Trend Micro warns of Valentine's Day "malice"

Recently, Trend Micro researchers came across a scam on Facebook that leverages the Valentine's Day (14th Feb). The said attack begins with a post on affected users' wall inviting other users to install a Valentines theme into their Facebook profile. Once users click on this post, they are redirected to another page that urges them to install the said theme. Note that this attack only works on... By sanjay.gupta gupta

PC sales down by 22% in Q4 2011: IDC

In Q4 2011, India PC market recorded its lowest shipments in the last six quarters, disrupted largely by the supply shortage and subsequent price inflation of the Hard disk drives. The India PC market shipments for Q4 2011 (October December) stood at 2.39 million units i.e. a sequential drop of 22.7% over the previous quarter even as the overall year on year decline was noted to be at 3.8%.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

McAfee appoints Jagdish Mahapatra as MD of India & SAARC

McAfee has strengthened its India management team with the appointment of Jagdish Mahapatra as the Managing Director - India and SAARC. Based in Mumbai, Jagdish will report to Wahab Yusoff, Vice President of South Asia, and will spearhead the companys growth in the subcontinent. In this role, his key responsibilities include driving enterprise and consumer driven product revenues, strengthening... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit

The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2012 is the premier business analytics event providing must-have insights, frameworks and best practices for maximizing the business impact of information management and business analytics initiatives.The summit delivers the unbiased research and insight necessary to achieve analytic excellence in today's challenging business environment. Runners Pointvar... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cognizant to provide infra services to entire Future Group

Cognizant has entered into a five-year, multimillion dollar engagement with Future Group, Indias largest multi-format retail group, to provide end-to-end IT infrastructure services for all Future Group companies.Under the managed services agreement, Cognizant will support more than 1,000 Future Group storesincluding marquee names such as Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Central, Home Town,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Oracle acquires Taleo for $1.9 billion

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleos cash and debt. Taleos Talent Management Cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth.Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Indian CIOs keen on innovation and IT Growth: Gartner

CIOs in India report that their IT budgets are expected to grow 12.8 percent in 2012, while CIOs globally expect flat growth, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. CIOs from India said their budgets are supporting business strategies concentrating on growth and innovation.These results are part of worldwide CIO survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of... By

HP customers can upgrade switches free to OpenFlow

HP has announced an OpenFlow-enabled switch portfolio that extends across 16 models, including the HP 3500, 5400 and 8200 series switches, providing customers with the broadest choice in the industry for simplifying network management, while meeting a wide range of bandwidth, performance and budget needs.Additionally, HP plans to expand support for OpenFlow across all switches in the HP... By sanjay.gupta gupta

IBM launches center of excellence in Bangalore

IBM has announced the launch of a Smarter Commerce Center of Excellence (CoE) at the India Software Lab, Bangalore. The CoE will consist of a team of 25 technical experts selected from the B2B and Commerce Enterprise Marketing Management teams from India Software Lab. By bringing together a powerful combination of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and best practices from IBMs extensive... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Reducing the Cost of Compliance

In many ways, compliance is the new security. Its a hot-button topic, it isnt going away any-time soon, and there are loads of consultants and vendors trying to make a buck off misunderstandings as well as actual needs. But, how big a problem compliance represents for IT is altogether a different matter. Thats because IT is a discipline that rewards best practices in the first place. What to do... By sanjay.gupta gupta

TCS, Mitsubishi form JV to serve Japanese market

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Mitsubishi Corporation have announced a new joint venture, Nippon TCS Solution Center Limited, for the Japanese market.Nippon TCS Solution Center will offer a full service suite of IT, BPO and Infrastructure services to Japanese corporations. TCS Japan will have 60 per cent stake in the JV and the rest 40 per cent will be held by Mitsubishi. The new JV will... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cognizant promotes multiple execs to support growth

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation has announced the expansion of its executive management team to support the ongoing growth of the business.Gordon Coburn has been promoted to President; Rajeev Mehta has been promoted to Group Chief ExecutiveIndustries and Markets; Chandra Sekaran has been promoted to Group Chief ExecutiveTechnology and Operations; Karen McLoughlin has been promoted to... By sanjay.gupta gupta