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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yahoo! Cricket has won the hearts of millions by becoming the most-visited website during the 44-day ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. The Yahoo! cricket website witnessed a staggering 9.3 million unique visitors between February and March 2011. The total time spent on the website witnessed an increase of a whopping 309% and the Page Views also grew by 238%. 72% of the audience who visited the website was in the age group 15-34 years. Women were not far behind when it came to keeping themselves updated as women audience on Yahoo! Cricket saw an increase by 221%. Not only did users visit the official ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 website to check live scores and updates in huge numbers, they also enjoyed a wide range of exciting games and content available on the website. Online users stayed abreast with latest updates through detailed match analysis and tanked up on entertainment during match breaks by viewing a rich bank of exclusive photographs a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rashi Peripherals has been awarded as the "Highest Contributing Distributor for 2010 - INDIA" and "Partner in Excellence for India" by Logitech India at a recently held function at Hotel Marco Polo, Deira, Dubai. The "Highest Contributing Distributor Award for India" was presented by Martin Geh, Regional Director, Logitech, Asia-Pacific and Japan, to Kapal Pansari, Director, Rashi Peripherals. Andre Suzan, Human Resources Director for Logitech EMEA, gave away the "Partner in Excellence - India Trophy" to Kapal Pansari and Puneet Dhandharia, Business Manager - Logitech, Rashi Peripherals. Commenting on the occasion, an ecstatic, Kapal Pansari, Director, Rashi Peripherals, said, "This is a big achievement for Rashi Peripherals and we are extremely delighted to receive this double recognition from Logitech. It has been a great journey with Logitech and we look forward to further expanding and consist...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE WatchGuard Technologies has released new enhancements to its extensible threat management (XTM) family of multifunction firewalls. In this latest release of the XTM operating system, administrators gain the ability to manage search capabilities, as well as gain additional Application Control features to manage the explosive-growth landscape of web applications. With the new WatchGuard Safe Search feature, administrators can manage and enforce search engine filtering settings to ensure users, and in particular children, do not see adult content in their search results. By setting this option at the XTM firewall gateway, administrators override whatever preference users set in their web browser. WatchGuard Safe Search works with leading search engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.com. Additionally, the safe search feature enforces "safety mode" on YouTube to filter out and remove objectionable content or comments. This is ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Digital media players have been one of the hottest new segments in the Indian IT channel in the recent past. The device enables users to take digital-media content from their PCs and play it on their televisions. It has shifted entertainment from one's PC to the living room and is an emerging segment in the consumer electronics industry today that is showing promise of strong growth and demand. Internet penetration and increase in accessibility of digital content together with hassle-free connectivity for transferring files, photos and watching movies, videos has made digital-media players one of the favourite consumer electronics goods. Its ease-of-use for consumers who are not familiar with operating conventional PCs has further lead to its demand as the perfect entertainment device to complement home theatre set-ups and living room entertainment gadgets. Commenting on the present scenario, Vinay Shetty, Country Head, Component Busines...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston Digital has announced its association with Fox Star Studio to present Special-Edition DataTraveler Mini Fun 4GB in India. This special edition USB drive will hit the shelves with unique "Dum Maaro Dum" themed packaging and will come preloaded with exclusive "Dum Maaro Dum" contents! This is a strategic partnership with Fox Star Studio, who has just released the much- anticipated Abhisek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar and Rana Daggubati starrer blockbuster on April 22, 2011 in cinemas worldwide. Kingston's Special-Edition DataTraveler Mini Fun 4GB will give consumers the chance to get their hands on the exclusive preloaded contents, such as plot summary, trailers, character sketch, wallpapers and ringtones all wrapped up in a specially designed DataTraveler Mini Fun USB drive. Movie fans are sure to fall for this special edition USB drive, which will be sold exclusively through one of Kingston's ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Stellar Information Systems has announced the brand transition of RSE Data Recovery into Stellar Data Recovery. The acquisition of RSE Data Recovery on April 8, 2009 was a strategic move of Stellar to extend its years of expertise of data recovery services and solution in Asia and the USA to Europe. RSE has a good infrastructure and an expert talent pool conducive to recover data from physically damaged desktops, laptops, RAID servers, SAN or NAS storage boxes, external storage media, such as pen drives, iPods, external hard drives, etc. Since its acquisition, Stellar has continuously transferred its proprietary technology, tools, and the vast knowledge repository to RSE to provide more efficient, better, and faster data recovery solutions to its customers in many European countries, such as Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Hungary and Luxembourg, along with the Netherlands. RSE now branded as Stellar shares the ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Atempo's Time Navigator and Live Backup Solution secures DSC wide network and to restore individual files in their computers. Moreover, being easy to use even in a complex scenario, it provides exhaustive support even in remote locations. Now more than a year after implementing the solution, Pritam Dutt, General Manager, ICT DSC Limited, said, "This solution from Atempo and Momentum Infocare has made backup simple for the complex HP-UX environment.' He added, 'With the latest technologies built into its backup architecture, Atempo Time Navigator makes it possible to restore individual files from any point in time and in any storage media." DSC Limited is the flagship company within the DSC Group delivering excellence in the Indian infrastructure space. The main objective of DSC Limited was to imply a backup policy covering key PC users at headquarters as well as at remote location with effective de-duplication for saving...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has successfully deployed SAP ERP ECC 6.0 at Raheja Universal Limited, a real-estate developer in India. The deployment will also help Raheja Universal get better access and control over information flow within the organization and develop an enhanced decision support mechanism to manage business requirements and market challenges. The company wanted to set up better tracking mechanisms for payments from various projects and create a synergy across the organization. Raheja Universal also aimed to build an efficient reporting process and integrate their legacy systems seamlessly. A project called UNITE was undertaken at Raheja Universal to analyse, give insights, and establish a road map. As per recommendations, IBM has deployed SAP ECC 6.0 as the key driver for all their mission-critical areas like material utilization control, RA billing, joint ventures, and project revenue sharing, among others. The key departments covered in this proj...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC has now expanded its customer support services to cover 100 cities across India, a significant milestone for the company that has rapidly grown its customer base for its information infrastructure products. Thiruvallur in Tamil Nadu will become the 100th city to offer EMC customer support services as part of the company's commitment to local customers who will now receive support in a timely manner, as and when needed. EMC's on-location support services in 100 cities in India include installation, implementation, maintaining uptime and troubleshooting. All of EMC's products are architected and designed and implemented with dial-home functionality, enabling EMC's support team to address any potential hardware or software faults without impacting functionality and ensuring business continuity. Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India and SAARC, said, "The information storage industry has seen a three-fold growth in India in t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP Enterprise Services has announced a new service to help clients improve their customer experience by deploying their customer relationship management (CRM) application via a secure, virtual private cloud. The initial time needed to deploy a CRM solution can be significant, impacting both return on investment and the time to benefit. Additionally, managing an existing CRM installation can be complex and expensive, when it includes the cost of provisioning, supporting, upgrading and growing the underlying infrastructure. A comprehensive, easy-to-use CRM application in the cloud provides a flexible, cost-effective alternative to an on-premises implementation on client infrastructure or hosting it in a secure HP commercial data center. The new HP Enterprise Cloud Services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers Microsoft's leading CRM software suite, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, as a cloud service. With this service, enterprises can use a virtual ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has launched Kaspersky Mobile Security Solutions for consumer as well as the corporate segment. Kaspersky Mobile Security 9.0 protects smartphones and communicator users from malware, network attacks and SMS spam, safeguards the data on a smartphone or a communicator if it is lost, and which offers a new privacy protection feature enabling users to hide information about any contacts they want to keep confidential. The new version now supports the Android and blackberry platform alongside Symbian and Windows Mobile. The product highlights the following features: Locate a lost or stolen smartphone Secure contacts, photos and files from unauthorized access Privacy protection Block unwanted calls or SMSs Parental Control Protect smartphone from malware and network attacks Mobile users running Symbian or Windows Mobile operating systems can password protect and encrypt their files with a strong encryption algorithm. Th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Array Networks has appointed Inspira as a key value-added distributor in India. Array Networks is placing increased focus on select verticals in the coming year and there is significant upside tied to Array's growth, footprint and revenues in India. Inspira views this as a valuable opportunity to broaden its portfolio and revenue potential. Today's move enables Array and Inspira to complement each other's strengths - focus on key verticals and technology - to better satisfy customer demands. "We are delighted to align ourselves with Array's mission to provide best-of-breed application acceleration and secure access solutions," said Rohan Dholakia, Chief Marketing Officer, Inspira. "Inspira has great products and business prospects and this venture with Array Networks will strengthen our ability to extend and adapt services by interfacing with multi-vendor, architecture and platform applications." Array N...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Avnet Technology Solutions has launched "SolutionsPath ISV Acceleration" in India under its SolutionsPath practice. The programme will help build a collaborative relationship between Avnet and independent software vendors community, offering tools and support resources designed to help ISVs take applications to market more efficiently. "Under this programme, ISVs can take advantage of our infrastructure solutions skills and our reseller partner ecosystem to complement their vertical market offerings, which will help them deliver more value to their customers and incrementally grow their business," said Naresh Desai, General Manager, Avnet Technology Solutions, India. This programme offers Avnet's customers the resources to help grow their business by way of joint marketing initiatives, go-to-market strategies and support needed to integrate ISV applications and products on various infrastructure platforms. The Avnet S...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has announced the promotional scheme for its resellers on Genius products for this quarter. This scheme is valid from 1st April to 30th June, 2011 for the purchases billed out from Inspan Infotech. However, the above scheme cannot be merged or clubbed with any other scheme that may be running at that time. Genius reserves all rights of execution, alternation and will entertain all the scheme claims directly from partners. "These kinds of promotional schemes in summer help partners to get an extra edge because of the incremental buying power of the customers," said Sudhir S, Managing Director, Inspan Infotech. "Resellers get motivated to sell the products in large quantities because of such attractive schemes," added Sudhir. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Top Notch Infotronix, under the brand "ZEBRONICS", has unveiled its latest addition to wide lineup of premium power strips - Power Grip (The Platinum series). Zebronics power strips have been beautifully designed keeping in mind convenience of use, functionality and portability. The composition of 24x0.2mm pure copper wires enables excellent electricity conductivity. The small panel and pin holder are made from fireproof ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) plastic that makes the contact area of the device fireproof, decomposing rapidly against fire and isolating oxygen to prevent combustion. The effectiveness of rust resistance and corrosion resistance of the nicke-lplating does not deteriorate even under conditions of high or extreme low-temperature/voltage. Apart from excellent quality and safety, these power strips come with a touch of style. The design on both black/white as well as white+colour models looks stunning. There a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Top Notch Infotronix has launched new wireless headphone Airwalk under diamond series of headphones. Airwalk is wireless headphone which works on RF frequency. The headphone is done in glossy finish and with black and red colour combination it looks excellent. The transmitter also comes with a mic so it can be also used for voice chat. It also has built-in FM radio. The headphone as well as the transmitter runs on dual AAA batteries. If you are running low on batteries, then the headphone can also be directly connected through 3.5mm port. The operating distance of the headphone is 30 metres from the transmitter if there are no obstructions. Commenting on the new headphone, Pradeep Doshi, Director - Sales, Top Notch Infotronix, said, "This is well-designed product with a loads of features. We have also given a lot of stress on the looks as headphone is a kind of product which people like to be stylish to go with their personality." ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirLive has unveiled its latest innovative high-power PoE AP router which supports concurrent dual band for both 5GHz +5GHz and 2.4GHz + 5GHz frequency bands, delivering high speeds of up to 108Mbps Atheros Super Turbo Modes. This product is able to provide up to three times more coverage than most concurrent dual-band routers available in the markets. AirLive high-power routers are powered with advance software functions such as Bandwidth Control, PPPoE server, SNMP, SSH, Multi-DMZ, Variable Channel Width, and almost 100 other features. All these powerful functions are harnessed by the user-friendly AirLogic Interface. Everything is arranged in the most logical layout, so the users can immediately configure the A.DUO quickly without even looking at the user's manual. So, installation is very easy for the product. It can also perform seven wireless Operation Modes. AirLive A.Duo is next-generation Concurrent Dual Band (5GHz & 2.4 GH...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apacer has launched the brand-new AH552. With a transmission bandwidth of up to 5Gbps, USB 3.0 flash drives are ten times faster than USB 2.0 ones. The AH552 adopts the single chip USB3.0 controller, making it blazing fast and more compact than other USB 3.0 flash drives. Featuring a read/write speed of up to 110/70 MB/s, the AH552 sets itself apart from most of its rivals and secures its leading position among all USB 3.0 flash drives. AH552 boasts high speed and storage capacity, and shows outstanding quality with the sleek aluminum housing and pen cap design. It supports high-specification Quad-Channel transmission and offers extraordinary speed of up to 110MB/s in read and 70MB/s in write. By transmitting a 2-hour high-definition movie in only 36 seconds and sharing large amounts of data in a short span of time, the AH552 brings the properties of USB 3.0 to full display. Available in ultra-large storage capacities of 32GB and 64GB and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Toshiba India has donated 15 LCDs to physically-challenged children at the Shakti Foundation. Toshiba has hand-picked Shakti Foundation - a helpline office for over 1,300 differently-abled children housed in 15 special schools, to gift 15 LCDs to the physically-challenged children, Speaking on the awe-inspiring occasion, Pranab Mohanty, Business Head, Consumer Products Division, Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd., said, "Toshiba's philosophy is summed up in its corporate slogan: Committed to People, Committed to the Future. The Company emphasizes on management that is grounded in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and that promotes respect for people, innovate to create value, and contributes to the society." He further emphasized, "The integration of the physically-challenged into mainstream society is what we emphasize on and what we work for. An initiative like this will give children the opportunity to experience the visual me...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE D-Link has introduced two new cost-effective products, namely D-Link DSL-2750U and D-Link DSL-2730U. D-Link DSL-2750U is a Wireless N 300 ADSL2+ Wi-Fi Router with USB that provides high-performance 802.11n wireless access for wirelessly networked computers, thereby enabling users to take full advantage of their high-speed ADSL connection. D-Link DSL-2730U, on the other hand, is a Wireless N 150 ADSL2+ Ethernet Router that allows users to connect to 802.11n wireless devices at up to 150 Mbps speed. Both DSL-2750U and DSL-2730U help to connect a group of users to the Internet, allowing multiple computers at home or office to share an integrated high-speed ADSL2/2+ interface. Its high-speed performance allows users to enjoy smooth media streaming, so they can watch TV, listen to live music, broadcast over the Internet, and even experience clear Internet phone calls. Further, DSL-2750U and DSL-2730U also come with four built-in Ethernet ports, f...