ISPs to set up gateways
NEW DELHI: Government will soon allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to set up international gateways, planning commission deputy chairman K C Pant said today. A national internet backbone is also being set up besides taking up a project to install at least 20,000 km route of very high speed fibre optic lines to facilitate growth of information technology (IT), Pant said inaugurating a two-day South Asia conference on global knowledge Tasknet '99.Stressing the need to narrow the gap between the "information rich and information poor", Pant listed the initiatives taken by the government in IT sector and said India has set up 12 software technology parks.
CSE Y2K testing
CALCUTTA: The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) inched a step forward to attaining Y2K compliance after successfully conducting a mock trading to this effect. The CSE had thus become the second exchange in the country after National Stock Exchange, which had conducted successful mock trading forY2K compliance.
iBook launched
MUMBAI: Building upon its success in the consumer and education markets with the popular iMAC, Apple India unveiled iBook, its new product for Indian customers here last evening.The iBook, the `Mac Unplugged' features `all day' battery life upto six hours, Pentium-toasting performance and Apples revolutionary airport wireless internet networking for cable-free internet access (optional), all in a stunning notebook design available in two colours.
Introducing iBook in India is Apple's commitment to prepare India for a mobile millennium, said Naren Ayyer, MD, Apple Computer International Pvt Ltd.
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