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Motorola has announced that the Moto G (3rd-Gen) and Moto G Turbo edition will now also be available on Amazon.in . Motorola continues to give its customers the p ower to choose  and in line with this philosophy, apart from being on Flipkart , the Moto G range will also be available on Amazon.in. While the 8+1GB variant of the Moto G (3rd-Gen) will be available by the end of the week, you can go ahead and order the 16+2GB variant of the device in white and black.  All variants of the two models will be sold with the Moto G (3rd- Gen) starting at INR9,999 and Moto G Turbo edition starting at INR12,499. In addition to this, there are exciting EMI offers on both the products that customers can avail... Read more

With an aim to empower education, Konika Minolta has entered into software business with cloud-based education ERP – Educo ERP . It is an easy-to-use ERP solution platform for schools, colleges, institutes, universities and training centres. Educo ERP provides access to information anywhere anytime on any device to administrators, teachers, students and parents. It sports multiple languages so that it can be used by anyone. Educo ERP is affordable to cater to the requirements of any institution of any size any structure... Read more

To address the end-user and enterprise IT business mobility needs, VMware has launched a new platform – Workspace ONE – for delivering secure digital workspaces for flexible workstyles and bring your own device (BYOD). The new platform is based on the principles of consumer simple and enterprise security. “In the mobile cloud era, employees, devices, applications and data increasingly live beyond the physical walls of the workplace, the data center, or the network. Digital enterprises are struggling to deliver a unified digital workspace due to disjointed technology and teams. We are proud to be the first to bring together identity, device management and application delivery on a single integrated platform so business can be conducted by mobile end-users regardless of platform, location, device or application,” said Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President & General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware . .. Read more

AMD is witnessing a traction for its 6th-Generation AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors , based on the introduction of two new HP notebook design wins, new large-scale enterprise deployments, and the expansion of HP adoption of AMD FreeSync technology in its notebooks and displays. It integrate extensive AMD CPU, graphics, security, and video processing IP into a single SoC design, will now power two new HP 600 ... Read more

Eka Software Solutions has joined hands with GlobalView , a premier provider of enterprise-wide market data solutions for the commodity industries and the developer of MarketView. As part of this partnership, data from GlobalView will be made available in Commodity Analytics Cloud, Eka’s advanced analytics platform for the commodities markets. Manav Garg, CEO & Founder, Eka , said, “GlobalView is the leading provider of real-time and historical energy and commodity market information. A key component of Commodity Analytics Cloud is the data ecosystem that provides instant access to all the data required from internal and external sources so business users can perform real-time analysis. With the inclusion of data from GlobalView, Commodity Analytics Cloud enables users to focus on data analysis, not data collection and integration.” Read more

The Department of Electronics & IT has released an order concerning amendment of the “Electronics and IT Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Amendment Order, 2013”, wherein the Standard Mark has been mandated and the transition period defined. This Order will hereupon be called the “Electronics and Information Technology Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Amendment Order, 2016”. It shall come into effect immediately... Read more

Users in India can now find “ flood alerts ” along with “river level” information for more than 170 areas in which the Central Water Commission (CWC) has active observation stations. These alerts are now available on Google web search, Google Now cards in the Google app, Google Maps, and on the Google Public Alerts homepage, and can be accessed on desktop and mobile devices. The alerts will be created and shared using data provided by the CWC. “Timely information is the first step in disaster preparedness and has the potential to save thousands of lives lost to natural disasters each year. By making critical information more widely available to people, ‘Flood Alerts’ will enable citizens across the country to make quicker and more informed decisions,” said Payal Patel, Product Manager... Read more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Panasonic India has unveiled its P66 Mega smartphone sporting 21 Indian languages to facilitate communication in vernacular languages.  Empowering Digital India Mission, this newest P-Series model has been designed to transcend language barriers which would help people to talk, type and text in their own native language. The P66 Mega smartphone is powered by a mega 3,200mAh battery and mega 2GB RAM and available at Rs.7,990... For More Details

To enhance the broadband connectivity in rural India, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) has partnered with Nokia to create technology solutions. Under the 3-year partnership, Nokia will fund and provide technological expertise for research at IIT-M’s Centre of Excellence for Wireless Technology (CEWiT). The project will evaluate the option of using unlicensed spectrum to deliver cost-efficient, last-mile broadband connectivity to remote rural communities in India, complementing the government’s National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) initiative... For More Details

Targeting the midmarket segment, Avaya has announced its multichannel unified communications and contact centre cloud offering. Avaya Midmarket Cloud solutions will give its channel partners two flexible deployment options, enabling them to seamlessly evolve midsize companies to the advanced capabilities needed for digital business. The Cloud offerings are powered by Avaya IP Office and OnAvaya – Google Cloud Platform. These will allow customers to maximize their investments in more than one million Avaya systems worldwide... For More Details

Avnet has opened a VMware NSX lab within its Innovation Centre located in Mumbai. The Innovation Centre provides partners with access to leading enterprise hardware and software in a live business environment. The new VMware facility will be open for demonstrations and proof of concepts (POCs). VMware NSX is a network virtualization platform for the software-defined data centre (SDDC) that brings the operational model of a virtual machine (VM) into the data centre network. With VMware NSX, customers can quickly and easily add new services and automate complex workflows. This eliminates manual configuration requirements and optimizes capacity utilization, significantly reducing operational costs... Read more

In its newly-announced research, Amdocs has highlighted the need for operators to consider optimizing their radio access networks (RAN). This will enable operators to contend with the annual doubling of demand for data, increased network complexity, the increased demand for video viewing on smartphones and tablets, and the initial instability of new services being introduced such as voice over LTE ( VoLTE ). The research is based on the analysis of more than 25 million voice and data connections from 80 different network operators around the world in the past 12 months... For More Details

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Langkawi has witnessed a unique opportunity for tech vendors and VARs to address the US$ 100 billion e-commerce market in India by 2020. India is on the cusp of change with various opportunities in the space of ICT. To have a better understanding of this business opportunity, ISODA kick-started its annual flagship event, ISODA Tech Summit 6 that attracted 120 key decision makers from leading software companies and the VAR community (System Integrators, Solution Partners ... Read more

SUSE has appointed three senior executives as the company continues to evolve and expand its leadership structure to support rapid growth and momentum in both its core Linux operating system business and more recent cloud infrastructure and storage solutions. Ronald de Jong , previously Vice-President of EMEA Sales for SUSE, has been named President of Sales . Michael Miller , previously SUSE Vice-President of Global Alliances and Marketing, is now President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing. And, Ralf Flaxa is now President of Global Engineering for SUSE, promoted from Vice-President of Engineering. The appointments were effective 1st February, 2016... Read more

Designed to leverage Microsoft Azure IoT Suite to accelerate enterprise IoT adoption, HCL Technologies has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) Incubation Center in Redmond, Washington, USA. The HCL Incubation Center will build vertical solutions focussed on two key growth areas: Industrial & Manufacturing and Life Sciences & Healthcare, with use-cases around Industrial Automation, Remote Patient Monitoring and Fleet Management, among others. The center will also deploy a new model of innovation leveraging real-time analytics, sensory data and rapid co-creation allowing customers to experience the impact IoT can have on their ability to create ... Read more