VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Motorola has rolled out its Moto X Style smartphone. It is the perfect blend of premium performance and design – a phone that is truly beautiful inside and out. It will be available for pre-orders exclusively on Flipkart from 14th October midnight at INR29,999 for 16GB and INR31,999 for 32GB, with multiple exciting launch offers during the Flipkart Big Billion Day sale. It has a stunning 5.7-inch Quad HD display with 520 ppi, that’s enhanced by dual front stereo speakers with smart boost. It is backed with 3,000mAh battery and it is world’s fastest-charging smartphone that get 8 hours of power in just 15 minutes with the in-box turbocharger. User can take crystal-clear photos and 4K videos on the 21MP camera with zero shutter lag and rapid focus. It also possesses a 5MP front-facing camera featuring a wide angle lens and flash. The smartphone runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 1.8 GHz Hexa-core CPU and with a ... Read more

Aircel has announced that it selected Tech Mahindra to roll out a comprehensive set of Internet-of-Things (IoT) service offerings. Tech Mahindra is providing the IoT services in association with Aeris Communications. Aircel’s strong presence in enterprise market combined with the IoT solutions from Tech Mahindra will give an edge to position it as one of the leaders in machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT services in India. “M2M and IoT are enabling business transformation around the world and are expected to see an unprecedented growth in the Indian Market,” said Suren Amarasekera, Chief Enterprise Officer, Aircel. “The need of the hour for digital enterprises is innovative technologies that would transform the way organizations operate. With Tech Mahindra and Aeris, Aircel is well poised to deliver on this through a comprehensive suite of M2M and IoT services.” Read more

With the theme of “A World with One Trillion Connected Devices”, Intel is hosting its second Intel India Academic Forum 2015 in New Delhi. The two-day conclave will feature talk tracks on Communications & Networking, Sensing & Security and Large-Scale Machine Learning, with the aim of accelerating technology innovation and academic research. Marking the occasion, Intel also announced the setting up of 100 Internet of Things (IoT) centres across Indian academia institutions and awarded the Intel India PhD Fellowships for 2015 to five students. As part of Intel’s continued efforts to promote innovation and research with higher education students, 100 Intel IoT centres at academic institutions across India are being supported with Intel Galileo boards, which are specifically designed for makers, students, educators, and DIY electronics enthusiasts to build product prototypes. Intel Galileo boards are equipped with the required platforms and technologies and are aimed at empow...

Extending the reach of its security intelligence sharing network, HP has allied with Hitachi, designed to capture and share Japan-specific threat information. Through this partnership, Hitachi will join the HP Global Threat Intelligence Alliance and contribute threat intelligence to HP’s existing security information sharing platform, HP Threat Central. The platform delivers automated and open sharing of information and contextual analysis that allows organizations to take action. This intelligence will also inform periodically published reports from HP Security Research. To arm enterprises against an ever-growing array of threats, HP Security Research created the HP Global Threat Intelligence Alliance to foster their collaboration. The alliance program provides members with access to private, value-added intelligence from leading industry researchers, analysis of underground forums, and threat actor profiles. In return, these participant enterprises contribute their own intelli...

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has finalized 37 consultants for 88 smart city projects for preparation of city-wise Smart City Action Plans. As per MoUD, the remaining 10 cities in the North-Eastern states and Union Territories will finalize their consultants by this weekend, whereas Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are still to nominate one city each for smart city project. CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions, in association with Pri Move Infrastructure Development Consultants and Probity Soft Private Ltd, have bagged contracts for six cities, followed by Jones Lang La Salle Property Consultants India, in association with Townland Consultants, and Tata Consulting Engineers, ICRA Management Consulting, in association with NJS Engineers India and All India Institute of Local Self-Government, have bagged five cities each... Read more

Google has launched the next two Nexus smartphones, manufactured by Chinese firm Huawei and Korean electronics major LG. The Nexus phone manufactured by Huawei is named as Nexus 6P and the LG made phone is called Nexus 5X. Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP Android, Chromecast and Chrome OS at Google, said in company’s official blog that the Nexus 6P is the first all-metal-body Nexus phone. Built in collaboration with Huawei, this 5.7″ phone is crafted from aeronautical-grade aluminium, with a USB Type-C port for fast charging, a powerful 64-bit processor, and a 12.3MP camera sensor with massive 1.55µm pixels (hello, better photos!). The 5.7-inch device comes with WQHD AMOLED display and framed upon an all-aluminium metallic body. The phone uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 processor and 2GB RAM. The phone is supported by 3,450mAh battery... Read more

AT&T and IBM plan to deliver a scalable mobile cloud solution to help protect corporate data and apps. IBM and AT&T’s new approach enables a workforce to be productive without compromising security and the mobile user experience. Steve McGaw, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Business Solutions, explained that more employees are using mobile devices to be more productive. At the same time, data and apps are moving to the cloud. The changes are exciting, but security needs to be top-of-mind. Trusted collaborators like IBM are helping them better address changing business models. Together, they are giving options to deliver highly secure mobile access to cloud apps... Read more