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| PC sales record 34 per cent growth in Apr-June’10 |
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Bangalore
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Personal computer sales in India touched 23.7 lakh units during April-June 2010, recording a 34 percent year-on-year growth, said consulting firm IDC India. Sale of PCs during the period increased by 5.8 percent quarter-on-quarter. Desktop PC sales accounted for nearly two-thirds of total PC sales at 15.6 lakh units, representing a 24 percent increase year-on-year. The sales of notebook computers grew at 6 1 percent year-on-year, recording 8.05 lakh shipments.
In the overall PC (notebooks and desktops combined) market, Dell emerged as the market leader for the first time with a share of 15.2 percent, while HP (14.3 percent) and Acer (11.5 percent) took the second and third spots, respectively, IDC India said in a statement. In desktop PC shipments, HP retained its top position with a market share of 10.2 percent, followed by HCL and Acer in second and third spots, respectively during the April-June quarter. In terms of notebook PC shipments, Dell reclaimed the top spot with a market share of 29.2 percent in the period, HP slipped back to the second position, while Acer was ranked at number three.
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Thursday,19th August 2010 |
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| Xerox enters large format color printing segment |
| New Delhi
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Photocopy and printing products firm Xerox on Tuesday announced its entry into the estimated $90 million Indian large format colour printing segment with the launch of six products in the category. “Xerox is not yet present in the colour wide (large) format...The colour segment has started growing quite significantly. These printers are largely targeted at the graphic arts community,” Xerox India Executive Director (Marketing, Business Support and International Business) Vipin Tuteja told reporters.
The company said the printers, which are priced between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 12 lakh, will also target small and medium business, government enterprises and corporate houses.
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Wednesday,18th August 2010 |
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| 88% corporate honchos support GST rollout: CII-KPMG |
| Amid sharp differences between the Centre and state governments over the rollout of Goods and Service Tax (GST), an overwhelming majority of senior executives from various sectors favour introduction of the levy and think it will increase profitability for firms, a survey said.
The Centre, keen to implement the proposed GST from April 1, 2011, had faced stiff opposition on the issue of the Union Finance Minister having a veto power on decisions related to the tax and has reportedly shelved the plan in favour of one based on consensus between all the sides.
The survey, conducted by industry body CII and global consultancy KPMG, also found that industry representatives feel that the single unified tax structure would help in consolidation of business.
"Eighty-eight per cent of the survey respondents prefer having a single national GST enactment, both for Centre and the states," the 'Report on Goods and Services Tax Survey: Industry expectations and perceptions' said.
The study was based on the responses from over 200 senior executives of top companies in diverse fields like auto, FMCG, power and energy, real estate, IT and financial services.
"... Most of the respondents had presence on a pan-India basis and they expect GST to be a unifying fiscal legislation across the national market," the survey added.
Under the proposed plan, all central and state taxes like excise, VAT and service tax will be rolled into GST once the new regime comes into effect. The revenue from GST will be shared equally between the Centre and states.
The central government had last month proposed a three- tier structure for GST under which goods will attract a 20 per cent levy, services 16 per cent and essential items a concessional 12 per cent.
The CII-KPMG study also found that 44 per cent of the executives felt that the GST could be an opportunity to consolidate their business operations, as the proposed changes in the indirect tax structure will transform India into a national market.
"... 84 per cent of the survey respondents feel that GST would have a positive impact on the profitability of the business, as there would be seamless flow of input tax credit with no or very limited cascading of taxes," CII-KPMG said.
The survey found that industry representatives feel any upward revision of service tax due to implementation of GST would have a "moderate to high" impact.
"They (industry representatives) are realistic enough to know that the cumulative standard rate of GST may not be less than 14-16 per cent. But nevertheless, they would much prefer the tax to be collected at a single rate for both goods and services," it said.
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Tuesday,17th August 2010 |
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| Cyber attacks leave a Rs 58-lakh hole in Indian cos’ pockets |
| NEW DELHI: With cyber criminals adopting newer ways of attacking consumers and corporates via social networking sites, security solutions need to evolve from just providing antivirus protection, software maker Symantec said on Sunday. According to a study, in 2009 Indian enterprises lost Rs58 lakh due to cyber attacks. This is set to increase further if companies do not take appropriate measures to protect themselves from various threats that lead to not just financial setbacks but also loss of crucial data.
Cyber criminals are using various means such as social networking and posting malicious links in instant messengers (IMs) along with spam mails. With the increasing popularity of social networking sites, Symantec expects frauds against site users to grow as well.
“Social engineering is already one of the primary attack vectors being used today and Symantec estimates that the number of attempted attacks using social engineering techniques is sure to increase in 2010. Third-party applications were made a target of fraud on various social networking sites and the trend is expected to continue,” said Symantec vice-president (India Product Operations) Shantanu Ghosh.
In its mid-year report card, Symantec said more attackers are going directly after the end-user and attempting to trick them into downloading malware or divulging sensitive information under the pretence that they are doing something perfectly innocent.
As further validation that this trend is indeed developing, Facebook recently updated its application authorisation system in an effort to reduce the number of spams and misleading applications being propagated via their network, he added.
Now a user is informed when an application attempts to access his or her basic information or tries to post on their Facebook Wall. This becomes more serious as many enterprises allow their employees to access social networking sites such as Facebook from the work premises. According to an early study by Symantec, 82% of Indian enterprises surveyed allow employees to use Facebook at work.
“With the rise of polymorphic threats and unique malware variants in 2009, the industry is quickly realising that traditional approaches to antivirus solutions are not enough to protect against today’s threats. Instead, approaches to security that look to ways to include all software files will become key in 2010,” Symantec said. Another trend that is catching up is spam. Since 2007, spam mails have increased on an average by 15%. Spam volumes will continue to fluctuate in 2010 as spammers continue to adapt to the sophistication of security software.
“From using the government as bait in the beginning of the year, to capitalising on India’s obsession over sports and films, spammers seem to be getting better at their game of hide-and-seek this year. According to Symantec State of Spam Report for the month of July. Globally, spam comprised 88.3% of all messages in June and malware spam constituted almost 12% of all spam,” said Mr Ghosh. India ranks second in terms of spam originating countries, the highest in Asia, contributing 6% of global spam, he added. The report also pointed that IMs are also proving to be a menace to data security.
As of June 2010, Symantec data indicates that one in eight hyperlinks (links to another website) in a chat are of a malicious website.
“The use of IM is high among Indian enterprises. According to Symantec 2010 Enterprise Security Report Millennial Mobile Workforce and Data Loss, 69% of the surveyed firms use GTalk at work, while 61% of them have employees using Yahoo Messenger,” said Mr Ghosh. In 2010, Messenger, IM attacks will increase and the threats will largely be unsolicited spam, especially attacks aimed at attacking legitimate IM accounts, he added.
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Monday,16th August 2010 |
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| Wipro Infotech announces launches of FluidState Data Centres |
| BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Africa, IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformationservices, Thursday announced the launch of its FluidState Data Centers targeted at small, medium and enterprise businesses.
Based on its model-driven engineering framework for next generation Data Centers called FluidState, the FluidState Data Center from Wipro is essentially a predesigned, prefabricated Data Center which can be setup in less than a week - almost 10 times faster than a conventional Data Center.
With technology powered by Cisco, HP, Hitachi and EMC,among others, the FluidState Data Center offers a contemporary modular design, optimized for efficiency, cooling, power and space, a release said.
Wipro has implemented FluidState Data Center for the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).
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| Date: |
Friday,13th August 2010 |
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