The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 27, 2003

Comatose computer
A medical diagnostic centre technician transporting computers from one facility to another. Reports in the US have suggested that developed countries are increasingly dumping old computers in Third World nations such as India and these could pose ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

IonIdea ties up with Compuware
BANGALORE: IonIdea, a US-based software firm with its development operations in Bangalore, has announced a tie-up with Compuware Corporation, the sixth largest software firm the world, to market two product lines of the latter in ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Educational software firm in Technopark
RM plc, a leading supplier of information and communication technology to the education sector in the UK, has set up a subsidiary in Technopark here. RM Education Solutions India Pvt Ltd, the new subsidiary, will develop innovative education ... More

BROADBAND

RailTel plans to link 1,500 stations
RAILTEL Corporation of India Ltd, an Indian Railways subsidiary company, plans to connect 150 major cities and 1,500 railway stations in 2003-04. The subsidiary has been set up to provide telecom bandwith through optical fibre cable (OFC) along ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

`E-governance involves aligning multiple services'
"The biggest challenge in India is leadership. This could be a stumbling block. The tiers are too many", says Mr. Abdullah. More

Chennai registrar offices providing online services
THE long wait for getting an Encumbrance Certificate (EC) of any property located in Chennai city is now a thing of past. It is not just in the case of EC, but even for property valuation details (guideline value), registration certificate ... More

Karnataka's e-governance initiatives gain momentum
THE implementation of e-Governance is set to gain momentum in Karnataka as the State Government has standardised the Kannada software for administration. "The usage of Kannada in computers is set to rise in the coming days," said Mr E.V. ... More

EVENTS

`Free software not for govts'
OPEN source software is a highly misunderstood term - - it is not free, it is not just Linux, it is not even always cheaper than proprietary software, and it does not always make sense for governments to go in for it, says Prof S Sadagopan. ... More

Infosys' banking summit in Bangkok
BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies is hosting a banking summit with a theme "Technology-enabled agile banking" at Bangkok on March 3. The summit is being inaugurated by the Thailand Prime Minister, Dr Thaksin Shinawatra and presided over ... More

PEOPLE

Bharatee to head IBM division
BANGALORE: Now that IBM Corporation has completed of its $ 2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Software Corporation, Mr M K Bharatee, who was heading Rational in India, will be the Country Manager of the new division. In India, Rational ... More

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