VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Acer has become the “No.1 Gaming Brand” in India across laptops, desktops and monitors as per IDC’s Q4 2017 report. Acer has emerged as the leading brand with 25.4% market share in the gaming laptops and 41.9% marketing share in gaming monitors and beats Dell, HP, MSI and Asus by a significant margin in Q4 2017. Acer gained the top spot in the gaming market with its critically acclaimed and widely popular Predator and Nitro gaming series. Acer in India has the widest portfolio of PC gaming products which includes laptops, desktops, monitors and accessories specifically designed for beginners to professional gamers. Commenting on the achievement, Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO & Consumer Business Head, Acer said, “We are extremely delighted to achieve the No.1 position in the gaming category across laptops, desktops and monitors. Our strong commitment in developing exceptional gaming notebooks, desktops, and monitors has helped us to win the hearts and minds of our custom...

HP Inc has announced a new line of sanitizable and secure laptops, displays, and all-in-one desktops. Designed for healthcare workers in hospitals and clinics, the new laptops can be easily cleaned with germicidal wipes, without the worry that moisture will damage the electronics. The products address the problem of health care-associated infections (HAIs), which result in 1.7 million illnesses in the U.S. each year - and 99,000 deaths. The laptops have integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) readers for single sign-on authentication, which allows workers to sign in by tapping their badges on the laptop’s touchpad. It also has fingerprint identification. HP has announced the products at the HIMSS18 health care event.... Read More

FICCI has announced in an official statement that it has appointed Dilip Chenoy as its Director General. Chenoy had been the Managing Director and CEO of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), from which he resigned in late 2015 amid reports that the government was unhappy with the functioning of the skills development body. He was appointed by the previous Congress-led UPA government. In his earlier stint, he served as the Director General (DG) of SIAM and Deputy DG .... Read More

Hackers infiltrated Tesla (Electric Vehicle Company) which is in Amazon cloud environment and stole computer resources to mine for cryptocurrency, according to the security firm RedLock.  There is a new trend in security called cryptojacking. With this a question mark is on whether the public cloud is safe to deploy? Breaches at cloud service providers were almost never the fault of the hosts like Amazon, Microsoft, Google as the public cloud security is a shared responsibility. Organizations of every stripe are fundamentally obliged to monitor their infrastructures for risky configurations, anomalous user activities, suspicious network traffic, and host vulnerabilities. Public cloud environments are ideal targets due to the lack of effective cloud threat defense programs. According to RedLock’s Cloud Security Report-alert, the electric vehicle company was reportedly running one of hundreds of open-source systems and they found it accessible online without password pr...