VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Vodafone has launched its Vodafone SuperNet 4G service in Maharashtra. Vodafone SuperNet 4G was launched in Nagpur by Shri Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Hon’ble Minister of Energy and Excise, Government of Maharashtra and the Guardian Minister of Nagpur, and will be made available in several more towns and cities across the state by March 2017. Built on the efficient 2,100 MHz band, this state-of-the-art network will enable Vodafone SuperNet 4G customers to access internet via mobile with speeds across a range of smart devices, including Mi-Fi and dongles. Vodafone 4G services can be readily accessed from 4G-enabled handsets, offered by leading smartphone manufacturers and available across the country... Read More

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Minister of Electronics and IT & Law & Justice, Government of India, has urged the public- and private-sector banks to promote adoption of digital payments as part of the Government of India's "Digi Dhan Abhiyan". In line with the priority of the Government of India to promote Digital Payment transactions, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has taken a number of initiatives not only to offer better products in terms of technology and user-friendliness but also to inform, educate and enable citizens in the country on digital transactions.  In this context, Union Minister of Electronics and IT and Law & Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad met with the senior representatives of the public- and private-sector banks and other key departments... Read More

Reliance Jio has signed strategic partnership with Niantic - publisher and developer of Pokemon Go.  With this partnership, thousands of Reliance Digital Stores and select partner premises in India will appear as 'PokeStops' or 'Gyms' in the Pokemon Go game beginning December 14, 2016. This launch is in line with Jio’s mission to empower Indians with opportunities that are fuelled by the power of data and a Digital Life and to delight them on an ongoing basis with entertainment-based apps, such as ‘Pokemon Go,’ the leading app in the gaming category... ReadMore

To help parents get the most out of their experience and help their child navigate their experience, Facebook has launched the Parent’s Portal in collaboration with parents, teens and safety experts around the world.  Facebook recently updated its Safety Center and Bullying Prevention Hub and introduced a Parent's Portal, which provides parent specific advice as part of the Safety Center. Facebook's Parent's Portal includes guides for parents about how Facebook works, tips for talking with your kids about staying safe online and resources from experts around the world. It includes guides for parents about how Facebook works, tips for talking with your kids about staying safe online and resources from experts around the world.... Read More  

Vodafone India has announced the launch of Vodafone M-Pesa PAY, an easy and ready to use digital payment solution to enable merchants and retailers to receive payments from their customers without any exchange of cash.  To start using this digital payment solution, retailers and merchants simply have to download Vodafone M-Pesa app and register for Vodafone M-Pesa PAY as a merchant. Once registered, they can notify individual customer to make the payment due. Customers just need to click on the notification and make payment digitally using their M-Pesa wallet, bank account and debit or credit card.... Read More  

Under this arrangement, Gooee will be the first "full stack operating platform" providing Bajaj Electricals a service driven framework to deliver IoT applications to their discerning customers. IoT refers to the connection of devices other than computers and smartphones to the internet. "Intelligent lighting is emerging as the next big thing for new age electrical solution companies across the globe. LaaS (Lighting as a Service) is gaining momentum and we at Bajaj Electricals see a huge ‘Technology Convergence’, with rapid technology evolution in every field. The IoT and mobile integration with lighting fixtures being the sensing point, we can create spaces which are personalized and still open. This will help in better management of space, comfort and ensuring energy efficiency at each step," says R Sundararajan, executive president & country head, Luminaires Business Unit, Bajaj Electricals... Read More

Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunication service providers, is offering gaming enthusiasts a new destination Vodafone U Game-a-Thon, as part of the first ever 15-day online gaming fest in the country. Available on Google Play Store, the gaming extravaganza kicked off on December 1, and includes several gaming categories including sports, simulation, puzzles, among others.            Gaming has a huge Indian following. 71 per cent smartphones users play mobile games on a regular basis and it is the second highest engaging category after chat apps. It is a growing trend amongst youth in India... Read More

Arrow Electronics has joined hands with Vodafone, a global market leader for cellular network services and managed internet of things (IoT) connectivity to market Vodafone's IoT services as part of its eVolve IoT offering.   Vodafone's solutions and services expand and enhance Arrow's go-to-market strategy in the fast-growing market segments within IoT. Arrow's extensive IoT technology solutions stack and professional services are now complemented with differentiated network services from a global leader.   The combination of Arrow and Vodafone solutions creates a compelling offering with global network coverage, wireless and embedded edge technology, system integration, data platform and cloud integration, enterprise computing, IoT edge device connectivity and application enablement for millions of connected devices.... Read More  

Cloudera brings various value-added services (VAS) for four key important sectors that include financial, telecom, health and cybersecurity. By seeing the growing concern on the cybersecurity across the globe, Cloudera works with more than 180 leading global financial organizations, including Allstate, Bank of Mandiri, DBS Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Suisse to realize business value in the areas like customer Insights, Fraud Detection, Cybersecurity, Risk and Compliance. In an exclusive interaction with VARINDIA, Amr Awadllah, Founder, CTO, Cloudera, said that financial institutions have many challenges to overcome as they move to embrace digital transformation, including customer journeys, fragmentation, security, privacy and data quality. Cloudera brings its enterprise data hub from financial firms that need to address these complex business challenges and enable faster and more accurate analysis while adhering to regulations and requisite security a

Ricoh has introduced a Printer-as-a-Service platform (PaaS). The lineup consists of two models - SP 313 SFNW_V, Printer, Copier, Scanner & Fax and SP 313DNW_V, Printer.  The PaaS platform developed exclusively ensures the machine uptime is maximized through real-time monitoring of machine status and proactively taking care of maintenance requirements.  Through this platform, one can pay a fixed cost per print irrespective of coverage area, bringing in predictability in print costs and ensuring complete transparency in usage.... Read More  

Dell EMC has integrated PowerEdge servers with its hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio. This move by Dell EMC will help customers move forward by incorporating the technology they want and need to become more agile, flexible and competitive. Customers opting for Dell EMC VxRail Appliances will now benefit from the performance and reliability of PowerEdge servers with the latest Intel Broadwell platforms and a new 3-node entry for a lower starting point. New addressable use-cases include: Storage heavy workloads including Big Data Analytics and Microsoft Exchange can take advantage of high-capacity VxRail nodes... Read More

Microsoft Accelerator is built to empower start-ups and Wipro has entered into a partnership that will provide start-ups with greater opportunities to innovate and grow their business. This announcement was made at the accelerator’s flagship event – Think Next 2016 that brings together thought leaders who are driving transformation via innovation. Think Next 2016 also marked the graduation of 13 start-ups from its ninth cohort. This partnership is part of Microsoft Accelerator #CoInnovate program which provides start-ups with more go-to-market (GTM) opportunities by working with enterprise businesses. Wipro will also refer select start-ups for Microsoft Accelerator programs and events. Under the partnership, referred start-ups will gain access to Wipro Open Innovation initiatives, such as:  *             Global GTM reach to rapidly build scale *             An opportunity to integrate their solutions with select Wipro solutions  *             Wipro will help

TeamIndus, a space technology enterprise, is pleased to announce commercial launch contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for its historic mission to land a spacecraft on the Moon as part of its bid to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The TeamIndus Spacecraft has been designed and developed in Bangalore by a 100-person engineering team including 20 retired ISRO scientists. In a launch window starting on the 28th of December, 2017, the PSLV will inject the spacecraft into an orbit 880 km x 70,000 km around the Earth. The Spacecraft will then undertake a 21 day journey to soft land in Mare Imbrium, a region in the North-Western hemisphere of the Moon. After landing in Mare Imbrium, the Spacecraft will deploy all its payload including the TeamIndus Rover that will traverse 500 meters on the Moon’s surface in order to accomplish its Google Lunar XPRIZE objectives... Read More

S AP SE has announced the launch of the SAP Digital Boardroom in India. The SAP Digital Boardroom is a planned breakthrough digital approach that aims to contextualize and simplify performance reporting across areas of business in real time. Built on the SAP BusinessObjects Cloud solution, SAP Digital Boardroom is expected to utilize line-of-business data from the SAP S/4HANA suite and SAP HANA Cloud Platform to provide a single source of truth about a company’s critical business metrics. This approach aims to help companies monitor and drive a change in the digital economy. "Technology is changing the rules of business and disruption is becoming the norm. As business leaders, we need to absorb, understand and adapt with agility and speed to constantly changing circumstances,” said Deb Deep Sengupta, President & Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “The SAP Digital Boardroom will enable an interactive board discussion, and give decision – makers

Airtel Payments Bank today announced that customers will get free Airtel talktime for every rupee deposited.  Any customer opening a savings account with Airtel Payments Bank, will get one minute of talk time on his/her Airtel mobile for every Rupee deposited. For e.g. if a customer opens an account with a deposit of Rs 1,000 then he/she will get 1,000 minutes of free talk time on his/her Airtel mobile number. The talk time can be used for calling all over India and this benefit is applicable on first time deposits only. Airtel Payments Bank has rolled out pilot services in Rajasthan with the objective of testing its systems and processes ahead of full scale pan-India launch. Customers in towns and villages across Rajasthan will now be able to open bank accounts at Airtel retail outlets, which will also act as Airtel banking points and offer a range of basic, convenient banking services. Airtel Payments Bank will commence the pilot with banking points at 10,000 A

SAP SE has pledged an initiative to touch one billion lives in the Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) region by the year 2020. As part of this employee-led, crowdsourced initiative, SAP India has adopted the cause of bettering cancer research in the country. To mark the occasion of completing 20 years in the country, SAP India has announced their collaboration with the Ramesh Nimmagadda Cancer Foundation (RNCF), an NGO focussed on cancer data research. RNCF provides its custom-made data collection software OncoCollect, to institutions across India and also assists them with resources such as hardware and manpower. “At SAP, everything we do is guided by our vision to help the world run better and improve people’s lives,” said Deb Deep Sengupta, President & Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “Together with RNCF, we aim to speed up data collection and analysis for better cancer treatment for patients in India and make a significant social impact in the country. I

Emerson Network Power today announced the appointment of Rob Johnson as CEO and officially commenced a campaign to rebrand the standalone company as Vertiv. Vertiv is a global provider of mission-critical infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments. The company, which is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio has more than 20,000 employees and more than 25 manufacturing and assembly facilities worldwide. Platinum Equity acquired the business today from Emerson in a transaction valued in excess of $4 billion and Emerson has also retained a minority interest in the company. Johnson, most recently an operating partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, spent 10 years at American Power Conversion (APC), a leader in data center infrastructure.  He was president and CEO of APC when the company was sold to Schneider Electric for $6.1 billion in 2007.  While at APC he also served