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he government in India is on
pace to spend $7.2 billion on IT
products and services in 2016, an increase
of 2.4 percent over 2015, according to
Gartner.
This forecast includes spending on
internal services, software, IT services,
data center, devices and telecom services.
Government
comprises state and
local governments
and
national
government.
IT
services
(which
includes
consulting, software
support, business process outsourcing,
IT outsourcing, implementation, and
hardware support) is expected to grow
9.3 percent in 2016 to reach $1.8 billion
with the business process outsourcing
sub-segment growing 21 percent.
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REGULARS
Round About
14
Hot Bytes
16, 18
On the Ramp
20, 22
Voice N Data
24
Channel Buzz
26
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A Channel-led Transformation
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Mukul Mathur
Vice-President, Global Business Partners and CSI
IBM India/South Asia
and the focus to join in it, explains Mukul.
Since these are areas that require lot of domain knowledge and
solution expertise, there have also been new players who have joined
in with those expertise and which in most cases complement the
existing partner base of IBM by working together. In a world of
infrastructure environment, there can be thousands of players who
can come and work with you online. With the cloud evolving and
with the ease of partnering in different areas, the number of partners
we are working with today would go into thousands, states Mukul.
Talking about Smart city, Mukul clarifies that IBM has been one
of the many companies to have looked into the smarter planet as an
area and it has built lot of assets and applications using structured and
unstructured data along with our partners across the world. I believe
there is a huge opportunity and we are ready to work with partners
in areas that they have worked in and make a difference in building
a smarter city. We already have several engagements going on with
many state governments. India has the advantage that it can leapfrog
in the technology wave and bring more transparency, stability and
predictability to the process. And plus we have a very good youth
force too, sums up Mukul. n
Samrita Baruah
samrita@varindia.com
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CHANNEL CHIEF
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Bimal Das
Joint President Enterprise Products Distribution Business
HCL Infosystems
The increasing impact of technology enablement is resulting in
rapid evolvement of client needs and expectations. HCL Infosystems
is focussing and investing in emerging technologies such as Cloud,
Mobility and IoT to serve as the technology Lifecycle Partner for
Enterprises in todays disruptive business scenario.
HCL Infosystems has made significant investments over the past
few years into the cutting-edge offerings and capabilities around the
emerging technologies services such as IoT capabilities, Security
capabilities, mobility capabilities, Cloud capabilities, Mobility &
Analytics space to stay ahead in the disruptive market scenario. Our
global services business has started to generate significant high-margin
sales pipeline in the emerging services space of infra-application
integration, Cloud and IoT, explains Bimal.
Growth Engines
Enterprise business is among the growth
drivers of HCL Infosystems and the investments
made in this segment are reaping dividends for
the company.
HCL Infosystems has identified its Enterprise
Business, comprising Enterprise Product
Distribution, Domestic Enterprise Services,
Global Enterprise Services and Care Services as
the engine for its next level of growth.
The conscious focus and investments in the
Enterprise Business are already yielding results; and
the overall value proposition around Technology Lifecycle
Partnership is seeing positive traction, asserts Bimal.
To achieve the aim of being the preferred technology partner, HCL
has framed a unique marketing strategy that utilizes the capabilities
and assets of the company.
HCL Infosystems has designed a new Go-to-Market called
Enterprise 360 that effectively leverages our diverse capabilities
and assets. Enterprise 360 synergizes our strengths across Services,
Products and Solutions and is designed to fulfil our mission to be the
preferred Technology Lifecycle Partner for our clients, concludes
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Aparna Mullick
aparna@varindia.com
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ROUND ABOUT
Attitude of Gratitude
A lurking doubt may haunt my
esteemed readers as to what is the relevance
of this subject in a column that is, more
or less, dedicated to the information
technology. A few may debate that the
forthcoming Thanksgiving might have
triggered my thought process. But being
an India-born US citizen, I know how
important a celebration is Thanksgiving
to an ordinary US citizen. I like the
pageantry and sentimental values
attached to this great celebration. If
there can be an alternative narration for
Thanksgiving, I would venture to suggest
that it should be renamed as a festival to
celebrate Attitude of Gratitude.
Let me first try to align Thanksgiving
with Attitude of Gratitude. I believe
the emotional chord underlying both
conundrums Thanksgiving and Attitude
of Gratitude is the same. One can
add spiritual dimension to the situation
on the presumption that one who is
endowed with divine disposition can
only be thankful to the benefactors. I
believe that presumption is erroneous.
Even an atheist or an agonist can be
grateful to the benefactors. It is etched
on their emotional faculties and not
necessarily influenced by divinity.
Who have to be thanked for the great
digital and other revolutions that we
have achieved over millennia? My take
is all our ancestors! That includes the
primitive man who taught us to hunt
with stones, how to make fire from two
hard objects, how to clothe ourselves
first from the bark of the trees and later
using textiles. At every stage, there have
been incremental innovations and the
urge to accumulate pool of knowledge
to be shared among the people and pass
on to the progeny. The baton handing
of knowledge and technologies from
one generation to the other may seem
to be a natural and seamless process
happened through millennia. Yet, there
is a design in that process of evolution.
The Darwinian process of evolution is
not a cock-and- bull story but followed
a predictable rhythm all through the
human history. Every generation tried
to pass on something new to the next
and that process has continued since the
birth of mankind and that will continue
till the existence of the mankind.
To zero in on a single individual or
a group of persons to be thanked would
be a nave approach since most of the
technologies have been evolved and
incrementally innovated to the present
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HOT BYTES
E SubCom, a
TE Connectivity
company, along with
Facebook, Google and
PLDC (Pacific Light Data
Communication),
has
announced that they will
co-build the Pacific Light
Cable Network (PLCN).
PLCN is a 12,800 km
transpacific
submarine
cable system that will
provide the first direct
undersea route between
Hong Kong and Los
Angeles,
California
(USA) with ultra-high
capacity
transmission
Scheduled for commercial
launch in the summer of
2018, PLCN will include
TE SubCom's C+L
technology, a major step
forward in available cable
transmission capacity that
effectively doubles the
available bandwidth and
capacity per fiber pair over
a traditional C-band-only
designed system. Once
completed, PLCN will
be the highest-capacity
transpacific route.
"PLCN will be among
the lowest-latency fiberoptic routes between
Hong Kong and the US
and the first to connect
directly using ultra-highcapacity transmission,"
said
Wei
Junkang,
Chairman, PLDC.
itachi
Data
S y s t e m s
has announced three
new ways to improve
and accelerate digital
transformation initiatives.
Current market offerings
lack flexibility and choice
for customers,
" D i g i t a l
transformation is the
catalyst that promotes
new types of innovation
and creativity, improves
yco
has
announced
expansion
of
its
Connected
Partner
Program for third-party
solutions to integrate
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elit
has
collaborated with
Intel on a joint-architecture
for multiple Intel IoT
developer platforms for
the Industrial Internet of
Things.
The
commercially
available
Intel
IoT
platform consists of
end-to-end
reference
architectures
and
products
with
Telit
deviceWISE
edgeintelligence technology,
which includes extensive
device driver libraries and
built-in Cloud-readiness
giving companies an
instant onramp to the
Industrial IoT.
The
collaboration
between Telit and Intel
provides
far-reaching
benefits
for
remote
machine
monitoring
and control, production
diagnostics and predictive
maintenance across all
markets and industries
worldwide.
Canalys Channel
Forum to be a
game changer
he
Canalys
Channels Forum,
APAC is to be held from
25th 27th October, 2016
in Macau. The theme
for this year is Digital
Firstand is going to
explore the opportunities
and challenges facing the
channel partners.
The
event
is
conceptualized in a way
to address the industry
as a whole. The keynote
sponsors
have
been
already finalised and the
names are HPE, Dell,
EMC and Lenovo, while
the premier sponsors
are APC, Dropbox, The
Distribution
partners
for the event are Avnet,
Cadensworth, Comstor,
Ingram Micro, Redington,
VST ECS, Dicker Data,
Ardent
Networks,
Innovix, Westcon and
HCL Infosystems.
n order to promote
Bitdefender products
in the Indian market more
aggressively, BD Software
Distribution (BD Soft),
the Country Partner for
Bitdefender in India, has
appointed Link Telecom
to distribute Bitdefender
retail products in the
Eastern, Southern and
Western regions.
Zakir
Hussain
Rangwala, Director of
BD Soft, said, As we
are committed to further
extend and boost our
channel network and
increase
Bitdefenders
presence in the country,
we have relied on Link
Telecom as a trustful and
very experienced partner
that not only understands
the channel and is able to
maintain good practices
and policies, but has
also a very innovative
approach to sales and
great understanding of
the products. Having
such a strong partner will
definitely help to move
Bitdefendersrevolutionary
security products in the
Indian market.
EC's Aadhaar
biometrics
identification
system,
which is the largest system
of its kind in the world,
has surpassed one billion
this April. NEC provides
a large-scale biometrics
identification system that
utilizes fingerprints, face
images, and iris images for
this national identification
system.
NECs
large-scale
biometrics identification
system uses three types
of biometric information
fingerprints,
face
images, and iris images
to prevent people from
being registered twice.
This system can handle
more than one million
registrations per day by
information of people
seeking to register.
It is important to
make sure that the same
ID is not issued twice
in order to maintain a
highly reliable national
identification
system,
said Noritaka Taguma,
General
Manager,
Transportation and City
Infrastructure Division,
NEC.
HOT BYTES
CL Infotech has
implemented
electronic
public
distribution
system
(e-PDS). The e-PDS has
been implemented as a
the
beneficiary
will
carry along with their
unique PIN for making
transactions at the Fair
Price Shops (FPSs).
Raj Malik, Chief
Delivery Officer, HCL
Infotech, commented,
HCL Infosystems is
proud to partner with
the Andaman & Nicobar
Administration. This is an
important step in ensuring
greater transparency and
efficiency in this critical
public benefit area. This is
yet another endeavour by
HCL Infosystems to use
ICT solutions for enabling
better e-Governance.
he Government
of India under
Solar Mission has set a
target of installing 20,000
MW of Solar Power by
2022. Responding to this,
the Indian Railways has
planned to base 10% of
its electricity demand on
green energy by 2020 and
commission 1,000 MW of
solar power capacity in
the next five years.
Persistent Foundation
also supports Solar Power
Generation under their
Green Initiative.
Consistent
with
the Green Initiative of
Indian Railways and
Persistent
Foundation,
on 29th September, 2016,
Persistent
Foundation
has signed an MoU
with
Secunderabad
Division of Railways for
Funding, Installation and
Commissioning of a 225
kWp Solar Power Plant
at Hyderabad Deccan
(Nampally)
Railway
station.
AP has announced
investment plans
of 2 billion over five
years to help business
and
government
entities benefit from the
proliferation of sensors,
smart devices and Big
Data that are transforming
business with the Internet
of Things (IoT).
SAP plans to accelerate
innovation in its IoT
solution portfolio, increase
sales and marketing,
scale service, support
and co-innovation, and
grow its ecosystem of
partners and start-ups in
the IoT market, which is
estimated to reach 250
billion by 2020.
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With billions of
connected devices, we
now have the potential to
reshape society, economy
and environment, said
Bill McDermott, CEO,
SAP. SAP HANA is the
data platform we knew
would unlock the Internet
of Things. Today, SAP
is making another bold
investment to help our
customers
seize
the
benefits of live business.
Only SAP empowers
businesses to innovate
from the core to the edges
to the network, added
McDermott.
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SUSE teams
up with ESDS
GoDaddy
expands its
hosting services
oDaddy
has
expanded
its
hosting services with the
launch of Cloud Servers
and Cloud Applications
for small businesses in
India. The new offerings
are designed to help
the web developers to
quickly build, test and
scale cloud solutions for
their SMB customers.
The launch of Cloud
Servers will enable Indias
web developers with
affordable and intuitive
solutions to better serve
their customers and grow
their businesses. India
presents a sizeable market
for expanded hosting
products such as Cloud
Servers. Developers can
save time and exceed their
clients'
expectations,
said Rajiv Sodhi, MD &
VP, GoDaddy India &
Australia.
ech
Mahindra
has been selected
by the Government of
Jharkhand as a strategic
partner to help the state in
its digital journey
and employment
generation through
skill development.
A
Memorandum of
Understanding
(MoU)
to this effect was signed
between the officials of
Jharkhand Government
and Tech Mahindra in the
presence of State Chief
Minister Raghubar Das
and Ulhas N. Yargop,
Director, Tech Mahindra.
Tech Mahindra will
greater participation of
industry players. The
partnership also requires
Tech Mahindra to work
with the Government of
Jharkhand to promote
digital literacy and skill
development
working
with various industry
organizations.
xtreme Networks
and
Zebra
Technologies
have
announced that Extreme
Networks has agreed to
acquire Zebras wireless
LAN (WLAN) business
in an all-cash transaction.
The transaction is expected
to close in the fourth
quarter of 2016 (which
is the second quarter
of fiscal 2017), subject
to customary closing
conditions,
including
regulatory
approvals.
Combining
Zebras
WLAN
technologies
transportation
and
logistics, and hospitality
customers with Extreme
Networks wired and
wireless
capabilities,
recognized as visionary
in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant, creates the
industrys number three
WLAN enterprise campus
powerhouse, said Ed
Meyercord,
President
& CEO of Extreme
Networks.
customers to monetize
their existing businesses
and accelerate digital
business. Success requires
a large corpus of data,
strong expertise in data
science, massive compute
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ON THE RAMP
yperX
has
announced its
second official Xbox
licensed gaming headset,
CloudX Revolver Gears
of War. The headset is codesigned with Microsoft
and The Coalition, the
studio developing Gears
of War 4, featuring a
gritty, battle-weathered
design to complement the
recently announced Xbox
One S Gears of War 4
Limited Edition 2TB
enovo
has
unveiled its latest
lineup of laptops for the
upcoming festive holiday
season. The launch of this
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strengthens
Lenovos
endeavour
to
offer
innovative technology to
its customers.
Amit Doshi, Head
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Avaya
Fujitsu redefines its
announces Cloud storage portfolio
ujitsu
has
Networking
F
introduced
allflash storage systems.
Platform
New ETERNUS AF all-
NetApp
Announces
ONTAP software
etApp
has
announced
new NetApp ONTAP
software, flash systems
and expanded public cloud
support that provide the
modern foundation to
help customers maximize
the value of their data in
the hybrid cloud.
The new offerings are
key to helping customers
transform
their
IT.
IT
transformations
integrate
data
silos,
automate processes to
speed results and remove
barriers to scale that
limit growth. NetApp
ONTAP
FlexGroup
is a massively scalable,
high-performance NAS
container ideal for the
latest
generation
of
applications in the EDA,
high-tech, oil & gas, and
media and entertainment
industries.
5.7.
We are rising to that
challenge with our next
generation of virtual
workspace solutions from
thin clients to its own thin
client-optimized software,
to the management and
data security solutions
that make it easier
for Indian enterprises
to make the most of
their IT deployment,
said Santosh Pandey,
Country Manager for
India, Dell Cloud Client
Computing.
NAP Systems
has released the
16-bay TS-1635 business
NAS that supports twelve
3.5" HDDs and four 2.5"
SSDs to accommodate
massive data storage.
The cost-effective quadcore TS-1635 comes
with dual 10Gbe ports
and dual Gigabit ports,
meeting the demands
for
next-generation
networks,
high-speed
file transfer, and helping
small/medium businesses
to reduce the cost in
implementing
10GbE
solutions.
Compared
with
similar products, the
TS-1635 provides the
most
budget-friendly,
high-capacity
NAS
solution
for
small/
medium businesses. It
supports up to 16 hard
drives, creating epic
storage potential with
high-capacity
HDDs
and high-performance
SSDs, said Jason Hsu,
Product Manager of
QNAP, adding, with
two integrated 10GbE
ports, the TS-1635 also
provides an affordable
entryway for 10GbE
adoption by small/
medium businesses.
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ON THE RAMP
uniper Networks
has
announced
security
portfolio
enhancements
that
extend threat prevention
deeper into the network
down to the switch
level. These new and
upgraded
solutions,
launched
include
a
new Policy Enforcer,
which automates the
enforcement of security
policies
across
the
network and quarantines
infected endpoints to
prevent threats across
firewalls and switches
through Junos Space
Security Director.
Attackers
are
constantly managing to
get inside networks, so it
is critical to implement
pervasive solutions that
can rapidly identify the
threat and prevent damage
from being done. Juniper
is broadening its SoftwareDefined Secure Networks
platform and supporting
customers in their effort
to thwart cyber threats
in a landscape thats
constantly evolving, said
Denise Shiffman, Senior
VP , Juniper Development
and Innovation, Juniper
Networks.
assault Systmes
has announced the
launch of SOLIDWORKS
2017. From small start-ups
to global organizations,
more than 3.1 million users
can create multisensory
experiences
through
innovative product design,
with access to easy 3D
design and development
applications
anytime,
anywhere and on any
device.
We must fulfil a
lot of medical device
requirements,
and
SOLIDWORKS has been
Communications
has
introduced AXIS M20
Series. The new small
bullet-style
cameras
are
lightweight,
yet
extremely
durable.
Our
new
camera series is
an ideal choice for
companies looking for
ways to roll out or expand
their video surveillance
monitoring with low
costs. The affordable
cameras are cost-effective
and versatile with their
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Kaspersky Lab
offers Kaspersky
Small Office
Security
P
Inc.
has
unveiled
the
smallest All-in-One inkjet
Mware
has
announced a new
solution for customers to
assess and implement their
Windows 10 migrations.
VMwares
SysTrack
Desktop
Assessment
Service for Windows 10 is
a free, cloud-hosted service
by Lakeside Software, and
is the first step customers
need to begin their
migration process from
legacy Windows systems
to the modern, enterprise
mobility
management
(EMM)-friendly Windows
10.
VMwares End-User
Computing
portfolio
makes
us
uniquely
positioned to take a holistic
view of an organizations
Windows environment
and determine the perfect
fit for existing devices in
a Windows 10 world,
said Blake Brannon, VicePresident of Product
Marketing,
End-User
Computing, VMware.
iewSonic
has
launched
its
Ferrari model VX2776smhd, 27" art-Slim
Monitor at channel
partners meet held
at Lamington Road
in Mumbai on
Ganesh Chaturthi.
With
channel
partner
meets,
ViewSonic aims to
educate its partners
about its product
portfolio ranging
from entry-level monitors
to high-end projectors.
"Roadshows
such
as these not only
help partners and us
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VOICE-N-DATA
The
Networks,
says,
"Our
ambition is to be prepared
for a 5G deployment in
2020. By joining forces
with Ericsson, we will
create for our customers
a solid network capable
of delivering a wide range
of services, from greater
data speed everywhere
to specialized services for
cities and industries.
af Coffee Day
(CCD)
has
tied up with leading
and
neutral
Wi-Fi
service provider O-Zone
Networks to provide free
Wi-Fi access to customers
at its cafes in select cities
across the country. CCD
will provide high-speed
connectivity to its techdriven customers through
a dedicated leased line at
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customers,
including
those in rural India, are
being on-boarded daily
by Airtel using this digital
solution. The company
expects
the
number
of customers getting
digitally on-boarded using
Aadhaar-based
e-KYC
to grow multifold as it
ramps up the rollout of
devices. In the first phase
of deployment, Airtel has
plans to have the solution
in over 500,000 retail
outlets, including those
in rural pockets, over the
next few months.
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harat
Sanchar
Nigam (BSNL) has
selected Aptilo Networks
to enable wireless services.
Provided
by
system
integrator
ICOMM,
BSNL has selected Aptilo
Service
Management
Platform (SMP) to deliver
and manage carrier-class
wireless services. Aptilo
SMP is a highly scalable
platform
supporting
BSNLs rapid growth.
We are proud to have
been selected by BSNL, a
true innovator in India.
Wireless services generate
revenue and are key to
connect the unconnected
in India, said Jonas
Jacobsson, COO, Aptilo
Networks.
BSNL is a pioneer
in providing innovative
telecommunications
services to the people of
India, bridging the ruralurban digital divide in the
ICT sector.
GSMA asks to
recalibrate 700
MHz pricing
he GSMA has
asked
Indian
government to recalibrate
the reserve prices of of
700 MHz.
John Giusti, chief
regulatory
officer,
GSMA has urged Indian
government to reassess
their
approach
to
spectrum auction reserve
prices after India failed to
sell any of the critical 700
MHz band last week.
The
GSMA
is
concerned that, after the
Indian auction, none of
the 700 MHz band can
be used to expand mobile
broadband
coverage
to Indian citizens. As
we had cautioned, the
spectrum went unsold
because the reserve prices
for this highly soughtafter band were set at an
unrealistically high level
of more than $60 billion.
Shri
Ravi
Shankar
Prasad, Honble Union
Minister,
Information
& Technology, Law
and Justice made the
announcement
at
Consumer
Business
Group will also expand
its distribution network
by partnering with more
than 50,000 retail outlets
by the end of 2016.
mjunction successfully
conducts Spectrum Auctions
or the second
time in a row,
mjunction services has
been selected by DoT for
the conduct of e-auction
of telecom spectrum
and has successfully
conducted the auctions.
The
auction
which
continued for five days,
from 1st to 6th October,
has brought an overall
3.35% appreciation in
the auction value over
the reserve price for the
Spectrum sold.
mjunction
used
Simultaneous Multiple
Round Auction (SMRA)
methodology
an
internationally
wellaccepted methodology, to
conduct the e-auction.
mjunction
CEO
Vinaya Varma said,
We paid close attention
to
improving
the
overall experience of
the operators, with
easy bidding screen,
dashboards and call
centre assistance."
he Delhi Metro
Rail Corporation
(DMRC)
managing
director Dr Mangu Singh
launched Free Wi-Fi
facilities at metro stations
on its Airport Express
Line.
DMRC has branded
this facility as Oui
DMRC Free Wi-Fi
and the facility will
be available on all six
stations of the Airport
Express Line. As of now
passengers will be able to
log in simply by searching
for Wi-Fi options and log
into Oui DMRC Free
Wi-Fi. DMRC aims to
extend this facility to all
the stations of the metro
network gradually.
For Wi-Fi facility,
DMRC has tied up with
a consortium led by
Techno Sat Comm which
presently runs Indias first
Wi-Fi on train service
on the Delhi-Howrah
Rajdhani Express. The
facility will use the globally
acclaimed T-Track 2.0
Wave 2 Solution, also
used on high speed trains
worldwide.
Passengers will be able
to use all standard internet
applications inside the
station premises like
email, Facebook, Google,
video chat as well as live
streaming of cricket and
football matches etc.
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CHANNEL BUZZ
AH
Infotech,
in
association
with
WinMagic, has held a channel
meet in Mumbai. The meet
received
an
overwhelming
response with 48 channel
partners from 25 organizations
gracing the moment.
The meet was aimed at
introducing partners to the latest
offerings from WinMagic and
also enhancing their knowledge
on the existing solutions. Session
was kicked off by Suchit Karnik,
Senior Vice-President, RAH
Infotech, with an introductory
note where he briefed the partners
about the strength, capabilities
and solution offerings of RAH
InfoTech.
Later, the dais was handed
over to Rahul Kumar, Country
Manager,
WinMagic
India,
who appraised partners about
the latest encryption solutions
from WinMagic and how these
solutions can help partners
not only offer best of security
solutions to their customers but
Rajeev
Mamidanna
Chairman
of
ISODA
TechSummit 7 and also the
Associations Vice President
says, TechSummit is close to
all our hearts and every ISODA
member has started working
towards making it a success. In a
world where Digitization, IOT,
Mobility, Advanced Machine
Learning, Analytics etc are key
trends, ISODA realizes the
potential for bringing together
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Puducherry IT Association
joins in Swachh Bharat
he
ITTA-PDY
has
participated in Swatch
Bharat Clean India programme
that
was
conducted
by
Vigneshwara Higher Secondary
School situated in the industrial
area of Sedrapet, 14 km from
Puducherry.
The school aptly chose
our national leader, Mahatma
Gandhis birthday as the right day
to fulfil his dream of clean India.
Besides, the drive was aimed at
educating school children that
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
and Health is Wealth and to
create awareness to the village
surrounding Sedrapet.
Swachh Bharat Clean India
programme was inaugurated
by Usdu constituency MLA
Theepainthan and encouraged
all participants inclusive of 500
school children, teachers, ITTAMembers to continue to clean the
area in and around Sedrapet.
Sederapets
loading
and
unloading association leader,
Nagaratnam supported the drive
with help from his members.
Villianoor
Commissioner,
Arumugam, arranged vehicles to
remove all the collected garbage.
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shares with VARINDIA of how the MEMS industry is shaping up and what has been STs role in driving this sector to excellence Sensors are now spreading in the world
and having a great influence in all aspects of
our lives. They are bringing exciting ways of
interacting with the world and are core to
connected applications and a key building
block of the Internet of Things (Smart
Things, Smart Cities, Smart Industry, and
Smart Home) and Smart Driving (Connected
Car).
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Amit Malhotra, VP, Sales India, Middle East & Africa Seclore shares with VARINDIA on how the Seclore
business is shaping up in the country, its expansion plans and about its growing channel landscape -
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Limitations in GST
Implementation
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(From L to R): Mr. Murali Krishnan, CEO NJ Dataprint; Mr Vishal Dhupar, MD South Asia NVIDIA; Mr Kuldeep Raina, Senior
Vice Prsident Sales, Inspira Enterprise; Mr. Deepak Sahu, Chief Editor VARINDIA; Mr Arvind KS, Associate Vice President,
Business Development Tally Solutions; Mr K K Shetty, VP Enterprise Sales, India - COMMSCOPE; Mr Sriram Gopalaswami, Head,
Commercial and DCG Marketing- Lenovo India and Mr Jatin Christopher, Director- JCSS global Consulting
Christopher,
DirectorJCSS
global
Consulting spoke on what is the impact of
GST on IT trade and how it will turn India
into one common market, leading to greater
ease of doing business and big savings in
logistics. Some companies will gain more as
the GST rate will be lower than the current
tax rates they pay; others will lose as the rate
will be higher than the present effective rate.
There is no doubt that Digital Business
Transformation is disrupting businesses in
every industry by breaking down barriers
between people, businesses and things. By
breaking these barriers, they are able to
create new products, services and find more
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EVENTS
Panel Discussion on ERP its uses and application under Digital India
The panel discussion held towards the
end of the event, based on the theme for
the day Innovative Platform to support
Digital India was moderated by Deepak
Kumar Sahu, Chief Editor VARINDIA.
The panellists who joined on the dais were
Sriram Gopalaswami, Head, Commercial
and DCG Marketing- Lenovo India;
Syam Madnapalli, Global IOT Delivery DELL Digital Business Services; Sridharan,
President- AIT; Vishwanath Kulkarni,
Director-Sales (India & SAARC) - HID
Global and K K Shetty, VP - Enterprise
sales-India - COMMSCOPE.
Before throwing open the floor to
the panellists, Deepak Sahu mentioned
about the report of IDC, Global IoT
Decision Maker Survey which shows
that the organizations are pivoting away
from proof of concept projects to scalable
Internet of Things (IoT) deployments that
are incorporating cloud, analytics, and
security capabilities. 31.4 per cent of organizations surveyed have launched IoT solutions, with an additional 43 per cent looking to deploy
in the next 12 months. 55 per cent of respondents see IoT as strategic to their business and as a means to compete more effectively. Improving
productivity, reducing costs, and automating internal processes are seen as top benefits of an IoT solution. This highlights an internal and
operational focus by organizations over the short term as opposed to external, customer-facing benefits. On a cautionary note, he said that
we all have to always bear in mind that Cyber Security is becoming more critical than ever before.
According to K K Shetty, VP - Enterprise sales-India COMMSCOPE, Digital India is a priority as the various government initiatives
introduced like Jan Dhan Aadhar Yojana cannot be accessed unless there is a Digital platform. We at Commscope are focusing on
Connectivity solutions which will provide digital infrastructure. We are also associated with the NoFN project, wherein 400,000 villages are
going to be connected with fibre optics. With 4G network getting further penetrated, we are also planning to provide Fibre-to-Home.
Vishwanath Kulkarni, Director-Sales (India & SAARC) - HID Global said that HID is also moving ahead in the Digital India agenda. We
have set up our R&D facility here in Chennai in which we are working on access control on mobile and a part of Digital India movement.
We also have a solution called goID (Government ID) that has received wide acclaim from government of different countries.
Sridharan, President- AIT opined that because of Digital India, the dealer community will get an opportunity to sell various end point
devices like phones, laptops, etc. The convergence of technology also brings in lot of opportunities for those people who are into offering
solutions.
Syam Madnapalli, Global IOT Delivery - DELL Digital Business Services felt that most of the companies do not have a good understanding
of their customers. Digital Transformation, according to him is bringing visibility for the companies, about their employees, customers and
stakeholders.
Sriram Gopalaswami, Head, Commercial and DCG Marketing- Lenovo India said that from an infrastructure standpoint, Lenovo is one
of the many companies to have partnered with the government when the Digital India first started. To Lenovo, Digital India means 2 things
making affordable devices available not only in 1st tier markets but to different tiers of markets. Secondly, Education being an important
propeller, Digital transformation is the proliferation of digital means of education.
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The summit held an award ceremony to facilitate the enablers of the IT industry in
Southern India. There were seven partners who had been recognised with awards BEST Network Integrator, Southern India - Newwave Computing PVT. Ltd.
Best Reseller, Southern India - Systech services Ltd.
Best Software Services, Southern India - Microcom Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Best Solution Partner, Southern India - FUTURE BUSINESSTECH INDIA PVT. Ltd.
Best Value Added Distributor, Southern India - INSPIRA TECHNOLOGIES
Best System Integrator, Southern India - VALUE POINT SYSTEMS
Best Value Added Reseller, Southern India - N J DATAPRINT PVT. Ltd.
Solution Display
Presented By:
Partners to the event:
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This should be read in conjunction with Red Hats earnings press release issued on
September 21, 2016 as well as Red Hats SEC filings found on http://investors.redhat.com
FACE TO FACE
Opportunities galore...
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Future Plans
Compuage is currently working with more than 10,000 partners
and operates from its 41 offices across the country.
We are working with above 10,000 partners across the country
through our 41 offices, 45 warehouses and 51 service centres. We are
very broad-based distributor. We have products like components,
peripherals, PCs and also have enterprise products like networking,
software, etc. We wanted to go broadly in the marketplace mapping
the entire market, describes Mehta.
Talking about the future plans, he revealed that by FY 19
Compuage is aiming to achieve Rs.7,000 crore and in FY 2016-17 it is
looking forward to reach the target of Rs.4,000 crore. It also wants to
increase the number of partners to 15,000.
Our plans is to achieve Rs.7,000 crore of revenue through sales
representation in 100 cities. Currently, we are covering 55 cities
where we have sales representatives. The turnover in FY 2014-15 was
approximately Rs.2,400 crore and FY 2015-16 Rs.3,100 crore. In FY
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Success Mantra
Compuage follows the key mantra of Speed, Reliability and Value
Performance which have taken the company to the doorsteps of
success in this industry. Mehta also believes that these three aspects
will further take Compage to the next level of success.
Speed, Reliability and Value Performance are the key mantra of
our success. We have to be fast. By reliability, we mean the vendors
and partners must have trust in us about our ability and value
performance is very important because we have to differentiate us
from others in the market. These three factors will take us to the next
level that is Rs.7,000 crore. What we have accomplished in the last 29
years, we are going to accomplish in the next 29 months, concludes
Mehta. n
Atul H Mehta
Chairman & Managing Director
Bhavesh H Mehta
COO & Director
Sunil M Mehta
Chief Financial Officer
Deepak Karia
General Manager Sales
Vinod Thakkar
General Manager Business
Nehal Sharma
Deputy GM Sales
Shreyas Vyas
IT Manager
Sagar Abraham
National Service Manager
Dilip Darji
Deputy GM Accounts
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Chief Operating Officer
Lava International Ltd
COVER STORY
Chandrahas Panigrahi
Sr. Director and Consumer Business Head Acer India
Niladri Datta
Head-Corporate Marketing LG Electronics India
Anil Gupta
AVP - India Sales
eScan
Acer
For this festive season, Acer has announced the special offers on the purchase of its range of Aspire Laptops, 2 in 1, convertibles and Allin-One PCs. On purchase of any of Acers range of laptops, notebooks, desktops, consumers can avail the benefit of attractive EMI offers.
Further, Acer is also offering free antivirus and data recovery software. Now customers can also extended warranty on the products by just
paying Rs. 499/-. Additionally, consumers planning to purchase a Bluetooth Headset can avail this offer by paying a nominal Rs. 499/- for
the trendy headset which is worth Rs. 2999/-.
Fujifilm
Fujifilm has lined up 3 new offers to delight its customers this season - the Mini 8 Bundle Pack priced at INR 8,633/-, Mini 8 Festival Box
priced at 9,999/-and the Mini 8 Party Box priced at 12,999/- only. Moreover, customers can avail further discount of up to 30% on these
new offerings. The New Instax Combos are available at Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon, Naaptol and retail stores.
eScan
eScan offers time-to-time special offers for the end users in terms of extended license period or lucky draw gifts. Keeping that in mind
the company will be offering special discounts and offers to end users through its partners. For partner, it has special offers to claim Silver &
Gold coins, foreign travels etc are on the anvil. There are also a few surprise offers for partners doing exceptionally well in terms of achieving
the targets and making large deals.
Zopo
Zopo has great offers lined up for the end users in ZOPO's first festive season Zopo Looton Month: It is running a month long contest on Facebook. Users can engage to win merchandise, freebies, IT accessories
from power banks, headphones, ZOPO smartphones every week, etc.
Zopo 365 Days Replacement Warranty: Zopo has a special 365 days handset replacement warranty, under which users would be
able to exchange their ZOPO device for a new one in case of a hardware failure.
Zopo is also giving away 'Assured gifts' in the form of a ZOPO kit with every purchase of a phone. The kit would include surprise
ZOPO merchandise.
HTC
HTC has launched its festival celebrations with an attractive offer wherein its most popular Flagship device HTC 10 will now be
available at a discounted price of Rs. 47,990/-.
Intex
This year, Intex is giving a backpack free on purchase of Intex mobiles worth Rs. 5000 and above. Other than this, it has tied-up with
popular apps such as Saavn, Mydala, Nazara, eTravelSmart, Viu, ChillX and TrendMicro to further enhance its connect with the tech savvy
youth consumers. It is also providing a pre-bundled offer with all Intex smart phones whereby consumers can enjoy more with Idea 4G LTE
and get 1GB free for 3 months. Along with this, get assured gifts - free benefits worth Rs. 1,500 and a chance to win 124 cm (50) LED TV
and other exciting gifts. These offers are available on selected models (Aqua Strong 5, Aqua Q7N, Aqua 3G Pro Q, Aqua Joy).
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Amitabh Tiwari
COO - Sansui
Taro Kawano
Head-Image Capturing - Fujifilm India
Mehul Jobanputra
CEO & Co-Founder - Desidime.com
SanDisk (WD)
SanDisk is running a five month long festive campaign SanDisk Festival Bonanza 504GB and offering consumers across India the chance
to win 504GB gift hamper worth Rs.22,960 daily on purchase of 32GB capacity and above SanDisk products that has the contest sticker.
One lucky customer stands a chance to win 504GB of SanDisk Gift Hamper daily basis the best entries received. The gift hamper includes
one unit each of SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Memory card 128GB, SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick 128GB, SanDisk Extreme 500
Portable SSD 120GB and SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 128GB.
Sansui
Sansui is offering warranty free 5 years on LEDs in the screen size of 32 and above models. Apart from new models of LEDs, Sansui will
also be crafting unique product displays at the ground level. Sansui has introduced attractive finance schemes and partner with associates to
extend exchange schemes, discounts and other customer benefits.
LG
LG has announced multiple offers on all its products like OLED TVs, Multimedia and Bluetooth speakers, Home Theatre systems,
sound bars, water purifiers, washing machines, microwaves, etc. It hopes to encash on the festive season and the tendency of buyers to make
purchases during this time of the year.
Noble Skiodo
Apart from the Amazon fest, Noble Skiodo is looking at several bundling offers which shall bring an attractive deal for the audience.
Through it, the brand is trying to bring the price brackets to the customers that have never been seen before. Noble Skiodo hopes to reach
out to more than 1 million customers during this Diwali season through its very attractive schemes.
Lava
Lava has recently announced the 365 days Screen Replacement offer ahead of this festive season to add to the joy of celebrations for
its consumers across India. As per the offer, on purchase of every LAVA mobile phone be it feature phone or smartphone, the customers
will be eligible to avail a one-time screen replacement within 365 days from the date of purchase.
Canon
Canon takes pride in contributing towards building memories for life. This festive season, It is announcing the special offer of a Moto
pulse headset with Canon EOS 1300D or EOS 700D. This offer started on 6th Sep and will be available till Diwali/till stock lasts.
Asus
ASUS has an Incredible Diwali where 100 lucky consumers will have the chance to win a 100% cashback voucher on the purchase of a
Zenfone 3 from 18th to 22nd October, 2016. In addition, another 100 people will also get the chance to win an ASUS ZenPower.
LeEco
To add a special zing to the festive spirit, LeEco is hosting a #LeEcoFestiveMirfie contest and inviting all smartphone lovers to capture
their favourite celebratory mood with a Mirfie (Mirror Selfie) using a LeEco SuperPhone. The contest will run from October 15 till October
28.
Viewsonic
Viewsonic has launched a Gold bonanza festive offer for its valued partners. The tier 3 scheme is to ensure that all stockiest get benefit of
demand generation for 24" and above size monitors, who in turn buys from ViewSonic' distributors and can enjoy the demand generation
from the reseller and small time dealers from IT market. Eligible tier 3 finch partners of ViewSonic will win two gram gold on every 10 units
of ViewSonic 24" & 25" monitors and One gram gold on every 5 units of ViewSonic 27" Monitors.
Lenovo
Lenovo is introducing a first of its kind offer to its customers in which on the purchase of premium Lenovo laptops, customers can avail
two years of Accidental Damage Protection (ADP) and two years of additional warranty at no extra cost. Lenovo is providing a host of
special offers on its entire range of laptops, All-in-Ones (AIO) and desktops. This Diwali, customers can choose between offers that include
additional warranty up to three years, accident protection up to three years and exciting accessories like a hard drive, power bank or gaming
gear.
Dell
kicked 2016
off the festive
season with exciting offers for consumers on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. It has announced compelling
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offers between August 19 and September 18, 2016 on its range of Vostro notebooks and Inspiron notebooks and desktops.
Jaganathan Chelliah
Marketing Director of SanDisk India
Retail - Western Digital Corporation
Sanjeev Bhatia
Founder & Chairman, Adcom and channel
partner - Zopo Mobile India
Sharan Maini
Director - Noble Skiodo
Faisal Siddiqui
President South Asia HTC
Keshav Bansal
Director - Intex Technologies
Shripal Gandhi
Founder and CEO - Swipe Technologies
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LEDs before the prices go up, according
to Amitabh.
Taro Kawano believes that during
this festive season, people are going out
of the way to explore gifts that have an
impact and are thoughtful, one that will
help them in storing the festive moments
as a memory. The customers will be
delighted by what Fujifilm has to offer
and we have also seen a splurge in the
market for instant cameras, he says. The
Instax Mini 8 Combos are perfect for
any occasion be it a Diwali celebration,
Birthday Party, Bachelorette Party or
any other special occasion for people to
enjoy instant photos.
An Internal Survey conducted by
Desidime.com revealed that Gift Cards
and Vouchers have been bought more
this sale season compared to last year,
primarily for the extra discounts they
offer. While 55% of sales are happening
via App, 7% via site and 37% via Desktop
(approx), exclusive products with Flipkart,
Amazon & Snapdeal like mobile phones
were selling like hot buns on the day
when there was a sale on Mobile phones.
Overall the sentiment was that fewer
deals were deep discounted as compare
to last couple of years. Consumers are
increasingly
becoming
comfortable
ordering online without COD this festive
season, observes Mehul Jobanputra,
CEO & Co-Founder - Desidime.com.
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Snapdeal
has
announced
the
appointment of Parul Batra as Vice
President Corporate Communications.
At Snapdeal, Parul will anchor the public
relations mandate for the company,
helping drive the company into its next
phase of deeper connect with users, as
it focuses on partnering them in their
journey to a better life.
Parul said, I am very excited to join the Snapdeal team, as we
embark on this next phase of growth. Snapdeal with its strong
customer centric focus and deep understanding of the e-commerce
space, is well-poised to discern and serve the real needs of its users. I
am thrilled to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime journey.
Part of the founding team of Google in India, Parul held a wide
range of leadership positions with the company.
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Sanjeev Gulati
Country Manager
India & SAARC, Vivotek
towards security concerns, adds Sanjeev.
Opportunities
The Indian surveillance market has
ample scope of opportunity with the new
government initiatives, increase in crimes,
remote monitoring, etc.
At the onset of various government
initiatives, those have lots to do with
Information Technology for instance,
the Smart City projects and Digital India
campaign. India is certainly becoming the
nucleus of hackers in the world. Over and
above that, spiteful and brutal activities carried
out by extremists across the globe, increasing
crime rates, data thefts, remote monitoring,
growth of public infrastructure, increasing
IT spending, government initiatives and
increasing security spending poses massive
opportunity for the surveillance sector in
India, opines Sanjeev.
Gulati further mentions, India is on its
way to developing 100 Smart Cities and
with that, security becomes an important
aspect to sustain the concept and make it
a success. More so because the smart city
model will operate on digitized model
for information assembly, its storage and
distribution. Information system and allied
services will be used for communication
between surveillance systems, transport
sectors, control centres and service providers
for providing traffic management, building
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significantly speed up rollout of mobile
broadband in the country, besides adding new
technologies to augment capacities to cater to
the rapidly rising demand for data services.
Post this auction, we hope to see acceleration
of 3G and 4G network rollouts by the
telecom players, and at Bharti Infratel we are
well positioned to address the demand.
With the spectrum auction now
completing the operators should focus on
BINATONE ropes in
SUPERTRON as ND
BINATONE
has
selected
SUPERTRON as National Distributor
for Wireless & Networking product line.
Binatone design and manufacture Binatone
brand of products and is also global licensee
manufacture of Motorola and AEG.
Rakesh Singh, GM & Head Sales,
who is driving this Channel initiative is
upbeat on this tie up further commented
SUPERTRON is among top 5 national
distributor with deep market penetration
and credibility of successfully building
brands. The channel partners can now
have access to BINATONE products through SUPERTRON branches across India and
experience the brand that stand for reliability , affordability , and innovation.
Vibhor Agarwal , Director , Sales & Marketing expressed his optimism and sees definite
big time mutual growth considering Binatone is already popular brand among ISPs and
existing channel networks and with sizeable local business infrastructure , R&D, Pre and
post sales support systems all these gives confidence to distributor , channel partners and
consumer finally.
Binatone product line includes: Wi-fiRouters , High power multi feature routers,
Outdoor AP and CPE, Wi-fi Residential Gateway, Unmanaged and Metro Ethernet
switches, Media converters,Ethernet over Coax ( EoC), EPON solution and are available
through Supertron branch outlets and through its regional distributors.
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Mukesh D Ambani
Chairman, Reliance Industries
GB (75 GB LTE and 150 GB). Post expiry
Wi-Fi data will be charged at Rs 50 per
GB.
Free voice, attractive data package and
free Jio applications became viral packaging
for Reliance Jio right from day one as there
was large rush of people pan-India across all
distribution networks which led to record
addition of subscribers in 26 days.
Excellent Pan-India Distribution: On
Teachers Day, Reliance Jio launched panIndia network covering 18,000 cities and
towns and over 2 lakh villages. Jios panIndia distribution of SIM and handset was
done by Reliance Retail (RRL), a subsidiary
of Reliance Industries (RIL) which has
grown to 3,383 stores with an area of over
13 million square feet. Reliance Digital has
a network of 1,379 stores deployed over
225 cities. Not only this Reliance Retail
had over 5 lakh partners which helped
in achieving 16 million subscribers in 26
days.
During this period, Reliance Jio also
introduced Aadhaar-based paper-less Jio
SIM activation across 3,100 cities and towns
which helped in streamlining the activation
process which was initially chaotic as it
enables the customers to complete the SIM
activation process in a matter of minutes,
with only his/her Aadhaar number.
The Aadhaar process will be extended
across the country and fully stabilized for
satisfactory on-boarding experience in the
next few weeks and will help Reliance Jio
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HTC has renewed its association for the third consecutive year
as principal sponsor of Bollywood actor/producer John Abrahams
football franchise North East United FC (NEUFC) at the forthcoming
Hero Indian Super League 2016.
HTC will occupy the front chest position on the NEUFC Jersey
being the principal
sponsor of the team
that represents the 8
states of North-east
India as they enter
the
championship,
which kicks off on
1st October 2016 and
will be culminating on
18th December 2016.
Announcing the
sponsorship,
Faisal
Siddiqui,
presidentSouth Asia, HTC said,
We at HTC have been committed to the pursuit of brilliance and are
excited to renew our association with North East United FC. The
India Super League has been successful in capturing the mindshare
of the masses in Indias cricket-dominated sports milieu and we are
proud to be a part of this initiative to revolutionize Indian football.
According to John Abraham, Indian actor/producer and owner of
North East United FC, It feels great to have HTC reinforcing their
belief in NEUFC by supporting us again this season. I feel a strong
connect with the brands focus on substance, style and innovation
which has enabled it to grow its connect with the youth and I hope
we can have a long term association to bring about a resurgence in
Indian football.
LG G5
The new LG G5 comes with a smart modular design and a slideout swappable battery so that you can stay connected at all hours
of the day. You can transform your phone into a digital camera
or a player in a jiffy. LG G5 is powered with Qualcomms brand
new and superbly powerful Snapdragon 820 mobile processor
and has 4GB of RAM. Constructed from magnesium and finished
with a gorgeous matte after touch, the LG G5 is also premium
as hell. The matte finish aids grip too. It has a 5.3-inch IPS LCD
with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 (554 ppi) that graces the front
of the device. Under the hood, the 32GB internal storage comes
as standard, but you can upgrade it up to 200GB via a microSD
card.
On the camera front, you get a dual-camera setup on the rear
(16MP + 8MP) and an 8MP front camera. LG G5 apart from just
about every other phone in the market today is unique because of
its modular design. The idea is that you can rip out the bottom
of the device and switch it out with a module of your choice.
There is a camera module that adds better camera controls and aids
grip, another adds a higher capacity battery and another improves
the audio quality and so on. The G5 weighs 159g and measures in
at 149.4 x 73.9 x 7.7mm, making it both smaller and lighter than
its predecessor. The 2800mAh battery is removable.
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ntex Technologies
has announced the
launch of Aqua Strong
5.1 smartphone which
has been designed to
offer its users unmatched
anasonic
has
unveiled
its
unibody sleek design
smartphone P77 . It is
priced at Rs.6990, and will
go on sale in India from
20th September16. The
new smartphone comes
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Lava boosts
Digital India
campaign
ith an aim to
support
the
Government of Indias
initiative to digitally
empower people of the
country,
LAVA
has
launched its Captain
Series feature phones.
Multilingual support on
both the devices enables
users to bridge the
language barrier and help
in communicating in the
language of their choice.
Captain N1 comes with
in-built support for three
Indian languages Hindi,
Tamil and Telugu, while
Captain K1+ supports
Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati,
Telugu and Kannada.
Both Captain N1 and
Captain K1+ exhibit
4.5cm (1.8) screen for
better viewing along
with a 3.5mm audio jack
port and wireless FM for
a holistic entertainment
experience. Both the
handsets are equipped
with a rear VGA camera,
which records video and
even allows digital zoom
to capture images. Captain
N1 and Captain K1+ also
have Bluetooth and auto
call recording feature.
Gaurav
Nigam,
Product
Head,
Lava
International,
said,
Our
Captain
series
of
feature
phones
celebrate our partnership
with Mahendra Singh
Dhoni and stand for
trust,
reliability
and
performance. We, at Lava,
believe in building a truly
endearing brand and at the
same time offer devices
which enhance the overall
experience of consumers
through
technological
excellence. We take pride
in our commitment of
reliability to consumers
and we can assure that we
take every step to ensure
that Lava never lets them
down.
The series comprises
the all-new stylish feature
phones Captain N1 and
Captain K1+, available
at Rs.1, 150/- and Rs.1,
250/-, respectively.
oogle
has
announced
the launch of Pixel, the
first-ever phone made
by Google based on the
newest Android
operating
system, Android 7.1
Nougat.
Google
has
used
2.5D Corning Gorilla
Glass 4 on the front
display and back glass
to accent the aerospace
grade aluminium body.
The glass on the back
features Pixel Imprint,
the fingerprint sensor,
which is placed on the
back of the phone where
your finger expects it.
updates
as soon as theyre
available, directly from
Google.
Starting at Rs 57,000,
Pixel will be available
for pre-order in India
starting October 13 on
www.flipkart.com and at
over 1,000 plus organized
and multi-brand retail
stores
with
leading
retail partners including
Reliance Digital, Croma
and Vijay sales among
others.
lcatel
has
announced the
launch of its 5-inch PIXI
4, with 4G capable devices
which will be available
exclusively on Flipkart
starting September
20th. The PIXI 4
(5) comes with a
comprehensive user
experience in design,
audio, camera and
battery life. PIXI 4,
the big brother of
the PIXI 3 best-seller,
offers clear, sharp
shots for the best
selfies, along with
exclusive Polaroid
filters, a powerful
music
experience
with sound backed by
Arkamys, and a super
slim, seductive design.
Plus, it's powered by
a reliable battery, and
features fast connectivity,
an easy-to-use interface,
and quick, responsive
performance with the
powerful Quad Core
1.0Ghz CPU. PIXI 4 is
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