VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Konica Minolta has announced its acquisition of the Production Printing business of Monotech Systems Limited. The acquisition will come into effect from June 1, 2015. MSL is currently a distributor for Konica Minolta in India. With offices all across India, Monotech Systems Limited has a large customer base. Upon completion of the acquisition, Konica Minolta will operate out of 40 locations providing direct sales and service support to its customers. Under the agreement, all Konica Minolta customers with Monotech Systems will be transferred to it and the staff serving to production printing division of Monotech Systems will also be transferred to Konica Minolta. The other three distributors HCL Infosystems Limited, KMI Business Technologies Private Limited and TechNova Imaging Systems Limited will continue to be our valued business associates and operate, as earlier. Yuji Nakata, MD, Konica Minolta India, said, “We thank our customers for their unstinted support to our brand. ...

Atos has opened the IT Integration Testing Lab for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It marks the successful completion of a major milestone in the run up to the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the start of 200,000 hours of IT testing. Although invisible to most people, the IT provided by Atos plays an essential role in making the Games a success. For example, Atos provides the systems that beam the results around the world in less than a second for use on television, online and on multiple devices; the portal to support the recruitment and training of 70,000 volunteers and the solution that processes 300,000 accreditation passes so those involved in the Games can access the areas they need during the Games as well as providing those in the Olympic Family (media, TOP Partners, athletes and sports officials) travelling from overseas with a visa to enter Brazil. Just like the athletes, the Atos IT team needs to prepare for the Games and it is in th...

IEEE has released global survey results indicating that the human mind will be the technology of choice to control devices used in everyday life in 2025. The results from the survey, which had a sample of more than 3,000 technology enthusiasts, note a decline in the significance of cellphone and mobile devices as the primary means of controlling technology, and highlight autonomous vehicles as the preferred mode of transportation in the future. “As technology evolves, it becomes more and more integrated with our daily lives and its physical presence shrinks,” said IEEE member Diogo Monica, security lead at Docker. “Consumer technology is advancing beyond the constraints of mobile devices to wearable form-factors, and the next step in this evolution will be the ability to control technology in a hands-free way using brainpower alone. As a growing number of connected devices produce ongoing flows of data, security measures will need to keep pace to protect personal and corporate inf...

Adobe has announced that Nissan has deployed Adobe’s digital marketing solution, Adobe Marketing Cloud globally as a unified digital marketing platform for Renault-Nissan Alliance, to help the company deliver an integrated customer experience and consistent image across its multiple brands. In the past, Nissan had executed digital marketing tactics under the direction of each region, preventing the company from maintaining a unified image, and proving challenging to fully leverage the power of the global brand. Nissan’s Global Marketing Division made the decision to transform its digital marketing direction by deploying a shared digital marketing platform for Renault-Nissan Alliance, that could draw from the capabilities of all regions. The company selected Adobe Marketing Cloud, together with Adobe Digital Publishing as its corporate publishing solution. Nissan made the decision on the basis that Adobe’s solution was the best to support the customer purchasing experience using mu...

Wipro and GK Software AG have signed a partnership deal designed to achieve fast and flexible implementations of SAP Store Management applications by GK, for customers across the world. The purview of this partnership covers leading store-operations software products, which are tightly integrated with SAP software. These include applications such as SAP Point-of-Sale by GK, SAP Open Scale Management by GK, SAP Store Device Control by GK, SAP Label and Poster Printing by GK and SAP Offline Mobile Store by GK, which offer state-of-the-art omni-channel capabilities for international retailers. Natarajan Srinivasan, Global Head, SAP Application Services, Wipro Ltd, said, “Our partnership with GK Software AG will enable better collaboration across business functions to consistently provide end-to-end integrated solutions for omni-channel retailers. The solutions enabled by this partnership are capable of organizing thousands of stores and devices, hundreds of thousands of articles, a...

With the launch of Airtel Zero, telecom giant Bharti Airtel has faced unrelated debate on net neutrality with regard to the product. Airtel Zero is an innovative and open marketing platform that will allow customers to access mobile applications “free of cost”. “First and most important point, Airtel Zero is ‘free’ for all our consumers and open to all marketers. Yes, open to all – big orSrini Gopalan Director airtel Airtel clears the air surrounding Airtel Zero small. There is also a high level of misinformation surrounding the product, which is not surprising since the very concept of Net Neutrality is a bit misunderstood,” said Srini Gopalan, Director – Consumer Business, Bharti Airtel. “While opinions from critics of the product are very welcome, it is pertinent that we set the record straight and look at some key facts relating to Airtel Zero and the benefits it brings to customers and the industry alike,” he added... See more

OPPO India has launched N3 in India. With a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) display, it has a pixel density of 403ppi. The uber stylish OPPO N3 has a motorized swivel camera with PI 2.0+ technology that can track objects as they move, and can rotate up to 206 degrees. The smartphone is equipped with a multi-frame synthesis super-sampling technique that can combine multiple low-resolution RAW images into an ultra-high resolution picture with greater details. This flagship device is set apart with incredible specs, the N3 is sure to entice the envy of its competitors. A 16MP Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens offers a maximum resolution of 64MP; a pixel size of 1.34 micron and integration of 5 optical lenses which makes it the perfect device for photography enthusiasts. OPPO N3 meets the growing consumer demand by offering ample features that makes your life easy. N3 users can seamlessly multitask and go beyond the limitations of a traditional Smartphone. The double exposure f...