Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) --10/12/2011 -- India's first and one of the largest Information Technology and Telecom News Portal CIOL.com, a CyberMedia Group property, announces the launch of an exclusive section for Semiconductor sector, Semicon Topic Center.

The Semicon Topic Center (http://www.ciol.com/Semicon.aspx) origins with a vision of going deep into Technology and Product Watch, thus catering to semiconductor enthusiasts and industry as a single point of source for all activities and keep them abreast of the innovations pertaining to the industry.

The new Topic Center has six sub-sections namely SemiSpeak, Biz Watch, Product Watch, Tech Watch, Semi Pipes, Design Trends. Also featured will be special column such as Special Reports.

Since, Semiconductor Industry is a still emerging and described to boom in India in the coming years. It is very essential to keep track of on-going activities since the start of the baby crawl days, so that, it helps the industry professionals to establish their base quite strongly in India. Already global players such as Intel, AMD and Qualcomm have established their R&D center in Bangalore, Karnataka. This R&D center of Intel boasts to have designed and developed both 1st and 2nd series of its famed iCore processors. Thus letting the world know aloud that India is fast catching up and better watch out for it.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anil Kumar Ravindran, Senior Vice President, CyberMedia said, "The Semicon Topic Center is a part of CyberMedia's deep-dive content update for professionals and enterprises in India and world-over. Through its brand CIOL, this CyberMedia initiative will provide in-depth coverage and insight into the Semiconductor vertical".

About CIOL and CyberMedia
CIOL.com is a leading information technology portal launched in 1996. CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.

With 15 publications, 12 websites, over 100 events and two weekly TV programs, it reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. They cover infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, ciol.com), technology (MIT's Technology Review), telecom (Voice&Data), biotech (BioSpectrum), entrepreneurship (Dare) and outsourcing (Global Services).

Its Media Services include CMR India, for insights powered by research company; and Content Matrix LLC which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing (TDA Group LLC) and content management services (Publication Services Inc. and CyberMedia Services).

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Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/07/2011 -- CIOL.com, a brand of CyberMedia Group and India's leading and first IT portal addressing the information needs of the IT community, has launched first-of-its-kind exclusive topic center on Android aimed at Android developer community.

A much sought-after destination for Android developers and users who are interested in Android platform, the Android Topic Center (android.ciol.com) offers latest news on Android development, Android applications, Android market and Android platform.

The information technology industry has evolved over the years and CIOL, being a leader in the IT space, utilized the opportunity by launching a new exclusive section on Android on its portal for the ever-enthusiastic readers from the Information Technology industry.

The new topic center will offer analysis report on Android and other Mobile OS, contributory articles from subject matter experts and evangelists, updates on latest development on Android app and 'how to guide' series for app developers. It also features special columns likes Ask the Expert, Android Contest and Android poll.

"Looking at the phenomenal growth of Android operating system and opportunities arising for app developers, we made the decision to launch a dedicated topic center focussed on Android," said Anil Kumar R, Senior Vice President, CyberMedia (India) Limited. "The Indian market for Android is poised to grow exponentially in the next few years."

He further added, "Our dedicated topic center on Android aims to address all the needs of Android developers by offering innovative content that covers the latest and most important developments in and around Android."

According to a report from Gartner, Android will move to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide and will build on its strength to account for 49 per cent of the smartphone market by 2012.

About CIOL and CyberMedia
CIOL.com is a leading information technology portal launched in 1996. CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.

With 15 publications, 12 websites, over 100 events and two weekly TV programs, it reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. They cover infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, ciol.com), technology (MIT's Technology Review), telecom (Voice&Data), biotech (BioSpectrum), entrepreneurship (Dare) and outsourcing (Global Services).

Its Media Services include CMR India, for insights powered by research company; and Content Matrix LLC which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing (TDA Group LLC) and content management services (Publication Services Inc. and CyberMedia Services).

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Online technology portal, CIOL and technology journal, Dataquest to honor 10 CIOs with C-Change Enterprise Awards 2011.

Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/08/2011 -- India's leading technology portal for the IT CIOs ICT community, CIOL, (www.ciol.com) in association with Dataquest, India's most respected IT journal has announced C-Change Enterprise Awards 2011 to recognize pioneering work by Indian Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from medium and large enterprises.

Instituted in 2004, these awards carry forward the CIOL vision to super-power the CIOs as also to recognize their leadership qualities, pioneering and innovative efforts to derive benefits for their organizations by interplay of business and technology.

The Top 3 CIOs from above Rs:1000 Crore turnover and below Rs:1000 Crore turnover will be awarded the Champion CIO, Gold CIO and Silver CIO honour.

Apart from these, CIOs can nominate themselves for individual awards for demonstrating Innovative spirit, implementation of Security and Cloud technologies and Project Management and Project Excellence.

C-Change Enterprise Awards are the only awards dedicated to industry CIOs that focuses on close alignment of it with Business.

Filled in questionnaire have been evaluated by a 7-member jury that includes Mr. Ashok Soota, Founder, Happy Minds Inc, Shobana Ravi, CIO, Tafe, Nilesh Sangoi, CIO, Meru cabs--Champion CIOs award winners of 2010. Leading consulting firm KPMG is the knowledge partner for 2011 awards and will be represented on the jury by their Director IT, Mr. Subrata Banerjea.

The awards will be presented on August 19, 2011.

The last date for registering for participation is August 15th 2011.

For more details, please log into http://www.ciol.com/CChangeEnterpriseAwards/2011/

About CIOL and CyberMedia
CIOL.com is a leading information technology portal launched in 1996. CyberMedia (India) Ltd., founded in 1982, is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.

With 15 publications, 12 websites, over 100 events and two weekly TV programs, it reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. They cover infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, ciol.com), technology (MIT's Technology Review), telecom (Voice&Data), biotech (BioSpectrum), entrepreneurship (Dare) and outsourcing (Global Services).

Its Media Services include CMR India, for insights powered by research company; and Content Matrix LLC which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing (TDA Group LLC) and content management services (Publication Services Inc. and CyberMedia Services).

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/04/2011 -- Information Technology News portal CIOL.com, a brand of CyberMedia Group, announces the full-fledged re-launch of Small and Medium Business page, SMBIT.IN.

The relaunched version of the SMBIT.IN (http://www.ciol.com/SMB.aspx) is aimed at providing the latest Information Technology updates to the emerging as well as established Small and Medium Businesses in India.

The renovated website will cover the details on the latest software solutions by various IT companies to the burgeoning Indian SMB sectors. The page will also feature interviews the heads of various SMBs, data base of SMB organisations in the country, various government policies, features, specials and success stories.

On the occasion of the relaunch of the site, Anil Kumar Ravindran, Senior Vice President, Cyber Media, said, "Our design is to give CXOs in SMB organizations relevant information to access the site with ease and having the least data capture gateways. Information on IT solutions like cloud computing that will help CXOs reduce cost. We have created a complete eco-system that enables talking to peers for enhanced learning experience".

About CIOL and CyberMedia
CIOL.com is a leading information technology portal launched in 1996. CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.

With 15 publications, 12 websites, over 100 events and two weekly TV programs, it reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. They cover infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, ciol.com), technology (MIT's Technology Review), telecom (Voice&Data), biotech (BioSpectrum), entrepreneurship (Dare) and outsourcing (Global Services).

Its Media Services include CMR India, for insights powered by research company; and Content Matrix LLC which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing (TDA Group LLC) and content management services (Publication Services Inc. and CyberMedia Services).

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

CIOL.com, India's leading and first IT portal addressing the information needs of the IT community, launched first of its kind exclusive Security section on its portal.

Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/04/2011 -- The information technology industry has evolved over the years and CIOL being a leader in the IT space utilized the opportunity by launching a new exclusive section on IT Security on its portal for the ever enthusiastic readers of IT field.

Located in Bangalore, the IT Capital of India; CIOL offers quality content on CIOL Security section provides news on latest IT security related issues based on Enterprise Security, Application Security, Mobile Security, Infrastructure Security, vulnerabilities, Security Tips, Specials and Security Products. Catch experts speak on security issues on video cast and audio cast.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anil Kumar Ravindran, Senior Vice President, CIOL said, "This is the first deep-dive attempt by any IT news portal in India to create a separate section on IT Security to provide essential details to avoid vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure of IT and Non-IT companies".

He further added, "India is fast becoming the R&D hub of global IT sector like global players like Google, Yahoo and Intel setting up their R&D felicities in India, especially Bangalore. So, it requires constant monitoring to safeguard its infrastructure from being attacked by outside threats to demolish the decade long constructive work that took place in India to establish sound IT sector base".

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Information Technology News portal CIOL.com, a brand of CyberMedia Group, announces the launch of an exclusive section for Storage, Storage Topic Center.

Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) --06/05/2011 -- The Storage Topic Center (storage.ciol.com) origins with a vision of going deep into information storage milieu, thus catering to storage enthusiasts and industry as a single point of source for all activities and keep them abreast of the innovations pertaining to the industry.

The new topic centre has five sub-sections namely Data Storage, Network Storage, Data Consolidation, Cloud Computing and Virtualization, and Storage Products. Also featured will be special columns such as Ask The Expert, Blog, Did You Know, and Specials.

It also brings together several eminent storage industry experts, namely Vivekanand Venugopal, VP and GM, HDS India; T Srinivasan, MD, VMware India and SAARC; Darshan Joshi, VP, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec and Shyamal Bhattacharya, CTO, PwC India, as Editorial Board Members, who will act as the think tank for the site.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anil Kumar Ravindran, Senior Vice President, CyberMedia said, "The Storage Topic Center is a part of CyberMedia's deep-dive content to Large and Medium sized organizations. Through its brand CIOL, this CyberMedia initiative will provide in-depth coverage and insight into the Storage vertical".

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm