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Xiaomi is planning to launch new products during Diwali to ensure that the festive season is utilized to the fullest. Not just new handsets, the Chinese phone maker is looking to expand its product categories in India as well, offering value for money products across segments. This move is mainly to reduce the timeline between product launches, especially in India which happens to be the company’s biggest market outside China, reported Economic Times. To ensure service and product delivery is perfectly taken care of, Xiaomi is also hiring a lot of...

IBM today unveiled a new IBM MobileFirst for iOS Garage in Bangalore, India. The Garage — part of a network of centers at Atlanta, Cupertino, Toronto and Chicago — will help clients around the world achieve mobile-led, digital transformations at speed and at scale on the iOS platform. IBM also announced Mobile at Scale for iOS, a new offering specifically for clients looking to invest in digital transformation projects that include more than three iOS apps over a multi-year period. Clients opting for this model have full access to IBM’s...

After a long wait and repeated requests by the Indian Government, the Rajya Sabha finally gave a green signal to the historic Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, which is considered to be a significant reform that will simplify and unify the tax structure of India. The much-awaited GST, which will be implemented from April 1, 2017, is expected to impact the IT-BPM sector (and also other industries), which is currently valued at USD 143 billion (2015-16). The GST, once implemented, will supposedly bring all states and people of India...

Check Point today announced Sand Blast Agent for Browsers with Zero Phishing technology. As the newest member of its industry-leading Sand Blast family of solutions, Sand Blast Agent for Browsers is designed to protect users from these evolving threats by seamlessly incorporating key components of the security model into the browser. It provides real-time protection, all while reducing the resources required to prevent today’s most advanced attacks. To optimize business results and innovation, users now expect unconstrained internet access and immediate delivery of downloaded content and email. At the same...

Essel headed by Subhash Chandra, the newly sworn in Rajya Sabha member, has announced that an MoU has been signed with the state owned telecom company BSNL and is slated to function as a virtual network operator for broadband services. In a report published by Business Insider, BSNL chairman and managing director, Anupam Shrivastava told PTI that, “We have signed a memorandum of understanding with Essel Group in presence of Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra. One of the area is VNO where Essel will set up its infrastructure and work with...

The West Bengal government has allotted a 15-acre plot to IT company Cognizant Technologies Solutions (CTS) in New Town and waive the development fees for it. State Education and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee said a plot of 50-acre was earlier allotted to real estate company Shapoorji Pallonji by WBHIDCO. From that plot, the State government has decided to allot 15 acres to CTS for setting up its third campus in Kolkata. CTS already has two facilities in the city - one in sector V of Salt Lake and the...

In the world of digitization, political parties are embracing digital technologies to connect to the masses in a most efficient way. BJP which leads in utilizing technological platforms for political campaigns, among all the political parties in the country has launched “#DigitalBJP“ to connect all party office bearers on digital platform. Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana, today launched DigitalBJP, a mobile cloud based application specially designed with the objective of connecting office-bearers and workers across the country down to the Mandal level of the party, to a central...

Google India today hosted over 2,000 business leaders, in person and over livestream, at the India leg of its global enterprise event, Atmosphere 2016. Held in India for the first time in Mumbai, Google showcased its smart, modern and secure offerings that enable customers to take advantage of digital technologies. Google’s enterprise offerings comprise the full array of IT needs from communication and productivity with Apps to application hosting, data analysis and infrastructure with Cloud Platform, and workplace devices with Chrome and Android hardware. Present at the event were senior...

Fortinet has announced the expansion of its security fabric with the introduction of its third-generation FortiASIC SOC3 System-on-a-Chip architecture. Fortinet’s SOC3 accelerates the new FortiGate 60E series security appliances to further speed its already best-in-class throughput with consolidated security and networking capabilities. The FortiGate 60E enables distributed enterprises, branch offices and SMBs to leverage the superior protection of Fortinet’s Security Fabric. The SOC3 more than doubles the secure networking performance over the enterprise-class CPUs found in competing security solutions and propels the new FortiGate 60E series distributed enterprise firewalls to...

Emerson has announced an agreement to sell Network Power to Platinum Equity and a group of co-investors. The transaction is valued at $4 billion and Emerson will retain a subordinated interest in Network Power. The sale of Network Power is expected to close by December 31, 2016, subject to customary regulatory approvals. “This agreement marks a major milestone in the strategic portfolio re-positioning we announced last June,” said David N. Farr, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emerson. “By selling Network Power to Platinum Equity, we have achieved a successful...