MicroWorld has received an Av-Comparatives ”Advanced” award for its latest product eScan 10. AV-Comparatives is a registered Austrian non-profit–organization and one of the most credible independent body. eScan 10 has won the AV-Comparative “Advanced” award with 98% detection rate. In a short span of 2 months, since it’s launch, eScan has proven its competence in detecting and removing all types of malwares and has received several prestigious international acclaims. All previous versions of eScan have received the AV-Comparatives awards before eScan 10.

The AV-Comparatives award is given on the basis of a product’s capabilities to detect malwares and removing them and which have high on-demand detections rate. In order to better evaluation of the quality of the detection capabilities of anti-virus products, false alarm and on-demand scanning speed test were, too, included in this award.

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F-Secure recently announced results from its annual Online Wellbeing Survey. This third-party survey of Internet users aged 20-40 in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany—and for the first time—Italy, India and Hong Kong, tested respondents’ awareness of online security threats for themselves and their children.
 
The survey uncovered Internet users’ feelings of personal online security with regards to online banking, children’s safety while surfing the web, and credit card information when shopping online. Overall, 50% of respondents were confident about their security when banking online. However, only 6% of respondents felt secure in making credit card purchases online.

On average, 54% felt fairly or very confident they would not fall for a phishing email. However, 27% of respondents do not know whether or not they can spot phishing emails. In Hong-Kong, 26% of respondents feel they cannot spot phishing emails. Although in other countries such as the UK (68%), Canada (60%), and Italy (67%) respondents are far more confident in their ability to spot such emails.

Surprisingly, respondents feel safer during online banking than when using their credit card for shopping online. In all eight surveyed countries, the majority agree that they are safe during online banking transactions. The countries that have the most confidence are France (62%) and the US (63%), but in Germany, 39% still do not have confidence in online banking. On a whole, 31% of all respondents were still unsure of their safety.

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ZyXEL Communications announced its latest honor as the first place in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibilities) Awards in Group B of technology enterprises from Taiwan’s Global View Magazine. Ranked by Commonwealth Magazine as the fourth place in 2009 Taiwan Corporate Citizenship Awards, ZyXEL received its second CSR Award this year.

ZyXEL, a responsible enterprise, has been acclaimed by awards ranging from professional, technical to environmental care categories. The company had also completed the establishment of a “Green” electronic product management system, a greenhouse gas inspection and verification system, as well as EuP and other environmental policies. In addition, the company also set up a cooperative green information system to closely monitor the impact from raw material, production, shipping and disposal processes, while bringing up the recycle rate to over 90%.

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MicroWorld announced the appointment of Shani Peripherals as its distributor for Gujarat. With this strategic association MicroWorld aims at expanding its market reach for its popular anti-virus and content security solutions in this key developing, industrial and vibrant state of Gujarat.

Anil Gupta, Head of National Sales, MicroWorld believes “With a decade long experience of handling premium networking and peripheral brands, Shani possesses the requisite credentials to help expand our reach and market share in this rapidly growing region.”

”We have a network of more than 100 SIs, 200 Value Added Resellers & around 400 Resellers across Gujarat and we will deliver eScan range products through all these channels in the Gujarat region.” said Kshitij Desai, Director and Founder Member, Shani Peripherals.

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SonicWALL announced that they have signed on WestconINDIA as a National Value Added Distributor for their security business in India. WestconINDIA will offer channel partners the full line of SonicWALL enterprise and SMB solutions.

This distribution partnership enables SonicWALL to broaden its reach and immediately capitalize on scaling the significant market opportunity for integrated network security solutions in India. The tie-up with WestconINDIA is designed to increase access and provide additional resources for SonicWALL’s channel network to address the growing demand for SonicWALL products. WestconINDIA has a cost effective and finely tuned Go-To-Market strategy that will further help SonicWALL to increase its bandwidth and enhance the reach of SonicWALL’s range of enterprise products in the Tier -2 and Tier - 3 cities across India. This partnership further help in enhancing the awareness of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and SSL-VPN for the partners and end-customers as the deployment of these products are one of the fastest in India.

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SAP India today announced the appointment of Sanjay Deshmukh as Vice President, Business User, SAP, Indian subcontinent. In his new role Sanjay is responsible for driving the growth of the SAP BusinessObjects suite of products in India targeting the Business User. SAP BusinessObjects comprises business intelligence, enterprise performance management and governance, risk and compliance solutions. Sanjay also leads a team focused on using the SAP NetWeaver platform to help customers accelerate business innovation and efficiency through strategic IT solutions. Based in Mumbai, Sanjay reports to Ranjan Das, Managing Director, SAP, Indian subcontinent and Simon Dale, Senior Vice President SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

Sanjay has been with SAP BusinessObjects, for the past 8 years. Under his leadership, Sanjay has led the company to create the largest market share for Business Intelligence in India. He has been instrumental in establishing SAP BusinessObjects as the one of the fastest growing geographies in the Asia Pacific Japan region.

As a key member of the global Business Objects network, Sanjay has made significant contributions in establishing a strong and rigorous corporate governance process, operational excellence and culture in the organization.

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HID Global announced that Craig Sandness has been appointed Managing Director of HID—Asia Pacific. In his new role, Mr Sandness is responsible for setting the business objectives, strategy development and maximizing the company’s sales revenues and profits across the Asia Pacific region. Craig replaces previous Managing Director, William Burns, who held this role since 2007.
With 17 years of professional achievement, Craig’s career has been characterized by strategic worldwide expansion and market penetration. In his previous role with HID, Craig served as Vice President of Global Accounts.

Craig joined HID Global in 2006 when the company acquired Fargo Electronics, a manufacturer of secure photo ID card printers. At Fargo, Craig served as Vice President of International Sales, and was responsible for building the company’s international sales efforts, reaching more than 90 countries. Craig holds a BA degree in International Management from Hamline University, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, where he graduated with magna cum laude honors.

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Gemalto announced it has been commissioned to carry out the migration to microprocessor EMV (Europay, MasterCard, VISA) credit cards for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) across three markets in Asia: Indonesia, Taiwan and India. The first project commenced in October 2008 in Indonesia, with projects in Taiwan and India to follow, and involved the conversion of the Bank's traditional magnetic stripe cards to EMV cards. Gemalto provides RBS with a complete range of products and services including personalization and project management. The smooth project implementation resulted in a record turnaround time of three months, instead of a typical industry average in Asia of five to six months, translating into tangible operational savings for RBS.

Fraud reduction is the major driving force behind Asia's commitment to EMV migration. According to the Indonesian Credit Card Association, credit card fraud in the country amounted to 35 billion rupiah (approximately 2.3 million Euro) in 2007. Gemalto has already successfully completed the migration to EMV cards for 3 in 4 banks in Indonesia, well ahead of the 2010 migration mandate set by the Bank of Indonesia.

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Subex Limited announced it has signed a reseller agreement with JSC "Company TransTeleKom" (ТТК), one of Russia’s top three fixed network providers. According to the agreement, TTK and Subex will jointly provide managed services covering Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance to growing operators in Russia.

This partnership will now allow TTK to offer the full gamut of managed services to operators, including consultancy in Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance with Subex's support, audits on Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance based on Subex's products, Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance Service Bureau Services based on Subex's products and fraud management and revenue assurance system implementations based on Subex's products. The two main products being used are Nikira Fraud Management System and Moneta Revenue Assurance System, both of which are key components of the Subex ROC - Revenue Operations Center.

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Kaspersky Lab announced that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 had received a top award from the independent test lab AV-Comparatives. In February 2009, AV-Comparatives performed yet another series of tests on 17 popular antivirus products that demonstrated sufficiently high results during preliminary testing.

The antivirus products were evaluated on criteria such as detection level and number of false positives. Over 1.3 million malicious programs including Trojans, worms, viruses and malicious scripts collected from a variety of sources over the preceding nine months were used during testing to evaluate detection level. Testing for false positives was conducted using a collection of 'clean' files.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 was awarded AV-Comparatives' highest rating of Advanced+, achieving a malware detection level of over 97% and generating a negligible number of false positives. Furthermore, the Kaspersky Lab product demonstrated high scanning speeds, even with heuristic detection set to high. Apart from Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, only three other solutions were awarded the Advanced+ award.

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The new GNSC (Global Network Solutions Center), co-located in a new dedicated services facility, reinforces India as the company’s global services hub. In addition to being in the heart of one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets, the new Noida GNSC will complement the two company’s two existing GNSCs in Lisbon, Portugal and Chennai, India. This network of GNSCs is designed to help customers get to market faster through ‘round-the-clock’ project management, ensure high network and service performance through transparent Service Level Agreements and improve service delivery efficiency while reducing risk. By centralizing and consolidating resources at the three GNSCs, Nokia Siemens Networks will be able to deliver economies of scale to its customers and drive network efficiency through remote delivery, leveraging standardized and automated IT tools and processes.
 

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