VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Juniper Networks has announced additions to its routing portfolio that expand the company’s Carrier Ethernet offerings. The new Juniper Networks ACX500 and ACX5000 routers, as well as enhancements to the Junos Space Network Management Platform software, will enable service providers to handle added capacity and accelerate service orchestration and provisioning more cost-effectively than ever before. With these new products, Juniper is continuing to build out its mobile IP portfolio to deliver a holistic approach that will enable more efficient mobile service creation. When combined with Juniper’s existing offerings, such as the Service Control Gateway and MX Series routing platforms, Juniper delivers IP/MPLS solutions that can flexibly enable new services at an optimized cost. Additionally, Juniper’s Carrier Ethernet solution seamlessly blends hardware and software to address service providers’ growing need to support mobile backhaul and metro Ethernet coverage on one common heter...

While most of the retail chains in the country are now scurrying to open online stores to cash in on the e-commerce boom in country, firms like MakeMyTrip, CarTrade, FirstCry and Lenskart are planning to build their offline presence with brick and mortar stores to woo more consumers. This is a strategy to reach out to people who still do not have access to Internet. According to reports, about 85% of the market is going to remain offline even after five years. Online shopping is convenient but it does not give that touch and feel experience, which customers would specially want. The prices of online and offline however are the same. For instance, while online travel firm MakeMyTrip has opened 18 company-owned stores in the recent past, baby and kids product portal Firstcry has taken its tally to more than 100 stores across the country... See more .

flipkart logo 150x150 Flipkart announces 2.5% more for ESOPFlipkart has set aside an additional 2.5% of its capital for expanding its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), as India’s most-valuable startup prepares to strengthen its senior management team. The online retailer may add at least eight people in the next one year to its newly reorganized senior leadership team. The fresh 2.5% ESOPs provision is on top of about 4.35% of capital already set aside for Flipkart employees and 1.1% for employees of Myntra. Flipkart is expected to have set a side $875million out of its estimated $11 billion valuation towards ESOPs. Flipkart is aggressively hiring senior employees to strengthen its technology, finance and leadership teams. Flipkart divided its top management into three groups. The biggest step-up was for Myntra co-founder Mukesh Bansal, who took over the reins of the combined company’s entire commerce platform. Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal has stepped away from daily functio...

Reach Mobile has launched its HD range of handsets, in addition to the earlier range of products – Klassy 100 HD and Klassy 200 HD for the Indian market. Within a year of operation, Reach Mobile has launched 38 ranges of handsets catering to all the usage segments – feature phone, touch phone, smartphone and now HD phone. “Both Klassy 100 HD and 200 HD handsets have been designed with high-resolution camera and high-clarity music features. Klassy 200 has already evolved as a ‘Selfie King’ among the youth for its 8MP front camera. Within a year of our launch, Reach Mobile has set a benchmark in the market with a range of affordable, feature-rich smartphones in the Indian market. We are expanding our reach with aggressive marketing initiatives,” said Sunil Patwari, Managing Director, Reach Mobile.   Klassy 200 HD is another stylish Smartphone by Reach Mobile. The 7.3mm sleek phone is very user-friendly and is updated with Android kitkat 4.4.2. Klassy 200 HD runs smoothly ...

The ministry of earth sciences (MoES) has launched a smartphone app called ‘SAFAR-Air’ to provide the real-time air quality to people. It also provides a forecast for the next two days and a health advisory along with a colour coded grading of air quality in different city zones. The app can be downloaded for free either from Google Play store or the MoES and the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) websites. In Delhi, the app will provide air quality for east, north, south, west and central Delhi. In Pune, the app will cover urban, suburban and two other zones. A similar monitoring for Mumbai is going to be launched in April. App users can also compare the levels in these cities.   see more 

Viber has announced that Bollywood celebrity Priyanka Chopra’s public chat has crossed one million followers. Priyanka Chopra’s Public Chat allows millions of her fans to get to know what’s happening in the life of the famous Bollywood star.  Hitting the one million mark since the launch of her chat on January 8 th  2014, Priyanka Chopra’s Viber Public Chat ,has become one of the most popular amongst all Viber Public Chats in India. Thanking her followers for the love, Priyanka Chopra posted a video message on her page. Expressing her excitement, she said, “Thank you so much everyone, 1 million on Viber. I am super excited. Thank you for your love.” Globally, Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar’s public chat was the first to cross 1 million followers on Viber. Launched on Viber, Public Chats allows users to discover, share and follow live discussions from a wide variety of celebrities, personalities and brands across many genres including music, sports, fashion, ...

Microsoft corp. has launched two smartphone, Lumia 435 and Lumia 532 at Rs 5,999 and Rs 6,499 respectively which is affordable to the customers. Both smartphones come with latest Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, Microsoft’s Office suite including Word, Outlook for email, Skype, and up to 30GB of free cloud storage. The features of Lumia 435 include a four-inch display and a modest two-megapixel front camera. The more expensive 532 features the same display but includes a more powerful camera and access to some high-speed networks, and dual SIM for using more than one phone number. Both the phones come with 30GB free OneDrive cloud storage offered by Microsoft and also with Micro SD slot with a storage capacity of upto 128GB. The phones would hit the market from  February 20 , according to the statement.  See more at: http://www.varindia.com/microsoft-launches-lumia-435-and-lumia-532/

Google India has announced the launch of Web Rangers as part of The India Digital Literacy and Internet Safety Campaign.  This is a program that empowers teens to promote the safe use of the Internet among their peers.  Web Rangers will provide training to help teens create their cyber safety campaign to enable themselves and their peers think about their online behavior and how to keep each other safe online.  The program will take young people aged between 14 -17, representing 50 schools in Hyderabad, Bangalore and New Delhi through training workshops that will equip them with knowledge in online safety. This program also introduces a contest where students across the country will be given twelve weeks to create and run their own online safety campaigns. These youth-created online or offline educational campaigns can take any form, including online videos and other social media content, sketches and in-school events.  The winners of the contest will be anno...

Dell has announced that it has successfully deployed DL4000 Backup and Recovery Appliance, running Dell AppAssure for MPS Limited, an end-to-end publishing services provider that helps transform and enrich content for print, online and mobile media. With the deployment of solutions, MPS Limited was able to enjoy greater productivity with faster data recovery without any backup runs. MPS Limited was building a scalable and easy-to-manage IT infrastructure, for which, it needed a backup and recovery solution to match the high-performance environment. The organization chose Dell DL4000 Back Up and Recovery Appliance. “Imagine waiting a day or two days for your data to be returned. It’s a loss of productivity for the employee and the business, and serious cost of up to US$24,000 per day – all bad news. With AppAssure, we avoid that situation. Personnel see data returned quickly and stay on top of their workloads and customers are better served”, said Narendra Kumar, Senior Vice Presi...

Its a good news for Online Shoppers that Flipkart is offering Big Billion Day sale this year, once again. The company has already started preparing for the event and it will be “many times bigger” than the previous sale. It is also focusing on improving its ability to anticipate demand, deliver goods faster and eliminate sub-standard and fake products. Flipkart plans to work closely with sellers on its site to improve its ability to predict demand and invest more in automating its supply chain to speed up delivery. The e-tailer aims to double the strength of its technology team in the next 12-18 months. Company also want to see the mobile platform playing a larger role in the upcoming mega sale and will also focus on data analytics to offer personalised experiences across its mobile apps, marketplace platform and supply-chain network. - See more at: http://www.varindia.com/flipkart-prepares-itself-for-another-big-billion-day-sale/

As per Ovum, the wearables market will be worth US$27bn in 2020, with almost 400 million wearable devices sold in the year. Ovum expects sales of wearable devices to reach 394 million units in 2020, up from 24 million units in 2014, corresponding to a CAGR of 60%. Revenues generated from the direct sale of wearable devices to consumers will reach US$26.6bn in 2020, up from US$3bn in 2014. Multipurpose wearables such as the Apple Watch will account for 31% of the installed base, with simple activity trackers and smart clothes making up the rest of the market. Wearables also offer additional software revenue opportunities via a dedicated app ecosystem that will serve up to 176 million installed devices by the end of 2020. Ronan de Renesse, Ovum lead analyst for consumer technology said, “Affordability and better quality of service for smarter wearable devices will be key drivers in the shift from activity trackers to multipurpose wearables such as the Apple Watch. Currently, th...

Under the flagship scheme of PM Modi’s initiative to make 100 Indian cities as a smart city, the Centre has planned to take up 20–30 cities to develop them into smart cities this year. The cities to be revamped should meet certain requirements.  To begin with, the government is planning to create a colony or commercial area of around 50 acres in the vicinity of the city with smart features so that the success model will make people aware and more areas can be developed with people’s participation. As per the concept note, there will be three approaches – retrofitting, redevelopment and greenfield development. Under the retrofitting scheme, a city can undertake an area of minimum 500 acres and can implement the scheme in three years. Under a redevelopment scheme, a 50- acre area can be taken as a model. Similarly, in the case of greenfield development, the project area can be a vacant land spread over at least 250 acres and can be completed in 10 years. While selecting...

Microsoft has announced that its Word, Excel and Powerpoint will be available for free in Android based tablets. It also released an app for its popular Outlook email program to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, hoping to attract the millions of users familiar with Outlook from their work desktops. For almost three months Microsoft has been offering the test versions of the Office apps on Android but the announcement marks the availability of finished products from the online Google Play app store. It is a part of company’s strategy and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella attempts towrest back the initiative in the battle for mobile users, where Microsoft has fallen behind Apple and Google Inc. Nadella broke with decades of tradition last March by releasing a free, touch-friendly version of Office for Apple’s iPad, before such software was even available for Microsoft’s Windows devices.   See more at: http://www.varindia.com/free-microsoft-office-available-on-iphone...

Noida based mobile payment wallet Paytm is aggressively planning to ramp up its mobile marketplace by adding over one lakh merchants in one year. It is also planning to rope in 4,500 people across various verticals. Paytm started as a mobile recharge and bill payment service, is now into wallets and other electronic payment services with RBI-licensed wallet. The company plans to hire 4,500 across verticals and also focusing on SMEs. Presently, Paytm, is owned by Noida based One97 Communications and headed by Chairman and MD Vijay Shekhar Sharma. It has around 2,000 employees on its payroll and 15,000 sellers on its market place. It started its journey in the year 2010 as a mobile recharge and bill payment service and later started diversifying into wallets and other electronic payment services.   See more at: http://www.varindia.com/paytm-plans-to-add-one-lakh-merchants-and-hire-4500-employees/

The Cabinet has fixed the starting price at Rs 3,705 crore per MHz for the auction of 3G spectrum which is slated to start on  March 4 . By this the government is aiming to earn a net profit of Rs 17,555 crore. However, operators are afraid that the high starting level could drive up voice and data tariffs. The winners of the auction will have to make an upfront payment of 33% of the final bid amount to the government within 10 days of the close of the bandwidth sale. Rest amount can be paid after a moratorium of two years in 10 equal installments. A 5 MHz block of 2100 MHz airwaves typically used for 3G services will be offered in all service areas except Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab. Thus, a total of 85 MHz in 17 service areas is being put to auction. The Centre expects to generate Rs.5,793 crore from the 3G sale alone this year.  However, the overall proceeds from auctions will rise substantially, as including the 2G (800 MH...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP AG(NYSE:SAP) has announced that with a team of technology partners, including BMMsoft, HP, Intel, NetApp and Red Hat, it has generated a  new world record for the world’s largest data warehouse using the SAP HANA platform and SAP IQ software. This independently audited 12.1PB data warehouse has been recognized by Guinness World Records , and is four times larger than the prior record. The announcement was made during a press conference held March 5 in Palo Alto, Calif. "Setting a new world record with the combination of SAP HANA and SAP IQ was a 'moonshot' challenge I had laid out for our engineering team,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Products & Innovation. “Our goal was to set new limits in bringing Big Data together with fast, ad hoc and scalable analytics. SAP has shown the ability of our platform to achieve such an incredible result, demonstrating a cost...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Wireless networking and storage solutions provider,  Buffalo Incorporation  has launched external desktop 3.5" HDD named "HD GDU3" designed for video, audio and graphics professionals, business users or anyone needing to transfer larger amounts of data fast. HD-GDU3  offers an additional 1GB DRAM cache to allow the user to transfer data blazingly faster than ever on desktop. It includes Turbo PC EX utility which allows to copy 1,000 photos in just 3.5 seconds. Buffalo's Turbo PC EX2 software program enables HD-GDU3 to transfer data 2.3 times faster than other external hard drives. The hard drive is compatible with both Mac and Windows computers and can be set up without hassles. The unit also includes a wealth of convenient features – not useless clutter, but powerful tools to increase efficiency, save energy and make tasks easier. It also includes the Buffalo Tools software suite for Windows which is des...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Dell India(NASDAQ:DELL)  has announced its confidence in bullish retail expansion plans for India, with the opening of its 100th Dell exclusive store in Rajajinagar in Bangalore. The opening of the 100th Dell Exclusive store marks an important step in the rollout of Dell’s marketing and retail strategy. Strategically located on Rajkumar Road, 4th Block, Rajajinagar, the store offers the entire range of Dell's consumer products- laptops, AIOs and desktops from the  Inspiron, XPS and Alienware brands , as well as related peripherals. The exclusive Dell store is a step towards enhancing the overall purchase experience for consumers in India. In India, the process of buying a laptop or desktop is still a significant decision by consumers. The wide display of products and knowledgeable staff allows the customer to enjoy a rich technological experience with an environment to make an educated and informed purchase decision. De...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In a move to reaffirm its commitment to improve impact of ICT intervention in the area of good governance in the country,  SAP(NYSE:SAP)  has launched three new solutions powered by  SAP HANA  at the SAP Forum Delhi. The three new applications - Rakshak , TracOHealth and The "Milk Co-operative" Experience, conceived, designed and developed by SAP Labs India, will enable Government organizations and departments to enhance service delivery and responsiveness, and improve preparedness, prevention, safety and security outcomes in real-time in an unpredictable world. "The convergence of cloud, mobile, social and big data is reshaping the future of e-governance, empowering consumers and changing the ways Public sector and Internal security organizations will deliver citizen services in the future. Powered by SAP HANA, our new solutions will empower our customers to deliver new and innovative services to address toda...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As per a latest update,  Dr.Web  has discovered several malicious programs on Google Play that install  Android.SmsSend Trojans  on mobile devices. The Trojans send short messages to premium numbers and deplete subscriber accounts. Google was promptly notified about the incident. The programs,  discovered by Doctor Web's analysts , belong to the Vietnamese developer AppStore Jsc. They are disguised as audio players and a video player that displays adult content. The total number of installations of these programs ranges between 11,000 and 25,000. These applications appear harmless. However, they incorporate an extra apk-file that contains an Android.SmsSend Trojan. While running these carrier applications,  dubbed Android.MulDrop , Android.MulDrop.1, and Android.MulDrop.2 by Dr.Web, can prompt the user to download the content they need, but their consent initiates the installation of another applicat...