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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft kicks off In an initiative to bring more women in the Tech world, Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) has launched "Women in Tech". Through this programme, Microsoft will attract and retain women talent in the industry. Along with partners, Microsoft will train and mentor one million girls and women in the next 12 months. These will include girl school students, young women students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) colleges, women IT professionals and women entrepreneurs. As part of the initiative, Microsoft has launched a unique online platform. Announcing the new initiative, Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, said, "Today, the IT industry in India has about one million women. Our Women in Tech initiative aims to double that number in the next few years. In the first year, our partners and we will train and mentor the next one million women and help them join, grow and succeed in the IT i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vodafone releases report on its social projects Vodafone has announced the release of "Footprints IV - Steps Today for a Better Tomorrow", the fourth edition of its annual sustainability report. A digital version of the report was formally released by Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group Plc. Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group Plc, said, "In the last two decades, mobiles have truly transformed the way people engage and interact. Seamless connectivity and easy availability have made mobile services the engine for accelerating inclusion and propagation of information across sectors. In fields such as education, healthcare, agriculture and financial inclusion, the progress enabled by mobile is unparalleled. Importantly, the social development sector has also significantly benefited from advances in both mobile reach and technology." Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group Plc "Footprints IV - Steps Today for a Better...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AMD displays new range of graphics solutions at AMD Technology Showcase 2014 AMD has unveiled a broad range of graphics solutions designed for professionals and gaming enthusiasts at the AMD Technology Showcase 2014. The event witnessed the presence of key global spokespeople - Raja Koduri, Corporate Vice President, Visual Computing, AMD and Richard Huddy, Chief Gaming Scientist, AMD sharing some of the significant announcements with a special focus on graphics. Furthermore, the company commemorated its 30 years of leadership in graphics and gaming highlighting its graphic strategy for the Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) region. Raja-Koduri-with-Mandira-Bedi-with-Richard-Huddy The new range of AMD FirePro W-series professional graphic cards – W8100 and W9100 are designed for desktop workstations and personal supercomputers featuring active cooling for flexible deployment in a wide variety of systems. While the AMD RadeonTM R9 285 Series is t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   “Make in India” initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a concrete step in the right direction, according to MAIT. It was the need of the hour and long overdue. MAIT welcomes the speed at which the current government has moved after the first announcement was made by the Prime Minister on August 15. MAIT also welcomes the Prime Minister’s focus on smoother centre-state relations with regard to ease-of-doing business. This will also create a positive environment and result in states and centre working together to attract investment in the manufacturing sector. The focus on building trust factor is a welcome sign of the way the present government is creating positive environment to attract investors to consider manufacturing in India. The emphasis on removing on ground hurdles is also an important move which would help build confidence amongst the investors. The need for buildi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 and Adobe Premiere Elements 13, the latest versions of the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software. Adobe serves up a fresh collection of easy-to-use editing tools and guided techniques to help consumers achieve the results they want. "Our customers don’t always have the time or the know-how to get the results they desire. In Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13, we focussed on developing tools that automate the process or guide customers through the steps to create the photos they’ll love and want to share," said Shanmugh Natarajan, Senior Director, Engineering, Core Technologies and Products at Adobe. Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 and Adobe Premiere Elements 13 (Mac and Windows) are immediately available for purchase for US$99.99 via adobe website and retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, Staples,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact launched in India Sony India has unveiled its most powerful flagship smartphones to date, Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact. The Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact have been priced at Rs. 51,990 and Rs. 44,990 respectively. The latest Flagship Smartphones from Sony will be available from 25th Sept, 2014 onwards at over 10,000 retail outlets across India. Taking into consideration the strong lifestyle connect in premium smartphones, Sony has introduced exciting new bold and trendy colours, including Copper for Z3, and Orange and Green for the Xperia Z3 Compact, in addition to the classic black and white colours. sony xperia z3 and z3 compact Kenichiro Hibi, Managing Director, Sony India, said, “The launch of the Sony Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact reinforces Sony’s commitment to offer the latest cutting-edge technology to our customers. With the two size options, customers now have the option of choosing th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Motorola announces the new Moto X for INR31,999 for the 16GB base variant and INR33,999 for the wood finish and the leather back panel. The new Moto X is designed with a sense of style and balance, featuring a curved metal frame, vivid 5.2” Full HD display, and authentic materials such as FSC certified woods and genuine Horween leather that feel great in hand. The pure Android experience on the new Moto X gives user an amazing performance and speed. With a powerful 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, Moto X responds faster than ever with less battery drain.The new Moto X ensures that user never misses the moment. Just pick it up and twist the wrist twice and Moto X is ready to shoot. Touch anywhere on the screen to take the photo. It is exclusively available on Flipkart.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google starts social campaign #ReachForTheSky with MARD Google has announced the launch of a new social campaign called #ReachForTheSky, in association with MARD initiative. The joint campaign launched a website as part of Google's helping women get online initiative, will look to build support from existing Internet users and encourage more women to learn and use the Internet to excel in their lives. Joining hands with Google’s “Helping Women Get Online” initiative, MARD (started by Farhan Akhtar) stands to inspire change in society, to gather support for women empowerment. The jointly promoted campaign will look to generate awareness around the need to get women online as well as encourage existing users to help get more women online, and spread awareness of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. Rajan Anandan, Vice-President & Managing Director, Google India, said, “There are 616 million women in India. Close-to half of th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad foresees opportunity for e-com in India Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology (IT) Ravi Shankar Prasad, at an ASSOCHAM event, has predicted a vast opportunity for e-commerce in India, which can have a couple of players like Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba if the Government is successful in the rollout of its Digital India project. “As Flipkart is growing so big, as we see the success of Alibaba and as we see the aspirational India evolving with great enthusiasm particularly in rural areas, I see a vast opportunity for e-commerce,” said Prasad while inaugurating the 10th national Summit on “E-governance & Digital India: Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”, organized by the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India. “I see almost an explosion of various kind of availability of services through e-commerce, particularly you will have warehouses,” said Union...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Quikr ropes in Vineet Sehgal as CMO Quikr has announced appointment of Vineet Sehgal as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. Vineet will be responsible for marketing strategy and plans across all the areas, including brand building, performance marketing, partnership and alliances at Quikr. Vineet brings to the company more than 18 years of experience in marketing and business strategy across diverse industries such as telecommunication, FMCG, banking and management consulting. He has helped scale several operations from start-up to maturity in some of the world’s leading organizations such as Nokia, Nestle, Accenture, Cadburys and HSBC. Pranay Chulet, Founder & CEO, Quikr, said, “We are delighted to welcome Vineet to Quikr. Quikr is made in India and for India, and Vineet has built his career scaling consumer businesses in the country so there was natural chemistry here. Vineet knows the Indian consumer and he knows the Indian co...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco initiates To help Government convert India into a Digital India, Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced the "Cisco Smart City" as a blueprint for the future of smart and connected communities in India. The Cisco Smart City, unveiled along with the announcement of the next phase of the company's India site, symbolizes what the digitization of a country means for the future of work, education, healthcare and the electronic delivery of citizen services. As part of the inauguration, Cisco demonstrated the possibilities of the Government’s Digital India programme where infrastructure would be offered as a utility to every citizen, governance and services would be on demand and citizens would be digitally empowered. Using the Internet of Everything, Cisco showcased how connected education, connected healthcare, smart buildings, connected transport and smart parking can transform the way cities and communities are designed, bu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP launches ProLiant Gen9 Servers to cope Data Center demands HP(NYSE:HPQ) has announced a new portfolio of HP ProLiant Generation 9 (Gen9) Servers that will help customers reduce cost and complexity, accelerate IT service delivery and enable business growth. With new technology features and workload-optimized design, the new server portfolio advances HP’s vision for compute, the future of data center technology. The new HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers are designed to address these challenges, delivering flexible, scalable computing resources that are aligned to companies’ business goals. The combination of HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers and HP Technology Services help customers capitalize on compute innovations while confidently moving their traditional infrastructure to the New Style of IT. "The rise of mobile, cloud, social and big data is driving the need for a new approach to the data center and its processing engine - the server - to enab...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Red Hat to buy FeedHenry Red Hat(NYSE:RHT) has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FeedHenry, a leading enterprise mobile application platform provider. FeedHenry expands Red Hat's broad portfolio of application development, integration, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, enabling Red Hat to support mobile application development in public and private environments. Aligned with Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy, FeedHenry enables enterprises to accelerate their mobile app development and backend integration via private clouds, public clouds, and on-premises. FeedHenry is an important addition to Red Hat’s JBoss xPaaS for OpenShift strategy, providing a platform and services for mobile developers and applications. Red Hat has agreed to acquire FeedHenry, a privately-held company, for approximately 63.5 million Euros in cash, subject to certain adjustments at closing. The transaction is expec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade realigns its SDN Strategy with Vyatta Controller Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD) has introduced the Brocade Vyatta Controller as a keystone product in its Software-Defined Networking (SDN) portfolio and the next step toward delivering on the customer benefits of its open networking platform strategy. Commercially supported by Brocade, this SDN controller is built continuously from the OpenDaylight Project, a community-led open-source initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in order to provide levels of agility and efficiency not possible in traditional IP networking. The increasing adoption of cloud, mobile and social technologies by consumers and businesses has brought user-centrism to the strategic front for both IT organizations and service providers. Along with required changes in how network services are deployed, such as NFV, this trend has also added significant management and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To strengthen its position, D-Link has extended its Network Storage Business line. D-Link, at its recently concluded channel/ System Integrator meet in Mumbai, presented its business and distribution model for network storage. Additionally, D-Link also introduced a range of Network Storage devices for businesses and enterprises, that are engineered for performance, flexibility, improved productivity, mitigate risk, simplify management and lower overall cost of ownership. Sumith Satheesan, AVP – Security & Storage Business, D-Link (India) Ltd, said, “With growing emphasis on network infrastructure across various business verticals, and exponential rise in data has made Network Storage a top priority for most CTOs. Industry reports suggest Network storage market in India was at $346 million in 2013 and is estimated to reach $550 million by 2017. Hence, the business potential in th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google and DIT join hands over Digital India Initiatives With focus on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a Digital India, Google has come up with some initiatives that will help realize this dream. Google will run a number of campaigns as part of the Government of India’s Digital India programme. The highlights are: ● MyGov, the citizen engagement platform of the Government and Google are collaborating to launch a nationwide contest to develop a mobile app for the PM's Office. The mobile app will bring the PMO to every citizen and the contest will showcase how Indians can build a world- class app. ● Google India will continue to build a vibrant language ecosystem online and help the Government transition into the increasingly “mobile” India. ● Programmes such as Helping Women get Online, getting Indian SMEs Online and showcasing India’s rich heritage and culture online will further promote the digital empowerment of citizens...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE McAfee reveals consumer outlook on future lifestyle, digital revolution McAfee, part of Intel Security has released the findings of its Safeguarding the Future of Digital India in 2025 which examines India’s thoughts and attitudes towards lifestyle and technology trends a decade from now. The study provides insight into how Indians believe technology will impact their homes, workplace, cars, wearables, mobile devices and the intersection of these technologies with online security and privacy. One of the key revelations of the study was how truly high-tech Indians believe their environment will be in 2025. 92% envision artificial intelligence and robotics helping them in their jobs. 87% believe the refrigerator will automatically add to the grocery list when items are running low and 90% are keen on a wearable device that let you scan the barcode of a particular product (grocery or otherwise) and automatically add it to the shopping ca...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC, DTE, Government of Tamil Nadu and ICTACT join hands to train teachers EMC, DTE, Government of Tamil Nadu and ICTACT have announced that they will be training teachers from over 350 polytechnics in Tamil Nadu on the newly introduced Information storage management courses in Polytechnic institutes. The syllabus for Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Networking Engineering and Information Technology sees an inclusion of the new courses under the L Scheme Syllabus for Government, Government Aided and Self-financing polytechnic colleges. Thiru. Kumar Jayant, IAS, Commissioner, Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu, said, “With over 1,000 engineering and Polytechnic colleges and over four lakh engineering and polytechnic students, the state of Tamil Nadu is contributing towards creating ICT workforce in a big way. This initiative is a step further towards bridging the skill gap and providing a competitive ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Himanshu Gupta, Deputy Director, ZTE India     As a technology player, the new wave of digitalization is very exhilarating for us. Every day, new changes are coming up with the Mr Narendra Modi-led government in terms of technology, which seems to be quite promising for India. Digitalization will enable the government in meeting the public needs and demands in a more convenient fashion and vice versa. We, at ZTE, see this phenomenon as a chance to grow in the Indian market. ZTE has always considered going digital as an important aspect of what the future has in store for us. A smartphone for every Indian with a fast Internet connection will not only enable the people but also drive growth in the country faster. Since India is still majorly an agrarian economy, the prospect of being a fully digitized nation is a bit futuristic. Even today, more than half the population cannot access the Internet....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Hitesh Shah, D rector, Channel Sales, BlackBerry, India       Recently government of India announced the ‘Digital India programme.’ The program seeks to end the huge divide between rural and urban India and the digital haves or have-nots. This program is already being touted as the government’s master stroke in creating a 21st century India, with the government gearing up to offer better services, foster innovation, generate more jobs for the citizens of India while leveraging technology as the critical leveler. The government has further embarked on a plan to build 100 smart cities, urban fiber optic-connected digital clusters that will provide next-generation services to its residents, thereby transforming the dreams of a digital India in reality. Mobile phones and technology will play a significant role in driving this digitization process. M2M (Machine 2 Machine) technologies will be vital...