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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to new research from Regus, 84% of information and communications technology (ICT) Companies report that their productivity has increased as a result of flexible working practices, and 82% link increasing revenues directly to flexi-working. The research surveyed over 16,000 senior business managers around the world and reveals how different sectors and industry types are reaping the benefits of flexible and mobile work. It is believed to be the first time that independent research evidence has validated the causal connection between flexible working (time and/or place of work) and improved productivity/revenue generation. Madhusudan Thakur, Regional Vice-President, South Asia, Regus said, "Technology and network improvements as well as worker demands for a better work/life balance have driven flexible working to become the norm rather than the exception. As to be expected, different sectors are embracing flexible work at vary...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Stellar Data Recovery has launched its Windows live mail to PST converter V1, an advance tool that converts different mailboxes in Windows Live Mail to individual PST files. Sunil Chandna, CEO Stellar Information Systems Ltd. said, "At times we come across situations where EML to PST file conversion is required; when you need to migrate your mailbox from Windows Live Mail to MS Outlook or need access of your mails remotely. Stellar Phoenix Windows Live Mail to PST convertor is a complete solution that allows you to swiftly convert your EML files to PST in one go." Stellar Phoenix Windows live mail to PST converter features selective mailbox folder conversion, view and save log reports & preserves original formatting. Stellar Phoenix comes with a try before buy version that allows one to preview converted user mailbox items as individual PST and is compatible with Windows 7 and former versions. For More Details See www.varindia....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SMART has become a Global Technology Partner in the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) Alliances Program, an initiative that includes industry leaders in hardware, software and services. SMART joins 10 other industry leaders in achieving this recognition from Microsoft. Chuck McCann, Director, Worldwide MTC Alliance Program said, "We are delighted to have SMART Technologies become a Global Technology Partner to our MTCs worldwide. SMART products have enabled us to eliminate the need for extensive travel due to enhanced in-room and remote collaboration when delivering customer engagements that span multiple MTCs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of our offerings. A positive reception from both customers and staff has prompted us to work with SMART to expand their presence within the MTC program." Sanjiv Pande, MD, India & South Asia, SMART Technologies said, "India is expanding rapidly and companies from around the worl...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP India has further strengthened its customer base with Ruchi Strip and Alloys Limited (RSAL) implementing SAP solutions with a continued focus to bring profitability and scalability across enterprises in Madhya Pradesh. RSAL Steel Pvt. Limited (RSPL), the premium manufacturers of Cold Rolled Full Hard (CRFH) Coils, deployed SAP ERP and SAP Mill solutions aiming to generate faster business outcome and improve productivity. The successful deployment of these solutions will help RSPL manage manufacturing costs and streamline the complex process of production and planning. Indore based implementation partner I-Novate Technologies Ltd. completed the project in a record time of 5 months, providing customized planning modules for the metals industries. Arvind Mishra, Executive Director of RSAL Steel Pvt. Limited. said, "SAP has been a trusted partner for Ruchi group through Ruchi Soya industries and today we take this partnership to the nex...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Schneider Electric India has announced the multi-city launch of its switches, sockets and distribution systems for the home and SMB (small and medium business) market segments in Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad. The retail initiative kicked off with the launch of ZENcelo and Vivace range of switches and the NeoBreak distribution systems in Pune, followed by Kochi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ludhiana, and now Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad. Olivier Blum, Managing Director - India, Schneider Electric, said, "We are extremely pleased to enter the Delhi market with a diverse range of products that target the home and SMB segments. A high level of education and awareness in Delhi has led to a relatively large customer base that expects world-class quality, service and aesthetics at an affordable price. We believe that Schneider Electric's legacy of innovation backed by its engineering and manufacturing expertise can fulfil these expectations. Delhi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has announced that its XPS 13 Ultrabook is now available for customers in India. Weighing less than 1.4 kgs, the XPS 13 features an edge-to-edge glass, near "frameless" display, all-day battery life, and the latest innovative technology for overall user experience. Mahesh Bhalla, Executive Director & General Manager, Consumer and SMB, Dell India, said, "The XPS 13 is a perfect mobility device packing powerful technology into a small, portable package and delivering enterprise-friendly protection and security. With XPS 13, users don't have to make a choice between beauty and practicality. Underscoring its business-ready features, XPS 13 offers enterprise-ready features for professionals enabling them power to connect, collaborate and innovate with unique features and services - like Dell Pro Support services and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) - that satisfy the needs of IT departments." The XPS 13 delivers sec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Zync, an Apple Group company, has launched India's first tablet running on Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the Zync Z-990. It comes in an ultra-portable design featuring real-time multitasking and symmetrical multiprocessing capabilities. This tablet comes with add-on practical accessories such as screen guard, pouch and a lycra sleeve, apart from the standard USB cable and a charger. The 7-inch Zync Z-990 has a high-resolution screen and is powered by a 1.2 Ghz processor. Loaded with a 1GB RAM, the device comes with 4GB in-built memory, which can be expanded to 32GB. The Zync Z-990 also features Wi-Fi connectivity, 0.3-mega pixel front camera, full-sized USB port that supports pen drives, external keyboards and 3G USB dongles, HDMI port, and micro USB port. Ashish Garg, Chairman, Apple Group of Companies, said, "The Zync Z-990 tablet is India's first Android 4.0 tablet with features such as control over data usage, new g...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has announced a range of premium applications and games on select Nokia smart devices for its consumers in India free of cost! Consumers who purchase Nokia C5-05, Nokia C5-03, Nokia 500, Nokia 603 and Nokia 701 can download apps and games worth Rs.3,850. The offer can be availed by existing users of these devices as well as new buyers. The free premium apps and games also include exciting labels from EA Sports for sports enthusiasts. These include FIFA '12, EA Cricket '11, Tiger Woods PGA Tour '11, Tekken, Medal of Honor and Need for Speed. V. Ramnath, Director - Sales, Nokia India, said, "Apps are an extremely integral part of the overall mobile experience for our consumers. Our research has shown that gaming and utility apps are among the most consumed categories on the Nokia Store. This offer brings a fantastic collection of premium apps and games for Nokia consumers absolutely free, and will help bring alive the mo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intex Technologies has launched its first tablet - The i-Tab - across the country. Looking at the fast-growing tablets market in India, the company has expanded its product portfolio and is all geared up to offer innovative models in the tablet space. Equipped with an array of rich applications and features, the Android tablet is attractively priced at Rs.11,900. As an introductory offer, Intex is bundling the i-Tab with an INTEX 3G data card, a LAN Adaptor, an Exclusive leather cover and a pair of Reebok Sunglasses at no extra cost to the consumer. Sanjay Kumar, General Manager, Mobile Business, Intex Technologies (India) Ltd., said, "Intex has been offering affordable user-friendly products across various categories for over 16 years now and our loyal customer base is a living testimonial to our claim. Empowering and delighting our customers through technology has been at the core of all our offerings. This makes us consistently innov...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Boards of Directors of Tech Mahindra and Satyam Computer Services Limited, ("Mahindra Satyam"), in their respective meetings held, approved a proposal to merge Mahindra Satyam with Tech Mahindra along with certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra. Anand G. Mahindra, Chairman, Tech Mahindra, said, "This merger will help propel the combined entity into the top tier of Indian software and services companies, achieving the Group's key objective of being in a leadership role in each of our focus business areas." Vineet Nayyar, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, Tech Mahindra and Chairman, Mahindra Satyam, said, "This merger is a key part of our strategy to deliver industry-leading performance." C. P. Gurnani, Whole-time Director & CEO, Mahindra Satyam, said, "The Mahindra Satyam turnaround is a shining story of determination and grit and now comes to its most import...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has opened its Center of Excellence for Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Located in Kolkata, India, TCS' new state-of-the-art facility is dedicated to showcasing the capabilities of Oracle Exadata Database Machine for customers across industries and geographies. TCS is a Diamond level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and has achieved multiple Specializations including an Advanced Specialization for Oracle Exadata Database Machine. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is believed to be the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. Sridhar Bakshi, Global Head, Oracle Enterprise Solutions, TCS said, "We are committed to hel...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP India has conducted NCR Edition of the annual SAP Invitational F15 Invitational Cricket Cup 2012, a tournament played as a means to bring together the SAP India ecosystem of customers for friendly competition on the cricket fields. Kicked off on 18th February, 2012, the tournament witnessed a stiff competition between 12 teams representing most illustrious companies vied for the top title in the region. As a part of the event, SAP India along with the customers announced a grant of Rs.120 thousand to Mobile Creches. "Ensuring early child care and development of children of economically deprived people helps towards building a strong foundation and strengthening the community at large. This tournament is a way to demonstrate our commitment and extending our support to the people in need," said Alok Goyal, Chief Operating Officer, SAP India. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan has launched G-Shot 507 digital camera from Genius. With a body weight of 103g and size of 90 x 58 x 13mm (LxWxH), G-Shot 507 is available in black, blue and purple colours. Genius G-Shot digital camera is a 5.0-mega pixel, which can take photos up to 12MP by interpolation. It uses a Li-ion battery charged by the USB interface and features a 2.7" color display and 8X digital zoom. With the long-lasting li-ion battery, one can capture over 200 CIPA photos in 1.5 hours of continuous photo taking. In addition, it also can record video clips in 640 x 480 at 30 fps resolution; one can take pictures in over 10 scene modes and includes features for anti-shaking and continuous shots. "Capture every beautiful moment of your loved ones this vacation with Genius G-Shot 507. It comes with all the latest features and at an affordable price. We are very excited to introduce this product to our channel partners," said Sudhir S, Managi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia India has announced its latest addition to the Asha series - the Nokia Asha 303, a touch and type smartphone with a QWERTY keypad designed for web browsing, social networking, entertainment and gaming. Packed with a powerful 1GHz processor and a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen, it features pre-installed entertainment and applications along with DRM-free Nokia Music Unlimited service. Viral Oza, Director - Marketing, Nokia India, said, "Nokia has been bringing smart innovation on mobile devices to newer price points, feeding the vast appetite for digital consumption for consumers who are young, urban, hyper-social and want the smartest phones at affordable prices. The Nokia Asha 303, loaded with Nokia Browser, Webapps, preinstalled Zenga TV, Whatsapp and Angry Birds Lite, stands very strong as an affordable smartphone." Nokia Asha 303 comes with Bluetooth connectivity, an internal memory of 170MB with support for up to 32GB me...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS has hosted a series of global seminars, which provided a stage for several new proprietary technologies, all featured on upcoming ASUS motherboards that use Intel 7 series chipsets. They include the pioneering Dual Intelligent Processors 3 with SMART DIGI+ Power Control for significant performance boosts along with ASUS Wi-Fi GO! and Fan Xpert 2. On display at the seminars were brand new motherboards from ASUS' celebrated ROG brand, including the micro ATX Maximus V GENE, as well as the ruggedized SABERTOOTH Z77 from the ASUS TUF range. The Maximus V GENE comes with SupremeFX III audio and network traffic management via Intel Ethernet and ASUS GameFirst technology. Meanwhile, the SABERTOOTH Z77 features Thermal Armor for cooling and reliability. In addition to these boards, the ASUS 7 Series includes workstation models with 4-way GeForce SLI and dual Intel Ethernet. In addition, ASUS 7 Series motherboards also include Intel Smart Re...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL has launched their HCL Desktop "Fly for Free" offer for its customers. Customers of HCL desktops can now avail of an attractive offer of winning a completely free air ticket to major destinations in India. In addition, customers can also avail of a free Wizpack worth Rs.10,000 which includes CBSE Syllabus-based education content for Classes 1 to 12 and a Britannica Student Library. This specially designed scheme for HCL customers can be availed on the purchase of only second-Generation Sandybridge-based desktops. The offer is valid on HCL's range of desktops powered by the Intel Corei5, Corei3 and Intel Pentium processors. Princy Bhatnagar, Vice-President, Head - Consumer Computing, HCL Infosystems, said, "Interacting innovatively with our customers and coming up with attractive offers has been an integral part of our market outreach. We are giving a very compelling offer to enable our customers to adopt the Second-Gen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cyberoam has reached out to customers and partner of SonicWall. The UTM vendor, committed to the growth of its market footprint in the UTM space, has offered a lucrative trade-in offer on Sonicwall appliances, following the latter's takeover by Dell. Existing Sonicwall customers can take advantage of this offer to upgrade their UTM protection to Cyberoam's identity-based UTM appliances which render end-to-end user visibility through Layer 8 technology. Hemal Patel, CEO, Elitecore Technologies, said, "Cyberoam is committed to become a leader in the UTM solutions space. The recent takeover of Sonicwall by Dell has created a good opportunity for us to increase market penetration of our UTM products and diversify across to new verticals and industry segments." Cyberoam will be providing a free one-year subscription on Web Content & Application, IPS & Anti-X subscriptions who trade in SonicWall appliances to buy Cyberoa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys and Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) have marked the first classes of a new 18-week programme to provide Infosys software development training programme to grow Detroit's technology talent pool. A job fair will follow the programme, with Infosys and other prospective employers participating. "This partnership is an opportunity to build strong career pathways in an important and fast growing sector of Wayne County's economy. We are excited about partnering with a global IT leader such as Infosys and appreciate their generosity in helping provide this training to direct more people into rewarding information technology careers," said Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, Chancellor, WCCCD. "Infosys sees a great opportunity to provide our world-renowned training to produce skilled software developers in Detroit. Career training to produce more top software developers is something we are delighted to offer to those ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apple has announced that it has sold three million new iPads the same day that the company said it will put its nearly $100 billion cash reserves to use by beginning to pay a quarterly $2.65 dividend and through a 10 billion dollar share buy-back programme. Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer, Apple said, The company had a "record weekend" for its latest iPad but had not given the exact sales figures." Philip Schiller, Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing, Apple said, "The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold, the strongest iPad launch yet." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MilagrowHumanTech has announced that it is offering a Rs. 4,000 discount on their Women TabTop. Anku Sharma, Product Marketing Manager, MilagrowHumanTech said, "Owing to the overwhelming success of the Women TabTop and also the softening of the dollar against the rupee, Milagrow is happy to pass this advantage on to its loyal customer base. The TabTop (MGPT02-8GB) can be bought for Rs. 9,990/- instead of its regular price of Rs. 13,990/- which translates to a discount of almost 30% on the MRP." For More Details See www.varindia.com