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Accelerating its focus on Photo-printing Xerox India showcased Xerox Versant 80 with External Fiery and Colour Profiler Suite and Xerox Color C70 with Single OHCF and Embedded Fiery at the Photofest India 2016. The event took place in ADLUX International Convention Centre, Angamaly, Ernakulam, Kerala from 22nd – 24th July, 2016. Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director, Technology, Channels & International Relations said, “Photo-printing is a key segment of growth for us. Given the ever increasing requirements for on-demand printing, photo-albums and other forms of personalized printing, we have witnessed a significant...

Xerox India, a business process and document management solution provider, recently concluded a media partner meet in Mumbai. The channel event was organized on July 26 at Colaba, to discuss the performance of the indirect business in the first half of the year and decide the roadmap in order to position the brand in the market in a better way. Highlighting the significance of the partners in the indirect business model, Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director, Technology, Channels & International Business, Xerox India said, “Channel partners are a very important part...

Kaspersky Lab has released its report on botnet-assisted DDoS attacks for the second quarter of 2016 based on data provided by Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence. According to the report, the number of attacks on resources located on Chinese servers grew considerably, while Brazil, Italy and Israel all appeared among the leading countries hosting C&C servers. During the reporting period, DDoS attacks affected resources in 70 countries, with targets in China suffering the most. Germany and Canada both dropped out of the TOP 10 rating of most targeted countries, replaced by France...

Microsoft today announced that Anant Maheshwari will join Microsoft on September 1 as President, Microsoft India. He will take over the operations of the company from Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, with effect from January 1, 2017. Pramanik will retire from the company in March 2017. Maheshwari will be responsible for all of Microsoft’s product, service, and support offerings across India and continuing the company’s transformation into the leading productivity and platform company for the mobile-first, cloud-first era. “I am delighted to announce that Anant is joining Microsoft India. As...

What Channel Gains From Oracle-NetSuite Deal? The channel is very optimistic about the much talked about Oracle-NetSuite deal and is hoping for the best outcome from the USD9.3 billion acquisition. However, partners demand more clarity on the impact of the deal on the channel business and opportunities, as well as challenges coming up with synergies of two cloud veterans coming together.Read More GST Hopes Brighten As Union Cabinet Amends Key Changes Bill The much awaited GST bill has come one step closer to convert into law as the government made...

The rate of adoption of smartphones around the world has put mobiles at the top of the retail agenda. Shoppers use their phones more than any other device to visit a digital commerce site. Smartphones claimed 45.1 per cent of web-shopping traffic as against the 45 per cent traffic absorbed by computers during the first quarter of this year, stated a study by Demandware. The study also suggests that the percentage of web traffic would increase in the favor of smartphones to a projected percentage of 60 per cent by...

Telecom regulator Trai on Thursday sought public opinion on setting up of an ombudsman in the sector, for speedy resolution of rising subscriber complaints over issues such as wrong billing and poor service quality. Mooting the creation of a telecom ombudsman to sort out customer complaints, Trai, in its latest consultation paper has also sought views on modalities such as legal framework, structure, funding and the type of complaints that should be handled by the sector ombudsman, PTI report published in NDTV states. Besides this, the powers, functions and responsibilities...

The channel is very optimistic about the much talked about Oracle-NetSuite deal and is hoping for the best outcome from the USD9.3 billion acquisition. However, partners demand more clarity on the impact of the deal on the channel business and opportunities, as well as challenges coming up with synergies of two cloud veterans coming together. “There is a lot of cloud buzz in the market and every vendor wants to capitalize on it. Oracle is also trying to capture the bigger market share and the company will certainly get millage...

Flipkart is reportedly laying off its employees who have failed to meet professional expectations. Quoting the sources in the company, the ET report stated that the decision is expected to impact 700 to 1,000 staff. “The cleanup is a part of the process of making Flipkart a lean organization,” ET report quoted one of the people cited above. The move, while not unique to Flipkart, is reflective of the challenging times for the online retail industry, as well as the company, which is attempting to find a balance between saving costs and...