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The All Kerala IT Dealers Association (AKITDA) recently organized an all-district event where the entire district association presidents and secretaries participated. Liju Raju the state president for the previous year chaired the state council this time. This year, during the ceremony, every president from the districts across the state was given the opportunity to share his views and plans for the promotion of the association in the district. Raju was appreciated for his active participation and representation of the state association in various forums especially the All India FAIITA. Jamesh...

E-commerce major Snapdeal has reduced the marketing fees for over 120 sub-categories, including for digital products, electronics, women’s fashion, FMCG products, as part of its policies to attract more sellers to its platform. The changes have been incorporated on the basis of the feedback received from sellers and will be effective from this week, PTI report published in NDTV quoted a company statement. However, the marketing fee for nearly 30 sub-categories has been increased marginally, it added. While the reduction in fee ranges from 0.2-18 per cent, the increase ranges from 0.5...

Reliance Retail has dropped prices of its entry-level smartphones. The company has announced a price cut on four of its LYF Flame smartphones - Flame 3, Flame 4, Flame 5, and Flame 6. The 4G-enabled smartphones are now available at INR 2,999. The move is considered as an attempt to put a pressure on the competitors. The LYF Flame 3, Flame 4, Flame 5, and Flame 6 models run on a quad core 1.5GHz processor and feature Asahi DragontrailTM Glass for protection against dust and scratches. According toreports, The phones...

Palit Microsystems Ltd, has released the latest Pascal architecture Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Series. With innovative new gaming technologies, GeForce GTX 1060 makes it the perfect choice for the latest high-definition games. Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Super JetStream 6GB has 1280 cores and ships with 1847 MHz Boost clock, and 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory clocks. Palit GeForce GTX 1060 6GB series provides 3X VR gaming performance than previous-generation GPUs. Equipped with the JetStream cooler and optimized product design, Palit GTX 1060 JetStream series offers the best graphics benchmark performance and...

Karnataka government will soon unveil its new startup policy that aims to nourish startup ecosystem in the state. Addressing a gathering of start-ups at the Global Mobile App Summit and Awards organized recently, Priyank Kharge, Karnataka Minister for IT, said the State government is working on a new start-up policy. “We are coming up with a start-up booster kit where start-ups can register with the Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services,” the Business Line report quoted the minister as saying. The State has identified nine universities and has earmarked a budget of...

Cyber security firm Symantec has named Michael Fey as the president and chief operating officer of the company. The appointment comes in the heels of Symantec’s announcement last month that it intended to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion. Fey currently serves as president and COO of Blue Coat. After the deal closes, Fey will report to Greg Clark, who is now Blue Coat’s CEO and is slated to take the helm of Symantec, CRNreported. Fey’s appointment will become official upon the closing of the acquisition, which is expected to take...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled new high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, including a comprehensive software-defined platform and a new ANSYS computer-aided engineering (CAE) software based solution designed to help manufacturing organizations optimize their design simulation deployments. To simplify and accelerate the configuration, deployment and management of clusters for HPC, HPE is introducing a highly flexible, simple and comprehensive software-defined platform for HPC using the new HPE Core HPC Software Stack with HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility v8.0. Designed to meet the needs of server cluster environments that may need to...

The Cyber security industry has witnessed consolidation of business with major cyber security companies announcing acquisitions of their rivals this fiscal. Whether it is Symantec’s acquisition of Blue Coat acquisition or Avast Software’s announcement to buy AVG Technologies, it seems that security enterprises are acquiring their direct competitors other small security enterprises to become more powerful in the industry. While this trend is quite visible in the industry, enterprises with different domain expertise are also contemplating to explore the booming cyber security business. Cisco Systems, which is known for its...

Infogain, a business and IT consulting firm, has named Sunil Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer effective July 1st, 2016. Bhatia has held the position of CEO Designate at Infogain since the completion of Infogain’s acquisition of the IT assets of Blue Star Infotech Ltd. (BSIL) in January 2016. Founder and former CEO Kapil Nanda will remain an active part of the company as full-time Executive Chairman of Infogain’s board of directors. Read Also: Criteo Pursues Further Growth With New Office and New Hire “It’s been a great honor to serve as...

India has large scale growth opportunities for the industry, but policy initiative remains a crucial factor for its success, believe experts. While speaking at ‘Digital Services Asia 2016’, earlier known as the VAS Asia, in New Delhi, A Robert Jerad Ravi, the Advisor (quality of services), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said, “Majority of apps which are based out of other countries are developed by Indians, either working out of India or stationed abroad. This process in itself is a business opportunity, which should be encouraged by the Government.”...