Motorola provides music on mobile

Motorola, Inc, the wireless communications company, recently collaborated with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider, to offer India’s Airtel mobile users MOTOMUSIC, a comprehensive rich mobile music service on the web1 and WAP1. Tightly integrated with mobile devices to deliver a complete consumer experience, MOTOMUSIC offers approximately 350,000 easily downloadable, high-quality digital music items to Airtel consumers across India. MOTOMUSIC content includes ringtones, full songs, wallpapers and music video clips.

MOTOMUSIC provides a complete mobile music ecosystem for Airtel consumers to enjoy their favourite tunes anytime, anywhere by accessing the online music portal MOTOMUSIC at www.hellomoto.com/in/music through Airtel Live. The wide selection of genres includes sizzling Bollywood, classics and evergreen, International music, regional language melodies and devotional songs from the top music labels. The new service is made possible through Motorola’s recent acquisition of Soundbuzz, one of Asia’s leading online and mobile music retailers.

IBM unveils new data protection solutions

IBM has announced a new suite of integrated data protection solutions designed to help Windows Intel customers deal with the challenges of quick and efficient data backups and restores to meet business, legal and regulatory requirements.

IBM’s new Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack software will enable IBM Tivoli to cater to a completely new market segment of x86 customers on Windows at competitive price points and functionalities. In particular, this offering will help small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote locations, which typically lack dedicated IT staff but have to deal with mounting storage concerns.

IBM’s new Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack software - the first new products resulting from IBM’s recent acquisition of FilesX – can provide customers with improved business continuity and comprehensive recovery of data and applications, as well as the ability to address compliance across customer data centers and remote offices. Part of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager line, the new software expands IBM’s existing enterprise data protection solutions with new capabilities to help protect data that resides outside managed servers, on remote networks.

New colour printers by Xerox

Xerox India, a part of Xerox Corporation, has unveiled five office products in the Printer & MFD category under the concept 'Color-In-Office' series. With this launch, Xerox has set a new benchmark by offering color printouts at the most economical industry price of Rs 2/- per print with the Xerox Solid Ink® 8860, besides offering a comprehensive range of color product portfolio.

The new products are targeted at Corporates, Large enterprises, SMEs, Advertising & Design houses where color has a growing usage. The products include: Xerox WorkCentre 7232 (A3 MFD, 10 ppm Color & 30 ppm B&W), Xerox WorkCentre 7328 (A3 multifunctional device, 26 ppm for color and 28 ppm for B&W), Xerox WorkCentre 7655 (A3 color MFP, 40 ppm color 55 B&W), Xerox Phaser 6180 MFP (20 ppm color printing) and Xerox Phaser 8860 (30 ppm color printer) based on environment friendly Solid Ink® technology). The price of the new launched products ranges between Rs.1, 80, 000 - Rs. 10, 00, 000/-

Cadence's Virtuoso circuit simulator

Cadence Design Systems, a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc, the global electronic design innovation company, has announced that Cosmic Circuits, a provider of analog IP-cores, has experienced up to eight times improvement in performance after adopting the new version of the Cadence® Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator, featuring “turbo” technology.

With the increased level of complexity of today’s ICs and the pressure to hit market windows, accuracy and runtimes are of paramount importance. Cosmic Circuits was looking for a SPICE simulator that would deliver a significant boost in speed without compromising on accuracy. The Spectre simulator, with its recently introduced turbo technology, enabled Cosmic Circuits to improve simulation runtime for design verification-accelerating time to market-with no loss in SPICE accuracy.