IDLDPL targets 100 crore revenue in 2008

IDLDPL (India Digital Life Style Distributors Pvt. Ltd.) has expressed intent of becoming an Rs.100 Crore company in 2008. Today, IDLDPL represents the largest portfolio of digital lifestyle products -gadgets and gizmos from world-class vendors including Sony, Pentax, Creative, ELECOM, YES, Lacie, Parrot, Canon, Panasonic, ASUS, and Satguide in India. As the Indian market is maturing, IDLDPL is focusing enormously on high-demand value products.

As the Indian market is maturing, IDLDPL is focusing enormously on high-demand value products for example Asus PDA products and Creative MP3 players. IDLDPL, being responsive to the Indian market, has foresightedness this trend and enabled the consumers with the best World Class choice. On the other hand, MP3 players have actually been a massive hit in India. IDLDPL has a wider choice of Creative Zen range of Players and YES MP3 players. Also looking at the Indian consumer behaviour point of view, it has targeted these players at a very affordable price so that it is even a middle man’s cup of tea.

Considering its pan-India presence, it has 11 billing points all over India and offices in six cities including New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Mumbai across the country. IDLDPL has appointed C&F agents in other areas where it doesn’t have a direct presence.

Today, IDLDPL has 1000 channel partners, which the company aims to increase to 2500 by the end of 2008. One of the Key Strength of IDLDPL is the relationship corporate network & thus is regularly supplying too many big corporate across the country. Indeed IDLDPL is also associated with all the Major Retail Chains in India as the trusted Vendor i.e. Reliance Digital, Ezone, Tata Croma, The Mobile Store, etc. Not only this, it is also a preferred vendor with most of the online selling portals as well. Though the growth of the company is aligned with the industry growth (25%), yet IDLDPL is looking forward to a much faster growth – may be 50%, to reach at a turnover of Rs.100 crore this year.

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies, and a leading provider of Identity-based Unified Threat Management appliances, has released advanced network security with the latest version of Cyberoam firmware.

With the current enhancements, Cyberoam offers greater control over user surfing through HTTPS URL filtering and increase in the web database categories to reflect emerging surfing trends. Further, it prevents data leakage and meets regulatory compliance requirements through reporting of HTTP uploads, detection of phone home spyware and multiple syslog server support.

Cyberoam’s HTTPS URL Filtering blocks web-based proxies and malicious websites hosted over SSL by categorizing the domain names in its site database. Through Cyberoam, businesses and educational institutions will now be able to block access to unauthorized websites hosted over SSL, protecting them from risks of failing regulatory compliance, data leakage, spread of malicious content and unproductive downloads through web-based proxy sites and applications.

Cyberoam’s Content Filtering has now added new URL categories, making it one of the most comprehensive category databases with 82+ categories to control access to emerging unproductive sites. This offers greater granular control to businesses, allowing them to control user access to newly-added categories like “AudioSearch” that blocks audio search, “Internet/Radio/TV” that blocks websites which broadcast TV or Radio communication over the Internet, “MobileEntertainment” that blocks download of software and other utilities for mobile phones, and many others.

Another enhancement is the detection and prevention of phone home spyware by Cyberoam IPS, preventing spyware in the network from sending out sensitive data. It also gives details of the infected PC with user and the spyware application name, allowing businesses to take instant corrective action.

Cyberoam has its presence in 55 countries and is the recipient of 5-star rating from SC Magazine twice in a row for its award-winning range of Identity-based UTM appliances.

To strengthen its channel partner network and reach out to newer geographies, Xerox India Limited has appointed Venkataramana Graphics based in Hyderabad as the new channel partner for the Xerox Production Systems Group (PSG). The Xerox PSG caters to high-end production equipment, used primarily for transaction printing, book publishing and enterprise-wide printing. The channel partner - Venkataramana Graphics is primarily appointed to grow its base of customers in the graphic arts community by selling Xerox’s high-end digital equipment presses in the South India.

Venkataramana Graphics is categorized as Graphic Arts Value Added Reseller (GA VAR) with over 7 years of experience and has 1 sales office in Hyderabad. While the channel partner will sell PSG digital equipments in the market, Xerox will also provide specialized ‘Partner and Sales Team’ training on Business Development Tools. The current base of Xerox PSG stands at 30 Xerox Production Resellers (XPRs) and Graphic Art Value Added Resellers (GA VARs) put together.

Similarly, Xerox India has organized its “Emerging Markets” road show in Kochi. The 16-city road show is targeted at tier-2 cities and is aimed at communicating Xerox’s value proposition and ensuring better channel partner engagement in India. The road show is a part of Xerox’s national channel strategy campaign running across cities, including Indore, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Karnal, Rohtak, Raipur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Surat, Udaipur, Ranchi, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Madurai and Vizag’– besides Kochi.

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia has unveiled a new mobile WiMAX chipset optimized for mobile WiMAX devices such as smart phones and PDAs. Sample shipment will start in August 2008. The chipset includes a baseband LSI, MB86K22; an RF LSI, MB86K52; and a power management LSI, MB39C316. These three devices are essential to produce a competitive WiMAX module. The chipset was designed to fit in the 12x12mm WiMAX module. The standby current – which has a direct impact on battery life – will not exceed 0.5mA, facilitating the development of more competitive mobile WiMAX terminals.

Next-generation Mobile WiMAX technology will be deployed in the United States, Europe and Taiwan this year, and in Japan next year. The initial service will be provided through PC-based mobile broadband access, with simultaneous development of portable devices, smart phones, PDAs, portable games and navigation systems supporting the Mobile WiMAX technology.

The mature software stacks of the chipset have been proven in the previous generation product, and the power management schemes have been optimized at the system level. These advantages enable mobile WiMAX terminal manufacturers to focus on designing attractive user interfaces and service-oriented applications.