VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Samsung India has announced the launch of Samsung Galaxy J7 Max and Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro. The duo is the latest addition to Samsung’s smartphone J series and now comes with features like the revolutionary Samsung Pay and all-new Social Camera with f1.7 lens. Sumit Walia, Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India, said, “Samsung J series holds leadership position in the mass-mid segment smartphone market and continues to witness a healthy demand from Indian customers. At Samsung, we listen to our consumers and bring out meaningful innovations that help enhance people’s lives. Considering the increasing market demand in the mid segment, we have launched two new models, Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro. The superior specifications along with disruptive innovations of Samsung Pay and Social Camera on these devices will further consolidate our leadership position.” Both the smartphones sport a 13MP front camera with an f1.9 lens and back camera (flat back in Galaxy J7 Pro) with an f1....

RCOM’s India Enterprise Business unit took the honors at the Frost & Sullivan India Digital Transformation Award 2017 for its pioneering SIP Trunking service in the ‘New Products and Services’ category. “It is indeed a great honor to be acknowledged for product innovation and services. IP Voice is dramatically changing the contours of voice communications and enterprises are looking at newer ways of minimizing Capex, while seeking better return on investment. Reliance SIP Trunk is one of early game-changers in the transformative journey towards the IP voice ecosystem,” said Bill Barney, Co-CEO, Reliance Communications, and Chairman and CEO of Global Cloud Xchange. Launched in 2016 by RCOM’s India Enterprise Business, Reliance SIP Trunk is India’s first Enterprise SIP Trunking service to be powered by the IP Multimedia System (IMS). It is a highly scalable IP voice service designed for enterprise use for internal as well as external communications. Unlike traditional tel...

A high level meeting was organised in the national capital to understand on how to achieve a US $1 trillion digital economy within four years by creating affordable technology and an inclusive environment. Besides the Union Minister of Law and Justice of India, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad and Union Minister of State, Ministry of Law and Justice, Shri P P Choudhary, the meeting on building India's digital economy saw the presence of Indian technology giants and leaders.  There were industry experts like R Chandrashekhar President – Nasscom; Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director - Google India; Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer – Wipro; C P Gurnani, MD and CEO- Tech Mahindra; A P Hota, Managing Director & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India; Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman & Co-Founder - NIIT Group, Subho Ray, President - Internet and Mobile Association of India and Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO - Hike Messenger, among others. The minister spoke on how the go...

Mytrah Energy has announced its full-year results for the year ended 31 December, 2016. The company reported full year revenues of US$362.23 million, an increase of 385% over the last year’s revenue of US$74.72 million. The company reached 1 GW of wind power generation capacity by adding 417 MW wind projects in just one year.  Mytrah Energy entered into power purchase agreements for 140 MW of solar power capacity, bringing the total to 422 MW AC in Telangana, Punjab and Karnataka and moved its new solar business into the construction phase by initiating the construction of solar projects in Telangana and Punjab and has secured close-to $1 billion of financing during the year.  Ravi Kailas, Chairman, Mytrah, said, "The results clearly reflect the growth Mytrah has seen in a span of six years. In 2016, we commissioned more wind capacity than ever before, underlining both the capability of our team and the depth of our pipeline. This additional capacity helped drive o...

Belkin will be launching a month-long campaign, #LiveBelkin. This campaign will go live across 11 countries (Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam) from 19 June – 17 July, 2017. Participants are required to post their photo entry on either Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Three weekly winners from India will be chosen based on their creativity. They will win CEA award-winning Valet Charger Power Pack worth Rs.7,000. All national winners will enter the grand finale to compete with winners from other 10 countries. The participants will have to garner support from their social network and will stand a chance to win based on the aesthetics of their photos featuring Belkin products. The top three most-voted photos will win the iPhone – Red edition, Samsung Galaxy S8 and Apple Watch Series 2. All prizes will be accompanied by complementing Belkin accessories that will enable winners to stay charged, save time and make...

Alcatel has introduced the A3 10’’ tablet for Rs.9,999 in India. The A3 10 is a 4G LTE- supported device and will be now available exclusively at Flipkart from 15th June. Praveen Valecha, Regional Director, Alcatel India, said, “The new A310 was designed to provide our users with a complete immersive experience. The tablet comes with an array of features that are unprecedented at this price and shall change the shape of this segment entirely.” Bipul Kumar, Category Head, Flipkart, added, "The new tablet from Alcatel looks like a potential game-changer. We have had fruitful association with Alcatel in the past, with their innovative products and our wide reach making it an ideal partnership. I believe the new A3 10 is a fantastic offering for our consumers." Read More

Huawei has announced its partnership with Jaunt, the leader in cinematic virtual reality experiences to provide high-quality VR content and technology for its upcoming device Honor 8 Pro.  Honor 8 Pro, which is scheduled to be launched, comes with a cardboard viewer and the pre-installed Jaunt VR app containing a wealth of video content that makes virtual reality accessible anytime. It enhances the VR experience by harnessing the powerful computing capability of the Kirin 960 chipset and the high precision sensor allowing for more accurate head-tracking.  Conveying his thoughts on the partnership, Allen Wang, Director, Product Center, Huawei India Consumer Business Group said, “We aim to innovate and provide premium quality products based on customer needs. We believe that our partnerships will help us bring in more innovation and customization and hope to explore our possibilities further.” Read More

Intex Technologies has announced the launch of its new 4G VoLTE smartphone Intex ELYT e7. The 4G VoLTE smartphone comes with an elegant sleek look with a 2.5D curved glass with 3 GB RAM, fingerprint sensor, Android Nougat and big battery. All these high-tech features in one smartphone is exclusively available on amazon.in at a competitive price of Rs 7,999. The 4G-enabled Elyt e7 comes with 5.2-inch HD IPS display supported with 1.25 GHz and 64-bit Quad Core Mediatek processor, ensuring smooth performance while playing high end games or watching videos and multitasking. The smartphone is equipped with latest biometric security fingerprint sensor at the back panel. The scanner will scan and verify authority, making the smartphone completely secure. The smartphone runs on the latest Android 7.0 OS Nougat. Commenting on the launch of ELYT e7, Nidhi Markanday, Director & Business Head, Intex Technologies said, “With ELYT e7, Intex has unveiled its latest tech marvel for year...

TeamIndus Foundation for Excellence is inviting bright college students to be a part of the TeamIndus Moon Mission as Campus Ambassadors, to take the learning and inspiration of India’s first private space mission to campuses.  TeamIndus is India’s only entry in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a competition which requires private teams to soft-land on the Moon, move 500 metres and send images back to earth.  Sheelika Ravishankar, Lead – Marketing Strategy and Outreach, TeamIndus said, “We want this moon mission to be inspiring for every single Indian, particularly the next generation of creators and scientists. Being part of a space mission is something that stays with you and can inspire even higher career trajectories in STEM. Campus Ambassadors is a unique opportunity to be part of a proud and historic legacy of work that will inspire future generations.”  TeamIndus Foundation is inviting applications from campus leaders in colleges. Students with a passion fo...

Thales has successfully delivered the Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems on the first section of Delhi Metro’s Phase III that became operational recently. After the successful deployment of the AFC system for Phase I & II, the company has been working on the project to provide AFC systems for Phase III (79 stations) of the network. Ushering in a new innovation in fare collection to India, Thales has installed its new-generation ticket gates Dream Gates on two stations of the Delhi Metro Heritage Line: Lal Quila (Red Fort) and Jama Masjid. The four Dream Gates (two entries in Lal Quila station, two exits in Jama Masjid) from Thales allow passengers to travel using QR code on their mobile phones - a first in India. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has become the first public transport operator in India to introduce gates with 3D camera technology for passenger control. The Dream Gate offers station providers increased rates of passenger flow along with the best protec...

Ruckus has announced that it now offers both wired and wireless networking for enterprise, hospitality, service provider, government and small-and-medium business (SMB) customers worldwide. The company now offers a complete line of high-performance access infrastructure designed to optimize the end-user experience, simplify network setup and management for IT managers. It also announced a new multi-gigabit solution that delivers more efficient performance while providing flexible scalability and simplified management to meet the needs of businesses and organizations of all types and sizes.  The ICX 7150 Z-Series switch and Ruckus R720 access point (AP) together solve the problems associated with increasing device densities and bandwidth-consuming applications by maximizing network access performance with a complete multi-gigabit 802.11ac Wave 2 solution. The latest addition to the Ruckus portfolio also includes Cloudpath Enrollment System software that enables organizations...

Honeywell has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Nextnine, a privately held provider of security management solutions and technologies for industrial cyber security.  The addition of Nextnine’s industry-leading security solutions and secure remote service capabilities will enhance the company’s existing range of innovative cyber security technologies and significantly increase Honeywell’s Connected Plant cyber security customer base.  Nextnine’s flagship technology, ICS Shield, protects industrial sites from cyber security attacks and enables remote monitoring of assets. It complements Honeywell’s extensive cyber security portfolio with a solution that is used at more than 6,200 sites globally across the oil and gas, utility, chemical, mining and manufacturing sectors.

Smartron, India’s first global technology OEM company and premier IoT brand has announced a strategic partnership with Eros Now to provide its extensive entertainment repertoire to Smartron customers. Through this partnership Smartron devices’ users will be able to experience seamless entertainment content which is deeply integrated into the devices. This exclusive partnership will provide 2 months of free vast repository of movies to all Smartron users in multiple languages that can be accessed through a cloud platform - tcloud. Cisco VNI report talks about video content will account for nearly 50% of data consumption in India by 2018, and will hit 72% by 2020.... Read More

SAP and Accenture has announced an expanded collaboration to co-innovate, co-develop and jointly go to market with breakthrough digital solutions based on the new SAP Leonardo digital innovation system. The strategic partners will focus on embedding digital technologies including additional machine learning, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the core of clients’ businesses to deliver even greater value from their SAP investments.  Accenture and SAP are now expanding their current co-development program to include intelligent analytics solutions delivered by Accenture Digital and powered by SAP Leonardo. By combining solutions like Accenture’s Payables Optimizer and Advanced Inventory Management with SAP Leonardo, it is anticipated that clients will be able to reduce capital costs and optimize the supply chain to meet the real-time demands of customers. Accenture will also apply its Industry X.0 approach and Industrial Internet of Things expertise to help clients...

Ericsson will strengthen the global Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem with Microsoft by enabling enterprises to speed up the time it takes to launch mobile network-based IoT services. Ericsson IoT Accelerator allows enterprises to deploy their IoT solutions using Azure, which connects them directly to the ecosystem of mobile operators using the connectivity management service delivered by the Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP) which is part of the Ericsson IoT Accelerator. Ericsson IoT Accelerator provides a continuous incremental set of functionality offered as a service to enable agile creation and deployment of solutions for IoT. The connectivity management service of the Ericsson IoT Accelerator allows telecom operators to design, launch and evolve managed IoT connectivity offerings towards enterprises requiring cellular connectivity. It also provides enterprises with full control and automation capabilities to handle the connectivity for their IoT devices. ...

OYO – India’s largest hotel network appointed Suvesh Malhotra as VP-Engineering.  As part of OYO’s technology leadership team, Suvesh will work on building technology as a core differentiator to deliver a best-in-industry user experience. He will oversee OYO’s consumer technology including consumer experience, ordering and payment platforms and data analytics to design and deliver solutions to meet evolving consumer needs.  A seasoned tech professional with 12 years of experience, Suvesh has a proven track record in implementing technology solutions for various businesses. Suvesh joins OYO from Amazon.com where he was leading technology for BuyVIP, a flash sales e-commerce platform. He was formerly the CTO of Stepout – India’s largest social discovery platform and has also worked with homeshop18 and Oracle in the past... Read More

Cisco and Shoppers Stop have announced collaboration to implement Cisco Wireless Solution across 80 Shoppers Stop stores in India. In select stores, Shoppers Stop is piloting the Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) capabilities integrated with Cisco Wireless Solution for enhanced, personalized experiences for shoppers. This alliance is aimed to accelerate the digitization of Shoppers Stop stores in line with its omni-channel strategy through which the company aims to achieve 20 percent digitally-influenced sales by 2020.  As per Cisco VNI Report 2016 - 2021, total public Wi-Fi hotspots will grow 112-fold to 5.4 million by 2021 in India. With Cisco’s expertise, Shoppers Stop has deployed guest Wi-Fi for more personalization and digital services to help its customers discover the best shopping possibilities within its stores. Cisco’s CMX solution is designed to help Shoppers Stop better serve its customers by analyzing individual customer experience, behavior and engageme...

Capgemini and Ciber has announced that they have entered into an agreement pursuant to which Capgemini will acquire the North American operations of Ciber, for a total price of $50 million. The assets to be acquired include the majority of the North American business of Ciber, covering client-focused assets, employees and operations, with revenue of $275 million. The transaction excludes certain liabilities of Ciber as well as its international operations. The acquisition of the North American business of Ciber, a provider of technology services and IT specialists, will strengthen Capgemini’s presence in the region with key Fortune 1,000 clients in sectors such as automotive, telecom and media. The deal will increase Capgemini’s workforce by an estimated 2,000 consultants in the US and 1,000 in India... Read More

Balaji Telefilms’ video streaming service ALTBalaji will be using Amazon Cloudfront, a global content delivery network (CDN) service. ALTBalaji will have access to multi-petabytes of bandwidth in preparation of the launch of the ALTBalaji service in mid-April 2017. “We use Xstream Mediamaker as our backend OVP and video delivery is entirely hosted by and built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which already serves numerous global OTT platforms with over hundreds of millions of streams. Thanks to AWS, our platform setup is capable of handling high volumes of traffic and media content per week, and at the same time stream content to millions of our customers every day through Amazon Cloudfront,” said Sunil Nair, COO, ALT Digital Media Entertainment... Read More

AMD has acquired intellectual property (IP) and key engineering talent from Nitero, a pioneer in millimeter wave solutions capable of enabling future generations of wireless Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) headsets.  The acquisition provides AMD with a broader portfolio of IP capable of enabling VR headset and solution providers with key technology required to create more immersive computing experiences.  “Unwieldly headset cables remain a significant barrier to drive widespread adoption of VR,” said Mark Papermaster, AMD chief technology officer and senior vice president. “Our newly acquired wireless VR technology is focused on solving this challenge, and is another example of AMD making long-term technology investments to develop high-performance computing and graphics technologies that can create more immersive computing experiences,” added Papermaster.... Read More