VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To innovate next-generation “open-standard” collaboration tools, a two-day  hackathon event named “Future of Collaboration”  will be organized linking together the best minds of the Silicon Valley and Bangalore. The event will be sponsored by  Tata Communications . During the hack fest, over 200 developers in both locations will work together, across borders, to rapidly develop, prototype and innovate applications using new web standards to address everyday collaboration challenges. These will be built over new  open API (application programming interface) , including Internet-based technologies such as WebRTC. This platform will take communications and collaboration to the next level. Julie Woods-Moss, Chief Marketing Officer & CEO of Nextgen, Tata Communications , said, “Tata Communications is excited to sponsor this hackathon which will catalyze new ideas, apps and tools for collaboration based on open systems. Bringing

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Using the industry estimated average of five people per household,  Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) announced that it has achieved a new milestone to provide enhanced TV experience to over 150 million viewers and more than 30 million digital homes in the Pay-TV market in India. Jeff White, Senior Vice-President – Sales, India and SAARC, Cisco , said, “The Indian pay-TV industry now accounts for nearly a third of Cisco’s subscriber homes in the Asia-Pacific region. We are excited about our leadership in the industry, deep commitment to our customers and sharp focus on innovation in India.” In addition, Cisco plans to support the cable TV industry to meet the government’s mandate to roll out digital addressable systems in a phased manner by 31st December, 2014. Jesper Andersen, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Service Provider Video Technology Group, Cisco , stated, “Achieving the milestone of over 30 million digital homes in

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In order to create secure and high-performing end-to-end desktop virtualization solutions for organizations using Citrix, Microsoft and VMware’s software, Dell(NASDAQ:DELL)  has announced the addition of  Dell Wyse ThinOS 8 firmware and the  Dell Wyse D10D thin client  to its Cloud Client Computing portfolio.  Steve Lalla, Executive Director of Marketing & Chief Strategy Officer, Dell Cloud Client Computing , said, “Dell is committed to empowering enterprises of any size with the most secure, manageable and turnkey virtual desktop solutions possible. With the combination of the Dell Wyse D10D and ThinOS 8, we are delivering our customers great value for their IT investments. These solutions allow customers to address security challenges with a cost-effective, high-performing VDI solution so they can focus on growing their businesses.”  Dell Wyse designed  ThinOS 8 firmware as well as the D10D thin client to secure the virtu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The Government of India is planning to take a control over the dumping of IT products in the Indian industry, as day by day India is becoming the dumping yard for electronic products. As a result of this, from July 3 onwards, IT products in India will also carry Indian Standard (IS) certification from the  Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) . India is also planning to ban all electronic products from India that do not carry BIS mark. The Indian Government has informed that it will not make any relaxation in this rule. 15 categories of products will fall under the registration process started by the Government. Therefore, these products need to be registered under BIS. According to  J. V. Ramamurthy, President, MAIT , said, “More than 1,400 products have been given for getting BIS certification. However, we received only one product with this certification. The Government has assigned only 9 labs to dot the tests. The labs must

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Embedded with intelligent sensing technology to function even in the dark, an advanced wireless combo of keyboard and mouse 8900P  has been launched by  RAPOO .  The major technical specifications of the combo includes  the availability of 5.8GHz Super anti-interference wireless connection, 4D scroll wheel mouse, ultra-thin suspended chocolate keyboard, brushed stainless steel metal texture, zoom-in and zoom-out buttons. The combo also includes adjustable  800/1600 DPI high-precision laser engine technology . The scroll wheel mouse is present with 8 hotkeys such as play / pause, mute, volume controls and others. Sunil Srivastava, India Sales & Marketing Manager, RAPOO India , said, "We are excited to launch our first 5GHz RAPOO 8900P wireless combo for HTPC and Media players with many advanced features. We specialize in understanding user requirements and meeting them and this product is a case in point...... Se