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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Netmagic has announced that it is now one of the only SAP-certified providers of hosting services in India. As a SAP-certified provider of hosting services, Netmagic Solutions received certification from SAP AG for its ability to deliver hosting services with operational standards. To achieve this certification, Netmagic had to undergo an extensive audit by SAP. This audit was conducted to validate if Netmagic's infrastructure and processes conform to SAP's high standards and are suitable to host mission-critical environments running SAP applications. Sunil Gupta, President & COO, Netmagic Solutions, said, "Achieving this certification underscores our commitment to supporting mission-critical IT environments for enterprise customers and reinforces our position as a premier provider of managed IT hosting services in India. Now enterprises in India running SAP solutions can confidently choose to host their mission-crit

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Milagrow has updated its 16 GB TabTop 7.4 - launched in May this year. It can now support an external hard disk drive of up to 1 terabyte and comes with preloaded Tamil & Hindi keyboards. Also, Flipkart and Milagrow have come together to make Flyte easily available to Tablet PC users across India. The TabTop 7.4 has Flyte pre-installed for its customers, to provide them easy access to officially licensed music. In addition to 55 Applications, this Tab Top comes pre-installed with Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Places and Eattr, to search & navigate up to street level along with English, Kannada, Tamil & Hindi keyboards, speech-to-text versatility as well as ready-to-use functionality with 60+ language keyboards along with Handwriting software, auto spelling correction and personal dictionary on the keyboard. It is dual screen HDMI ready tablet and supports 2160p Super Quad HD playback. Moreover, The TabTop 7

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Defenx has entered into the Indian IT security market. Defenx has been creating and developing technologies, products and services to ensure maximum safety and high protection against any form of threat or malware with its popular Anti-Virus, Internet Security, Defenx Network Security Pro and SmartPhone Solutions. To mark its entry in India, Defenx is offering a 1-month free trial version of Defenx SmartPhone Security suite, with complete features, on purchase of smartphones at all Sangeetha Mobiles outlets. 1 year activations are also available at special inaugural price. Maurizio Grassi, CEO, Defenx Software Solutions said, "We are very happy to enter the fastest growing, exciting and high potential Indian market. We look forward to offer the discerning Indian customer a set of feature rich security solutions for home and enterprises. We have seen acceptance of good quality security products in India, which is the basis of our

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Porsche Design and Research In Motion (RIM) have launched the new Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry in India. The new Porsche Design P’9981 comes with the latest BlackBerry OS and features a 1.2 GHz processor and Liquid Graphics technology, HD video recording, 24-bit high resolution graphics, advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications, and built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications). It comes with 8 GB of on-board memory, expandable to up to 40 GB with a microSD card. Dr. Juergen Gessler, CEO Porsche Design Group said, “The brand new P’9981 smartphone is a milestone product for Porsche Design. It is a representation of the iconic Porsche Design styling philosophy and RIM’s technology-driven focus, which combine to deliver engineered luxury and performance in a smartphone for the discerning consumer.” Sunil Dutt, MD, India, Research In Motion said, “The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone f

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Informa Telecoms & Media has estimated that end-user service revenues from mobile data and VAS (value-added services) in India will grow from US$3.9 billion in 2011 to US$15.9 billion in 2016. Mobile operators, content providers and technology vendors for mobile services have realized that they need to look beyond mobile entertainment services to grow their revenues and there is a visible shift towards using mobile to offer utility services such as mobile banking and payments, m-health, m-education, and m-governance. It is expected that the share of revenues generated by mobile utility services will increase from just 4% of the total in 2011 to 18% in 2016. Shailendra Pandey, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media & Author of ‘Outlook for Mobile VAS in India’ shared, “Government-led initiatives will be crucial to drive the adoption of mobile utility services in India, particularly among the poor and people living in r

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aircel has launched Pocket Internet Smart recharges, unlimited 3G plans for its subscribers in Kerala. M. Mahesh Kumar, Kerala Circle Head, Aircel, said, “The company has launched the unlimited 2G plans and is now pioneering with launch of Unlimited 3G plans. The product will be the cheapest plan available in the country with a starting price at Rs. 7 with unlimited 3G browsing. There are 9 different variants of unlimited Pocket Internet Smart recharges starting from Rs. 7 with one day validity to Rs. 997 with 30 days validity. There are other recharge denominations ranging from 3 days, 7 days, and 15 days for prepaid subscribers.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Dassault Systèmes has released its 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  V6 Release 2013 brings new capabilities to numerous industries such as aerospace and defense, transportation and mobility, marine and offshore, consumer goods and consumer packaged goods. Kai Wallasch, Global CAD-PDM, CLAAS said, "The globalization of our company requires integrated and standardized engineering processes, which also interface to production and to external suppliers. In addition, the use of virtual engineering features will reduce time-to-market of our products considerably and support the managing of increasing product complexity. The integrated combination of ENOVIA V6 and CATIA V6 is one of the key systems to deal with these future challenges." Dominique Florack, Sr. Executive VP, Products, R&D, Dassault Systèmes said, “At each release of our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, our focus is to provide our customers with improved capabilities to creat

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Genius has introduced the Genius Imperator Pro, gaming keyboard with Backlit, which is claimed to be designed and engineered especially for the MMORPG/RTS gamer, from the GX gaming family. It has full color sixteen million RGB for the Backlight, brightness switch with four levels. It has onboard memory to prevent command blocks. The six media control keys are available for easy access. Imperator Pro has two USB ports for USB Peripherals and up to 1000Hz report rate 1ms response time for a competitive edge to perform faster and better in games. It includes a gold plated USB 2.0 full speed connector and a 1.8 meter cable. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   VIA Technologies Inc. has released the VIA ARM DS (Digital Signage) system. Developed for the Android operating system, the VIA ARM DS is an all-in-one system-ready solution for managing dynamic displays for cost sensitive high volume segments where high performance video and connectivity are paramount for enhanced customer engagement. Applications range from kiosks, POS systems, video walls, and menu boards to TVOIP, cloud streaming, and Out of Home Advertising across a broad spectrum of retail, hospitality, education, and entertainment environments. Epan Wu, Head - VIA Embedded Platform Division said, “The VIA ARM DS system extends the familiarity of Android to dynamic digital signage displays, providing a cost-effective alternative to other products on the market. We welcome 3rd party software and system integration partners to join us to develop customized solutions based on the system.” For More Details See www.varindia.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NVIDIA has announced that the SAGA system is leveraging NVIDIA GPUs to dramatically improve the design and analysis of the delivery vehicles critical to the nation’s space program. Developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the SAGA supercomputer is used to tackle complex aeronautical problems. Harnessing the power of 640 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and providing up to 394 teraflops of peak performance, SAGA enables ISRO to accelerate and improve the design and analysis of new and existing satellite launch vehicles by enabling more complex and accurate design simulations. ISRO Sources claimed, “GPUs enabled us to reduce the time to create, simulate and verify a new launch vehicle design from weeks to days, while improving the overall quality and durability of the design dramatically. This level of supercomputing power has made a huge difference in our space program, by enabling us to continually refine and improve our predic

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) has held its global premiere of the ZTE Grand X dual-core 4.3-inch screen smartphone in Turkey, bringing high end mobile video and gaming experiences to a wider audience. The ZTE Grand X combines an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core chipset, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and a 4.3-inch qHD 16m colour (960 x 540 pixels) screen to deliver a rich mobile multimedia experience, in particular for gaming and video applications. The Grand X also has Mobile HD Link which enables sharing video content on TVs. Audio-visual features include a 5 MP camera, a 0.3 MP front-facing camera for video calls, Dolby Sound, HD Video Capture and HD Voice. The ZTE Grand X launched in Turkey is a 3G model, and is the first in the ZTE Grand series available outside China. The Grand series will include: Grand X for 3G and LTE dual core handsets; Grand Era for 3G and LTE quad-core handsets; and an Intel-powered handset. He Shiyou, EVP &a

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM has introduced new software IBM Content Navigator that helps employees tap into the broadest range of business information to do their jobs more effectively from their desktops, mobile phones and tablets.  The new offering allows traditional and mobile workers to securely access, manage and gain insight from structured and unstructured content. Built on open standards like HTML5 and CMIS, the new software aims to provide a consistent user experience across a variety of mobile devices, operating systems and content sources. Doug Hunt, Enterprise Content Management Leader, IBM said, “IBM is continuing to lead the way in helping organizations manage the content they rely upon for everyday operations.  It’s key that clients can now drive business insights from enterprise content and share collaboration content with others who need it.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Researchers at Duke University, Durham have developed a camera called AWARE-2, which can take 1,000 mega pixel pictures. Researchers claim that the age of consumer gigapixel cameras are just around the corner – and they’ve created a prototype gigapixel camera to back up their claim. David Brady, Duke said, “A computer processor essentially stitches all this information into a single highly detailed image. In many instances, the camera can capture images of things that photographers cannot see themselves but can then detect when the image is viewed later. The development of high-performance and low-cost microcamera optics and components has been the main challenge in our efforts to develop gigapixel cameras. While novel multiscale lens designs are essential, the primary barrier to ubiquitous high-pixel imaging turns out to be lower power and more compact integrated circuits, not the optics.” Michael Gehm, University of Arizona s

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Motorola Mobility has introduced the longest-lasting smartphone in the market, Motorola RAZRT MAXX, and Motorola RAZR V to India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Motorola RAZR MAXX will be available with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), and will receive an over-the-air upgrade to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) soon after. Motorola RAZR MAXX incorporates 17.6 hours of talk-time - on a single charge and comes with 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display along with 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture. Furthermore, Motorola RAZR MAXX is also "Business Ready," it features government-grade encryption that protects user's email, contacts and calendar. And, 8.35mm thin Motorola RAZR V comes with ColorBoost display technology along with dual-core 1.2GHz processor. "RAZR is synonymous with design excellence and both Motorola RAZR MAXX and Motorola RAZR V reflect that. With its fantastic batt

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Aston Martin has implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX with the assistance of Microsoft partner eBECS to address its pressing need to source a new accounting system. "It is no accident that we have chosen Microsoft Dynamics AX to sit at the very centre of our business - it works well with all our systems, providing us with an accounting platform that allows us to manage all the business challenges and opportunities. We have been able to get financial data generated quickly, our cash-flow management processes and aged debtors reports are rapidly processed, and it gives us much greater efficiency in reporting," said Bradley Yorke-Biggs, Strategy and IT Director, Aston Martin. Aston Martin also recognized the essential need to understand the profile of its customers and clearly distinguish them from people making more generalized inquiries. The company has since decided to extend its use of the financials module and incorpor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Wipro has launched its new 6-Core AMD FX 6100 processor-based SMB desktop. AMD FX 6100 is a high-speed and Windows 8 compatible CPU. The AMD FX 6100-based desktop is specifically designed keeping in mind the computing needs of the youth. Saumitra Rai, Head Client Systems, Wipro India, said, "Our endeavour is to offer high-end graphics and sharp HD entertainment to our users at an affordable price bracket.  AMD FX 6100 provides high performance with complete customization and flexibility for PC enthusiasts." Raghuraman P, Director, Transaction Business, AMD India, said, "We are excited with the launch of Wipro SMB desktop based on our award-winning 6-Core processor.  The AMD FX 6100 is a low-cost   advanced technology CPU with high-speed and Windows 8 compatibility. It enables the viewers to experience HD movies and enables smooth streaming of HD videos on internet. We are confident that the young consumers will t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Sophos has revealed the extent of malware targeting Android mobile phones, by analyzing detection statistics from its Sophos Mobile Security app. This data was taken from installations of the app on Android smartphones and tablets in 118 different countries around the world. Graham Cluley, Senior Security Consultant, Sophos, said, "The volume of malware that we have discovered highlights that mobile security is a real and growing problem, especially on Android. Criminals are creating more and more targeted malware for different platforms, and smartphone users need to wise up to the fact that security is no longer limited to PCs, but mobiles and tablets are also at risk if not sufficiently protected." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fujitsu Semiconductor has launched MB95560 series, a general-purpose 8bit microcontroller featuring wide operating voltage, 12-bit high-resolution ADC, dual FLASH with master/slave I2C controller of high performance-cost ratio. This series includes 24 types of products, supporting SOP24, TSSOP24 or QFN32 package.  Based on 8-bit microcontroller F2MC-New8FX Family, the MB95650 series adopts wide operating voltage in its design, so that the product can operate in a 1.8V~5.5V application environment. The series integrates a master/slave I2C controller and 12-bit high-resolution AD converter, employs the dual channel FLASH technology. Meanwhile, this series also integrates multiple channels of various timers, an on-chip oscillation circuit, a low-voltage detection circuit and a LIN-UART circuit as well. Furthermore, MB95650 employs the common development tools and software development environment of the "F2MC-New8FX Family&quo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Recently at Enterprise 2.0, Cisco has unveiled a variety of innovations that will make it possible for people to participate in social collaboration, regardless of where they are working, by bringing social capabilities to the devices and applications that workers use most often.  Cisco is extending WebEx cloud services to not only encompass what was formerly known as Quad, but also Cisco Callway, Cisco’s hosted TelePresence solutions. Cisco is aligning its Quad and Callway brands with WebEx where they join a portfolio of web conferencing and instant messaging solutions. The expanded WebEx family of cloud collaboration services will utilize the global data center footprint and operational excellence of the WebEx cloud to deliver cloud services.  Murali Sitaram, Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Collaboration Technology Group, Cisco, said, "More than ever, companies are rethinking the way they have traditionally d

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   LG has announced the enhancement of the Optimus family with the launch of LG Optimus 3D MAX and Optimus L7 Smartphones.  LG Optimus 3D MAX runs on Android 2.3, Gingerbread and features 4.3-inch screen with WVGA resolution & NOVA Display. Specifications include a Tri-dual 1.2Ghz OMAP4430 processor (Dual Core, Dual Channel & Dual Memory), 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot, two 5-mega pixel cameras, and a 1,520mAh battery, whereas Optimus L7 belongs to a range of “L-Style” devices and features 4.3-inch display that supports WVGA (480x800) pixel resolution and comes with a 5-mega pixel camera with LED Flash at the back and a 1.3-mega pixel front facing camera.  Soon Kwon, President South West Asia Region & MD, LG India, said, "LG Optimus 3D MAX is a natural and powerful evolution of LG Optimus 3D. Building on the phenomenal success of the original Optimus 3D, we are proud to unveil this u

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP has expanded its notebook portfolio with HP ENVY Ultrabook systems and HP ENVY Sleekbooks packed with the latest technologies for the entertainment experience.  The HP ENVY Ultrabook, Envy 4 available in 14-inch (35.56 cms) and Envy 6 available in 15.6-inch (39.62 cms)  diagonal display sizes, includes the latest third-generation Intel Core processors and offers up to eight or nine hours of battery life, respectively. The Ultrabook systems include an mSATA solid-state drive along with Intel Rapid Start, Intel Identity Protection Technology, Intel Smart Response and IntelSmart Connect technologies.    "We are delighted to offer a whole new range of 'thin & light' notebooks designed for performance, engineered for entertainment and built to deliver. Combining grace and elegance with the power to get things done, this new portfolio of Ultrabook systems and HP Sleekbooks truly defy the norms and deliver an unexp