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In a move to attract new partner types, the networking giant, Cisco is making drastic changes to its existing Cisco Partner Program. At Cisco Partner Summit 2014, the company announced that the new program will be renamed as Cisco Partner Ecosystem. Cisco’s partners will be completing the whole transition in next 16-24 months to the new requirements. This ecosystem is …

Finally, Microsoft Office is now available for iPad. On Thursday, Microsoft new Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella unveiled new version of  Office designed for the iPad in San Francisco, in a move of pushing Microsoft’s Office suite to the  most popular tablet in the market. Office for iPad is available and free for customers who pay to subscribe to Office …

With My Cloud™ Consumers Can Easily Save, Access and Share all of their Photos, Videos and Files from Any Device, Anytime – without Sacrificing Privacy  WD, a Western Digital company providing  storage solutions for the connected life, today introduced its new My Cloud™ family of personal cloud solutions. WD’s My Cloud is a complete solution for users to organize, centralize …

NEC India, a leading technology solutions and services provider, has appointed Koichiro Koide as Managing Director. He will be leading NEC India in the next phase of NEC India’s development. Bringing with him over 20 years of international sales and business operations experience at NEC, Koide will be taking on leadership roles within NEC’s international business across Asia in the …

As the popularity of information technology and internet has grown, people look at screens all day in the office, in the home, on the go. As a related health issue, there is also increasing interest about how people can protect their eyes from the daily effects of using computers for long periods of time. ViewSonic Corp., is unveiling an advanced …

After completing 16 years of its operation in Punjab territory, Jalandhar Computer Dealer Association held its annual general elections and elected its new team for 2014-15. The elections were held under the supervision of Parminder Saini, Inder Mohan Bhaskar, and Munish Anand on 22nd March at Hotel Grand Horizon. Amarjeet Singh was elected as the President of the association. Rajeev …

Innoviti, the Bangalore-based leader in transforming payment solution technologies announced that it has raised Rs 10 crores in funding as part of its growth investment. The 60% of this payment has been raised via equity investments by a group of HNI angel investors based out of United Kingdom and India and the rest of 40% has been raised as debt …

Palo Alto Networks has announced that it’s buying Tel Aviv-based Cyvera for $US200 million, including $US88 million in cash. Palo Alto Networks  which raised more than $260 million in a 2012 initial public offering — agreed to spend about $88 million in cash on Israeli security startup Cyvera, using stock to construct the rest of the purchase price. Cyvera’s software …

Microsoft has warned its Word software is vulnerable to a newly discovered dangerous bug – which is being exploited right now in “limited, targeted attacks” in the wild. There is no patch available at this time. The flaw is triggered by opening a maliciously crafted RTF document in the Microsoft Office word processor, or opening it via Outlook, and allows …

HP Threat Central Partner Network, a collaboration of security vendors sharing threat intelligence across the industry to combat adversaries. HP is initially working with partners including Arbor Networks, Blue Coat Systems, InQuest, ThreatGRID, TrendMicro and Wapack Labs, to deliver strategic threat intelligence and actionable indicators to the HP Threat Central community. According to a recent survey of 234 organizations conducted …