VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 3i Infotech Ltd. is eyeing the growing spending of government in an attempt to improve its performance. The company, which has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.7, is hoping that the Government, along with its mainstay BFSI sector, will pull it out of its difficult times and reduce the debt-to-equity ratio to 1.1 by March 31, 2012 or sooner, though some analysts have expressed scepticism regarding this. Pankaj Chawla, President, India, APAC and MEA Markets, shared, "In the calendar year 2012, 40-50 per cent of the India business will come from Government spending. While BFSI is growing at around 15-20 per cent, Government spending is growing at double the rate and in India it is growing at a rate of 40-50 per cent." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 3i Infotech Ltd. is eyeing the growing spending of government in an attempt to improve its performance. The company, which has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.7, is hoping that the Government, along with its mainstay BFSI sector, will pull it out of its difficult times and reduce the debt-to-equity ratio to 1.1 by March 31, 2012 or sooner, though some analysts have expressed scepticism regarding this. Pankaj Chawla, President, India, APAC and MEA Markets, shared, "In the calendar year 2012, 40-50 per cent of the India business will come from Government spending. While BFSI is growing at around 15-20 per cent, Government spending is growing at double the rate and in India it is growing at a rate of 40-50 per cent."

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Salora International has joined its peers Videocon, LG and Samsung to foray into the multi-crore rupee Indian mobile handset business and plans to expand its product portfolio over the next few months. In the first phase, Salora plans to launch its handsets in eastern India, Delhi-NCR, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. "There are already a huge number of players, but we will look to differentiate our product on the basis of quality. We have a television business and people trust our brand, which will help us in the market," Salora International Managing Director Gopal Jiwarajka said. Salora has launched two handsets in the market and will add another eight devices over the next one year. The handsets launched include SM501 (Rs.2,999) and SM401 (Rs.2,499). The handsets would be sourced from China and would be supported by Salora's network of 170 service centres across the country. For More Details See www.varindia...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apple Inc. has removed, at Israel's request, an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that called for a Palestinian uprising. Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein has written to Apple, complaining that the "ThirdIntifada" application - a reference to a future uprising - conveyed information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel. A statement issued by Edelstein's ministry welcomed "Apple's swift action" in removing the application and praised the company's decision as "another important step in preventing violent incitement in the new media". A search for "ThirdIntifada" in the iTunes store found no matches. The application offered users a stream of news stories and editorials in Arabic, announced upcoming protests and included links to nationalistic Palestinian videos and songs. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahindra Powerol has launched Intelli series of UPS products packed with advanced features for use in home and small offices. The company, which currently markets its UPS systems in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and a few select parts of the country, plans to have a pan-India presence by next year. The Powerol division currently has revenues of Rs.1,000 crore, with diesel gen sets business contributing a major share. The UPS division contributes about Rs.30 crore and is likely to be a Rs.10-crore business this year. Launching its new range of UPS systems, Palaniappan said that the company is looking at being a total energy solutions provider for not just businesses through backup diesel gen sets but also to home and small office segment users. The company now has Eco, Hi-speed and Intelli range of UPS systems, which are manufactured at two facilities based in Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh. The company's power solutions range s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Eurotech Technologies has announced its expansion in Tier-II and Tier-III cities since these locations are fast becoming hubs of IT/ITeS, manufacturing, BFSI and other industry verticals. Eurotech Technologies plans to take these road shows to a series of Tier-II cities in the coming months. Starting from Mangalore last week, it witnessed an attendance of a large number of VARs, keen to understand and acknowledge the BestNet Brand product suite, followed by a seminar series to educate and equip the technical manpower to enable them handle the BestNet product line efficiently. Initiating nationwide Channel and VAR engagement programme, Eurotech is showcasing the BestNet brand that offers complete range of networking solutions that is cost-effective and easy to install, deploy and manage and also provides greater flexibility to innovate and more easily respond to changing business requirements. "BestNet brand is optimally positioned to ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS partnered with Intel to participate in the Intel Channel Conference (ICC) event which was conducted across 12 cities of the country between May 27 and June 20, 2011. The cities included Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Vishakhapatnam, Cochin, Lucknow, Indore, Jaipur and Pune. Partners were given details on the latest ASUS' innovations incorporated into their motherboards like ROG Thunderbolt, ROG Connect with GPU TweakIt, UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode) and Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM Digital Power Design. The event aimed to educate the channel partners on the benefits of Intel's latest Sandy Bridge Platform. ASUS displayed its latest ROG and TUF series motherboards based on Intel chipsets and at major locations ASUS also had high-end machines powered by ASUS' P8Z68-V PRO motherboard for demonstration. With these machines ASUS demonstrated its exclusive UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode) and LucidLogix V...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced an expansion of its software portfolio to help organizations embrace the power of social business. As part of news IBM is delivering IBM Connections, the social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities. The new IBM Connections software allows organizations to track and trace data on the fly throughout their organizations. This information can be analyzed and is discoverable in real time using the IBM Connections active compliance service versus waiting until day end for analysis. The adoption of social software is on the rise and rapidly becoming a vital business tool, enabling organizations to transform virtually every part of their business operations from marketing, customer service and sales, to product development and human resources. The market opportunity for social platforms is expected to grow by a factor of nearly two billion worldwide by 2014, according to IDC. Organizations, both in regulated i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Technologies has embarked on a strategic initiative with the opening of its new Global Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, Karnataka. This reinforces the company's commitment to offering manufacturing clients innovative solutions for product development from Bengaluru. The new centre has been envisioned to cater to the growing Tata Technologies global portfolio of clients in the automotive, aerospace and construction/heavy engineering verticals, engaging high-end engineering talent available in Bengaluru. Samir Yajnik, President Global Services & COO Asia-Pacifi,c said, "Our Bengaluru team has been meeting product development engineering challenges posed by our global clientele in the automotive, aerospace and heavy engineering industries exceedingly well. The new centre is a natural extension of our growth plans around Bengaluru as a base." "While we have been active here for the last few years, we want to signifi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Avaya has announced its latest corporate branding initiative titled "Avaya. The Power of We". Initially previewed at the International Avaya User Group in late May, the new company campaign will highlight the importance of bringing the right people together with the right information in the right context as well as the role of Avaya's technology and services in making it possible. "A lot of companies are talking about collaboration, but they are short on specifics," said Kevin Kennedy, CEO, Avaya. "Avaya's vision is very clear: We help our customers bring the right people together with the information and context they need to help deliver business results in real time. Our objective is to give them the best collaboration experience, regardless of the devices, locations, or media they choose." The new brand builds on Avaya's long-standing heritage of delivering mission-critical unified communications...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mobotix, which has been positioned second in Europe and fourth globally in terms of market share in IP camera, enters the Indian market through TelExcell. Mobotix has been providing HiRes Video innovations for the past one decade. A Mobotix camera with 3.1-mega pixel records around 30 times more detail (it is like watching the IPL matched on HD). As a result, larger image areas with up to 360A degree panorama are possible, thus reducing the number of cameras and therefore the costs. Mobotix cameras can record events even without a running PC and digitally record videos with sound for archiving purposes. Mobotix video solutions provide Low Operating Cost and takes only 4 Watt of power and is powered on PoE. Mobotix does not use dedicated Chips for Encoding and video Processing and all the cameras are field upgradeable with the latest Encoding and Image quality Algorithms. With the Free Upgrades MX Control Centre, your investment is protected ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd. has announced the revamp of its entire Micro and Small UPS range as well as enhancements of other key products, including Liebert ITON-600 BX, Emerson Adapt Series Parallel Modular UPS(6 kVA), Liebert GXT-MT +(1,2,3 kVA online UPS system) In-Pulse Inverters (30 kVA) and OptimizeIT. The product revamp has been done to further enhance features and provide latest technologies which can have an impact on customer's business as well as reduce energy consumption. Emerson will work with its network of channel partners to create awareness about the new range of products. Ankesh Kumar, Sr. Manager Micro and Small UPS and MarCom Head, said, "Our primary focus for 2010 is 'energy-efficient solutions for next-generation infrastructure needs'. We are happy to be leaders in the space, and will strive to maintain our position by giving customers increased control of their power infrastructure. Thes...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rhino has appointed Micro Village Communications as its distributor for the South Asia markets of India, Srilanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, and Mauritius. Under the agreement, Micro Village Communications will distribute the entire range of Rhino products to address market demand for enterprise and service provider solutions for Asterisk based IP Telephony and standard VoIP applications. The agreement with Micro Village is a major step in Rhino's South Asia growth strategy to expand sales channels for IP Telephony environments. Micro Village serves all key segments of the regional enterprise market: large enterprises, the mid-market including call centers, and the SMB (small and medium business) office and mobility markets. “After the early success we have seen within the South Asia region, we believe that partnering with a distributor like Micro Village can further grow Rhino's support and presence to local partners an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP Labs India has released its "Personalized Video" application. This application delivers a high level of content personalization to its users through innovative algorithms and smart use of local computing power. Researchers at HP Labs believe that video will dominate the Internet experience in non-English speaking countries such as India. "At HP Labs, we believe that video will dominate the Internet in India primarily due to the ease with which content in local languages can be accessed," said Sudhir Dixit, Director, HP Labs India. "A key focus at HP Labs India is to innovate for the next one billion HP customers and we believe innovating for them requires a more collaborative approach." The application also allows for the creation of a special channel that can be used by third parties to push video content to a user based on viewing habits and location. According to Krishnan Ramanathan, Senior Research Scien...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rhino has appointed Micro Village Communications as its distributor for the South Asia markets of India, Srilanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, and Mauritius. Under the agreement, Micro Village Communications will distribute the entire range of Rhino products to address market demand for enterprise and service provider solutions for Asterisk based IP Telephony and standard VoIP applications. The agreement with Micro Village is a major step in Rhino's South Asia growth strategy to expand sales channels for IP Telephony environments. Micro Village serves all key segments of the regional enterprise market: large enterprises, the mid-market including call centers, and the SMB (small and medium business) office and mobility markets. “After the early success we have seen within the South Asia region, we believe that partnering with a distributor like Micro Village can further grow Rhino's support and presence to local partners an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TRAI had announced the new rules regarding Do-Not-Call (DNC) last year under which telemarketers who call customers registered with DNC would face fines of Rs.75,000 for the first violation and up to Rs.2.5 lakh for the sixth offence, after which they would be blacklisted for a period of two years, but this had not been implemented so far. After a long wait, rules aimed to bring relief to millions of customers from pesky telemarketers and unwanted commercial text messages may be implemented from August 2011, finally. Close-to 100 million mobile phone users, or one in eight cellphone subscribers, had signed up under the old DNC introduced in 2007, but the regulator was forced to act after rampant complaints from users of its ineffectiveness. Earlier, the penalties were only between Rs.500 and Rs.1,000. As per the new rules, mobile users will have a choice of blocking only telemarketing voice calls while choosing to receive SMSes. Even when rec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, ASUS has unveiled the ROG MATRIX GTX Series. It combines a dual-fan DirectCU II thermal design and 19-phase Super Alloy Power components with instant hardware overclocking tools like TweakIt, ProbeIt and an innovative Safe Mode button. "The ROG MATRIX GTX 580 is a high-performance graphics card for enthusiasts and gamers who demand the very best with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU," said Vinay Shetty, Country Head - Component Business, ASUS (India). "The 19-Phase Super Alloy Power technology provides greater overclocking headroom with enhanced power efficiency and component durability." The ROG MATRIX GTX 580 series is clocked at 816MHz and features 1.5GB of 4.8GHz GDDR5 memory. The new GPU Tweak overclocking tool has integrated the GPU-Z with TechPowerUp to provide accurate information about the graphics card, real-time clock frequency, voltage, fan speed and profile adjustments for u...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirStation High Power N150 Wireless Modem Broadband Router in India has been announced by Buffalo Technology. This wired and wireless solution comes with a 5dBi detachable antenna that provides increased range, better performance and an easy and hassle-free install. It includes features like low-energy consumption and Buffalo's AirStation One-Touch Secure System. This modem is a combination of speed, security, and automatic channel support for their wireless network. "Today, people are connecting a variety of devices at their home and office networks. These wireless routers are not just a way to share a broadband connection but an essential tool to deliver new social, business and entertainment," said Susumu Kobayashi, Country Head, Buffalo India. "Buffalo broadband and wireless routers are synonymous with high-performance, increased range, low-failure rates, robust security and easy set-up. This latest addition to our wid...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung Electronics has announced its provision of LTE solutions to KDDI, a Japan-based telecom operator. KDDI and Samsung plan to launch a commercial LTE service in 2012. During the past ten years with the close business relationship based on shared values, KDDI and Samsung have established the goal to provide a high-quality of product and service. On the same lines, KDDI and Samsung intend to provide differentiated LTE service to consumers as well. Samsung aims to introduce the industry's first and the most optimized LTE solution for hotspots in extremely dense user areas that require higher capacity mobile broadband, whilst simultaneously improving service quality in weak-signal areas. In India, Samsung is in talks with service providers to provide its LTE Solutions so that the Indian consumers can be provided with the complete experience of 4G services once the implementation schedules are worked out by the Indian service providers. ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has announced the Dell Empower program, a two-fold incentive programme for the channel partners. This one-of-a-kind channel program is aimed to provide differentiated experience to the customers and helps create opportunities for enhancing benefits to channel partners. As part of the Empower Program, the channel partner whether from Dell's retail or reseller network will add value to the customer experience by providing a complete demonstration of the product, highlighting and explaining key product features and also make an accurate and complete record of the end-customers' information, as provided by the customers. This data is then thoroughly verified and fed into the Dell systems to update the warranty in the name of the end-customer. The Empower Program recognizes the effort of the Dell channel partner in collating valid customer information, through a fixed incentive for every completed document uploaded by the channel par...