Riding on “phenomenal business” in the first quarter (Jan-Feb-March) of this year, Canon India has revised its earlier target of Rs 1,100 crore and placed it a few notches higher — to Rs 1,200 crore. The company’s top line, according to Alok Bharadwaj, Senior VP, Canon India, grew by 60 percent in the first quarter which has given confidence for this revision.

To drive this, the company has created a special major accounts team that will focus on the top 300 accounts, instead of just “spreading it (document management) everywhere.” The company is also looking to replicate its success in the verticals it is already present in. Apart from that, Bharadwaj also intends to focus on healthcare and education, in particular, which has a greater ‘paper load’ than BFSI.

Canon India is also going to hold high-level discussions with the Government with regard to document management solutions. Even though the company is yet at the discussion stage with various government departments, Bharadwaj informs, “We are offering a pilot study at our cost for them to see the outcome. The Government is pushing for the public private partnership model (PPP). Many large IT companies are getting the responsibility to do the last mile service delivery.”

MindTree and more recently Maruti Suzuki are some organizations who have adopted the company’s centralized printing solutions to save on paper, energy and observe document security.

Extreme Networks has joined the RSA Secured Partner Program to certify interoperability between its ExtremeXOS operating system and the RSA enVision security information and event management platform from RSA.

ExtremeXOS,  delivers security features, including awareness of user and device identity, authentication, encryption, integrity and protection, flexible file-based policy language, and XML across Extreme Networks complete portfolio of high performance BlackDiamond and Summit switches.

To help businesses protect, store and recover information with greater efficiency and reliability through a single, unified platform, Symantec has announced NetBackup 7.  This solution enables organizations to simplify information management while reducing data stores and network traffic by integrating deduplication everywhere – at the client, media server and on third party hardware appliances – thus reducing overall costs.

NetBackup also delivers complete virtual machine protection to increase backup and recovery speeds of data within virtual environments and adds new backup replication for fast, cost-effective disaster recovery.

In a bid to increase COBOL reach among the tester and developer community, Micro Focus has rolled out Visual COBOL as part of the Visual Studio 2010. Micro Focus Visual COBOL enables developers to exploit existing enterprise applications on the Microsoft platform. Organizations that continue to rely on COBOL-based applications to run their business now have a low-risk opportunity to take advantage of Visual Studio 2010 without the need for rewriting their applications.

Many skeptics presumed that COBOL or The Common Business Oriented Language was dead for the last few decades. However, Currently COBOL is being used for various applications from ATM machine to electronic cheque clearance to online shopping.

In India, several banks and financial institutions like State Bank of India (SBI) has developed its core banking solutions based on COBOL and extending their applications to its branches.

Similarly Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) that has been on multiple technologies earlier but in 2000, moved to COBOL as a customer of Micro Focus.

Nvidia has announced a range of Quadro professional graphics solutions, which are certified by Adobe for Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) software. As a result Adobe Premiere Pro can leverage the parallel processing architecture of Nvidia GPUs and their hundreds of cores to allow film and video professionals to work unconstrained. Users can now create compelling, multi-layer projects with a virtually limitless number of HD or higher resolution video clips, then apply sophisticated visual effects and color correction, while still being able to view the output instantly.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, which includes Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe After Effects and more, and Adobe Premiere Pro with the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine that taps into the parallel processing capabilities of Nvidia GPUs, is fully supported by a range of Nvidia Quadro professional graphics solutions. Products certified by Adobe for professional use include the Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 4800 for Mac, Quadro FX 3800 and Quadro CX.

If you were asked what key existing browsers, Opera would you cite? Not sure. However, Opera is one of the oldest software in its category.

Published by the Norwegian company Opera Software, the browser has never failed assets: especially light in its first versions, it has mainly revealed, over time, highly innovative.

It has taken almost every speed competition with, for example, shortcuts to the mouse gestures, voice commands, support for BitTorrent, widgets … But Leaded by the mandatory posting a banner up the release of version 8.5 in 2005, the browser never managed to get a comfortable market share.

Its revival, he owes in part to additional software, Opera Mini, a version developed specifically for mobile devices and game consoles all, it’s Opera Software, which is the source of the complaint against Microsoft with European Commission and led to the establishment of “ballot screen.

This is to provide automatically through Windows Update, change the default browser. Of the twelve proposed browsers, Opera is one of five immediately visible on the screen of choice. This is a good opportunity to find out. And just icing on the cake – not necessarily coincidental – Opera just released version 10.5 of its browser. The program, speed and always foolproof innovation.

Olive Telecommunications has introduced the first ever triple SIM phone, V-Wiz GC800 in India. This is projected to catch the trend of the multi-SIM handset market in the country.

By introducing the triple SIM V-Wiz GC800 for the Indian customers, the handset maker has also recorded its name as the first handset manufacturer to bring the triple SIM phones to India.

The V-Wiz GC800 phone sports a 5.58 cm color screen and is featured with QWERTY keyword, 2 MP camera, WAP/MMS/GPRS. Bluetooth with A2DP and access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MSN and Yahoo in IM. The handset is incorporated with opera mini for enabling a faster browsing experience to the user.

Apart from that, there are three colour options for the back panel like yellow, silver and black which are changeable and can be customized. There is also a 4GB microSD slot to suffice the data storage requirement. Built in FM radio, Stereo headset, Speaker phone, Music Player and Video Player with Recording are some other regular features that can be seen in this triple SIM phone.

According to the company, the V-Wiz GC800 handset would be available at Rs 6000 for the Indian customers. However, there is no word about its launch date in India till now.

The latest release of Sybase Afaria, a mobile enterprise BI software, now supports iPad and Android devices. With this new ability to secure and manage iPad and Android, Sybase extends its ubiquitous device support to a list that includes iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry.

The new ability to manage Android devices from the Afaria console, enables IT to configure devices, control password policies, perform remote kill and more. The expanded management capabilities include the ability to perform a remote kill for iPhone and iPad and the expanded security to block unknown or non-compliant devices from accessing corporate assets for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms.

Starting today Bangalore will play host to 2010 edition of Tech Ed India. Spread over three days this Microsoft event is expected to bring together over 50000 best technical minds in India, including CIOs, CTOs, IT professionals, developers, architects and decision-makers. In February this year Servion had partnered Yes Bank to deploy a banking speech recognition enabled Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system.

Some of India’s leading technology companies have partnered Microsoft for this event. These include Intel,  Sapient, Citrix, Infragistics, Accenture, Telerik, Micro Focus, Component One, Developer Express, Jet Brains and Sogeti.

Giving in to popular demand, this year, Microsoft has set up over 400 additional event hosting centres where audience who are not able to participate live at the event will be able to access content and participate in the sessions.

The conference will also showcase a wide range of Microsoft’s latest or soon to be launched technologies. These include Business Intelligence solutions involving beta versions of the latest Microsoft SQL2008 R2 server and the soon to be launched Microsoft Office 2010 suite. Other highlights include Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Surface Digital Table, Windows 7 and the Silverlight 4.0 Platform.

SunGard has created a global services organization of approximately 4,500, bringing together its consulting and technology services teams. The new business is one of the leading consultancies focused primarily on the global financial services and energy industries. Mack Gill, previously president of SunGard Technology Services, has been named president of SunGard Global Services.

SunGard Global Services operates out of 25 global financial and technology centers including Bangalore, Dublin, Houston, London, New York, Paris, Pune, Shanghai, Sydney and Tunis. To help customers in Asia manage their growing infrastructure and technology needs, SunGard Global Services is also launching a new consulting services practice, based in Singapore.