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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Edimax Technology has launched BR-6675nD 450Mbps Wireless Concurrent Dual-Band Gigabit iQ Router in India. The Edimax BR-6675nD iQ router provides simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless network connectivity for maximum flexibility of use. This router allows users to use general network applications like web surfing via the 2.4GHz band and stream HD video and other media through the 5GHz band at the same time. The BR-6675nD iQ router also features 1 gigabit WAN port and 4 gigabit LAN ports, offering users with the need for maximum network performance data rates of up to a staggering 1000Mbps. With gigabit Ethernet and dual-band wireless connectivity, the BR-6675nD can provide users a fast and smooth media streaming or network gaming experience. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Huawei has released a new equipment site solution at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The mobile broadband business presents challenges and intense competition for operators, particularly in urban areas where there is high energy consumption and little space for new equipment sites. To address these challenges, Huawei developed a standard all-in-one cabinet solution that integrates four power supply units, a battery backup unit, a transmitter, a precision cooling storage system, intelligent cooling technology and a single controller. This solution can provide energy savings of more than 30 per cent and allows for smooth evolution. Hou Jinlong, President, Energy and Infrastructure Product Line, Huawei, said, "Based on our in-depth understanding of the telecommunications industry and more than 20 years of experience maintaining more than one million sites around the world, Huawei is committed to developing solutions that help ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson has announced that it will soon complete an extensive upgrade of 3 Italia's backhaul network. 3 Italia will then be able to offer its customers downlink speeds of up to 42Mbps. Within the scope of the project, initiated in 2011, Ericsson is upgrading and evolving 3 Italia's network architecture and helping the operator migrate to an end-to-end, full-IP backhaul and access architecture. Dina Ravera, Chief Operating Officer, 3 Italia, said, "Since our world-first launch of UMTS in 2003, we have taken a proactive approach to building and maintaining a state-of-the-art network for our customers. Consumers expect a fast and reliable 3G network that meets their requirements when accessing their voice, video, internet and mobile TV services via mobile devices. We have a long-standing relationship with Ericsson, which supplies us with radio-access networks (RANs) and services, and we are happy that Ericsson is now also our tech...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE COMPASS 2012, the Annual IT Exhibition, would be held at Milan Mela Ground (Opposite Science City), Kolkata from 4th to 7th May, 2012. Keeping in mind the space crunch at Netaji Indoor Stadium, COMPASS has decided to move to much larger size venue at Milan Mela ground. The booking of stalls and pavilions for COMPASS 2012 will be announced shortly, reported the Chairman Exhibition Committee Pawan Jajodia. The COMPASS President B Hari congratulated the Exhibition committee team for moving to the larger venue. Computer Association of Eastern Region, COMPASS has now emerged as one of the largest IT associations and forum in the eastern region and has been at the forefront to address national-level issues pertaining to the IT sector. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA Technologies has announced the latest VIA COMe-8X90 module, featuring 1.2GHz VIA NanoTM X2 E-Series dual core processor and the VIA VX900H media system processor (MSP). Measuring 95mm x 125mm, COM (Computer-on-Module) Express is an embedded form factor developed and maintained by the PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group). COM Express modules integrate core CPU, chipset and memory on the module, providing support for USB, audio, video, and Ethernet, through board-to-board connectors to an I/O carrier board. Along with the VIA COMe-8X90module, VIA offers a comprehensive starter kit, including a multi-I/O carrier board reference design, board support packages (BSPs), display, system monitoring tools/SDKs, and design guide, enabling industrial PC and OEM customers to rapidly customize their solutions. "Embedded modules are ideal for creating highly tailored solutions with a short time to market approach. The VIA COMe-8X90m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata DOCOMO has launched "Photon Max", the latest addition to its Photon brand of high-speed mobile broadband access on CDMA platform in UP East. To mark the launch, the company has come up with an outdoor campaign spread across UP. The outdoor campaign has been cracked by MOMS, Madison’s Outdoor division. As a part of the campaign, a large cut-out of a hand is shown strumming Guitar strings. LED strips have been stitched into the flex outlining the guitar as well as the cut-out of the hand for illumination. The copy on the hoarding reads "Introducing PHOTON MAX Double Speed". The campaign, which began on 5th February, will continue till mid week of March. Dipankar Sanyal, COO, MOMS, said, "The attention span of the consumer towards static media is limited. Marketers, today, need to engage a consumer with an interactive space." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Oracle has announced that it has shipped over 1exabyte of media for its StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives in the first nine months of the release. Oracle also shipped the most tape libraries over 1,000 slots and held over 70-per cent market share for LTO libraries over 1,000 slots, according to IDC's Worldwide Tape QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle's StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives delivers 5TBnative (5.5TB with StorageTek Maximum Capacity), with a transfer rate of up to 252 MB/second. Oracle's StorageTek product line is engineered and supported with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Applications and Oracle’s Sun servers, as well as third-party mainframe and open systems products. "Oracle's StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives together with our StorageTek SL3000 and SL8500libraries deliver unmatched capacity and performance that is clearly reso...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Delta has showcased its latest line of Video wall solutions at MetroRail India Summit 2012. The two-day summit was held at the Hotel Le Meridien, Bengaluru on 23rd & 24th February, 2012, and was attended by more than 100 delegates representing various stakeholders from the Metrorail sector across India. Hemant Agarwal, Director, Display Solutions, Delta, India, said, "As a global leader, Delta Electronics has attained considerable expertise in providing total solutions for our customers' visual display needs for control room applications. As a modern mass rapid transit system, Metrorail has become the life-line of Indian metros and we are committed to delivering innovative, high-performance, high-quality, cutting-edge, and the brightest visualization solutions for their ever-growing 24x7 operational needs, ensuring an efficient transport delivery system with high operational safety." The range of display solutions showcased...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NetApp has appointed Anil Valluri as President, NetApp India Marketing & Services Private Limited. As President, Valluri will oversee NetApp sales, marketing and services operations in India and SAARC region. Tom Georgens, President & CEO, NetApp, said, "Anil's appointment as President is NetApp's most senior hire for field operations in India to date and shows the strategic importance of India in supporting the company's growth plans, as well as our continued commitment to this region. I am delighted to welcome Anil who brings with him a wealth of experience in leading large country operations, building and growing businesses and leading high-performance teams across diverse geographies. He will be a game-changer for our India business." Anil Valluri said, "It is a dynamic time for the storage industry in India and I am looking forward to working closely with our business and technology partners to addre...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro has announced the successful implementation of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation's (ESIC) Project Panchdeep, a healthcare administration program aimed at automating healthcare services to over 6 crore beneficiaries spread across the country. Project Panchdeep provides online facilities to employers and insured people for registration, payment of premium and disbursement of cash benefits. It also automates medicare services to all insured people. This has not only brought in complete transparency in the system, it has empowered the stakeholders like never before. Each day close to 75 thousand people are benefitting from Project Panchdeep. Anand Sankaran, Sr. VP & Business Head-India, Middle East and Africa, Wipro said, "We are honored to have been part of ESIC's visionary initiative in taking quality healthcare to the masses. Wipro has established a Unified Information System automating all interna...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ADATA Technology has unveiled its latest slim profile USB Flash drive, the DashDrive UV100 with a length of only 41mm and a thickness of just 5.8mm. The DashDrive UV100 incorporates the capless design that has proved to be a successful hallmark of ADATA Flash drives, eliminating the risk of cap loss. An integral strap hole makes the drive easy to carry on a lanyard or keychain. However, the key feature of the product may well be its highly competitive price point, which will make the UV100 an ideal option for those who use Flash drives on a daily basis and are looking for a highly portable backup drive. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston has left an indelible mark throughout the key APAC territories, such as China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, winning a large number of awards for its excellent product performance, quality and marketing merit. Kingston currently is ranked as the global No. 1 independent memory module company and the No. 1 USB drive company by third party research firms. The recognition from end-users in APAC region truly reflects Kingston's leading market position. Scott Chen, Vice-President, APAC region, said, "It is a matter of great pride that the company has scaled new heights and grown enormously over the past few years. In 2011, the awards and recognition received in different local markets are like an inspiration to us. We will keep presenting the best quality, innovative memory products for the market as well as being committed to providing end-users with excellent-quality products, creative marketing ca...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson is said to bring mobile connectivity to electric cars and put choice and control over the charging schedule into the hands of drivers. The new architecture is supposed to allow drivers to control charging of cars while they are plugged into any ordinary power outlet. Additionally, the system directs energy costs to the car owners' bill. The driver sets the time and amount to charge on a console in the car or remotely via a smartphone or tablet. To provide a range of perspectives the concept was developed in a consortium involving Volvo Car Corporation, Göteborg Energi, the leading utility in western Sweden, Ericsson and Viktoria Institute, a non-profit IT research institute. Per-Ake Olsson, CEO, Viktoria Institute said, "Our mission is to take knowledge to market as innovations. This is a successful example of cross-industry collaboration with great business potential. We believe that this project will support global marke...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ameyo Stats Wallboard is an innovative product by Drishti different from traditional wallboards. It provides a bird's eye view of entire operations in a contact center in addition to increasing the overall business productivity. Sachin Bhatia, VP- Business Development, Drishti-Soft said, "Legacy wallboards are unable to suffice to the growing number of processes in a contact center and therefore the need for an enhanced wallboard arises. Ameyo Stats Wallboard adds value to contact centers as it provides a better view of business process matrices. It comes integrated with Stats Manager that automatically updates statistical information onto the wallboard. With a feature like this, Ameyo Stats Wallboard delivers the efficiency required." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MSI has announced that MSI's Z68 (G3)/H61 (G3) series of motherboards offers official support of Intel's CPU based on the 22nm manufacturing process. Users can download the corresponding BIOS listed below at no charge to upgrade their existing MSI Intel Z68/H61 motherboard. MSI G3 motherboards also fully support the latest PCI Express Gen 3 specifications, reaching twice the current bandwidth and maximizing performance from PCI Express Gen 3 video cards. Additionally, MSI G3 motherboards carry up to 32GB/s of bandwidth and support for PCI Express Gen 3 graphics cards is unlocked. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP and SuccessFactors have announced their unified product direction for human capital management (HCM) solutions. The combined portfolio will provide end-to-end integrated solutions to help with some of the biggest challenges that business leaders around the world are facing across all lines of business. The two companies are now combining SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite with SAP solutions to provide the most comprehensive, innovative HCM offerings to benefit existing and prospective customers. 'We have delivered this unified product direction for our BizX Suite within days of our tender offer close, demonstrating our agility and the power of our combined people, know-how and technologies. We are providing immediate clarity on our BizX road map to ensure we deliver the best possible suite of solutions for our customers. The customer must always win. We cannot wait to share more of what we'll offer our customers in th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA has announced the world's first quad core Mini-ITX boards featuring the latest VIA QuadCore E-Series processor. The VIA EPIA-M900 and VIA EPIA-M910 are the first two Mini-ITX boards to feature the 1.2GHz VIA QuadCore E-Series processor. The VIA QuadCore E-Series processor features a highly optimized, energy efficient multi-core architecture, which is natively 64-bit compatible and comes with a host of additional performance features including Adaptive Overclocking. To meet the low power demands of the embedded market, the VIA QuadCore E-Series processor offers energy efficiency, with the VIA QuadCore E-Series 1.2+ GHz processor delivering a thermal design power (TDP) of only 27.5W. "The VIA QuadCore E-Series processor delivers world class performance in the industry's leading power efficient package. The high performance of the VIA QuadCore E-Series processor makes it the perfect platform for the creation of next-generation...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Quantum Secure has announced that Laurie Aaron, Quantum Secure's Vice-President of Business Development and Marketing, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Security Industry Association (SIA). "SIA is honored to welcome Laurie as a new member of our Board of Directors. Her extensive knowledge of the electronic physical security industry, her interest in facilitating collaboration among industry stakeholders and her forward thinking will help guide SIA's efforts to be a stronger resource to our members and help grow our industry," said Don Erickson, Chief Executive Officer, Security Industry Association (SIA). Aaron will participate on behalf of Quantum Secure in several SIA working groups and standards initiatives. At Quantum Secure, Aaron oversees corporate marketing initiatives, is responsible for developing Vertical Market Programmes and has been directly responsible for large strategic customers such as the...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NVIDIA and ZTE have announced the ZTE Mimosa X, the first smartphone to be powered both by the NVIDIA Tegra application processor and its Icera modem, which came to NVIDIA through its Icera acquisition in mid-2011. "The ZTE Mimosa X is exciting for a few reasons. The Mimosa X marks the first time NVIDIA technology powers all the major processors in a single smartphone, and also the first time a premium mobile computing experience is coming to the mainstream smartphone market," said Michael Rayfield, General Manager, Mobile business, NVIDIA. The Mimosa X is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor, featuring a dual-core CPU and GeForce GPU, and the NVIDIA Icera 450 HSPA+ modem, comprising baseband and RF processors, featuring throughput and low power. It will run IceCream Sandwich (Android 4.0), feature a 4.3-inchqHD (960x540) screen, rear5 MP and front cameras, and 4 GB of storage expandable to 32 GB. The ZTE Mimosa X will de...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Xerox and McAfee have commissioned a new survey which reveals that more than half (54 per cent) of employees say they don’t always follow their company’s IT security policies (33 per cent) or aren’t even aware of the policies (21 per cent), leaving the security of customer credit cardnumbers, financial reports, and HR and tax documents at risk. To address this concern, Xerox and McAfee are teaming up to design a security system to help companies protect against threats to this confidential data. By integrating embedded McAfee software into Xerox technology, the two companies plan to use a white listing method that allows only approved files to run, offering significantly more protection than traditional blacklisting tactics, where a user has to be aware of and proactively block viruses, spyware and other malicious software. Additionally, the solution provides an audit trail to track and investigate the time and origin of security events, an...