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COVER
STORY
HP
guns for dominance in PC market with brand merger
The proposed HP-Compaq merger was definitely a leading contender
for the most written about deal award in 2001. That it had major
ramifications for the entire business world, and not just the IT
sector, was evident from the space and time trade analysts and the
industry per se devoted to the announcement.
INDIA
NEWS BUSINESS
Quark
India chalks out ambitious plans
At a time when most IT companies are deferring new investments,
Quark is an exception to the rule.
PCS receives
ISO 9001:2000 certification
Patni Computer Systems (PCS), an international software solutions
provider, received the ISO 9001: 2000 certification from the KPMG
Quality Registrar for its offshore facilities.
Accord
in talks with ISPs to use data centres
Pune-based Accord Ventu-res, an application service provider
(ASP) solution provider, is in talks with two category ‘A’
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for using the data centre facilities
of the ISPs.
VirtualE3D
launches product for visual collaboration
In an effort to enhance its focus on products, Bangalore-based
VirtualE3D has launched VCollab, a visual collaboration tool that
can be used to collaborate with any 3D tool.
INDIA
NEWS SOFTWARE
Infosys
helps New York manage its insurance policies
New
York Life Insurance International has moved from using a legacy
system to an Oracle 9i based solution from Infosys.
Polaris
Software to set up Japanese subsidiary
In
an attempt to better tap the growing opportunity it sees in the
Japanese market, Chennai-based Polaris Software Labs has decided
to set up a subsidiary in the region in Q1 2003.
Bank
of Ghana flexes its muscles with Flexcube
When
the SSB Bank of Ghana in Africa, the second largest bank in the
country with around 40 branches handling around 1,00,000 transactions
a day, decided to move up the value chain and join the Internet
bandwagon for providing online banking to its customers, top executives
realised that this would take more than simply moving services online.
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