VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

In continuation of its commitment to offer complete music and entertainment experience, Nokia India has announced the availability of its latest music phone, Nokia X2. Designed to delight young entertainment enthusiasts and music lovers, the Nokia X2 comes with dedicated music keys and 3.5mm AV connector, FM radio with built-in antenna, a digital music player and loud stereo speakers for sharing music. Adding to the great music experience, the Nokia X2 offers a 5-mega pixel camera with flash and a video recorder. Viral Oza, Head, Activation, Media and Online Marketing Nokia India, commented, "As the market leader, Nokia aims to address the needs of every segment of the society. Nokia X2 is a fantastic mix of great music experience, excellent camera and Nokia services at extremely affordable price points targeted towards the Indian youth." Nokia X2 is a smart buy for its combination of great music-oriented practical functions, imaging capabilities and its trendy design. Spec...

Transcend Information has introduced CF200I, an advanced version of the company's high-end industrial grade CompactFlash cards. Aside from using stronger error correction code (ECC) and global static wear levelling technology, the new CF200I CF cards feature Transcend's exclusive Flash Life Guard software, a convenient tool that gives users notification when the card approaches the end of its life cycle. According to Gordon Wu, Regional Head - South Asia, Transcend, "While most flash cards have to risk the possibility that their cells (bits) will eventually lose the ability to function due to flash memory's limited write/erase lifetime, Transcend's advanced CF200I CF cards provide industrial users peace of mind with the addition of its new Flash Life Guard software. Once enabled, this endurance-monitoring tool automatically monitors the flash cells in the card and reports when the safety threshold for write/erase cycles is reached. With this information, users can ...

HP has announced that it will be showcasing its industry-leading portfolio of graphics arts technologies at the Korea International Printing Machinery & Equipment Show (KIPES) 2010. The next-generation solutions have been designed to help graphics arts professionals achieve higher returns on their marketing investments while reducing their environmental carbon footprint ."The printing industry is accelerating its shift from analogue to digital and companies need to capitalize on this shift in the market now lest they risk losing out to their competitors," said John Solomon, Senior Vice-President, HP Imaging and Printing Group, Asia Pacific and Japan. "Based on Pira 2008 estimates, digital printing was 12.5 per cent of the total printing market and it will grow up to 20.9 per cent of the total printing market by 2014. This presents significant growth opportunities for Print Service Providers to capture new growth areas in digital printing."The other key highlight...

Celebrating ten years in business, Array Networks has announced that it now serves over 5,000 enterprise customers. Array's secure application delivery and universal access solutions deliver hundreds of terabytes of secure data traffic daily to customers worldwide, across multiple industries. This rapid customer growth underscores Array's outstanding value proposition based on the company’s product lines and diversified business model. The solutions offer reliability, scalability and access for many enterprise applications and network infrastructure. Array's secure Application Delivery Controllers and Universal Access Controllers are deployed in a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, government, banking, healthcare, education and large enterprises. Michael Zhao, President and CEO, Array Networks said, "From our initial next-generation traffic manager launch ten years ago, to today's SpeedCore architecture and remote access iPad app, Array has co...

Driving a digital shift, Hewlett-Packard will now create innovative and attractive packages and that too in an environment friendly and cost-effective way. HP further extends its offerings for the packaging industry along with Kris Flexipacks. Kris Flexipacks, together with HP India, hosted an event in Mumbai to emphasize on the rising importance of labels & packaging, the trends seen, the challenges faced by involved corporates and the solution Kris offers backed by HP digital printing expertise. The event was attended by leading corporates and print buyers. Puneet Chadha, Director - Graphic Solutions Business, Imaging & Printing Group, HP India, stated, "The market volume of the Indian packaging industry amounts to about Rs.77,570 crore and has constantly grown by approximately 15% year on year. It is estimated that the pace of growth will accelerate to between 20 and 25 per cent over the next five years. Today, everything around us comes packaged and keeping that in min...

Designed to help companies of all sizes easily administer and monitor employee access to information behind the firewall, SonicWALL has launched two new remote access SSL VPN security solutions. These solutions, SonicWALL ventail 10.5 represents a major software upgrade to existing enterprise-class solutions, while the SonicWALL SRA 1200 is a new appliance tailored to SMB customers. SonicWALL's new offerings provide enterprise customers a feature-rich solution and enhanced smart phone support and also bring affordable, powerful features and protection to the SMB market. The Aventail 10.5 solution provides secure access to corporate resources and supports thousands of concurrent users from a single appliance. It ties the unique mobile device ID to a specific user, confirms the user's identity and verifies the security status of the end-point. The new features include Active Sync support for the Apple iPhone, iPad, Google Android and Symbian mobile devices and provides secure e-m...

Nucleus Software has won a major order from Dhanlaxmi Bank. Nucleus will implement its award-winning FinnOne suite of products across the Bank's 271 branches to power its retail lending business. Muralidharan R, President, Information Technology & Operations, Dhanlaxmi Bank, said, "Retail lending will be the focus this year for the Bank and considering the high volume of loan transactions in retail assets business, the Bank required a robust end-to-end solution that facilitates quick turnaround time." Niraj Vedwa, COO, Nucleus Software Exports Ltd., said, "Choosing a next-generation solution such as FinnOne will give Dhanlaxmi Bank the technological edge in offering world-class products and services to their customers. We are confident that this partnership will enhance the Bank's productivity and build up value-added solutions for their customers." FinnOne will enable Dhanlaxmi Bank to efficiently manage all the stages of loan application process, right...

Intel has felicitated various schools, teachers and students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in ICT integration in school curriculum. Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal felicitated eight schools, eight teachers, twelve students and six regions across India to acknowledge innovative teaching-learning practices adopted by them. The winners spanned across cities like Lucknow, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. The contest "Best Integration of Technology in Education" is aimed at strengthening ICT capacities across four categories, namely, student, teacher, school and region. The evaluation criterion followed a stringent screening schedule that involved internal evaluators from Intel perform the first stage of screening. The objective of Intel's association with KVS & NVS is to equip and empower the schoolteachers and students with techniques in developing 21st century skills to prepare them to face the challenges of tomorrow. Classm...

Dell India is incorporating some changes in its leadership team, primarily with new leaders for its Large Enterprise (LE) business unit. Sameer Garde, who has been the Dell India country head and led Dell's LE business for the last about 18 months since the company's reorganization into a customer-centric BU structure, will continue to lead as the country manager for Dell India, but his role gets extended as he takes on as the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Director for Services Sales and Marketing. Bringing his experience from various leadership roles within Dell International Services and Dell India, Sameer Garde will play an important role in the go-to-market strategy for Dell Services in APJ. Vikas Bhonsle, who has completed a 10-year association with Dell, will be the new General Manager for India LE operations. In his current role-leading LE for the western region, he has successfully built a solid team to drive Dell’s evolution as a key a solutions provider in the Indian I...

NetApp has integrated its unified storage systems with Symantec's Thin Reclamation API to help SAN customers automatically reclaim storage space and improve overall storage efficiency. This solution gives customers the ability to manage, reduce and reclaim storage space throughout the entire data lifecycle so they can improve planning and reduce their overall IT footprint and management costs. NetApp unified storage helps customers store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost by using several storage efficiency technologies inherent to the NetApp Data ONTAP operating system. These technologies help customers get more use out of the disk they have while improving manageability and performance. "Symantec offers the industry's leading cross-platform thin optimization solution, enabling organizations to benefit from the true cost and efficiency advantages of thin provisioning," said Don Angspatt, Vice-President of Product Management, Storage and Availabil...

Polycom has signed a multi-year, strategic global agreement with Microsoft Corp. to deliver integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) and to improve customers' business productivity. Under the agreement, Polycom plans to develop market standards-based UC solutions that span the enterprise, small-to-medium business and government markets. "Polycom and Microsoft deliver a winning combination to our customers around the globe by delivering seamless, easy-to-use, high-definition communications at the click of a mouse," said Andrew Miller, Polycom president and CEO. "Polycom is 100 per cent committed to delivering best-in-breed, standards-based, fully interoperable UC solutions to market, and Microsoft is integral in helping us achieve this goal and meet the needs of our customers." Offering a broad portfolio of integrated solutions spanning voice, video and application integration for Microsoft UC, this agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s key str...

For managing and monitoring custom applications, VMware has launched SpringSource Hyperic 4.4 solution. In integration with VMware vCenter Server, Hyperic 4.4 maintains a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT Administrators to pinpoint, correct and prevent application performance problems occurring across physical, virtual and private cloud infrastructures. "Hyperic 4.4 delivers a completely new level of integration with VMware vCenter Server designed to streamline the task of managing virtualized applications," said Javier Soltero, CTO of Management Products for the SpringSource division of VMware. "Hyperic now provides system administrators complete, automatic visibility of virtual infrastructure resources as well as a completely new user interface built to enable analysis and correlation of every metric and event from VMware vSphere hosts up to the application." The Server integration enables application operators to ensu...

Belkin has taken steps for preparing a list of precautionary measures to enlighten Indian Wi-Fi users. To prevent the Wi-Fi connection to be misused and to protect it against the worm called Bluepill (originated in Australia), Belkin believes it is extremely important to take precautions against such kind of attacks. Some of these measures are changing the Default Password and choosing a difficult password and disabling remote administration, unless the user really needs this. Belkin also asks its users not to broadcast their SSID (Service Set IDentifier) as most WLAN access points and routers automatically broadcast the network's name or SSID, turning off which would make it invisible to the user’s neighbours and passers-by. Mohit Anand, Managing Director, India Sucontinent, Belkin India, said, “Belkin has always been proactive in making Wi-Fi connections secure. Keeping that in mind, our NetNext range has a preset security feature which gives a unique SSID and password to every ...

Nokia has launched its Easy EMI scheme that will allow customers to buy their favourite Nokia handset and accessories and pay for it in three equal monthly installments (EMI) at zero per cent interest. Customers can purchase a Nokia handset and accessories in the price range of Rs.7,000-Rs.35,000 under this offer. The scheme will be available across eight cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh through over 176 Nokia Priority Partners (NPPs). Nokia has tied up with Citibank, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered and ICICI Bank for the Easy EMI scheme and the offer will be available to consumers with credit cards from any of these four banks. Shankar Subramanian, Head -Retail, Nokia India, says, "Mobile customers today are far more evolved in their aspiration, expectation and usage of a mobile handset. This trend is visible across segments from entry to the high-end. Our insight shows that many customers don’t end up buying their preferred h...

Nokia has launched its Easy EMI scheme that will allow customers to buy their favourite Nokia handset and accessories and pay for it in three equal monthly installments (EMI) at zero per cent interest. Customers can purchase a Nokia handset and accessories in the price range of Rs.7,000-Rs.35,000 under this offer. The scheme will be available across eight cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh through over 176 Nokia Priority Partners (NPPs). Nokia has tied up with Citibank, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered and ICICI Bank for the Easy EMI scheme and the offer will be available to consumers with credit cards from any of these four banks. Shankar Subramanian, Head -Retail, Nokia India, says, "Mobile customers today are far more evolved in their aspiration, expectation and usage of a mobile handset. This trend is visible across segments from entry to the high-end. Our insight shows that many customers don’t end up buying their preferred ...

With an aim to provide after-sales service provider for Mobile phones, consumer electronics and IT products, SAR Group has launched World Ace. World Ace would be one of the players in the organized sector for repair of mobile phones of all models and manufacturers. Other than mobile phones, it will provide cost-effective after-sales service with minimum turnaround time for IT peripherals and consumer electronics. Arun Saxena, Director, World One Solutions Pvt. Ltd., states, "We endeavour to provide the growing mobile phone user base in India an accessible, single-window and cost- effective after-sales service, allowing them an informed choice on mobile phone repair, thereby enhancing customer satisfaction." World Ace is backed by SAR Group's expertise in supply chain management and after-sales service. The service has been launched with 300 centres across India and it is a matter of time before it gets raised to 500. The company is also determined to have 23 owned service...

Buffalo Technology has announced their LinkTheatre Full HD Media Player (LT-V100-AP). Designed with HDTV screens in mind, it can adapt video content up to a 1080i resolution. It includes networking via Ethernet connection, digital audio output, a USB port to directly connect your media files on your USB storage device, HDMI and Composite video outputs and the ability to natively play an array of latest audio/video formats. "With Buffalo's LinkTheatre Network Media Player, listen to music, view photos, watch HD videos on your TV straight from your USB or network storage device - no PC required!" said Susumu Kobayashi, Country Head, Buffalo Technology. The Buffalo LinkTheatre simply connects to TV, camcorder or digital camera, external HDD and USB. It provides full HD picture quality and playback that can be easily plugged into the living room big screen TV. Buffalo LinkTheatre Full HD Media Player transfers digital files from PC to USB devices connected to the LinkTheatre ...

Samsung has launched a new range of Home Theatres to enhance a consumers' home entertainment experience, with HT-C450, HT-C550 and HT-C555 as the flagship models. Designed aesthetically with a simple user interface, HT-C450 and HT-C550 combine 5.1 channel output to give 500W and 1,000W output of power-packed performance with satellite speakers, while HT-C555 uses four tall boy speakers to pack in a big performance. The DVD Home theatres incorporate fantastic features including BD Wise that optimizes the quality of a standard DVD. It is easy to transfer data from your MP3 player, digital camera or to convert CD to digital MP3 files via the USB host with CD ripping feature. The HDMI connectivity is capable of transmitting the highest resolution digital data in pure and uncompressed streams, thereby enabling you to enjoy Full HD Movies that are expressed with purity and precision. The new home theatre models ensure the best distortion free, pure sound on account of features like Power...