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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SMART Technologies Inc.  has announced new global research demonstrating a correlation between optimized use of collaboration technologies and better business outcomes. Filigree Consulting conducted a study asking business users about technology adoption in their workspaces and the value that these solutions provided. The research concluded that 71 per cent of businesses are not effective at using collaboration to drive business value throughout their organizations.  The research results have been published in a white paper entitled “Visual Collaboration Solutions Best Practices: Global Report and Recommendations”. The primary conclusion identified that achieving the highest value from collaboration requires a strategy that deploys integrated solutions, supporting services and best practices. For those organizations at the highest levels of maturity, 90 per cent reported value from collaboration solutions exceeding what w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   STMicroelectronics  was named a Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovator this week, recognizing its achievements as one of the world’s most innovative companies. The program, an initiative of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters, honors corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics.  The Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria, overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global and Dell  has announced that the two companies have combined their technologies to meet the growing needs of the healthcare industry. HID Global has provided OMNIKEY 5321 readers for use with Dell's Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) solution, which offers greater security through a single authentication, fast and automatic, made with their own ID badge. The solution allows health care providers to have secure access to all authorized data and applications without the need to memorize different login IDs and passwords to hospital systems or external solutions. Besides the unique signature and authentication features, Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution consists of two pillars - cross-platform virtualization and mobility equipment, providing healthcare organizations more efficiency, productivity and full data security..... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HID Global has announced its new Crescendo C1150 smart card suite of credentials that provide a standards-based solution across a broad range of converged logical and physical access applications.  The smart cards come pre-loaded with a default configuration that has been tested across a range of logical access applications including Microsoft products as well as HID’s 4TRESS AAA authentication server.  The Crescendo C1150 smart cards work in stand-alone mode without card management system involvement for out-of-the-box deployment.  The cards provide broad support for Microsoft’s logical access products through interoperability with the Microsoft-approved smart card Minidriver specification, as well as third-party applications.  Helmut Dansachmueller, senior director, product marketing, HID Global, said, “This latest addition to the Crescendo smart card family reinforces our Genuine HID value proposition to continu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global has announced that its networked access control solutions and contactless readers have been selected by First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in Guangzhou, China to provide multi-layered security with advanced access control level settings and centralized monitoring to improve the hospital's overall security in key access zones.  Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University deployed HID Global's VertX V1000 networked access controllers, iCLASS R10 contactless readers and Genuine HID credentials for building access control to manage the large influx of patients, visitors and staff.  "HID Global's solution delivers centralized management capabilities and enhanced security, addressing our needs for maximum security at key entry zones. The solutions are also scalable, enabling additional applications, such as alarm annunciations, biometrics and logical access for future system expansion," said Zh...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global has provided its perspective on some of the key trends likely to impact government identity programmes over the next five years. The overarching drivers are the dramatic shift from traditional national identity documents to eIDs, and the growing requirement to defend against mass counterfeiting and tampering attempts.   Craig Sandness, Vice-President - Sales, HID Global Government ID Solutions, said, "Among the most important factors that will shape the industry as it moves to near-universal eID adoption are the twin imperatives for providers and partners to provide effective defenses against large-scale forgery attempts and adopt a holistic approach to projects." "The multifunctional credential is becoming the norm, which means that counterfeit and fraud prevention, end-to-end implementation and integration expertise are now at the forefront of government ID requirements. This is vital in order to eli...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Zinnov has announced its Rating of Global R&D Service Providers' across various geographies like India, China, Russia and Eastern Europe. The study titled “Global R&D Service Providers (GSPR) Rating 2012” is an annual study undertaken by Zinnov to assist business leaders in spearheading global engineering initiatives. According to the study, Wipro and HCL are the leaders in the overall rating. While Wipro has a mature practice, HCL has grown significantly over the last two years. iGate, Infosys, Tech Mahindra & Mahindra Satyam and MindTree are some of the other established players with expansive vertical coverage. The R&D and PES service provider space is unique - with a significant number of companies with niche capabilities.  Pari Natarajan, Co-Founder & CEO, Zinnov, said, "We see that service providers are building deep capabilities in specific areas like product conceptualization and user experi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   McAfee and Guardian Analytics have uncovered a global financial fraud ring. So far, McAfee estimates the criminals have attempted somewhere between €60 million and €2 billion in fraudulent transfers from at least 60 banks. This fraud empire, dubbed Operation High Roller, is comprised of at least a dozen groups that use active and passive automated transfer systems to steal high-value transactions from high balance accounts. The Operation High Roller attacks have impacted thousands of every class of financial institution: credit union, large global bank and regional bank, using smaller and less detectable automated transactions.  "We need to remember that criminals are agnostic when it comes to the colour of money. This latest series of coordinated, highly automated attacks moves quickly through multiple continents, scales easily and suggests collaboration across multiple criminal specialists. The size and resources of the ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   STMicroelectronics (STM) has announced that GLOBALFOUNDRIES has agreed to manufacture devices for ST using ST's proprietary Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology in both the 28nm and 20nm nodes.    ST FD-SOI technology has already been selected by ST-Ericsson for its use in the future mobile platforms, which will enable enhanced performance from the ST-Ericsson NovaThor platform with much less battery usage - as much as 35-per cent lower-power consumption at maximum performance.    "ST has demonstrated, with its partners, the significant performance and power advantages of FD-SOI over conventional technologies. FD-SOI is ideally suited for wireless and tablet applications, where it provides fully-depleted transistor benefits using conventional planar technology, and this arrangement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES ensures our customers will have a secure source of supply," said Joel Hartmann, STMicroe...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global has announced the production release of its next generation EDGE EVOandVertX EVO controller platform.  EDGE EVO and VertX EVO offer an open and scalable development platform for the deployment of a wide range of access control functionality, including remote management options, real-time monitoring, report generation and a powerful custom rules engine that enables the use of the system hardware for complimentary applications.   "HID Global's EDGE EVO and VertX EVO controller platform, including a Developer Tool Kit with OPIN API, offers expanded capacity and higher performance, demonstrating our commitment to providing open solutions based on direct feedback from our partners. The state-of-the-art features in our next-generation IP-enabled platform emphasize HID Global's dedication to driving market innovation to efficiently manage identities for access control while also ensuring our customers optimize th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Nokia Siemens Networks has recently announced that it has become a member of the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) Partner Forum. Nokia Siemens Networks also offers a complete portfolio with network infrastructure, devices, applications and services for TD-LTE.  "As more and more users demand high-speed connectivity to their favorite apps on-the-go, TD-LTE is gaining momentum as an efficient technology for superior mobile broadband. As one of the companies at the forefront of TD-LTE, Nokia Siemens Networks has always worked closely alongside the GTI. The company's membership further reiterates its commitment to TD-LTE as a major, global 4G mobile broadband standard," said Craig Ehrlich, chairman, GTI steering committee. "We have significantly invested in advancing TD-LTE so operators can reap the benefits of delivering mobile broadband using unpaired spectrum. We have been major contributors to numerous initiati...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Capgemini has been positioned in the leaders’ quadrant by Gartner, Inc in the latest "Magic Quadrant for Finance and Accounting BPO". Capgemini has been positioned based on "ability to execute" and "completeness of vision."   Christopher Stancombe, Global Head, FAO, Capgemini, said, "We believe it is testament to our customer focus and our dedication to use the best people and the highest quality process and technology assets. We deliver valuable business outcomes to the benefit of our clients efficiently and effectively within a strongly controlled environment." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HID Global has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as "Green Cards", issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security programme. "The proven security of our multi-technology eID cards contributes directly to the overall security of U.S. immigration and border control. We are proud of our contribution to homeland security through both generations of Green Cards, which are among the most physically secure and counterfeit-resistant, machine-readable IDs ever issued," said Kevin McKenna, Vice-President - Sales, Government ID Solutions, Americas, HID Global. Governments worldwide are rapidly moving from traditional national IDs to more secure eIDs. Launched in mid-2010, the re-designed, new-generation U.S. Green Card was the world's first ID card t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Serco has launched a new global BPO division that will improve the services Serco provides to its customers and enable it to target global opportunities both in the public and private sector. Also referred as the Global Services division within Serco, it heralds the emergence of a formidable top-tier BPO player, both within the international and Indian markets, with revenues in excess of $ 1 billion by the end of this year. Tom Riall, CEO Designate, Global Services, Serco said, "The evolution of the Global Services division supports Serco's vision to create a leading international Business Process Outsourcing Company. We will now be reckoned as an end to end service provider offering the complete spectrum of business services to customers in the public and private sector around the world, by combining Serco's front end service capabilities along with world class middle and back-office capabilities. Furthermore, the Global Service...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to sources, Sony is said to trim its global workforce by 10,000 workers, or about 6 percent of its entire workforce by as early as this year. The move is expected to improve operational efficiency, while accelerating the company's shift toward mobile devices. The cuts are in response to mounting losses in Sony's TV business. The new cuts are expected to affect all of Sony's groups, ranging from development, to production, to management - both foreign and domestic. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Orange Business Services has bagged a five-year contract from Rio Tinto to deliver global networking and security services to more than 280 Rio Tinto sites around the world. The services support users in both global offices as well as remote mining locations such as Canga East in Guinea, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and Almaty in Kazakhstan. This new contract is believed to consolidate IT infrastructure, enhance network performance and further integrate global resources cost effectively. Building on a 10-year working partnership between the two companies, this contract is expected to allow further consolidation of IT infrastructure and services while addressing developing business requirements and improving agility and flexibility. Orange Business Services claims to provide WAN services including satellite access and network management, as well as secure Internet gateways and traffic optimization. These services will be provided under a dedicated ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE A new "Global Study on Mobility Risks" reveals that corporate mobile devices and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon are rapidly circumventing enterprise security and policies. Seventy-seven percent of more than 4,000 respondents in 12 countries agree that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is important to achieving business objectives. But 76 percent also believe that these devices put their organizations at risk and only 39 percent have the necessary security controls to address the risk. "IT has spent years working on desktop security and trying to prevent data loss over web and email channels but mobile devices are radically changing the game. Tablets and iOS devices are replacing corporate laptops as employees bring-their-own-devices to work and access corporate information. These devices open the door to unprecedented loss of sensitive data. IT needs to be concerned about the data that mobile devices acces...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The survey, sponsored by RSA, was the third survey conducted by CyLab Adjunct Distinguished Fellow, Jody Westby, and comparisons with the 2008 and 2010 data clearly show ongoing gaps in governance. Using the Forbes Global 2000 list, the 2012 survey represents the first analysis of cyber governance postures of major corporations around the world. One of the most important advance findings is that boards and senior management still are not engaging in key oversight activities. Even though there are some improvements in key "regular" board governance practices, less than one-third of the respondents indicate their boards and senior executives are undertaking basic responsibilities for cyber governance. Although improvements are shown in the formation of board Risk Committees and cross-organizational teams within their organizations, nearly half of the respondents indicated that their companies do not have full-time personnel in key p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011 to 2016, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 130 exabytes by 2016. The expected sharp increase in mobile traffic is due, in part, to a projected surge in the number of mobile Internet-connected devices, which will exceed the number of people on earth (2016 world population estimate of 7.3 billion; source: United Nations). During 2011−2016, Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times. This mobile data traffic increase represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 per cent spanning the forecast period. The incremental amount of traffic being added to the mobile Internet between 2015 and 2016 alone is approximately three times the estimated size of the entire mobile Internet in 2012....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Capgemini has presented the 'Capgemini Leadership Award for Innovation 2012' to its Indian client VFS Global at the NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards, held in Mumbai. "We are honored to present along with NASSCOM this award to VFS Global, an important client who is committed to bringing a positive business impact through technology. With over 40 years of global expertise and collaborating with leading corporations, we are keen to make a positive impact on society through our solutions." said Salil Parekh, CEO, Application Services (UK, North America & Asia Pacific) and Global Financial Services. "We are honored to have won this prestigious award. Over the last 10 years we have managed to inculcate the value of innovation into the organizational culture. This was actually not too difficult to achieve due to our legacy, where the creation of VFS Global itself was one of the biggest and most successful innovations bo...