSI's exclusive "Unlocked Digital Power" architecture, Swedish overclocking enthusiasts crushed the opposition with a highest score of 39,788 in the 3DMark Vantage Performance benchmark, while Belgian overclocker Massman set new 3Dmark 11 Entry and Extreme records with scores of 14,964 and 3,305 respectively.  The MSI HD 7870 Hawk is based on the same design principle as the MSI Lightning series and features the Unlocked Digital Power architecture consisting of Unlocked BIOS, Digital PWM chipset and an improved power supply. Unlocked BIOS allows enthusiasts to disable graphics card protection at the touch of a button to increase the CCC limit, boost PowerTune limit by 57% and remove OCP restrictions.  The MSI HD 7870 Ha...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kaspersky Lab's monthly report on spammer activity shows the proportion of spam in email traffic was up 2.2 percentage points in April compared to the previous month and averaged 77.2%. There were also some major changes in the geographical distribution of spam sources. The most noticeable change over the month was a surge in spam originating in the US that saw it jump 18 places, making the US the second-biggest distributor of junk mail in April. The amount of spam emanating from China also increased by 5 percentage points and the country is now ranked fifth among the world’s top sources of spam. Meanwhile, the proportion of unwanted correspondence originating in Indonesia fell by 5.2 percentage points, with the country falling 10 places and ending April in twelfth place. "In the months to come, we expect a return of the all-too-familiar spam mailings with scandalous news items about current US President Barack Obama. ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Ericsson has expanded its treasury stock in order to provide shares for the Long-Term Variable Remuneration Programme (LTV) 2012 for employees in Ericsson in accordance with the resolution adopted at the Annual General Meeting 2012.  The Board of Directors of Ericsson has resolved, by virtue of an authorization given by the Annual General Meeting to direct an acquisition offer to all holders of C shares to acquire these shares. Acquisition shall be made during the period May 25 - June 13, 2012. Payment for acquired shares shall be made in cash with SEK 5.0052 per share.  The offer is part of the financing of Ericsson's Long-Term Variable Remuneration Programme 2012 and includes all 31,700,000 C shares which Ericsson has previously decided to issue to AB Industrivärden and Investor AB, for the programme. AB Industrivärden and Investor AB have informed Ericsson that they intend to accept the offer.  For More ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZTE has introduced the world's first SIM-based NFC (near field communication) mobile device to be used for toll payments in Turkey. Launched in January this year and available on Turkcell T11 (also known as the ZTE Racer II), the service is supported by Turkey's largest mobile operator, Turkcell.  Turkcell T11 is powered by Android 2.2 Froyo and an ARM processor running at over 600MHz. It comes with 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and 200MB of internal memory. Multi-tasking on the phone is smooth. It does not slow or delay when opening a map, using handwriting recognition and chatting simultaneously.   Kan Yulun, Vice-President & CTO, Handset Division, ZTE, said, "People always carry mobile phones with them and Turkcell T11 is able to provide a friendly interface and rich interactive features that enable customers to use their handsets in new and innovative ways. ZTE offers a number of NFC handsets around the world, and i...