Wireline Services to fuel Vodafone’s growth in India

Vodafone Business Services (VBS) has unveiled its venture into wireline services with a suite of offerings for businesses for its growth in India. With this introduction, VBS is targeting to achieve 20% of its enterprise revenue coming from wireline services over the next five years.

Vodafone’s wireline services infrastructure comprises of 120,000 km of fiber across the country, over 350 PoPs across 130 cities and an ISO 27001-certified Network Operations Centre (NOC) for 24×7 performance management.

Naveen Chopra, Director – Vodafone Business Services, said, “Having built a robust infrastructure over the last three years, we are now looking at wireline services as a key revenue driver for Vodafone Business Services. With our suite of offerings in this space, we are now a total communication services provider in the true sense. This is going to be one of our strategic priorities at VBS and we are expecting that it will contribute over 20% towards our enterprise revenues over the next five years.”

The wireline services suite is a part of the total communication solutions, over and above the  mobility and M2M services.

Some of the key services offered by VBS under wireline umbrella include Private Leased Circuits (National and International), MPLS-based Virtual Private Network (VPN)….See More

10,000 Indian Students show their Creativity on Windows at AppFest

Over 10,000 students across India have joined forces to unleash their creativity at theMicrosoft Student AppFest, a unique coding event enabling students from colleges of all sizes and stature to develop their “dream app” ideas alongside professional developers using the latest Microsoft technologies.

Landing in 54 key hubs in 45 key cities across 18 states of India, the reverberations of the day-long coding fest were felt across the country with each state hosting a bustling hands-on workshop run by a total of 150 Microsoft Student Partners on-call to give students a first-hand app development experience.

An average of 250 estimate students from each college contributed to the total number of 10,000 participating students. The tremendous response amounts to over 60,000 collective hours of coding. An estimated total number of 3,000 full apps were imagined and created during the one-day code-a-thon……See More

Adobe brings the Power of Photoshop Touch to Mobile Phones

Adobe Systems India has announced the immediate availability of a new version of Adobe Photoshop Touch, optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, and Android smartphones. Inspired by the highly successful Photoshop Touch for tablets, the phone app brings core features of Photoshop desktop software to mobile devices and offers similar intuitive, touch-based gestures and features.

“Mobile phones are increasingly becoming the primary tool for people to take and edit photos,” said Winston Hendrickson, Vice-President – Products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe.

Photoshop Touch for phone is integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud and includes access to 2GB of Creative Cloud storage with a free account. Users can sync photos and projects to Creative Cloud, and then continue working with the files from a tablet or Photoshop desktop software. Creative Cloud is a radical rethinking of the entire creative process and an industry-defining shift in creative expression and inspiration, where members can explore, create, publish and share their work across devices, the desktop and the Web…..See More

Dell India conducts “Solutions for Success”

Dell India (NASDAQ:DELL) has organized a series of “Solutions for Success” events in 10 cities of India, namely Hyderabad, Surat, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Rajkot, Nasik, Raipur and Mumbai, in association with the respective partners. The aim of these events was to empower the Dell partners to better address their customers’ requirements. The campaign has enabled Dell’s partners in engaging their customers with respect to the key solutions that Dell provides.

The company recognizes channel as an integral part of their business. Hence, they are continuously and proactively taking an extra step for their partner community to help in business development.

Ajay Kaul, Director & General Manager, Global Commercial, India, stated, “These kinds of event series indicates strong commitment from Dell to enable our partner with the power to do more. We feel that this event campaign is a perfect platform to reach out to more customers jointly with our commercial channel partners, showcasing our commitment towards the Indian market. This event was focussed on communication various solutions from Dell which would enable customers to be successful in their business growth journey….See More

ASUS launches MeMO Pad in India

ASUS has launched the revolutionary MeMO Pad which offers a smooth browsing experience and fantastic quality at an affordable price. Venturing in the Rs.5,000/- to Rs.10,000/- tablet market with the best-in-class features, the 7-inch ASUS MeMO Pad is the company’s first tablet in the segment. It is light in weight, easily fits in your hands and is great for your life on the go.

Available in three colours – Sugar White, Titanium Gray and Cherry Pink – the MeMO Pad sports an elegant, non-slip diamond-patterned finish.

“After offering various mid- and high-end products in the Indian market with innovative technologies, we believe it is time to bring the same grandeur to the low-end market. We are pleased to announce the launch of the ASUS MeMO Pad that gives you the mobility to

stay connected in today’s socially connected environment. With an ultra-light, minimalistic and anti-slip design, the MeMO Pad will not only help you to keep in touch with friends, but will also fulfil all your entertainment requirements – and all this at the irresistible price of Rs.9,999/- only,” affirmed Peter Chang, Regional Head, South Asia & Country Manager, System Business Group, ASUS India……See More

Mahindra Comviva and Funambol team up

Funambol and Mahindra Comviva have announced a partnership to help mobile service providers get to market quickly with personal cloud services. Through this association, Funambol will provide its award-winning solution that enables service providers to deploy a self-branded digital lifestyle personal cloud. Mahindra Comviva will leverage its wide product portfolio and extensive geographic presence to create and deliver personal cloud solutions, leveraging Funambol technology that meets the unique needs of customers in its markets. It has been estimated that the global personal cloud market will grow from $6.6 billion in 2013 to $43.5 billion in 2018, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45.61% from 2013 to 2018.

“The increase in Mobile Internet users in the emerging markets and consumption of digital content, but without a similar growth in PC and computer infrastructure, has accelerated the need for personal cloud solutions. Mahindra Comviva is extending its award-winning WebAxn solution to include personal cloud services with this partnership,” said Arun Tanksali, Chief Technology Officer, Mahindra Comviva.

The Funambol–Mahindra Comviva partnership is another indication that the market for service provider personal clouds is red hot, as many providers have recently decided to offer their own branded personal cloud…..See More

Google is India’s Most Trusted Internet Brand: AIBT

Google remains India’s Most Trusted for the third year in a row, but it is noteworthy that the gap with the second-ranked Facebook is a miniscule 3%. An analysis of the All India Brand Trust (AIBT) ranks shows that Google (All India rank 44) fell

13 ranks and Facebook (All India rank 48) gained 17 ranks to bridge the gap. Yahoo still stood as the third Most Trusted Internet brand despite its 62-rank fall in the All India Brand Trust rank. Google’s Orkut steadied at the fourth rank despite a significant fall in daily visitors from India. Ebay follows as India’s fifth Most Trusted Internet brand with a very small difference in BTI from the previous. The top six of the last year are repeated in the same order this year as well.

This year’s research was conducted in 16 cities generating 19,000 unique brands across 211 categories. Trust Research Advisory is a part of the Comniscient Group, a group of India’s largest non-advertising-based communication businesses.

Observing on the trend, N. Chandramouli, CEO, Trust Research Advisory, said, “Two reasons online brands rely significantly on trust more than any other. Firstly, the exchanges are without any physical interface, and secondly, the online world is cluttered with choices that make loyalty ephemeral. With most of the new brands entering the Most Trusted list this year being from Online Shopping or Internet Services, there will be no stopping…..See More

MWC 2013: Nokia launches 4 New Devices

At Mobile World Congress, Nokia has announced plans to extend high-end innovations to more people in more markets. Four new devices bring innovation to new price points, while Nokia’s HERE location suite becomes available for non-Nokia phones in the

Windows Phone ecosystem. Nokia has also announced new developer partnerships that use Nokia expertise in imaging, location and entertainment to deliver exclusive application experiences. Finally, Nokia and Microsoft are combining their strength in the enterprise sector to bring more business customers to Windows Phone.

“The momentum behind Nokia is gathering pace. The launches today reflect our commitment to broadening our devices and services portfolio to meet the demands of people and businesses around the globe,” said Stephen Elop,

President & Chief Executive Officer, Nokia. By offering better experiences at a more affordable price we are reinventing the battle for affordable mobile devices.”

The Nokia Lumia 720 delivers a high-end camera performance at a mid-range price point. Nokia also unveiled the Nokia 105, its most affordable phone to date, and the Nokia 301, for more affordable Internet and email access, and camera experiences inspired by Nokia Lumia smartphones…..See More

IBM unveils Mobile Portfolio for Global Businesses

IBM(NYSE: IBM) has unveiled IBM MobileFirst, the mobile portfolio that combines security, analytics and app development software, with cloud-based services and deep mobile expertise. Using IBM MobileFirst solutions, businesses can now streamline everything from the management of employee mobile devices, to the creation of a new mobile commerce app that will transform their entire business model.

IBM has also announced an expanded relationship with AT&T to provide developers with tools to create faster, richer mobile apps and services for customers. For instance, organizations can now quickly incorporate payment and messages into their apps.

“To date, mobile computing has been dominated by discussions of new smartphones, operating systems, games and apps. But enterprises have yet to tap into the potential of mobile business. Just as the Internet transformed the way we bank, book vacations and manage our healthcare, mobile computing is also transforming industries. As these devices become ingrained in everything that we do, businesses are now in the palms of their customers’ hands. IBM MobileFirst is designed to make the transformation to becoming a mobile enterprise a reality,” saidRobert LeBlanc, Senior Vice-President, Middleware Software, IBM.……See More

CMC strengthens its education network in Delhi NCR

CMC Academy launched an Authorised Training Centre at Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, as part of its initiative to make large numbers of youth employable by providing Job Enabled Training.

“CMC Academy offers industry relevant education and training of the highest quality, preparing the youth for a strong career across a variety of jobs. We are happy to have K M Ventures as our franchise partner”said Arun Varma, CMC’s Global Business Head for Education and Training.

CMC Academy, Gurgaon, will offer flagship Diploma Programs like CMC GRAD in software engineering and IT Infrastructure Management and it’s Accelerated version for 2013 Graduates; CMC EDGE, advanced Diploma for Engineering and Science Graduates and a host of entry-level and high-end short term courses for professionals; ADFA – Advance Diploma in Finance and Accounts for graduates and Several Fast Track Diploma Programs for graduates as well students in high school…..See More