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Wipro bags IT services deal with England’s utility major
3 TB hard drive from Western Digital
Wipro Technologies has announced that it has entered into a five-year strategic partnership with Electricity North West Limited of England to deliver end-to-end service transition and transformational services to maintain their IT systems through a managed service framework. This collaboration will achieve the critical task of separation of IT operations from Electricity North West’s current service arrangement. Electricity North West owns operates and maintains the electricity distribution network throughout the North West of England. Wipro will set-up new data centres and configure virtualised and highavailability infrastructure, migrate and upgrade, where necessary, all applications supporting the Electricity North West business. Wipro will also leverage its global remote infrastructure management to provide a fully managed IT Services based on the ITIL v3 Service Integration model. education
Interactive teachers training with VSAT launched
A VSAT-enabled teachers’ training program conceived by Macmillan Publishers in partnership with Vidya Bhavan Society and the Delhibased Everonn Education was launched in nine cities across
the country. The Transformational Teacher Training Program aims at imparting conceptual clarity in key areas of primary school teaching. The nine cities being covered are Noida,
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Delhi, Patna, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhopal and Jaipur. Under the program, experts sit in Chennai and train teachers across the country through an interactive two-way VSAT technology. Participants are encouraged to question established facts in the light of new evidences. This opens minds to myriad ideas of making the classroom engaging and lively, said a Macmillan release.
Banglaore-based Lakshmi Access Communications Systems (LACS) has launched a pocket tablet PC, LACS Magnum, which comes with a 10.9 or 12.7 cm resistive touch screen. The device pairs with an existing phone via Bluetooth and simultaneously
Western Digital has added to its WD Caviar Green family of SATA hard drives. Its new hard drives deliver up to a massive 3 TB of storage capacity on a single drive. WD is driving capacity for SATA hard drives by utilising 750 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format (AF) technology. WD Caviar Green drives are an eco-friendly storage solution with WD GreenPower technology, which reduces power consumption by enabling lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and decreases acoustical noise for quiet operation. The WD Caviar Green 2.5 TB and 3 TB hard drives are designed for use as secondary external storage and next-generation PC storage in 64 bit-based systems. WD Caviar Green 2.5 and 3 TB hard drives come with an advanced host controller interface-compliant host bus adapter, which will enable the operating system to use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives.
utilises the FM transmitter to act as a hands-free unit while driving. Pairing with the Bluetooth on one’s GPRSenabled phone allows up to five times faster browsing of the Internet with the option of downloading and sharing attachments. Magnum allows users to
access Word, Excel, PDF and PPT documents for reading, and also comes with a Word Pad writer. It also serves as an entertainment device and can play various audio and video file formats. Its sleek single-spindle-design with WIS technology is not only large enough, but at 152