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Flipkart has announced the launch of ‘Lap it Up!’ – a dedicated laptop sale event in collaboration with Intel India. Aimed at driving easy availability and accessibility of the latest range of laptops and technology across markets, notably tier II & III towns and cities – this campaign will offer customer a chance to shop from across brands HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo etc at some exciting price points. Read Also:Flipkart announces India’s first online ‘Watch Exchange’ in partnership with Fossil and Goonj Backed by Intel’s technology expertise and Flipkart’s...

Chinese telecom giant Huawei will likely launch its Honor 5C smartphone in the India on June 22. Honor 5C was launched in China in April. There are two variants of the Honor 5C - the 3G version is priced at CNY 899, or approximately INR 9,200 and the 4G-enabled version is priced at CNY 999, or around INR 10,200. Honor 5C is powered by Huawei’s home-brewed HiSilicon Kirin 650 chipset coupled with 2GB RAM and 16GB of built-in memory. The dual-sim smartphone has a 5.2 inch Full HD display and comes with...

Kaspersky Lab researchers have exposed a global forum, called as xDedic marketplace, where cybercriminals are trading over 70,000 compromised servers for as little as $6 each. The xDedic marketplace, which appears to be run by a Russian-speaking group, currently lists 70,624 hacked Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers for sale. Many of the servers host or provide access to popular consumer websites and services and some have software installed for direct mail, financial accounting and Point-of-Sale (PoS) processing. They can be used to target the owners’ infrastructures or as a launch-pad...

Trifacta has announced the launch of the Wrangler Partner Program, a global program to support and enable partners selling, implementing and innovating with Trifacta. The program expands upon the largest data preparation ecosystem to include reseller and consulting partners, technology partners in business intelligence (BI), Hadoop and relational data platforms, and cloud services, among other technologies. Trifacta’s Wrangler Partner Program is an ecosystem of reseller, consulting and technology vendors designed to promote the adoption of data wrangling within business departments and analytics teams. The program offers a range of go-to-market...

After reporting its first loss in six years, Chinese technology major Lenovo is now betting big on the Indian market to fix the dropping smartphone business. Lenovo, which received about USD one billion in revenue from India last year, is also looking at bringing in more premium devices here, including new Moto Z smartphones that can be customized with ‘mods’. “We will continue to invest in the market and grow our share here, there is a strong long term potential,” PTI report published in Economic Times quoted Lenovo Senior Vice President and...

Global IT association ISACA has laid out comprehensive strategy for how organizations can realize more robust business benefits from their technology-enabled investments. Its new COBIT 5 for Business Benefits Realization is a practical guide that builds on the COBIT 5 framework, focuses on governance and management components of business benefits realization, and provides direction for governance and business management experts, IT professionals and others at all levels of an enterprise. “This publication provides valuable insights into key links that connect business benefits realization to enterprise and IT strategy,” said Christos...

Maple, the largest seller of Apple products in India, will open a store at Khar linking road. The new store is scheduled to open on 18th June, 2016. The store will comprise of all Apple products. The Accessories range will be from Rs.2500/- to Rs.20,000. The new Maple Store will also showcase premium accessories like Element case, Ozaki, KNOMO, Fitness coaching device – Moov, huge range of Audio products like – Audio Technica, B&W and many more. There will be an exclusive range of KNOMO laptop bags targeting women buyers....

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has reportedly proposed a $350,000 fine on Amazon for allegedly shipping hazardous chemicals that injured several UPS workers who handled the package. The penalty is the largest fine the FAA has proposed imposing on Amazon, which the agency said has had a series of at least 24 hazardous materials violations in recent years. The FAA alleged that on October 15, 2014, Amazon sent a UPS package with a one-gallon container of “Amazing! LIQUID FIRE,” a corrosive drain cleaner for transportation by air from Louisville,...

The much-hyped Microsoft-LinkedIn acquisition on Monday evening overshadowed another very important acquisition in tech history which also took place around the same time. Symantec and Blue Coat, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.651 billion in cash from Bain Capital, in the struggling antivirus company’s largest deal for more than a decade. The transaction has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies and is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2016. “This...

IBM and VMware, have announced they are enhancing their strategic partnership by enabling VMware Horizon Air customers to take advantage of cloud-hosted desktop and application services via the IBM Cloud. This announcement reinforces IBM Cloud being a strategic cloud partner for VMware. VMware Horizon Air cloud services deliver full Windows desktops or published applications to desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. These services running on the IBM Cloud will give customers the flexibility to access critical apps and data from any device, anywhere, at anytime. Earlier in 2016, IBM and VMware...