Aditi Technologies acquires US cloud computing firm
Bangalore, Nov 21 (IANS) Software major Aditi Technologies acquired the US-based cloud computing start-up Cumulux for an undisclosed sum to offer cloud services and drive applications and workloads over a network, the company said Monday.
"We are betting our business on cloud computing, which will give competitive advantage to customers as we have demonstrated our domain expertise in building solutions on Windows Azure for Microsoft's independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises in partnership with Cumulux," Aditi chief executive Pradeep Rathinam said in a statement.
As global software major Microsoft's national system integrator partner, Aditi focuses on enterprise social, big data, mobile and digital marketing.
"As a valuable partner for Windows Azure in the ecosystem, our customers will have opportunities to leverage the scale and depth of Aditi and Cumulux for driving their businesses," Microsoft vice-president Jenni Flinders said.
The Bangalore-based Aditi will leverage its Microsoft alignment to roll out cloud services to software vendors and enterprise markets in the US, Britain and India.
The partners have till date helped about 50 ISV and e-commerce customers adopt and deploy Azure through the Azure acceleration lab.
"Kicking off a global launch, we will build an Azure delta force of architects and multi-vendor partners to drive Azure adoption in collaboration with Microsoft across the three geographic regions," Rathinam said.
Aditi will also hire and train 130 cloud developers to build a cloud services platform for delivering internet protocol-led innovations for customers as they migrate their applications to the cloud.
"The synergy of our global scale and strong Microsoft DNA make us one of the top Azure service providers in the market. Aditi will give our customers competency and scale in leveraging Azure to build large scale complex solutions," Cumulux chief executive Paddy Srinivasan noted.
Post-acquisition, Srinivasan will join Aditi's cloud advisory board and continue to drive Azure business.
Apple Inc looks set to introduce its iPhone 5 at a special event next week.
The invitation-only event will be held Oct 4 at Apple campus in Cupertino, California, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
This could be the first big product launch by the newly installed chief executive officer Tim Cook after he took over the reins of Apple from Steve Jobs in August.
According to US media reports, the iPhone 5 is expected to have a larger screen, a higher resolution camera and a faster dual-core A5 chip on which the iPad 2 runs.
Apple is also reported to release a low-cost and contract- free iPhone model bundled with its cloud computing service iCloud. IANS
2011/10/23 11:19:44 The Central Zone of the Commissioner’s Task Force arrested one person who allegedly cheated jobless youth by promising them placement in a leading IT firm in Bangalore.
According to police, the accused – Kokkula Ravi, a resident of AS Rao Nagar, lured the unemployed youth by promising them jobs in the Wipro Technologies. His associates Rajasekhar and Hamed used to act like Wipro’s HR managers. He used to send the candidates to Bangalore and conduct telephonic interviews with these fake managers.
By adopting the above modus operandi Ravi conducted interviews for about 10 candidates and collected amount to the tune of Rs 12 lakh in the guise of caution deposit with Wipro Technologies and issued fake offer letters.
On a tip off the sleuths of Central Zone Task Force team after making sustained efforts apprehended Ravi and handed him over to Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar Police Station for taking further necessary action in a case registered against him.
Efforts are on to arrest the absconding accused Rajasekhar and Hamed, police said. (INN)
2011/11/4 5:13:43 (IANS) Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said it plans to cut its global workforce by about 10 percent in a move to reduce operational costs.
The layoff will occur across all functions globally and is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2012, the company said Thursday.
The cuts will amount to about 1,400 jobs, according to estimates by analysts.
Combined with implementing efficiencies across the company's operations, AMD expected that the workforce reduction will result in operational savings of more than $200 million in 2012, reported Xinhua.
"Reducing our cost structure and focusing our global workforce on key growth opportunities will strengthen AMD's competitiveness and allow us to aggressively pursue a balanced set of strategic activities designed to accelerate future growth," Rory Read, AMD's chief executive officer, said in a statement.
As the world's second largest maker of processors for computers, AMD has been suffering from the slowdown of global PC market and is seen as slow to move into new mobile device market.
The operational savings will help accelerate the company's future growth in emerging markets and in the cloud computing field, AMD said.
Sonakshi Sinha is in cloud 9: Dabangg girl Sonakshi Sinha is in cloud 9 these days. She is flying higher and higher.
She was luck enough to make her debut opposite Bollywood’s heartthrob Salman Khan. Her second film will be opposite Khiladi Kumar Akshay.
The film is a 3D film titled “Joker” and it will be directed by Shirish Kunder. Sonakshi considers herself to be very lucky for getting a break opposite Akshay Kumar so early in her career.
This will be Sonakshi’s second film with Shirish, the first being “Kick” once again opposite Salman Khan.
A source close to Sonakshi stated “Sonakshi is thrilled to be a part of a 3D film so early in her career. Shirish and Akshay have already briefed her on the subject.”
Sexy item girl Mumaith Khan is on cloud nine. And why not? She is being compare with none other than the likes of Jayamalini and Jyothilaxmi. The duo had ruled the hearts of many youngsters with their bold and sexy dance numbers.
Mumaith is now acting in a full-fledged role with Venu Madhav in the lad. She will be seen dancing in saris for the firs time in the film. Mumaith says that she doesn’t want to be known as just an item girl and she hopes that she would get an opportunity to exhibit her talent by doing classical dance like Bharatntyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali etc.
Shooting in the heartland of India , Ricky Bahl makes his move in true Lucknowi style on an unsuspecting girl!
Lead star, Ranveer Singh, plots his strategy as he trails his next victim, Aditi Sharma in a crowded market place in Lucknow . Is this his next victim as he confidently moves forward in his quest?
Will this finally lead to him coming up v/s his match? Watch this space for more.
LADIES V/S RICKY BAHL is a fun-filled “ROM-CON” where a smooth and charming conman, Ricky Bahl, cons girls for a living but finally meets his match.
Produced by Aditya Chopra and Directed by Maneesh Sharma, the film stars the charismatic Ranveer Singhthe lovely and endearing Anushka Sharma in the lead roles, along with Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma andParineeti Chopra.
The film is planned for a 9th Dec 2011 theatrical release worldwide, the same weekend BAND BAAJA BAARAAT released.
Watch this space for more as Ricky Bahl goes about his conning!
2011/7/26 13:03:12 Oriental Bank of Commerce General Manager RT Takkar and FAPCCI senior vice president Devendra Surana on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the “FAPCCI Industrial Job Fair 2011” at Federation House, Red Hills, Hyderabad.
FAPCCI vice president Srinivas Ayyadevara, HR and Industrial Development Committee Chairman S Subba Rao also participated at the event.
Pitti Laminations Limited, RedOx Laboratories, Lead Edge Papers Private Limited, Automotive Manufacturers, Smaat Aquaa Technologies Pvt Ltd, Organization Development Consultants, Zetatek Industries Limited, Allen Reinforced Plastics (P) Ltd, BizzDial.com, Coromandal Paints, JobsChronicle.com, Aakriti Infra Projects Pvt Ltd, Vittal Technologies, Reliance Cellulose Industry are participated at the job fair.
A total of 3,200 participants have registered at the job fair and numbers of vacancies are close to 550. Candidates from various streams including, B Tech, ITI, MBA, BE, M Tech are participated at the fair.(INN)
(IANS/RIA Novosti) The US Army has conducted the first flight test of a new weapon-concept designed to fly within the earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speed and long range, the Pentagon said.
The Advance Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), "a first-of-its-kind glide vehicle", was launched at 17:30 GMT Thursday from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii.
It hit its designated target at the Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll, about 2,300 miles away.
The objective of the test is to collect data on hypersonic boost-glide technologies and test range performance for long-range atmospheric flight.
"The mission emphasis is aerodynamics; navigation, guidance, control and thermal protection technologies," the defence department said.
The AHW programme is managed and executed by the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Army Forces Strategic Command programme office in Huntsville, Alabama.
It is learnt that four Telangana congress MPs are now seriously planning to resign in order to put pressure on the high command to give a firm assurance on separate Telangana.
The names of the MPs will be known only after they go ahead and submit their resignations. KCR is reportedly in touch with them and is chalking out future course of action if the government does not make any firm commitment on separate Telangana.
2011/7/8 14:05:20 The Cyber Crime Police of the Central Crime Station, Hyderabad on Friday revealed that they have five persons, including a former partner of a software firm for planning to abduct the managing director of the firm for ransom of Rs two crore.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department) J Satyanarayana, the prime accused NVV Satyanarayana Murty alias (32) was arrested along with his accomplices Cherukuri Sridhar, Goda Prasad alias Prasad, Kuthdi Sudharshanalias Dharshan and Aluvala Jagadeeswara Reddy when there were about to put their kidnap plan into action.
The police seized 15 cell phones along with SIM cards and an SUV from the arrested accused.
Mr Satyanarayana said that the reason behind the kidnap attempt was the grouse felt by Murthy that he had lost out when he merged his company with the one of Vijay N Rao.
Elaborating further, the police official said that the accused Murty completed his M Tech and established an own company styled as Quatriple Technologies at Kamalpuri Colony with 45 to 50 employees with himself as MD.
Murty met Vijay N Rao and after consultation with each other, he merged his company in the latter’s company styled as Magnetic Infotech Pvt Ltd in October 2007.
Murty was appointed as GM with Rs 25,000 as his monthly salary along with the other earnings as working partner.
After the merger, Vijay Rao paid Murthy Rs 5 lakh as profit sharing in the month of March-2008. Due to economical meltdown, Murthy was not getting good returns after merging his company, while Vijay Rao’s business went up steadily.
This developed a grudge in Murthy against Vijay Rao, leading him to hatch a plan about three months ago to obtain at least Rs two crore from the latter by kidnapping him.
He planned meticulously and engaged the services of his four accomplices to execute his plan, the police said. Accordingly, he got his accomplice to lure Vijay N Rao so that he could be kidnapped.
However, Vijay Rao got suspicious and lodged a complaint, based on which the police swung into action and caught the accused.
They have been sent to judicial custody while the case is being investigated.(INN)
Shilpa Shetty, who had no films before doing the reality TV show in Britain, has a large number of film offers now. Her condition can easily be imagined in her 'Metro' where she played the second fiddle to after Kangana Ranaut. However, 'Big Brother' brought her luck and she has started rolling in offers while she was waiting for a single film few months back. She has got more than 70 film offers now, if film industry sources are to be believed.
Besides, during her recent visit to Britain, she has had a meeting with the Queen. This is indeed great for her! So, she is on cloud nine these days. This may be the reason why she hasn't signed even a single film in spite of innumerable film offers to her. She has the temerity to say that no offer is good enough to be signed immediately. It is said that Shilpa has shown the thumb to director Pankaj Parasar of the 'Banaras' fame and also rejected an offer to act in Jag Mohan Mundhra's forthcoming movie.
3M Inc unveils Rs.100 crore research centre in Bangalore
2011/9/23 11:56:47 Global innovative products maker 3M Inc Friday unveiled its Rs.100-crore India research and development (R&D) centre in this tech hub to manufacture and localise a range of products for the burgeoning Indian market.
"We are making an upfront investment of Rs.100 crore in the India R&D facility to develop products for the Indian market and accelerate localisation initiatives," 3M chief technology officer Fred J. Palensky told reporters.
The US-based $27-billion multinational, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) company, produces thousands of products in seven key industry segments such as infrastructure, automotive, healthcare, construction, oil & gas, safety and retail.
"Our target is to generate 40 percent of our revenues from products 'made in India for India' over the next five years (by fiscal 2016) when sales are projected to touch Rs.4,800 crore ($1 billion) from Rs.1,176 crore ($245 million) in fiscal 2011," 3M India Ltd managing director Ajay Nanavati said.
Currently, of the 7,000 products 3M sells in the Indian market, about 30 percent are developed, customised and localised to cater to domestic customers across the seven industry verticals.
Though the Indian subsidiary was set up 23 years ago as a joint venture with the Yash Birla group, it became 3M's wholly-owned company after the exit of Yashovardhan Birla in 2006.
"Besides focusing on developing products for key industry segments, the 25 labs in the centre will work on developing expertise in technologies such as adhesives, non-wovens, acoustics, polymer processing, software & integrated systems and design, predictive engineering and modelling, protective coatings and accelerated weathering," Palensky pointed out.
3M's popular brands in the Indian market are Scotch Tape and Scotch Brite, the utensils' scrubber.
The Indian subsidiary has filed 14 patents in 2010 and has to its credit 23 product innovations developed at its innovation centre in Bangalore.
"We invest 2.5 percent of our net sales in our R&D as against five percent by the parent firm worldwide," Nanavati pointed out.
The American conglomerate corporation has 85 labs across 37 countries worldwide, employing about 10,000 technical people.
"We assume that technological capabilities have no boundaries or barriers. Any product or manufacturing technology is available to any business in any industry in any geography the world over. The Indian R&D centre will be guided by this cross collaboration of technologies to develop customer centric solutions," Palensky added.
Dev Anand's Guide is getting a makeover. Nearly 200 technicians are working at this lab in Hyderabad to give the evergreen classic a new dash of colour.
The Eastmancolor-corrected, jazzed up version of the film will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
"When Guide is restored and recolourised, it will give you a different flavour. It gives you a different experience and value for money when you will go and see it in today's theatres," said Rajesh Kalidindi, President, Goldstone Technologies.
Goldstone Technologies has already given its finishing touch to another Dev Anand film, the black and white Hum Dono and is awaiting a nod from the actor-director to re-release the film.
"He had no words when he saw the final Hum Dono. He must have never expected that this will be the kind of quality that will be produced," said Rajesh Kalidindi.
Unlike Hum Dono, where the background score was re-recorded from mono to dolby sound, Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar will sound just the same in this new improved version of Guide.
The sound track has however, been cleaned up to weed out any damage over time.
It's not just the Dev magic that's getting techno-improved. Work is underway on 40 more classic films, the first of them, Kannada superstar Dr Rajkumar's Satya Harishchandra will re-release next week on his birth anniversary.
2007/12/14 6:11:45 Noted film producer and brother-on-law of megastar Chiranjeevi, Allu Aravind purchased a theatre in Rajamundry. The theater is Ashok cinema hall and Allu Araivnd is now renovating the cinema hall. Allu Aravind will soon release his next film being made on his Geetha Arts banner at the renovated hall. Ram Charan’s Chirutha is now being exhibited at the hall from the day of its release.
He made kissing on-screen a routine. And actor Emraan Hashmi insists that he is not bothered by the ‘serial-kisser’ tag he has earned over the years. He feels that such tags make no difference in the long run.
Quiz him about it and he says, “I want people to give me credit for my performance and not for kissing alone. I pretty much hate the tag as it is unfair and takes the focus away from your performance. But after eight years of being given the tag, today it doesn’t bother me as much. Anyway, kissing isn’t taboo, so I fail to understand the hype around it, even today. I’m least bothered and prefer concentrating on my work and entertaining people.”
Hashmi is now said to be good friends with filmmaker Ekta Kapoor. What does he have to say about their new found friendship? “Ekta and I share a great equation. I love the interesting topics she picks to make films. She is easy going and has a vision. I agree with her keen sense of marketing films. I also respect her for her daring spirit to stand firm against all odds,” says Hashmi as he is all praises for Kapoor. He is also working with National Award winning film director, Dibakar Banerjee and he is on cloud nine for the same.
“I love his stories. They are fresh, and I’m fascinated by them. His sensibility of filmmaking is very interesting. His idea of doing workshops to know and get into the skin of the character, makes one’s role look absolutely effortless on screen,” reveals Hashmi.
The hit and buxom Aarthi Agarwal who earned the nickname Double Cylinder is now desperate for film offers. She along with her younger sister Aditi is now approaching producers with a combo offer. Sign one of them and get another one absolutely free!
Adithi is now acting in a film titled ‘Varudhini.com’. As per the offer, Aarthi Agarwal is doing an item song in the film, absolutely free! The producer is happy with the ‘bumper’ offer. Dhanush is the hero.
2011/7/27 13:40:38 The Abids police, on Wednesday registered a case against a private firm for indulging in illegal commodity trading activities and are questioning the proprietors.
According to the office of Central Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Akun Sabharwal, Rupiah Investments at Chirag Ali Lane, was booked after the police received information that it was indulging in commodity derivatives market.
This illegal activity involves transactions called ‘Dabba Trading’. ‘Dabba Trading’ is the process used by brokers to route their client’s trades outside the stock exchange. The broker executes orders on his own and saves transaction costs.
This is a parallel system achieved by brokers with large volumes of trades and clients and is an unlawful event since many people lose their lifelong savings.
The Indian Dabba trade is a variation of the American Bucket Shop Operations of the 1920s, which were known to have mafia links. In India also, a sizeable number of brokers and sub-agents especially in Mumbai and Gujarat are known to have links with the underworld.
A case under section 20 (C) and (D) Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act 1952 has been registered and investigation taken up. As part of investigation, the premises of the firm were searched. Financial documents recovered are being analysed and computers and other peripherals used in the illegal trade have been ‘electronically’ sealed.
The proprietor of the firm Sachin Pitti and his partner Navneet are being questioned by the Police.
The Forward Markets Commission of Ministry of Consumer Affairs has been approached to render technical assistance to the city police in this case, the DCP office said. (INN)
2008/5/8 4:20:23 The popular video sharing website YouTube has started an Indian site on Wednesday. The site www.youtube.co.in will contain information about everything related music, arts, culture, cinema and other interesting news.
YouTube has entered into an agreement with NDTV, Rajsri group, Delhi IIT, Eros Entertainment, UTV, India TV, Room TV and others to share content. YouTube is taking all precautions to curb video piracy with the help of the latest technologies.
(IANS) Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said it plans to cut its global workforce by about 10 percent in a move to reduce operational costs.
