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Seagate technology reports fiscal fourth quarter and year-end 2008 results

MelCole PR — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:02:02 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) reported disc drive unit shipments of approximately 43 million, revenue of $2.9 billion, GAAP net income of $160 million, and diluted net income per share of $0.32 for the quarter ended June 27, 2008. GAAP net income and diluted net income per share includes approximately $23 million of purchased intangibles amortization and other charges associated with Seagate’s recent acquisitions. Excluding these items, non-GAAP net income and diluted net income per share were $183 million and $0.37, respectively. Included in both GAAP and non-GAAP results are restructuring charges of approximately $36 million or approximately $0.07 per share.

For the twelve months ended June 27, 2008, Seagate reported revenue of $12.7 billion, GAAP net income of $1.3 billion, and diluted net income per share of $2.36. GAAP net income and diluted net income per share includes approximately $113 million of purchased intangibles amortization and other charges associated with Seagate’s recent acquisitions and also a net gain from asset sales of approximately $19 million. Excluding these items, non-GAAP net income and diluted net income per share were $1.4 billion and $2.54, respectively. Included in both GAAP and non-GAAP results are restructuring and other charges of approximately $88 million or approximately $0.16 per share.

"We delivered strong growth in fiscal year 2008, with unit volume and revenue up 15% and 12%, respectively over fiscal year 2007, and with net income of $1.3 billion," said Bill Watkins, Seagate chief executive officer. "Sequentially, our market-leading share positions remainedunchanged in the enterprise and desktop markets, we grew our leading share position in the consumer electronics market, and we grew share in the notebook and retail markets. Were it not for some product execution issues in the notebook and nearline markets, we believe we would have delivered an even stronger quarter and year, with improved share positions. We have now made significant strides in reclaiming our product leadership in these areas. While we expect that the residual effects of the previously missed execution will be reflected in the first quarter, we believe that we will grow revenue and improve earnings throughout the remainder of FY2009."

A reconciliation of adjustments made to GAAP net income and diluted net income per share can be found following the financial statements included with this press release. Additional information relating to the financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008 can be found online at seagate.com.

Business Outlook

For the September quarter, Seagate expects to report revenue of $3.15 - $3.3 billion, and GAAP diluted net income per share of $0.18 - $0.22. Adjusting for approximately $20 million of purchased intangibles amortization and other charges associated with past closed acquisitions, non-GAAP diluted net income per share

for the September quarter is expected to fall within the range of $0.22 - $0.26. The GAAP and non-GAAP outlook for the September quarter does not include restructuring costs or accelerated depreciation charges relating to the previously announced closing of our substrate operations in Limavady and the finished media operations in Milpitas. Additionally, the outlook does not include the impact of any future acquisitions, stock repurchases or potential restructuring activities the company may undertake during the quarter. For fiscal 2009, Seagate believes the demand trends for storage continue to support healthy industry unit growth of 10-15% and industry revenue growth of 5-10%. Specific to Seagate, the company is confident that its performance relative to time-to-market, inventory management and its overall cost structure will improve as it executes the plans that are currently in place. Financial performance improvement will be incremental as the company implements numerous changes across the business during the first half of the fiscal year. As such, Seagate expects gross margins to begin improving with the December quarter and settle into the targeted range of 21-25% for the balance of the fiscal year.

Dividend and Stock Repurchase

The company has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per share to be paid on or before August 15, 2008 to all common shareholders of record as of August 1, 2008. During the quarter ended June 27, 2008 the company purchased, under a 10b5-1 qualified stock repurchase plan, 9.1 million of its common shares at an average cost of $21.36. The company has authorization to purchase approximately $2.0 billion of additional shares under the current stock repurchase program.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions) (Unaudited)

June 27, 2008

June 29, 2007 (a)

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents

$ 990

$ 988

Short-term investments

151

156

Accounts receivable, net

1,410

1,383

Inventories

945

794

Deferred income taxes

274

196

Other current assets

502

284

Total Current Assets

4,272

3,801

Property, equipment and leasehold improvements, net

2,464

2,278

Goodwill

2,352

2,300

Other intangible assets

111

188

Deferred income taxes

616

574

Other assets, net

305

331

Total Assets

$ 10,120

$ 9,472

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Accounts payable

$ 1,652

$ 1,301

Accrued employee compensation

440

157

Accrued expenses, other

825

786

Accrued income taxes

Current portion of long-term debt

360

330

Total Current Liabilities

3,287

2,649

Other non-current liabilities

367

353

Long-term accrued income taxes

210

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Long-term debt, less current portion

1,670

1,733

Total Liabilities

5,534

4,735

Shareholders’ Equity

4,586

4,737

Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

$ 10,120

$ 9,472

(a) The information in this column was derived from the Company’s audited consolidated balance sheet as of June 29, 2007.

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About Seagate

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the company’s future operating and financial performance, including expected revenue, net income and diluted earnings per share (presented on a GAAP basis as well as on a non-GAAP adjusted basis), price and product competition, customer demand for our products, and general market conditions. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to Seagate as of the date of this press release. Current expectations, forecasts and assumptions involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties, and other factors may be beyond the company's control. In particular, such risks and uncertainties include the impact of the variable demand and the aggressive pricing environment for disc drives, particularly in view of current economic conditions; dependence on Seagate’s ability to successfully qualify, manufacture and sell its disc drive products in increasing volumes on a cost-effective basis and with acceptable quality, particularly the new disc drive products with lower cost structures; the impact of competitive product announcements and possible excess industry supply with respect to particular disc drive products; our ability to achieve projected cost savings in connection with our announced restructuring plans; and market conditions and alternative cash imperatives which could impact our ability to repurchase stock. Information concerning risk, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements is contained in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2007 and in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2008, which statements are incorporated into this press release by reference. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any subsequent date and Seagate undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made.

XFX 9800 GTX+ Gives Gamers The Ultimate Bang for Very Good Price

Rashi Peripherals — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:06:49 +0600

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XFX’s newest release, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card disproves a common theory in the gaming world—that a modestly priced card delivers only modest performance. In fact, XFX’s 9800 GTX+ turns that notion on its ear, and then some.

With 128 screaming fast cores that each run a new record high 1836 MHz, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card is truly the Tasmanian Devil of the category. Faster than any graphics card in attractive price range, the XFX 9800 GTX+ simultaneously delivers the most exceptional gaming experience possible—even at extreme HD resolutions.

The XFX 9800 GTX+ is loaded with all of the features hardcore gamers have come to expect, such as PhysX™ technology that transforms the overall gaming experience with realistic facial movements, weather effects and explosions. NVIDIA CUDA technology and new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista enables users to offload intensive processing tasks from their CPUs to their graphics card. It has 128 processor cores for maximum performance across an endless array of computing tasks. HybridPower technology allows users to save power by shifting to their motherboard’s onboard graphics (HybridSLI capable motherboard required) when running less graphically intense applications.

Fully optimized gaming can be achieved by running three XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics cards in three-way NVIDIA SLI mode on one of XFX’s nForce 780i SLI or 790i SLI motherboards. The three-way SLI systems generate up to a 2.8X performance increase over a single graphics card. And, the XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ is designed for the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture featured in nForce 7 series and GeForce 8 series motherboards, ensuring the highest data transfer speeds for today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. Users can even fine-tune their performance with the 9800 GTX+’s ESA-enabled control panel.

The XFX 9800 GTX+ features a second generation NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology engine which ensures unsurpassed High Def movie picture quality thanks to features such as dynamic contrast enhancement, colour stretch video processing and dual-stream picture-in-picture content.

The 9800GTX+ graphics card will be available with Rashi Peripherals and its nationwide branches across India at an estimated street price of Rs 16,000 along with 3 years warranty.

To learn more about the XFX log on to www.xfxforce.com.

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About Rashi Peripherals

Rashi is one of the leading distribution Companies in India with distribution of world famous brands like AMD, ALTEC LANSING (West & South), APC, ASUSTEK, COMPEX, FREECOM, HP, PROCURVE, JETWAY, LEADTEK, LENOVO, LOGITECH, NETGEAR, NEXANS, PIXELVIEW, SANDISK, SENAO, SONY and XFX. Rashi has its own ISO 9001:2001 accredited RP Tech Branded Systems. Its products comprise mostly high end, quality and premium range. Rashi has grown consistently over the period of years and its turnover was Rs. 670 Crore (US$ 175 million) for the financial year 2007-08. This year the company plans to grow by more than 50 – 60% over its last year figures. Today Rashi has 53 Branches all across the country and more than 9000 reseller base who are working together with the company for distribution of its brands.

For more information please visit www.rptechindia.com.

APTECH launches N-Power Training Centre at Rourkela

Aptech Ltd — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:48:19 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Aptech Limited, the Global Learning Solutions major, launched its Specialised Hardware & Networking Training Centre, N-Power at Rourkela today.

Present at the inauguration were Mr. Rajendra Singh, Zonal Head (North & East), Mr. Alok Bajpai, Marketing Head, Mr. Debapriya Roy, Area Head (East) and Mr. Salila Parida, Centre Head, Rourkela Centre amongst host of parents, students and enthusiasts.

The Chief guest of the event was Prof. S. Sarangi, Director National Institute of Technology and the guest of honour was Mr. Sarada Prasad Nayak, Hon’ble MLA of Rourkela.

The N-Power Courses have the recognition of International Vendors like CompTIA, Microsoft and RedHat.

In his message, Mr. Ravi Dighe, National Head, N-Power said, “The booming Indian Economy and increased PC penetration in all sectors has resulted in an increased demand for Hardware & Networking professionals throughout the country. As MAIT predicts, manpower requirement in the hardware & networking industry will be in the tune of 2 million in the current year. Keeping this fact in view, Aptech has launched N-Power centres; to offer internationally recognized and specialized program in Hardware & Networking to provide skilled manpower to the industry.”

Says Mr. Rajendra Singh, Zonal Head (North & East), “There is a massive requirement of Hardware & Networking professionals in the Banking & Financial Services, Manufacturing, SMEs (Small & Medium enterprises), Education, Retail and BPO sector at various levels. We are sure this state-of-the-art N-Power training centre will address the training requirements of aspiring Hardware and Networking professionals. Coupled with the official curriculum from various International vendors, delivery by Certified faculty from Aptech and Industry Internship, N-Power courses will lead to International Vendor Certifications like CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, MCSE, RHCE, etc. This will definitely give the trained professionals an added advantage in the industry”.

“On account of being training partners of international vendors, we shall be in position to provide discounted coupon to our students for sitting in International certification exams” he added.

Mr.Alok Bajpai, Marketing Head said “These Centres will usher in new awareness in this area about the growing career opportunities in the Hardware & Networking industry. Today a qualified professional can find employment as a PC Support Specialist, Hardware Engineer, Network Engineer or a Systems Engineer. N Power will provide two months of Industry Internship for its premium course ‘Enterprise Systems Engineer’ and also 100% Placement Assistance to each student of the Career programs. We are certain that the N-Power training is bound to contribute to the Industry in a big way.”

Keeping various groups of student community and job requirements in view, N-Power has launched a series of programs divided into Basic, Foundation, Professional and Career tracks ranging from 1.5 month to 11 months, with the most popular being the Career program called “N-Power Certified Enterprise Systems Engineer (NCESE), with two months of Industry Internship.

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About Aptech Ltd.:

Aptech commenced its IT education & training business in 1986 and has trained over 4.5 million students – globally. Aptech is an ISO 9001:2000 organization and the first IT Training and Education company to get this certification for Education Support Services in 1993.

Aptech is successfully maintaining its leadership position through it’s various business lines which include IT, Animation & Multimedia Training (Aptech Computer Education, & Arena Animation); Hardware & Networking (N-Power); Offshore Content Development (Aptech Learning Services); e-learning (onlinevarsity.com), Training & Assessment Solutions for Corporates & Institutions (Aptech Training Solutions & ATTEST) Developer Training & Consultancy (Synergetics) and Aviation Training (Avalon Aviation Academy).

For further information on Aptech Limited, please do visit our website at www.aptech-worldwide.com.

For course details, please contact:
Rourkela : Salila Kumar Parida, Centre Head, N-Power Centre,
D/3, Koel Nagar, Rourkela. Tel No. 0661-3208282/ 3294765
For media queries, please contact :
Kolkata: Arpita Bhattacharjee, Corporate Communication, Aptech Limited. Kolkata. Tel No. 033-24655899. Email : arpitab@aptech.ac.in

Seagate Powers Next Generation of Computing with three new hard drives, including World's First 1.5-Terabyte Desktop Pc And

MelCole PR — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:08:05 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Seagate (NYSE:STX) has unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.

The debut of the BarracudaÒ 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.

Seagate’s new 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and 7200-rpm drives – MomentusÒ 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 – deliver the best combination of capacity, mobility and durability for mainstream and high-performance notebook computers, external storage solutions, PCs and industrial applications requiring small form factor.

Highlighting the global growth of digital content, Seagate expects to ship its two billionth hard drive within the next five years. Earlier this year Seagate shipped its one billionth hard drive since the company’s inception nearly 30 years ago.

“Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop

notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance and reliability,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business. “Seagate is committed to powering the next generation of computing today with the planet’s fastest, highest-capacity and most reliable storage solutions.”

Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 hard drives are the fourth generation of Seagate’s laptop family to use PMR. The Momentus 5400.6, a 5400-rpm drive, combines a powerful Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and capacities ranging from 120GB to 500GB with an 8MB cache.

The Momentus 7200.4 hard drive, with its 7200-rpm spin speed and a Serial ATA 3GB/second interface, delivers true desktop performance. The power-efficient 7200-rpm drive maximizes battery life and comes in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB with a 16MB cache.

Both Momentus drives are built tough enough to withstand up to 1,000 Gs of non-operating shock and 350 Gs of operating shock to protect drive data, making the drives ideal for systems that are subject to rough handling or high levels of vibration. For added robustness in mobile environments, the Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 are offered with G-Force Protection, a free-fall sensor technology that helps prevent drive damage and data loss upon impact if a laptop PC is dropped. The sensor works by detecting any changes in acceleration equal to the force of gravity and parks the heads off the disc to prevent contact with the platter in a free fall of as little as 8 inches and within 3/10ths of a second.

Seagate’s new Momentus drives are lean on power consumption, allowing notebook users to work longer between battery charges, and are virtually inaudible thanks to Seagate’s innovative SoftSonicÔ fluid-dynamic bearing motors and QuietStepÔ ramp load technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the capacity and speed required for today’s most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive packs 1.5TB on just four platters and its fast Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

All Momentus and Barracuda drives are backed by Seagate’s leading five-year warranty. You can find photos of these three new drives, and other Seagate products, at: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/news_room/photos/

Availability

Shipments of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB are set to begin August 2008. Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 hard drives are to begin shipping in Q4 calendar 2008.

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About Seagate

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Barracuda, Momentus, SoftSonic and QuietStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

DELL'S new 'STUDIO' Brand: Designed for the creative spark in all of us

Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:28:41 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Dell today introduced “Studio,” a new consumer product line designed for self-expression and creative living. Studio products are highly expressive and personalized -- inside and out – combining aesthetics and technology into a fresh approach to hi-def mobile lifestyles.

“People seeking stunning design, brilliant colors, and innovative new technology find inspiration in Dell’s new Studio brand,” said Girish Mehta, Director of Consumer Marketing, Dell India . “These products are built for today’s digital nomad based on the millions of conversations we have every year on dell.com, Ideastorm and community forums. With Dell Studio we’re answering the call for personalization, connectivity and simplicity.”
The first Dell Studio products are two distinctively styled laptops, the Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17. These laptops combine sleek designs, striking visual color elements and personalization options with features such as standard built-in webcam, capacitive touch media control buttons, slot load drives, and optional mercury-free LED displays. They are available today on www.dell.co.in starting at Rs 46,800(Studio 15) and Rs 52,800 (Studio 17)

Sleek and Unique

The new Studio products inherit design elements first introduced in Dell’s award-winning XPS™ M1330 and M1530 laptops, including a sleek wedge-shaped profile and an iconic drop hinge design. Taking its cue from the Inspiron portfolio, Studio laptops also offer several personalization options that allow a customer to color customize a laptop unique to him or her.

“One year ago today we refreshed and revitalized our consumer portfolio with emphasis on product style, design and personalization. Ruby Red and Midnight Blue laptops have since became regular sights on college campuses and in coffee shops” said Girish Mehta, Director of Consumer Marketing, Dell India . “The new Studio products demonstrate that Dell is continuing to focus on design and value, delivering attractive, feature-packed mobile digital lifestyle products.”

Starting with either a 15 or 17-inch high-definition display, customers may pick one of six optional color choices, including new Plum Purple and Tangerine Orange, in addition to Flamingo Pink, Midnight Blue, Ruby Red, Spring Green or standard Jet Black. For a more subtly personalized laptop, Dell has added an optional high gloss Graphite Grey choice that can be customized with contrasting Black, or more vivid Blue, Pink or Red edge trim around the display back.

While Dell Studio systems have rich basic features, they also offer customers a wide variety of options to ensure the system facilitates and enhances the user’s digital passions whether that is being the curator of their own photo or music library or creating cool new web content themselves. The optional Blu-ray Disc™ drives help deliver cinematic video quality on high definition displays. Users can simplify password management while preventing unauthorized access with the optional fingerprint reader. Users also have the option of upgrading to a back-lit keyboard for a better input experience while working in dark environments.

Making it all easy

Dell is also focused on simplifying the consumer digital experience with unique user interfaces like the Dell Dock, a task-based application organizer that places the most frequently accessed programs front and center, and Dell Video Chat, a one-click easy to setup and use video and voice communication program. The Dell Dock automatically sorts installed software applications on the PC into user friendly categories, which can be accessed by a simple taskbar, leaving the desktop free of clutter. Users don’t have to locate and open a program by application name or icon on the desktop, but instead can locate it by task, like “email & chat,” “security,” “view photos,” “play music,” etc. The task bar is customizable: users can chose its anchor location, background and font color, and even the icons used to represent a category.

The Studio laptops will also include a new, easy-to-set up and use communications program, Dell Video Chat. Families and friends can stay in touch using video chat, recording and sending video emails, or even PC-to-PC phone calls around the world. The application supports four-way calling, making virtual family reunions a reality.

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About Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.

Additional information, images
www.dell.com/studio
www.youtube.com/user/DellVlog
www.sightspeed.com/dellvideochat
www.flickr.com/photos/dell_digital_media

Jetway to run program for Partners

Rashi Peripherals — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:14:00 +0600

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Jetway Info. Co. Ltd, one of the top five leading IT manufacturers today announced its plan to run ‌“Jetway King Club” (JKC) program for its premier partners. Through this program Jetway plans to enroll at least 100 – 150 partners in the first year and later increase depending upon the market feedback.

Announcing the program, Mr. Virender Singh, Country Manager-India, Jetway Information Co Ltd. said, “Now that we have been in the Indian markets for over 18 months, it is time that we reward the partners who have been consistently performing and provide them a range of additional benefits to strengthen our tie-up with them”.

Some of the additional benefits planned for the partners are certification programs, monthly news update on technology, Shop décor for enhanced visibility, sales kit for the foot soldiers along with better improved RMA support and schemes from time to time to boost the sales.

Along with the partner program, Jetway is also spreading its wings in products portfolio as well as entering in mid and high end segments of products. So far it had focused more on Intel based motherboards but through the new initiatives it will market motherboards available for AMD platform also. The new products added recently are G31 and G33 for Intel platform and 780V, 780G, 770 and 790FX for AMD platform.

Commencing the program, Jetway and Rashi both together have rolled out a scheme for the all India partners whereby there are loads of additional benefits. The two month scheme that started on May 15 will be available till July 14. Through this scheme a partner achieving 800 numbers of motherboard will get a 32” LCD Television, for 500 numbers the reward is Logitech Z-550 5.1 multimedia speakers and for 300 numbers the reward is Nokia 6110 mobile phone. Over and above, a partner also stands to win ATI Radeon HD 3450 worth Rs 2200 on purchase of 10 motherboards in a single invoice.

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About JETWAY

JETWAY Information Co Ltd is a leading manufacturer company that has products and technologies for LCD monitor, barebone system PC, USB pen drives, portable MP3 players and graphics solutions that offer reliability and performance. JETWAY technology solutions are found in high-performance desktops in worldwide markets. JETWAY is a Taiwan based designer and manufacturer with more than 15 years in the arena of IT industry specializing in the development of motherboard and graphics solution.

About Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd

For more information please visit www.rptechindia.com.

MRON Rolls out a new range of 2.1 Multimedia Subwoofer Speakers

MRON International Limited — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0600

/India PRwire/ - MRON International Ltd, one of the leading IT hardware manufacturers and distribution company in India that has range of computer peripherals, consumer electronics and lifestyle products under the brand name of MRON has introduced two new model of 2.1 Multimedia Subwoofer Speakers.

These two powerful systems called Trumpet 2850W and Bazooka 1800W PMPO 2.1 provides full dynamic, realistic sounds with its subwoofer and ultra stylish elegant designed speaker combination. Their super bass, high performance, elegant yet fantastic sounding is perfect for today's more stylish computer systems. Featuring adjustable bass level control and easy access knob, these speaker systems enables the user to command full control over the master volume and the bass effects.

MRON known for it’s wide range of Multimedia speakers with its stylish boxes, wooden casing, high quality and low distortion sound performance widely applied to any digital & analog sound (audio) sources including PC, Notebook, DVD Player, CD Player, TV, MP3 Player, Discman etc.. The plug-n-play connectivity, gives new meaning to ease-of-use and sound is perfect for today’s contemporary living spaces.

MRON Trumpet & Bazooka 2.1 gaming compatible products comes with two stylish satellite speakers and powerful 65 Watts and 36 Watts RMS subwoofers that delivers, rich natural bass and sound quality with any genre of music. In addition they also have two powerful channels with satellite speaker power of 15 Watts and 8 Watts RMS per channel respectively.

“MRON is a well-known brand now in IT peripherals and consumer electronic products by introducing a new array of MRON Multimedia subwoofer speakers range at special introductory price we hope to further enhance the penetration of MRON products in the domestic market through MRON branch offices and our Valued Channel Partners,” shared Rajeev Rohatgi, VP (Sales & Mktg) of MRON International Limited.

MRON an ISO 9000:2001 company gives its customers the assurance of the best quality product at the right price carrying a mixed bag of computer peripherals consumer electronics & power conditioning products. MRON endeavors to create customer satisfaction through efficient management, timely response, innovation as well as effective warranty and service support.

MRON range of IT Hardware includes Cabinets, Speakers, Webcam, Keyboards, UPS, Headphones, TV Tuners, and Mouse and is offering this entire product line through its strong Network of 15 branch offices with 23 service centers across India.

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ISO 9001: 2000 Certified

Company Profile

MRON International Limited is a leader in providing and supporting a broad range of Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronic Products.

Our expertise and availability are your assurance that you’ll receive the best value, the right products, on-time delivery and guaranteed results.

MRON International Limited is an innovative marketer and distributor of New and technologically advanced products Nationwide. We are a premier Value Added Provider of Computer Peripherals in the IT and the Retail sector.

We offer a wide range of computer hardware including keyboard, cabinets, webcam, speakers, headsets, TV Tuners and power conditioning products like UPS, Power Supply etc. to end users through our channel partners.

Product offerings

Leveraging more than a decade of experience in Computer peripherals distribution, we partner with you to provide you the entire range of IT hardware, consumer electronics & power conditioning products using our experience and industry insights.

We have robust vertical industry expertise blended with a depth of horizontal competencies.

We offer:

Webcams
Keyboards
Cabinets
Speakers
TV Tuners
Headsets
Mouse
UPS
Power Supply (SMPS)

Through our branches all over Northern India, using our best practices and economies of scale we provide our channel partners with creatively designed, technologically advanced computer peripherals and consumer electronics that help create value.

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

MRON Launches Black Version of its Ultra-Featured External OPAL LCD TV Tuner Box

MRON International Limited — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:00 +0600

/India PRwire/ - MRON today announced the launch of new black version of its Ultra-featured OPAL LCD TV Tuner Box. This new black OPAL is the only TV tuner box of its kind introduced for the first time in India which supports 1680 x 1050 High Definition Resolution.

Speaking on this occasion, Rajeev Rohatgi, VP (Sales & Mktg.), MRON International Limited said, “There exists lot of similar products in the market but the difference lies in the picture quality of these competitive products. The product from MRON is of the topmost distinction, with your means and good value for money”. This external TV-Tuner box is capable of tuning more than 1000 channels, can be realized with PC OSD function.

OPAL LCD TV Tuner box applies new generation digital technology to create high-definition image, supporting all LCD/CRT monitors from 640 x 480 up to 1680 x 1050 outputs. It is a high performance TV-Tuner box, which is designed specifically to meet the next generation TV-tuner specifications and fully compatible with Microsoft windows Vista and Media Center for your desktop PC or laptop. Easy to setup with no software required just one simple connection to the monitor and all you have to do is just lay back, relax and enjoy your personal home theater.

With the application of 3rd Generation Graphic Optimization Algorithm, OPAL LCD TV box achieves a great improvement on noise reduction, assuring incomparable fidelity of image. Built-in digital filter ensures perfect performance with brilliant colors and virtual symphony for your eyes. Full function remote enables you to make channel selection, input source switching, time-shifting, schedule recording, auto scan TV channels, Pause, Forward and volume control from the comfort of your couch.

This TV-Tuner box is equipped with composite Video and S-Video inputs and goes great with DVD player, VCR’s, Camcorder, LCD projectors and Game Consoles such as PS2 / XBOX to enrich your entertainment life.

“OPAL LCD TV box offers consumers all the required features that they are looking for in a TV-Tuner. Its High Definition Resolution is twice the resolution of existing TV-Tuners which enables you to watch crystal clear, dazzling color and digital quality picture ever experienced,” said Rohatgi.

MRON International Limited an ISO 9001:2000 is the leading Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronics Company which offers innovative, industry-changing products for consumers through its Valued Channel Partners. MRON is headquartered in New Delhi and has branch offices across the country.

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ISO 9001: 2000 Certified

Company Profile

MRON International Limited is a leader in providing and supporting a broad range of Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronic Products.

Our expertise and availability are your assurance that you’ll receive the best value, the right products, on-time delivery and guaranteed results.

Product offerings

We have robust vertical industry expertise blended with a depth of horizontal competencies.

We offer:

Webcams
Keyboards
Cabinets
Speakers
TV Tuners
Headsets
Mouse
UPS
Power Supply (SMPS)

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

Contact Information

MRON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

A-94/3, Okhla Phase – II

New Delhi – 110020

Ph: 91-11- 40502929,30,31

Website: www.mroninternational.com

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

Contact Information

MRON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

A-94/3, Okhla Phase – II

New Delhi – 110020

Ph: 91-11- 40502929,30,31

Website: www.mroninternational.com

DELL optimizes storage for performance-intense applications

Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:29:41 +0600

/India PRwire/ - In response to the ever-growing customer need for simple, highly capable and affordable storage to support data-intensive applications, Dell today announced the DellTM PowerVaultTM MD1120, its first storage expansion enclosure designed with small form factor 2.5-inch disk drives.

The Dell PowerVault MD1120 affords its customers higher performance through faster access to stored data, improved power efficiency through reduced power consumption and higher data center density through a compact package.

Customer savings:

The PowerVault MD1120 features 24 small form factor drives that require 70 percent less space and up to 50 percent less power than models featuring 3.5-inch drives. This results in a fully populated enclosure providing more than twice the IOPS per U over traditional 3.5-inch drive enclosures. Equipped with high-efficiency power supplies and the power-efficient 2.5-inch disk drives, the PowerVault MD1120 can reduce overall data center power consumption.
The PowerVault MD1120, designed to provide additional storage for Dell's PowerEdge servers, shares a common disk drive with select Dell servers – resulting in simpler management and reduced cost of stocking spare parts.

Functionality:

When attached to Dell's PowerEdge RAID Controller, the PowerVault MD1120 can scale to six enclosures and house up to 144 drives.
Its drives are connected to a fast, 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, making the PowerVault MD1120 an ideal entry-level enclosure for supporting business-critical applications such as e-mail, database, and online transaction processing.

"The PowerVault MD1120 delivers on Dell’s focus to provide data center solutions that are effective, versatile and, above all, simple to use," said Pallab Talukdar, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India. "Whether IT organizations need expanded storage for servers taxed by data-intensive applications or are meeting the needs of anticipated growth, the MD1120 is a high-performance, compact, and highly efficient remedy."

“Higher spindle count in a small form factor is a good match for our test lab, because we do a lot of bus stress testing,” said Stephen A. Lewis, system validation engineer, Intel Corporation, Enterprise Platforms & Services Division. “Using the Dell PowerVault MD1120, we can achieve higher density in direct-attached storage, which makes our tests more effective; I would recommend the MD1120 to other test facilities and data centers where storage density is an issue.”

The expanded PowerVault MD family gives customers versatility and choice in storage technology for optimal support of business needs. With the addition of the MD1120, customers will have the choice of a 2.5-inch drive enclosure for performance-focused applications or a 3.5-inch drive enclosure when higher capacity is required.

The PowerVault MD1120 is available immediately, and Dell Services—including Dell Enterprise Support Services, Dell Infrastructure Services, Professional Installation Services and Disk Expansion Training—can help streamline the installation and maintenance of its entire line of disk expansion enclosures.

Additional Information:

MD1120 product details http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/storage_powervault_md1120?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

MD1120 spec sheet http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/storage_powervault_md1120_specsheet.pdf

PowerSolutions magazine article on the MD1120 http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080240-Srikrishna.pdf

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Seagate Introduces Savvio 10k.3 Small Form Factor Enterprise Drive, Delivering Record-Setting Capacity, Reliability And Power Savings

MelCole PR — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:00:00 +0600

/India PRwire/ - To meet the growing demand for higher-capacity, more efficient enterprise storage systems, Seagate (NYSE:STX) today introduced the Savvio® 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive built for the demands of enterprise servers and storage arrays. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives. As the only 10K-rpm 2.5-inch enterprise design backed by two prior generations of field-proven reliability, the Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6Gb/sec data rate) interface. Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection.

“The combination of higher capacity and 6Gb SAS on an enterprise-class small form factor disk drive, like the Savvio 10K.3 drive, continues to entice the industry to move from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch based solutions for use in enterprise storage systems and arrays,” said Dave Reinsel, vice president of Storage Research at IDC. “IDC predicts that shipments of small form factor enterprise drives into enterprise solutions will outnumber 3.5-inch enterprise drive shipments by 2010.”

Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive was built to accommodate a wide range of mainstream enterprise storage applications, where both high capacity and low power consumption are critical requirements within an IT organization.

“Seagate was the pioneer of the 2.5-inch form factor enterprise standard, stemming from work with customers to better understand data center requirements, including the need for greater storage performance density while continuing to focus on reducing power consumption and cooling costs,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. “TheSavvio 10K and 15K families have evolved into becoming the most widely-adopted 2.5-inch enterprise drive families throughout the enterprise. Now, with the introduction of the 300GB Savvio 10K.3 drive, more versatile storage systems can be built based upon this sweet-spot capacity

Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive have begun. General product availability is planned for the second half of calendar year 2008.

Savvio 10K.3 Product Details

Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive offers tremendous improvements over 3.5-inch 300GB 15K-rpm drives including a 70% power savings. Savvio 10K.3 performance is even greater at a system level, delivering a 60% improvement in IOPS density, while also providing at least twice the capacity. These 2.5-inch drive advantages in total translate into greater overall value and reduced total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data center’s power and performance efficiency.

The Savvio 10K.3 is also the world’s first drive to operate at 6Gb/sec transfer rates, which is part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to be ideally-suited for use in high-end network storage applications.

Delivering on Seagate’s commitment to add security features throughout its product portfolio, Savvio 10K.3 will be offered with self-encrypting FDE technology. As the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting drive, the Savvio 10K.3 provides data-at-rest protection for its entire life cycle.

Seagate Helps Data Centers Focus on Going Green with PowerTrimä Technology

Seagate’s next-generation PowerTrim technology is integrated into the Savvio 10K.3 drive and manages drive power consumption during idle activity. With PowerTrim technology, the Savvio 10K.3 addresses the IT dilemma facing energy-constrained data centers by delivering best-in-class power savings.

For more information about the Seagate Savvio 10K.3 drive as well as the Seagate’s entire family of enterprise products, visit www.seagate.com.

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About Seagate

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

XFX Introduces GeForce GTX 280 Graphic Card

Rashi Peripherals — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:27:44 +0600

/India PRwire/ -

In gaming, “reality” is one of those often over-used descriptors that falls short of, well, reality until now. XFX has released the ultimate gaming graphic cards: the XFX GeForce GTX 280. Harnessing the power of second generation unified architecture, SLI technology and top-of-the-line DirectX 10 support, gaming “reality” has now become a truly in-your-face experience, delivered in blazing fast frame rates.

The real world is for lightweights compared to the experience delivered by the GeForce GTX 280. Second generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture delivers up to 50% more gaming performance (compared to the first generation) thanks to 240 enhanced processing cores and a GPU clock of 602 MHz that provide incredible graphics horsepower.

Gamers will get pulled deeper into the 3D gaming experience thanks to NVIDIA’s new PhysX technology that renders convincing facial expressions, multiple ultra-high polygon characters in complex environments and convincing physical effects like weather and explosions. Both cards come NVIDIA PhysX-Ready, however NVIDIA Phys drivers are required to experience in-game PhysX acceleration.

Three-way NVIDIA SLI Technology support ensures powerful performance scaling by implementing three-way Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) for the world’s fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista.

PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offers the highest data transfer speeds for today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, and is backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards.

NVIDIA CUDA technology and the new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista enables programmers to offload the most intensive processing tasks from their CPU to their graphic card, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work for you. From transcoding video or running Folding@home in the background while web surfing, the GeForce GTX 200 Series deliver performance improvements of up to seven times of the traditional CPU.

HybridPower Technology, GigaThread Technology, Lumenex Engine, 16x Anti-aliasing Technology, and 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting guarantees top-of-the-line performance right out of the box. OpenGL 2.1 support, Dual Dual-link DVI Support, PureVideo HD Technology and dual-stream hardware acceleration rounds out the leading features.

The mentioned graphic card bearing model no, GX-280N-ZDF9 will be available through Rashi Peripherals and its 53 branches across India at an estimated street price of Rs 49,000/- with 3 years warranty.

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About Rashi Peripherals

Rashi is one of the leading distribution Companies in India with distribution of world famous brands like ASUSTEK, ALTEC LANSING , APC, COMPEX, HP, IBM, LENOVO, LOGITECH,PROCURVE, PROLINK, NETGEAR, SANDISK, SENAO, SONY, XFX. Channel Magazine – CRN has ranked Rashi at No.1 (in B Group) for I.T distribution in India. Apart from this Rashi is a member of the elite DQ Channels Silver Club. Rashi has its own ISO 9001:2001 accredited RP Tech Branded Systems. Its products comprise mostly high end, quality and premium range. Rashi has grown consistently over the period of years and its turnover for the financial year 2006-07 is expected to cross Rs. 480 Crore. Today Rashi has 50 Branches all across the country and more then 4000 Reseller base who are working together with us under various programs.

For more information please visit www.rptechindia.com.

MRON Launches Black Version of its Ultra-Featured External OPAL LCD TV Tuner Box

MRON International Limited — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0600

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ISO 9001: 2000 Certified

Company Profile

MRON International Limited is a leader in providing and supporting a broad range of Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronic Products.

Our expertise and availability are your assurance that you’ll receive the best value, the right products, on-time delivery and guaranteed results.

Product offerings

We have robust vertical industry expertise blended with a depth of horizontal competencies.

We offer:

Webcams
Keyboards
Cabinets
Speakers
TV Tuners
Headsets
Mouse
UPS
Power Supply (SMPS)

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

Seagate first to ship 1 Billion Hard Drives; Expects Next Billion Within Five Years

MelCole PR — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:30:06 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced today that it is the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives – a number not only staggering in size but also emblematic of the massive amount of digital content being created in the home, hand, office, car and dozens of other markets. Consider this: the 1 billion hard drives Seagate has delivered equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music – and Seagate hard drives and storage solutions enable people to create, share, enjoy and protect more digital content every day.

As further testimony to its market leadership and the central role storage solutions play in the digital world today, Seagate projects that although it took 29 years to reach the 1 billion milestone, the company will ship its next billion in less than five years. Also, by the time its nearest competitor reaches 1 billion drives shipped, Seagate will already be close to shipping its second billion.

Seagate’s billionth drive milestone comes as hard drive shipments continue to increase dramatically. According to Gartner Group, last year alone more than 500 million drives were shipped, compared to 1990, when slightly less than 30 million were shipped.

In 1979, Seagate’s first product, the ST506 hard drive, could store 5 megabytes of data or the equivalent of one MP3 song. The drive weighed about five pounds and cost $1,500, or $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate hard drive offers a terabyte of data (or 1 million megabytes), which has enough capacity to record 32 days of high-definition video around the clock – at a cost of 1/5000th of a cent ($0.00022) per megabyte.

“This company has an amazing, colorful and important history, which continues to be written every day by our 55,000 employees around the world,” said Ban Seng The, Seagate’s Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, speaking at Delhi. “Al Shugart and a few others started the company behind a convenience store in 1979 and enabled the birth of the first PCs. Today we’re at the center of the digital content revolution. So reaching this milestone is a great opportunity for us to reflect on our accomplishments and those of our predecessors, and to also look forward to the great things we can still achieve as a company.”

Long-time Seagate customer, HP, congratulated the company on this achievement. “Reaching this milestone could only be possible through exceptionally strong leadership, committed employees and deep corporate values that focus on innovation, collaboration and delivering superior customer service,” said Ike Harris, VP of notebook supply chain at HP. “These values are very consistent with HP’s and this alignment reflects the strength of our partnership.”

The rapid growth of digital content continues to come from a wide range of sources. For example, analysts estimate that there are over one billion digital still and phone cameras in the world and that those devices accounted for 250 billion created images in 2006. It is predicted that user-generated content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) will produce 65 billion downloads/views by 2010.

“Digital content proliferation is a long-term phenomenon,” according to John Rydning, IDC’s Research Director for hard drives. “This phenomenon is pushing demand for hard drives to more than 600 million units per year by 2010 and will continue to fuel hard drive demand in the decade ahead.”

For more information on this important milestone, please go to the website: http://1b.seagatestorage.com

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This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The ultimate correctness of these forward-looking statements is dependent upon a number of known and unknown risks and events, and is subject to various uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these statements. For a list and description of various risks, relevant factors and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2007, any subsequent Reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K and our other securities filings.

MRON to Strengthen Channel Network in Southern India

MRON International Limited — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:00 +0600

/India PRwire/ - MRON International Limited, one of the leading IT hardware and Consumer Electronics Company, has formulated its strategies and policies to strengthen its distribution network in the entire country. As a part of its expansion plan MRON has opened three new branches in south India recently in addition to Chennai (TN), two new exclusive branch offices in Bangalore (Karnataka), Secunderabad (AP) and one consignee based business operations in Cochin (Kerala).

Rajeev Rohatgi, VP (Sales & Mktg.), MRON said, “We at MRON are intent on the growth of our channel because they are back bone of our business and are keen on spreading our wings all over the country with intimate working with our channel partners in order to provide maximum benefit to them”.

MRON has well – distributed trajectory in the region through its branch cum service centers in all the major cities. The increase in sales will be contributed by further penetration into various B & C class towns like Vijaywada, Trivandurum, Mysore, Vizag, Warangal, Trichur, Pondicherrey, Madurai and Salem to name just few. In just 1 year of business operations MRON has emerged as one of the most promising brand of IT Peripherals and Consumer Electronic products across the country.

MRON has a gamut of activities lined up in the coming months for the channel, initiated to grow business further. Expanding on its Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronics offerings, MRON has introduced 4 new premium series cabinets, 2 new regular series cabinets and the latest range of Sub-woofers.

In order to fortify brand awareness and impart product knowledge, various road shows and Dealers Business Development Meets have also been planned for Coimbatore, Cochin, Chennai, and Bangalore within next 3 months.

Talking about MRON’s expansion plans and new product offerings, Rohatgi said, “The setting of new branch offices is a part of our ongoing expansion plan to increase our penetration in B and C class town with better value service, quality product, competitive offerings and convenient access points to our channel partners”. He also said, “In order to have advantage over our competitors and stronghold in this market, we have to introduce new products as well as to increase our product portfolio and as a part of our strategy we have recently added latest range of Cabinets, Mouse and Sub-woofers in our peripherals and consumer electronics product sections”.

MRON an ISO 9000:2001 company endeavors to create customer satisfaction through efficient management, timely response, innovation as well as effective warranty and service support. He also said “Our marketing policy is to have a strong and efficient association of Channel Partners across the country and ensure profitability to them”.

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ISO 9001: 2000 Certified

Company Profile

MRON International Limited is a leader in providing and supporting a broad range of Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronic Products.

Our expertise and availability are your assurance that you’ll receive the best value, the right products, on-time delivery and guaranteed results.

Product offerings

We have robust vertical industry expertise blended with a depth of horizontal competencies.

We offer:

Webcams
Keyboards
Cabinets
Speakers
TV Tuners
Headsets
Mouse
UPS
Power Supply (SMPS)

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

Contact Information

MRON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

A-94/3, Okhla Phase – II

New Delhi – 110020

Ph: 91-11- 40502929,30,31

Website: www.mroninternational.com

MRON has 9 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

Contact Information

MRON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

A-94/3, Okhla Phase – II

New Delhi – 110020

Ph: 91-11- 40502929,30,31

Website: www.mroninternational.com

MRON Launches 3 New Premium Cabinets

MRON International Limited — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:00 +0600

/India PRwire/ - MRON, one of the leading manufacturer’s and distributors of computer peripherals and consumer electronic products, has introduced 3 new models of premium series cabinets to meet the growing demand for stylized cabinets in the SOHO and End user segment. This new range includes “Virgo”, “Venus” and “Pluto” and comes in the price range of existing premium series.

The new series comes with ergonomic designs, heavy gauge and robust structure pre-fitted with dual SATA connector. These casings are complimented with a state of the art thermal Control system and strong 550 watts power supply unit. This thermal control feature in the casings ensures a long life of the computer components by automatically maintaining its internal temperature with a selectable temperature operation up to 38 degree centigrade.

Its dual fan technology is necessary for the cooling of new generation processors, where more heat is delivered and also minimize dust infiltration at the same time.

Besides “Virgo”, “Venus” and “Pluto” in premium series, MRON, has also introduced 2 new models “Oyster” and “Circle” in regular series. In keeping with the market trend all these casings are available in black and in combination of black & silver color to cater to various customer segments and economic strata.

According to Rajeev Rohatgi, VP (Sales & Mktg.), MRON International Limited, “After we introduced 3 year warranty on our premium series and 2 years warranty on semi-premium, classic and regular computer casing last month, we received impeccable response from the channel for these products and this prompted us to introduce 3 new models in premium series and 2 new models in regular series”.

When the support is good for any product the product becomes fast moving and channel is also happy about having less headaches.

MRON offers wide range of Computer Casing solution with front Audio and USB ports purely for Micro ATX and ATX. Made with high quality cold-rolled steel constructions, these cases are designed to be environmentally friendly as well as highly efficient.

“We have to constantly introduce innovative products to retain our market position. So far we have been happy with the premium series of computer casings along with our all the other products, as we have not heard any complaint about this product and are sure that even the “Virgo”, “Venus” and “Pluto” will soon catch up the market and will be received well, since the quality of the product is very good, “says, Rohatgi, VP (Sales & Mktg.), MRON International Limited.

MRON an ISO 9000:2001 company gives its customers the assurance of the best quality product at the right price carrying a mixed bag of computer peripherals consumer electronics & power conditioning products.

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ISO 9001: 2000 Certified

Company Profile

MRON International Limited is a leader in providing and supporting a broad range of Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronic Products.

Our expertise and availability are your assurance that you’ll receive the best value, the right products, on-time delivery and guaranteed results.

Product offerings

We have robust vertical industry expertise blended with a depth of horizontal competencies.

We offer:

Webcams
Keyboards
Cabinets
Speakers
TV Tuners
Headsets
Mouse
UPS
Power Supply (SMPS)

MRON has 16 branches spread across Northern & Central India with head office in New Delhi.

HP Procurve and Rashi Complete 1 Year of Tie-Up

Rashi Peripherals — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:04:03 +0600

/India PRwire/ -

ProCurve Networking by HP and Rashi’ tie-up completes its 1st year of operations this week. With one year of successful business, the tie-up is now poised for newer heights with new range of products, road shows and certification programs for the partners in the coming year.

Commenting on the 1st year of successful partnership, Mr. Rajanikanth Urs, (Sales Manager – India & South Asia) HP ProCurve said, “Since our tie-up last year we have been able to reach some of the untapped territories and enroll new partners who otherwise were elusive to us. In the last one year we have also introduced products that have pioneered the networking segment in India”.

To commemorate this special occasion, both the vendor and the distributor have come up with a range of promotional activities to help partners gain more than ever before. For loyal partners doing business above Rs 5.25 Lacs (on select models) from 1st June – 31st July, there will be a chance to visit London. Besides there will be 3 different slabs of 1, 2 and 3 Lacs so that even the smaller regions are suitably rewarded for their efforts.

“It’s been a constant endeavour at Rashi to provide the best of the products and services and ProCurve has been one of the prominent brands we had added to our kitty since last year. Further to this we have been receiving an excellent support from ProCurve which in turn has bolstered our partner confidence on the brand”, said Mr. Rohit Agarwal, Deputy General Manager, Rashi Peripherals.

To further strengthen the tie-up, the focus in the next year will be on certification of partners according to their strengths. The certification will be in four categories namely, ProCurve Elite, ProCurve Specialist, ProCurve Professional and ProCurve Select. Each of these categories will be having a limited number of partners to begin with and will be constantly monitored by ProCurve.

In order to create more visibility and brand recall for ProCurve POS activities like Danglers and glow sign boards for selective partners are on the anvil.

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About Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd

For more information please visit www.rptechindia.com.

ASUS U6S Notebook Presents New Levels of Computing Aesthetics

ASUS — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:04:59 +0600

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ASUS once again brings innovative notebook designing to a new level with the latest U6S notebook. Based on the latest Intel® Centrino® Duo Processor Technology, Windows Vista® operating system and a host of ASUS features, the 12” widescreen U6S is the fabulous jewel to light up any computing experience with an extra sparkle that is sure to captivate all eyes.

About the launch of this new product, Mr. Stanley Wu - Product Manager, Notebooks, ASUS (India) said, "The U6S is one of our premium notebooks which we are most pleased to release in India. This notebook epitomizes class and exudes a sense of style that is rare to find. Observing the increasing fashion consciousness amongst the Indian people, we're sure that a product offering such as the ASUS U6S will be a breath of fresh air amongst the notebooks currently available in the Indian market."

Object of Desire

The U6S' mocha brown high-shine cover made by a thirteen step process and with underlying shimmering fibers that shine gets its name from the equally delicate luminous fabric, Voile. The leather bound palm rest adds a softness that personalizes the experience with a tactile computing experience. The streamlined hinge bears hotkeys with exquisite detailing that are ergonomically placed for easy access and minimum distraction.

Ultra Slim Mobility with Wireless Communication

The U6S adopts a special LED backlight panel that is half the width and 1/3 the weight of traditional LCD panels. It lowers power consumption and offers better luminance for a pleasant viewing experience. A built-in webcam allows instant high-resolution face to face communication without the hassle of external connections and messy wires. For hands free access, the exclusive ASUS SmartLogon software intelligently recognizes its rightful owner and grants access to the computer accordingly after a positive facial scan.

High-speed Internet Access Anywhere

The U6S is further incorporated with 3.5G High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) wireless broadband capability which boosts current 3G download speeds by approximately 4 times, allowing users to connect to the Internet across cellular networks without the need to connect the computer to a mobile phone. Users will be able to wirelessly send and receive emails, surf the Internet, download attachments and access corporate networks through a virtual private network.

Seamless Security

To give business travelers peace of mind, the U6S features safeguards that combine a high-level of security along with ease of use. The fingerprint authentication allows for heavy duty security of data with the convenience of a finger swipe. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) encrypts data, password retention and system log on for added data protection measures. In addition, ASUS CopyProtect prevents the unauthorized reproduction of data in the notebook, ensuring information exclusivity.

U6S Specifications:

Intel® Centrino® Duo Processor Technology

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T7700/T7500/T7250/T5550/T5450/T5250/Cel M550/Cel M540

Mobile Intel® PM965/ ICH8M

Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or 4965ABGN Network Connection

Genuine Windows Vista®

Genuine Ultimate

Genuine Business

Genuine Home Premium

NVidia GeForce 9300GS with 256MB VRAM

DDR2 667MHz, 2 x SODIMM up to 2GB

SATA HDD up to 250G/5400rpm, Hybrid 160G/5400rpm with 256MB flash

8-in-1 Card Reader

3.5G HSDPA, Fingerprint, TPM module, 4x USB, 1x HDMI, 1x phone jack, 1x LAN, 1x microphone, 1x speaker, 1x VGA out, Ultra slim supermulti *1, Express Card 54/34 *1

Built-in 0.3M pixel webcam with ASUS SmartLogon

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ASUS Technology Pvt. Ltd. is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. It has a global staff of more than 100 thousand and a world-class R&D design team. As a brand known for the ultimate product quality and design, ASUS products have won 2568 awards in 2007. ASUS has been ranked in Business Week InfoTech 100 for 10 straight years, and was rankedNo.1 by the Wall Street Journal forbest quality productsinTaiwan. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, LCD monitors, information appliances, desktop PCs & PC components, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones, handhelds, digital home solutions, broadband communication products and networking devices.

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Panduit Corp for its Outstanding Integrated Green Solution for the Data Center Cooling Solutions Market

Panduit International Corporation — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:32:08 +0600

/India PRwire/ - Based on its recent analysis of the data center facilities infrastructure solutions, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Panduit Corp with the 2008 North American Green Excellence Award in Service Proposition for its determined efforts in offering a flexible yet dynamic turnkey solution towards enabling an efficient infrastructure within the data center environment.
Over the last five years, data center power and cooling requirements have surged dramatically in the face of increased server/storage equipment density and ever-growing demands for processing power. The Panduit solution is centered around the principle of ‘cooling conservation’ to optimize energy use within the data center space.

“Panduit combines site-specific products and technology with proper capacity planning to better suit the demand profile of high-density applications with reduced operating costs,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Konkana Khaund. “This approach takes into consideration the deployment and management of both passive and active components that impact the availability
of data center applications while at the same time gauging scalability requirements and disruptive influences that may impact operating costs in the future.”

The company differentiates its solution from other industry providers by taking a holistic approach toward data center design and efficiency. The Panduit solution balances a suitably designed cabling infrastructure with desired power and cooling thresholds that are reliable, interoperable, and scalable over time. The solution overcomes the most significant physical infrastructure challenges to the data center customer today – managing the risk associated with infrastructure convergence. Panduit tackles this risk with a value proposition that directly addresses three dominant concerns of data center stakeholders: agility, availability, and security. Forming the right alliances with the appropriate partners is key to advancing data center interoperability and reliability. Panduit developed its solution by collaborating with a diverse partner community including equipment providers, hardware, software and communication technology experts. The Panduit data center service portfolio also supports virtualization to catalyze stronger, more frequent interaction between IT and facilities management, thus ensuring better uptime and availability and facilitating change management within the data center.

“By aligning a truly interoperable physical architecture with logical elements, Panduit has articulated an intelligent and effective next-generation value proposition that enables the customer to reap quantifiable benefits by way of energy savings and resource conservation,” opines Khaund. Further, Panduit's company-wide commitment has resulted in the long-standing deployment of programs throughout its global facilities that use energy efficiently, reduce energy consumption, and minimize the ecological footprint. This commitment extends from purchasing more efficient and energy-saving machinery, practicing reuse and recycling procedures, and adopting environmentally responsible disposal practices.

By taking a holistic approach towards data center design, integrated physical infrastructure, and improved green performance, Panduit ensures that its internal facilities as well as its facilities infrastructure solutions for data centers adhere to stringent design principles.

For its multiple achievements, Panduit is the worthy recipient of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award in Service Proposition in the North American data center cooling solutions market. Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in delivering green service solutions that are aligned with a sustainable and environmentally conscious objective within its industry sector. The Award signifies the company's identification of a unique and revolutionary solution with significant environmental benefits, while simultaneously presenting tremendous market potential. Moreover, the Award recognizes that the company's overall business strategy is sound and poised for success.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

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About Panduit Corp
PANDUIT is a world-class developer and provider of leading edge solutions that help organizations mitigate risk at the physical layer. Panduit applies its expertise across the entire physical infrastructure to eliminate the complexities associated with system convergence,integration, and interdependency. Panduit’s highly reliable solutions reduce customer risk and improve security, availability, reliability, integration, and safety throughout the enterprise network – ultimately reducing cost of ownership. Our global expertise and strategic industry relationships provide unmatched service and support that enable customers to move forward with their strategic objectives. (www.panduit.com)

About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Global Growth Consulting Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's Growth Partnership Services, Growth Consulting and Career Best Practices empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents. For more information about Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Partnerships, visit http://www.awards.frost.com.

11 Steps To London Concludes Successfully

Rashi Peripherals — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:14:30 +0600

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The much awaited “11 Steps to London with SONY & JETWAY” run by Rashi Peripherals Pvt Ltd got an overwhelming response from the partners all across India. In all 52 partners have qualified for 80 tickets, including a few with their families and spouses. The total number of people flying from 15th to 18th May is 150 including Rashi management wherein Rashi is rewarding its team also.

Giving the details about the scheme, Mr. Kapal Pansari, Director Marketing Rashi Peripherals said, “It’s always been an endeavor from Rashi to reward our loyal and hard working partners, and taking them to a place like London in this sweltering heat is like an icing on the cake”.

The trip will include a visit to some of the famous landmarks of London including, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and many more.

This multi levelled scheme was applicable for partners across India and on completion of each level there was a reward for the partners on each level. On completion of 7 levels a partner automatically qualified to be recognized as STORAGE AUTHORISED PARTNER (SAP).

“The objective of the scheme was to motivate partners as well as get a stronger foothold in the market and with the results we have surely hit the bulls’ eye”, opined Mr. Alok Choudhary, Group Business Manager, Rashi Peripherals.

The pinnacle of the scheme was the level 15 wherein on attaining it, a partner will take a family of three to London.

Apart from London trip there were many other awards for the partners like Sony LCD TV, Handycams, Digital cameras, Window AC, Motor cycles and many more.

Interestingly, the participation from the upcountry partners was very high and as much as 45 percent of the total awards have gone to them. On an average both Jetway and SONY touched an additional business to the tune of 35 percent during the scheme period.

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About Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd

For more information please visit www.rptechindia.com.

TVS-E reports growth in Revenues & EBIT from the continuing businesses for the FY 2007-08 Maintains its leadership with a share of 40% in the DMP market

Good Relations (I) Pvt. Ltd. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:29:30 +0600

/India PRwire/ - TVS Electronics announced the unaudited results for the fiscal year ended 31st March 2008. The company has reported a dip in its revenues by 22.28 % during the year ending 31st March ’08 as compared to the previous FY 2006-07. During the year, TVS-E hived off its Contract manufacturing (CMS) business at Tumkur and spun off the contract Customer support (CCS) business into a separate company and hence the numbers are not comparable. The company has recorded a 4.5 % of growth in sales & 20% increase in EBIT of its continuing business which consists primarily of Dot-matrix printers, key boards and Point of Sale products / solutions. For the full financial year 2007-08, the Company has reported a Net Profit of Rs.13.06 Crores compared with 1.85 Crores during the previous year, while the Net Profit from ordinary activities has gone up from Rs.1.85 crores in the previous year to Rs.7.33 Cr. during the financial year that ended on 31st Mar’08.

During the board meeting held on 22nd April, Mr. Gopal Srinivasan announced relinquishment from his post as Whole Time Director of TVS-E, although he would continue to be a Director on the Board of the Company. Mr.M.Somasundaram, Executive Vice President has been appointed as the Manager under Companies Act and will spearhead the growth of the company. Commenting on the company’s future plans he says, “Our drive towards increasing market share and profitability will continue. We plan to grow across all product lines and expect POS to emerge as a significant line of business in the coming year”

The Board also reviewed the proposal for issue of Employee Stock Options (ESOPs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) for its employees and empowered the Compensation Committee of the Board to discuss and decide on the terms and conditions of issue including price

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About TVS Electronics:

TVS Electronics Limited, a part of the 90-year-old TVS Group is one the largest manufacturer of Computer Peripherals in the country. The range of offerings includes Products - Dot Matrix printers, Keyboards, Printing Supplies and Point of sale products.

TVS-E has a large distribution and service network, which reaches over 450 towns across the country with two National Distributors, more than 200 Regional Distributors and over 3,000 Authorized Dealer Partners. The company has manufacturing facilities in Uttaranchal, Himachal and Chennai.

Receives Acquisition from EVOC International showcase in Defexpo India 2008

EVOC Intelligent technology co.,ltd — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:01:48 +0600

/India PRwire/ - February 16-19, 2oo8, Defexpo India 2008 was held in New Delhi, India. There were a number of enterprises from over forty counties entered this exhibition. International business department of EVOC, together with Indian agent, appeared in this exhibition with professional image. In the stand with 18 square meters, EVOC displayed new products developed between 2007 and 2008, which received good reviews from the customers.

Acquistion from this exhibition, we have included several OEM Orders from Localleading Computer dealers,and it'smore bright that it's a goodtime to launchingEvoc's Technology and serviceall through india. and it 's ready to offering:

OEM&ODM regarding- Slot CPU/SBC/Motherboard Chassis/Backplane/Power Supply Embedded Box PCs CompactPCI Platforms Network Computing PC/104 Boards HMI Mobile Rugged Computing COM Modules LCD Monitor

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EVOC Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 1993, is one of the TOP leaders of EIP (Embedded Intelligent Platform) manufacturers in China. EVOC has been offered publicly in stock exchange in Hong Kong (stock code: 8285) since 2003, and has the large base for production and R&D center in mainland.

EVOC focuses on industrial PC, single board computer, PC/104 board, HMI products, compact PCI, power supply, chassis and so on. The products are widely used in industrial automation, telecommunications, medical, transportation, energy, network, security, etc. EVOC also integrates the solutions of industries and applications, and deals with the ODM and OEM for customers. The long term cooperation partners of EVOC are Sinopec, HUAWEI, ZTE, Hisense, Foxconn, Han's laser, etc.

As the top professional leader of the EIP in China, EVOC has obtained ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 series certificates. At present, RoHS standard is being promoted fully in all process of stock, production and testing.In 2004, EVOC became the first member of ICA(Intel Communication Alliance) in Mainland China. At the same time, the "INTEL-EVOC Embedded Development Center" was established. EVOC are also the Gold-level member of Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program.

EVOC plays a significant role in Chinese EIP field. In the past 14 years, EVOC is always standing on the top of the industry, and leading the developing direction of embedded technology in China. So far, EVOC has established 23 branches in China, providing 24-hour technical support for customers. EVOC is ranked in “Key Hi-tech Enterprise in TOP Development Plan of China”

For more information pls contact via its india officer: +91-9971081613 (or via email: leedeping@gmail.com)

Rashi to Serve SI Partners Directly

Rashi Peripherals — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:08:41 +0600

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Rashi Peripherals, one of the leading Mumbai based IT distributor today announced another initiative to serve the partners better. With new initiative Rashi plans to serve 2nd and 3rd tier SI partners directly from their national service centres across India.

Mr. Suresh Pansari, MD, Rashi Peripherals said, “We always believe in working closely with our partners and this is just another way of serving the customers of our partners. SI partners being the backbone of IT hardware business they are surely entitled for better services and support”.

The validity of the warranty will stand based on their proof of purchase either from AEC (Asus Elite Club) partner or any national distributor. This 3 year warranty will be based on SI partner’s purchase date. The products included in this initiative are motherboards and graphic cards. SI partners will get either the same motherboard immediately after servicing or will be swapped from the buffer stock. In case of non availability of a similar product the same will be upgraded.

Albert Tung, Managing Director, ASUS said, “ASUS has always at the forefront in introducing cutting edge technology products and now with this initiative we are sure to help SI’s get the equivalent after sales and service support throughout India”.

Any product which is damaged/burnt will not be considered under warranty. Rashi will have a final say on any products warranty validity as it would have a database of the products serial number and invoice details.

Rashi in its endeavour to service ASUS products better had earlier announced setting up of a toll-free number for service and support network that will soon get operational and will further help partners to know more about the status of their products.

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