IT Happens : July 2001 Monthly News Notice of IT Happenings
Issue - 1

        VSNL plans to increase bandwidth:
VSNL to increase the bandwidth from the current 1 Gigabit to 2 Gigabits.  According to Rajnish Gupta, director Networks, The thrust is being placed on providing international connectivity to customers and efforts are being make to additional nodes to extend dial-up and leased Internet services.

Source: Voice Data June 2001

        3 COM into Networking Education: 
3 com, a leading provider of next generation networking products and solutions announced its foray into the realm of Networking Education with the launch of the Net Prep curriculum in India. Net Prep is being launched in alliance with IEC, a premier institution in imparting IT education and training and the DCM group. Net Prep is a standards based training curriculum focusing on design, implementation, integration and management of computer networks.

Source: Voice Data May 2001

       Voice, Fax, E-mail Messaging with Outlook: Kolkata based Xact Softel Ltd. has introduced a product called the Smartphone, launched by Swiss based Novafox, the products provides intelligent support to ones communication needs ranging from a simple e-mail to a fax.  The software is a multi lingual Microsoft exchange based unified messaging system that gives users control over their voice, fax and e-mail messages in the outlook interface.

Source: Voice Data May 2001

       Windows XP minus Internet Explorer:
Microsoft has announced that the next edition of its PC Operating System (OS) Windows XP, due on October 25 will allow computer assemblers as well as end users to discard its Net browser, Internet Explorer if they so choose. Assemblers or Users can now go to the Windows Add/Remove utility and consign Explorer to the Recycle bin something not currently possible, because the company had glued browser and OS firmly together.

Source: H.T. Delhi 15 July 2001

       Simputer Sleek & Simple Indian Computer:
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, scientists have developed pocket computer called Simputer, recently released in the market.  Simputer, a sleek hand held computing device that could help bridge the digital divide. It also has a unique feature of the offering text to speech capability in local languages that would enable its usage even by illiterates.

Source: H.T.Delhi 15 July 2001