Commworks to set up its first overseas R&D centre in India
3com corporation's newly formed subsidiary Commworks Corporation will set up its first software development cum R&D centre outside North America in India.

AMD to enter top-end notebook segment by Summer 2001
Tossing a challenge at Intel in the market for performance-based mobile microprocessors for notebooks, AMD will be launching its Athlon mobile processor worldwide in summer 2001.

Microworld to set up marketing arm in Malaysia
Mumbai-based Microworld Software Service Pvt Ltd, a packaged software development company, has signed an MoU with Malaysian Metronics Corporation Sdn.BHD to form a new company `Thiscom' in Malaysia.

Siticable, Star reach truce —but broadcast still under cloud
Siticable and Star sources today claimed that the transmission of Star TV channels which had been blacked out for the past one week or so on its network has been fully restored, the dispute is far from over.

Sumitomo touts broadband solution to ISPs
Sumitomo Corporation India Limited, the Indian subsidiary of the $103 billion Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, is talking to major ISPs in India to sell WALKair, a point-to-multipoint system for broadband solutions in urban and suburban areas.

WBSEB, PowerGrid to seek private partner for optic-fibre venture
West Bengal State Electricity Board and Power Grid Corp of India Ltd have agreed to tie up with a private sector major for an optic-fibre communications network in West Bengal.


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