VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Sony India has unveiled Xperia M4 Aqua, a smartphone highlighting Sony’s leadership in camera, design, battery and performance to an accessible price point. This unique device is waterproof and protects against water as well as fine dust particles. Xperia M4 Aqua represents Sony’s renewed mid-range focus with no compromises.  Offering the most popular standout features made famous by  Sony’s Xperia Z Series; camera capability, two-day battery life and waterproofing – Xperia M4 Aqua brings a proposition and price, products in this section of the market simply cannot match. Xperia M4 Aqua’s impressive 13MP rear camera is powered by Sony’s Exmor RS mobile sensor with a large F2.0 aperture, and ISO 3200 sensitivity. It’s powerful digital compact camera technology – and intelligent Superior Auto Mode simplifies your interactions, automatically sensing up to 52 different scenarios, for vivid shots in low-light or strong backlight every time. Just as with the rear, the 5MP selfie cam

Vodafone has published its Connected Farming in India report which concludes that the introduction of simple mobile services designed to help small-scale farmers in emerging markets could boost the farm gate incomes of 7 crore Indian farmers by over Rs. 56,000 crore in 2020. The Vodafone report, based on research commissioned from Accenture Strategy with support from the Vodafone Foundation, has found that the average farming household lives on less than Rs.250 per day with many farmers struggling to feed and educate their families. Simple mobile services could enhance earnings of almost two-thirds of such farmers by an average of Rs.8,000/- per year, creating a positive impact in communities. The Connected Farming in India report was released by Shri Raghav Chandra, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, at a conference organized by ASSOCHAM on the potential of mobile to transform agricultural value chains for enabling e-Kranti. Releasing the report, Shri Raghav Chand

Array Networks has bagged a defence order worth $250,000 for WAN Optimization and Access Gateways (SSL VPN) solutions. The project involves improving the network performance in remote locations, securing critical operational data and enabling VSAT deployments. Array Networks has constituted a focussed team and will be working very closely with partners and technical establishments specializing in the defence sector to provide the best technology available. The company aims to derive at least 25% of their revenues from this sector in the near future. Shibu Paul, Regional Sales Director – India, ME and SEA at Array Networks, said, “Our ultimate aim is to deliver fully-integrated, mission-critical applications to the defence sector by providing full access to the applications and services they normally require. We are working very closely with our partners in this area to improve the network performance in remote locations with VSAT deployments and other strategies to provide a highl

Cementing its commitment to help SMEs go digital in India, Google India has announced the launch of a nationwide initiative to help small medium businesses to go digital and get online presence on Google search and Google maps, without having to invest in a website or domain. As part of this new initiative, Google India will get 20 million SMEs online by 2017 by using a simple mobile-based app called, “Google My Business”, that will help businesses to create and manage their business information across Google products for free in both Hindi and English. With over 300 million plus Internet users and over 6 million new Internet users coming online every month, Indian users are increasingly looking for information about businesses online. There is a massive information gap for local businesses on the Internet today, out of the total 51 million SMEs in India, less than 5 to 6 per cent have an online presence. With this new product, Google aims to bridge this gap through a massive feet

Cyberoam has launched CR10wiNG, the “fastest and most affordable UTM appliance” with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities for the SOHO/ROBO markets. The CR10wiNG wireless appliance supports 802.11 n/b/g standards and up to eight virtual access points. It delivers UTM security features over WLAN to offer enterprise-level security and meet the requirement of mobility in this segment. Cyberoam CR10wiNG offers high performance with firewall throughput of 400Mbps and UTM throughput of 60Mbps. The wireless networks in organizations face huge risk of information theft due to their inability to trace users, especially guest users, within the network. Additionally, lack of IT security staff and budgetary constraints make it difficult for the SOHO/ROBO segment to find security solutions that are adequate, cost-effective and easy to manage. Also, organizations with distributed networks, remote and branch offices, especially in sectors like retail stores, logistics and transportation, and Utility dist

With topics ranging from Digitization to Mobile Governance and Skill Development to the growth in Local Manufacturing, the 13th VARINDIA IT Forum – 2015 that served as a meeting ground for the who’s who of the ICT industry and various government agencies and PSUs was an unprecedented success. Following the success of the previous year events, the Annual Forum this year was divided into two sessions –Digital India Conclave which formed the morning session and the Information Technology Forum which was held in the evening. The day-long event kick-started with a Breakfast Session which saw participation from 25 PSU CIOs in the areas like Surface Transport, Roads, Petrochemicals, BFSI and was around the topic – “Digitization in PSUs”. The morning session was graced by Dr Arvind Gupta, Head IT Cell – BJP, as the Chief Guest, as well as other dignitaries who included Dr C. Muralikrishnakumar, Sr Advisor – CIT & I, Niti Aayog; Shri Savitur Prasad, Principal Integrated Financial Advis