VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V. has announced  that it has reached a licence agreement with Nasdaq to leverage SMARTS, the market surveillance platform offered by Nasdaq. Bolsa Mexicana de Valores will migrate its current real-time proprietary surveillance system to SMARTS for real-time capital market monitoring. With this upgrade, the role of surveillance at Bolsa is strengthened, with new international standards built into all of the monitoring processes, allowing for seamless consolidation of supervisory duties and making these duties more efficient and effective across the board. “The SMARTS solution fortifies the capacities of reviewing operations that are traded in our market, enhancing Bolsa’s abilities for detecting patterns of behaviour internationally recognized as contrary to good market practices. With the adoption of this technology and according to its strategic lines, Bolsa remains at the forefront in terms of the services offered to the general public, f

Vodafone has announced that Naveen Chopra, Director –Vodafone Business Services (VBS) will succeed Sunil Sood as Chief Operating Officer for Vodafone India with effect from  April 1, 2015 . This follows the earlier announcement of Sunil Sood to succeed Marten Pieters as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with effect from  April 1, 2015 . Naveen has, over the last five years ably led VBS into significant growth and expansion into new customer & product segments, to contribute substantially to Vodafone India’s business success. He has built carefully a strong VBS team across corporate and circles, and leaves the portfolio in a strong shape, to build on further. Naveen joined Vodafone in 2004 as Vice President – Corporate Marketing, and over the last ten years, has done stints as CMO and subsequently led successfully Mumbai and Rajasthan Circles as Business Head, before joining the Executive Committee as the Director – VBS. Naveen’s successor as Director –Vodafo

STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM32F0 Value Line ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller series, adding USB connectivity and larger Flash options to enhance support for cost-sensitive consumer, smart-energy, communication-gateway, and Internet-of-Things (IoT)applications. Six new devices now join the entry-level 32-bit STM32F0 Value Line to address the 8-bit and 16-bit applications. These extend developers’ flexibility to use the same microcontroller architecture fora wide range of needs, and allow the customer to introduce new products to market quickly and efficiently. The new devices open access to the wider STM32 portfolio, with over 600 part numbers leveraging the full spectrum of ARM Cortex-M cores and extensive development support. The new STM32F030CC and STM32F030RCValue Line devices feature 256KB program Flash in 48-pin or 64-pin LQFP packages. Moreover, USB 2.0 Full Speed interface is now available in four new STM32F070 Value Line devices compliant with Battery Charger Detec

SBI Card has unveiled a newer and improved version of the SBI Card mobile App 2.0 for its customers using iOS and Android handsets. The App will soon be extended to Windows smartphones and will be launched on 15th February, 2015 for the platform. Vijay Jasuja, CEO, SBI Card, said, “It gives us great pleasure to launch the 2.0 version of the SBI Card Mobile App. We had launched the SBI Card Mobile App 1.0 on iOS with an aim to further our brand promise to ‘Make Life Simple’ for our cardholders and offer consistent service experience. The 2.0 version of the Mobile App will ensure that our cardholders not only have easy access to relevant information about their account, but also view information on all the exciting offers, rewards catalogue and payment history. The first version of the SBI Card Mobile App had witnessed tremendous response with a total downloads of one lakh. The 2.0 version has also been received remarkably well by our cardholders with more than two lakh downloads

STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM32F0 Value Line ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller series, adding USB connectivity and larger Flash options to enhance support for cost-sensitive consumer, smart-energy, communication-gateway, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Six new devices now join the entry-level 32-bit STM32F0 Value Line to address the 8-bit and 16-bit applications. These extend developers’ flexibility to use the same microcontroller architecture for a wide range of needs, and allow the customer to introduce new products to market quickly and efficiently. The new devices open access to the wider STM32 portfolio, with over 600 part numbers leveraging the full spectrum of ARM Cortex-M cores and extensive development support. The new STM32F030CC and STM32F030RC Value Line devices feature 256KB program Flash in 48-pin or 64-pin LQFP packages. Moreover, USB 2.0 Full Speed interface is now available in four new STM32F070 Value Line devices compliant with Battery Charger De