Ericsson to build LTE network in Korea

New Delhi: Ericsson has announced that the company, via their local entity, LG-Ericsson, had signed a commercial contract with LG U+, a Korean wireless service provider, to build a ultra-high speed LTE commercial service network.With this deal, LG U+ will be able to support the existing CDMA and 4G LTE mobile service concurrently, becoming the first LTE service provider in Korea including... By

India slips in global ICT ranking

New Delhi: Despite making lot of noise in the International corridors, India's rank on the network readiness index has surprisingly gone down to 5 places, reveals a recent report by world economic forum and Insead business school.The country has fared poorly on almost all criteria included in the NRI to check the network readiness of a country.According to the report, the country's readiness... By

D-Link strengthens its 3G product portfolio

New Delhi: Offlate 3G has become the new buzz word in Indian technology space. Further the growing popularity of smartphones, tablet computers and other Internet-ready devices is driving the demand for anytime, anywhere Internet access. In view of the above D-Link, the end-to-end network solutions provider for consumers and business decided to roll out its wide range of 3G devices for Indian... By

PC Market achieves 6% growth in Q1, says Gartner

The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 2.6 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 6.2% increase over the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. This growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market which grew 23% in the first quarter of 2011, said Vishal Tripathi, principal research analyst at Gartner. There was a slump in consumer demand in... By

Acronis, Kaseya unveil backup & recovery platform

Backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments specialist Acronis and Kaseya, a provider of IT systems management software, announced that Acronis Back Up & Recovery would be integrated into the Kaseya IT framework as part of Kaseya Backup 4.0. Kaseya currently offers the functionality of Acronis technology to their customers through an existing OEM... By

Google Chromebooks; a let down for IT managers

Theres no question that Google thought its Chromebook would be the darling of the enterprise. That just shows how little the designers of the device know about how enterprise IT works in the real world. It may be a nice play for consumers, assuming you can pry them away from their iPads and Andoid tablets, but even there itll be tough sledding. The hurdles the Chromebook faces in the enterprise... By

IBM launches virtual desktop solution

New Delhi: IBM has announced the availability of Virtual Desktop, a workforce mobility offering that provides anytime, anywhere access to personal desktops from mobile devices including tablets, net books, laptops and thin clients.According to the official release, the IBM Virtual Desktop allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and managed centrally, thus lowering the cost and complexity... By

Nokia launches LinkedIn on Symbian

New Delhi: LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional networking website with over 100 million members worldwide and over 9 million in India, has announced extension of the partnership with Nokia, to built a new LinkedIn application using the LinkedIn Platform. "This is a great example of how developers can leverage the LinkedIn ecosystem, and a great opportunity for LinkedIn to expand our... By

Akamai, Riverbed to provide Hybrid Cloud solutions

New Delhi: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud optimization services, and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced their work on a joint offering designed to overcome the application performance bottlenecks facing enterprises that leverage public cloud services.Todays enterprises are increasingly adopting public cloud... By

Salesforce.com Introduces Jigsaw 2

New Delhi: Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, has announced the release of Jigsaw 2 which instantly brings the benefits of accurate business contact data from the Jigsaw Data Cloud to all Salesforce customers. Jigsaw data will now be seamlessly integrated into Salesforce CRM, allowing Salesforce customers to boost sales and marketing effectiveness with real-time access to 26... By

Asia leapfrogs Europe to Become Top Spam Continent

New Delhi: IT security and control firm Sophos, has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2011. Despite remaining at the top, the USA's proportion of the global spam output fell significantly from 18.83% to 13.7% of all spam relayed from compromised computers. The United Kingdom also saw a drop, with its spam pollution falling from... By

Software piracy in India pegged at $2.7B for 2010

Software piracy in India witnessed a single percentage drop in piracy rate for PC software in 2010 down to 64%, as compared to 2009, a rate slightly higher than the Asia Pacific rate of 60%. With that rate, the commercial value of unlicensed software installed on personal computers in India touched $2.739 billion in 2010, whereas the global losses stood at $59 billion. These are among the... By