VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Accenture has helped Star India to develop, launch and deliver its over-the-air programming to India’s online, digitally-enabled consumers on almost any mobile device. Called hotstar, the innovative service debuted on January 7 through Star India’s wholly-owned subsidiary, and when fully deployed will be available to India’s entire population. The innovative hotstar service, built on the Accenture Video Solution (AVS) software platform, will be funded primarily through advertising, using the platform’s new digital advertising functions. Taking advantage of a fully cloud-based infrastructure, hotstar will be able to serve the entire country with a catalogue of more than 45,000 movies and television series. Leveraging AVS, Star can deliver broadcast-quality content to consumers on a wide variety of devices over Wi-Fi, 4G, 3G and 2G networks, including those with limited bandwidth resources such as 2G feature phones. “With hotstar, our ambition is nothing less than the establishm

Snapdeal has announced that it has acquired FreeCharge. This is acquisition sets up Snapdeal to build the most impactful digital commerce ecosystem in India. With this acquisition, Snapdeal will be offering the widest range of products and services, including financial services, mobile recharge and utility payments with an exponentially growing user base of over 40 million. Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder & CEO, Snapdeal, said, “The age of monolithic ecommerce platforms is over. It is now time to build an impactful digital commerce ecosystem in India that is multidimensional and inclusive, delivering well-defined experiences to consumers. With this game-changing partnership with FreeCharge, we have significantly enhanced our user base and now offer all our customers access to the widest selection of products and services online, making digital commerce an even more intrinsic part of their lives. We are thrilled to have the very talented and supercharged team of FreeCharge, under Kuna

D-Link has made a major breakthrough in customer service support by introducing the revolutionary “D-Link Direct Service – DDS” during mid-2013. Following the overwhelming response to DDS, the company has now decided to extend this service to customers present in C & D Class cities as well. As a result, the new and enhanced service support system will make the turnaround time faster and increase the footprint for DDS pan India. The highly appreciated and admired D-Link Direct Service with its new Regional model will be backed by D-Link Service Centres (DSCs) along with D-Link Service Partners (DSP) and D-Link Authorized Collection centres (DAC). So with a presence in over 150 cities, DDS will now offer faster and reliable service to customers across India. All regional DDS Centres are equipped with the state-of-the-art BGA (Ball Grid Array) facilities to support quick resolution. D-Link Direct Service (DDS) benefit can be availed on all D-Link ADSL Broadband, Wireless and sele

LAVA International has launched of its latest offering “Icon”. The new device redefines user’s experience with a magnificent camera and customized Star OS.Sporting a premium metallic look, the Icon is 7.7mm thick which makes it extremely comfortable to operate. Icon boosts a 5-megapixel front camera with Omni Vision sensor, F2.4 aperture, 4P lens, BSI-II sensor with blue glass filter. The camera comes with face beauty mode which automatically adjusts the picture to create a visually more pleasing photo by making the faces in the picture look young and fresh. In addition to the face beauty mode, Icon comes with a range of other features such as Face Detection, HDR, Panorama Mode, Smile Shot & Multi view found in professional DSLRs. On the rear, Icon features a 13-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, SONY EXMOR sensor with 5P lens and a blue glass filter. The camera lets user record and view full HD videos on the expansive 5” HD screen. IPS display with full lamination furthe