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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BlackBerry has announced a strategic partnership with Samsung Electronics to provide a highly secure mobility solution for Android.  As a result, early next year, enterprise customers will have a new choice: a tightly integrated, end-to-end secure solution that brings together BES12: a cross-platform EMM solution by BlackBerry with Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets that are embedded with Samsung KNOX. With KNOX, Samsung has created a set of Android devices capable of safeguarding enterprise data with multiple layers of hardware- and software- based protection. BlackBerry brings to the partnership a class-leading cross-platform enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution and a highly secure network infrastructure. Working together, the companies can now offer enterprises with a new and highly secure mobility option.  “We share the goal to provide enterprises with the most secure mobility solutions through thi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Videocon Telecom has announced their network upgrade to 2.75G EDGE (Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution), which is a 3G standard Technology. This 2.75 G EDGE Network is capable of delivering consistent speeds up to 473.6 Kbps which is almost six times the maximum speeds delivered by conventional 2G Network. The company’s strategy to upgrade to 2.75G EDGE Network is based on the fact that very large audiences of approx 80% of Mobile internet users still have 2G handsets and can be catered to by an enhanced 2.75G EDGE Network. Further, the 3G telcos offer 3G Network only in select pockets, which deteriorate the customer experience while moving from 3G pocket to 2G network. Here with 2.75G EDGE network, the telco will be able to offer a seamless network and experience to the Customers. The telco has rolled out a full-fledged marketing campaign around it and had developed a very striking and prominent logo unit for 2

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE  Fortinet joins Equinix Cloud Exchange Fortinet has announced that it has formed an alliance with Equinix, Inc., joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange to provide enterprises and service providers the most mature, scalable and reliable security solutions across multiple cloud architectures. Fortinet’s industry-leading, high- capacity firewall technologies deliver exceptional security functionality, throughput and ultra-low latency, enabling security, flexibility, scalability and manageability across customer data centers, while leveraging the benefits of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Chris Sharp, Vice-President of Cloud Innovation, Equinix, said, “As businesses move more and more sensitive data to cloud infrastructures, the addition of Fortinet’s proven, carrier-class solutions to our Cloud Exchange will enable large global customers to deploy a robust virtualized security infrastructure wit

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE  LAVA International has announced the exclusive launch of its first Windows-powered smartphone – Iris Win1 – under the Lava brand, on Flipkart. This device marks the entry of the brand into the Windows phone market which covers 10% overall smartphone market in India. The LAVA Iris Win1 is a 4-inch device with a sharp WVGA TN display that shows 16 million colours for a rich viewing experience. The screen features G+F, 2-Point Touch panel and sensors like accelerometer, proximity sensor and ambient Light Sensor. The Iris Win1 runs on 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad-Core Processor and is powered by 1GB RAM. It comes with 8GB of internal storage that is expandable to 32GB, providing ample space for installing heavy games, applications and multimedia content. It is powered by a 1,950 mAh Li-Ion battery which delivers longer working hours than most of its competing smartphones that run on Windows platform. This device comes with a Flip Cov