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Swiss cabling specialist R&M that deals with structured cabling solutions, recently conducted a data center training event held in Bangalore. The event brought together professionals in the data center industry within the span of two days to not only receive an R&M Data Center Designer Certification but to also connect, network and share industry insights as well as challenges. The trainer for the event Andrew Sedman, Head of Technical Support & Training from R&M Switzerland, conducted a two agenda session, which is broken up into theoretical and practical learning for...

Kingston, a leading memory products company, announces the appointment of RPTech Care Center, a service division of Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd., as its strategic National Service Partner for India, with immediate effect. This strategic alliance is not only for improving the customer’s after sales experience but also is in line with Kingston’s belief of not compromising on quality. With more than 50 owned centers throughout India, RPTech brings its reach and expertise in customer management, to provide the best one stop solution for Kingston and HyperX customers. Kingston has the...

Cyber security company, F-Secure, said that the company aims to have around 500 partners by the end of 2016 and will continue to focus on the SMB market. The company is making a transformational change in its cyber security vision and believes that it can partner with channels that have the skills to deliver protection to customers amidst a rapid changing threat environment. F Secure believes in creation and development of channels as a critical differentiating factor as part of its core strategy of going to market. The new channel...

The Goa government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Google India to promote digital literacy, develop internet safety education for students, promote android development and make government websites mobile friendly. The MoU was signed by chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar and vice-president Google South East Asia and India Rajan Anandan in Panaji. Partnership with Google India will be a turning point in the field of IT in Goa and will be known as one of the milestone in the IT history of the state said Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar at the function...

MobiKwik has announced its partnership with 12 state electricity boards. The move comes as a part of MobiKwik’s expansion plan to set up a national base for utility payments. The state electricity boards that have been tied up with are Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tripura, Meghalaya, Calcutta, Rajasthan and union territories of Daman and Diu. Customers in these states will now be able to pay their electricity bills using Mobikwik website or app. The company already provides bill payment services for prominent power discoms such as Reliance Energy, BSES Rajdhani,...

E Commerce companies such as Flipkart and Amazon have sought exemption from the proposed GST regime. Contesting on the point that online marketplaces only provide a ‘platform’ to vendors and customers and do not make money out of sales, E Commerce companies have asked the government not to bring them under the ambit of the GST. According to representation made at the first meeting of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers held after the Parliament approved the GST Bill, companies like Flipkart, Amazon India and Snapdeal are only ’service...

Staqu Technologies, an AI research startup based out of Gurgaon, has entered into a research partnership with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi. The association, being viewed as first of its kind between a tech-startup and one of the leading engineering institute in the country is meant to ameliorate its research and delve further into advancing the state of research in the country. “It is an open and unconstrained partnership that aims to boost research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. This partnership will be the...

  Telecom service provider Vodafone Launched an international roaming plan where customers can pay a daily rental of Rs 500 and get free incoming calls. Read Also: SME Forum, Vodafone Partner For Skill Enhancement According to the new plan, consumers will be charged Rs 1 per minute for outgoing calls and Rs 1 per MB for data browsing on the home phone number said Money Control report. 34 countries including the UAE, Thailand, Singapore, the US, the UK, China, Germany and Hong Kong will avail the pack Read Also:Vodafone Unveils New Division For Content Both prepaid customers as well...

Endpoint security solutions company Trend Micro is actively looking for channel partners, specialized in the technology domain, such as Cloud, Mobility and Defence in India. The company, which is largely focused on its Enterprise and SMB business in the country, recently hired a distributor for its offerings in the SOHO segment. Talking to Channel Times, Nilesh Jain, Country Manager, (India and SAARC), Trend Micro said that the company is actively looking to work with channel partners who are specialized in specific technologies and industries. “Trend Micro has been the channel...