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Built on its internal RFID expertise, HP has extended the RFID services to
Indian customers as part of its TSG portfolio. The new offerings are
specifically designed for the supply chain and will help retailers to reduce out
of stocks, reduce asset shrinkage, and provide them with supply chain
visibility. Through RFID, retailers can experience improved supply chain
efficiencies leading to greater accuracy of inventory tracking, reduced
stock-outs, faster throughput, and reduced demands for labor-intensive stock
checks.
ASUS launches PDA Phones in India
As part of its mobile communication product strategy for India, ASUS
Technology has launched two of its premium PDA phones, P526 and M30w, for
business professionals. India Digital Lifestyle Distributors will be
distributing these PDA-phones to large format and mobile phone retailers across
the country. The company is also in talks with various mobile telecom service
providers to bundle ASUS PDA phones with their new subscribers.
The company plans to initially target the top five metros, Bangalore,
Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai for the PDA phones, followed by other cities
and towns across India. We see a huge potential going forward in the PDA Phone
market in India. We have leveraged our global leadership in the PC peripherals
market acknowledged for quality well engineered products experience to develop
best quality PDA phones for the Indian Market, says Benson Lin, general
manager, ASUS, Asia Pacific.
SatNav launches GPS Receiver for Windows Phones
Hyderabad-based SatNav Technologies has launched a GPS Bluetooth Receiver
under its SatGuide brand. The GPS SiRFIII Bluetooth GPS device is a total
solution for the GPS Bluetooth wireless technology. The device is priced at Rs
6,000 along with one city map and the SatGuide software.
This is a dedicated design for users who carry portable devices like PDAs/smart
phones. GPS receiver works on all smart phones, laptop, PDA of all brands. The
maximum range of operation of the receiver is 10 meters from the parent device.
The high performance, high sensitivity device is an ideal receiver that can be
used in any weather condition, making it easy to find the way to any
destination.
This device is of size of a matchbox and works in sync with the mobile phone.
It acts as a receiver of the signals that are transmitted via satellites and
sends these signals in the form of words to the mobile phone. Customers can
choose an All-India highway map or any of the detailed city maps of Ahmedabad,
Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Pune. This device is
available for sale online at www.satguide.in or through the dealers of the
company.
Amit Prasad, CEO and founder MD of SatNav Technologies, says, With growing
demand in the GPS market, SatNav Technologies has taken initiative to provide
high-end technologies at an affordable price. He further added, We have
managed to drop the market prices to one-third of what was prevalent before our
entry by just focusing on the right sourcing methods and growing the market
segment as a whole.
Lenovo Launches Y510 Notebook Series
Lenovo has launched its new entertainment notebook PC, the Y510 series. With
prices starting at Rs 45,990, Lenovo Y510 gives users easy access to music and
movies with features like a Dolby sound system, built-in TV tuner, and face
recognition for locked-down security.
The Lenovo Y510 introduces a Dolby 4.1 Home Theater speaker system for
enhanced sound output for movies, videos, music and games. The Y510s multimedia
features are accessed and controlled through a sleek touch-sensitive pad that
lets users operate movies and music in a comfortable and flexible manner. An
in-built TV tuner card helps ensure instant television connectivity accentuating
the multimedia experience.
The Lenovo Y510 series features One Key Recovery to restore factory preload
settings and has an extended battery management feature to customize
user-specific battery usage patterns. The Y510 also incorporates a 6-in-1
multi-card reader for downloading digital pictures from multiple types of memory
cards, slot-in optical drive for ease of use and a 1.3 MP integrated camera. The
Y510 comes with 160 Gb SATA hard disk, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 802.11 Wi-Fi and Vista
Home Basic/Premium version. It weighs 2.77 kg and supports a long battery life
of up to four hours.
VOXtel Launches Personal Navigation Devices
Voxtel Telecom has forayed into the Indian Telecom equipment market with its
high performance GPS-based personal navigation devices and VoIP Internet phones.
Voxtel is offering a gamut of advanced technology products, which include
digital cordless phones, VoIP phones and high performance GPS personal
navigation devices. The company is also launching multipacks cordless phones.
These multipacks cordless phones will serve as a mini PABX for SOHO and big
houses to transfer calls, make conference calls, and use high quality Intercom
functions.
ZyXEL Launches Dual Band Wireless Router
ZyXEL Communications has introduced its latest Dual Band Wireless Router with
Bandwidth management. ZyXEL P-335U provides high speed 802.11g and 802.11a
wireless connection. In addition to 802.11g, the P-335U also supports the
802.11a band to provide high speed and transmission quality to bandwidth
sensitive applications such as video/audio streaming. The all-new dual band
router, P-335U also performs inspection filtering for effective network
protection. It also manages the limited bandwidth for multimedia applications.
Airtel Partners
Mformation
Mformation Technologies has announced that Bharti Airtel will use its
technology as the core platform for enabling the delivery of new data
services and managing the mobile devices of its more than 48 mn mobile
subscribers. Bharti Airtel will use Mformation Service Manager to configure,
diagnose, update, and manage advanced mobile devices through every phase of
their lifecycle. Mformations platform will be critical to the launch of new
mobile data services and applications like instant messaging and device
browsers.Opera, TTSL
Ally
Opera Software has announced its partnership with
Tata Teleservices (TTSL) to provide Opera Mini on its upcoming BREW-enabled
handsets. The browser will be made available first on the Huawei C2900i, a
mass-market BREW-enabled handset. Mobile Web on affordable mobile devices
will open up the power of the Internet to a huge base of mass consumers in a
language of their choice.
Telsima Unveils Mobile WiMax Base
Station
Telsima unveiled its IEEE 802.16e-2005 Mobile WiMax Base Station at the
India Telecom 2007 show. The StarMAX 6400 series-based mobile WiMax base
station features ensure that it is mobile and enterprise/portable
application agnostic. Telsima has developed a comprehensive set of solutions
for its 6400 series base station including PHY, MAC, QoS, hand-off, RRM,
WiMax management and user management.
Hungama, Paramount Partner
Hungama Mobile has signed an agreement with Paramount digital entertainment
to localize and distribute Paramount branded mobile and interactive content
for the Indian market. The agreement makes Paramounts wireless and
interactive content available to more than 200 million Indian subscribers.
The primary intent of the agreement between Paramount Pictures and Hungama
Mobile is to combine their strengths and experiences to deliver advanced
technology-based, interactive and entertaining mobile content. Services
include themed logos, polyphonic ring-tones, animated wallpaper screens,
mobile games, video clips, and applications, among others to be based upon
Paramounts catalogue.
Mobilaris, Mobispine Eye Indian
market
Mobilaris and Mobispine are looking at India as a strategic investment
destination and are desirous of expanding their business operations to the
country. IFS, which played host to the Swedish delegation, will facilitate
networking and matchmaking between Indian software companies and the Swedish
delegation. These companies will be meeting officials from Indian mobile
network operators and distributors of mobile services, which include
companies like BSNL, Vodaphone Essar, Reliance Telecom, Tata Indicom, Spice
Telecom among others. The Swedish ICT delegation is exploring the
possibility of identifying potential channel partners, technology
collaborators, potential customers, and service providers in India.
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