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IBM, Venture Infotek facilitate secure internet payments
IBM India and Venture Infotek Group will together facilitate secure internet credit card payments for goods services and subscriptions purchased online.
This business-to-customer solution will be built around IBM's Net.Commerce. As part of the solution, IBM and Venture will provide payment engine software to web merchants to enable their ecommerce web sites to accept credit card transactions online. This will be a service available to all merchants, ISPs and Banks on 'pay and use' basis.
IBM and Venture will develop an internet merchant payment server and Venture will operate it as a service for online merchants in the country. The server will be connected to Venture's existing payment processing infrastructure, set up as a JV with Equifax of USA. IBM will develop and provide the solution to integrate the various merchant servers and the intenet merchant payment server for facilitating online credit card transactions.
Delhi ISP launches internet through DSL
MagnaCorp, a Delhi-based ISP, has launched high speed internet services on digital subscriber line (DSL) besides offering net connectivity through wireless in local loop (WLL). While users will not have to pay any telephone charges, they have to shell out a one time installation cost of Rs15,000 besides a monthly charge of Rs5,000. The installation cost includes the cost of a DSL modem supplied by Lucent Technologies. The net through DSL offers a bandwidth from 128Kbps to 7Mbps.
For internet over WLL, the recurring monthly cost vary from Rs2,500 to Rs5,000 depending upon the bandwidth?35Kbps to 70Kbps?sought. The initial cost of Rs10,000 in this case is that of a wall set radio, procured from the HFCL. The ISP has plans to expand to other states like Karnataka besides setting up 100 internet caf‚s in Delhi.
Pioneer Networks launches readymade solution for ISPs
Pioneer Networks, a division of Pioneer Online, has launched a readymade ISP solution called Alladin. The solution is built on a Linux platform using building blocks from Intel's server architecture and can be operated by one person. Targeted at B and C category ISPs, the solution can host up to 25,000 subscribers and is scalable.
The product consists of all the requisite software modules like online registration, real-time billing software, web-based email solutions, temporary ID generation module, ISP accounting software, email and web servers, caching solution, security and backup solutions.
Alladin Claims...
ISPs using the solution would be able to break-even within three months.
Potential ISPs can do away with groundwork on cost analysis and deciding on the configuration of the hardware and software.
Pioneer to provide technical consultation for ISPs before and after implementation.
All servers come in a single rack.
ISPs can activate servers within 24 hours provided the site is ready with telephone lines and bandwidth.
Priced per port of solution and ranges from Rs18 lakh to Rs36 lakh.
Ways India in alliance with Brokat, Singapore
Ways India, a provider of e-based solutions, has entered into an alliance with Singapore-based Brokat Asia, subsidiary of Brokat Infosystems AG, to offer secure, flexible e-service solutions to banking and financial institutions in India. As an exclusive country partner, Ways India will also market, distribute, develop and integrate Brokat's products to provide customized solutions to Indian banking and financial companies.
Ways will integrate these products with the existing IT systems and secure connections to various electronic channels such as the internet, mobile phone or call center, enabling customers to deploy e-banking, e-brokerage and e-payment. Announcing the alliance, Dr Hemant Adarkar, VP, Ways India, said, " As commercial internet sites are rapidly developing, such state-of-the-art products, applications and web sites will not only become an essential mode of conducting business for commercial organizations, but also soon become a competitive imperative for them."
Indian company among Top 20
advantage2you.com, an India-based free web hosting service has been rated among the Top 20 free hosting providers in the world by www.stormloader.com, an independent rating site. The site owned by a Gurgaon-based Internet start-up has been ranked at #18. Space offered, address length, upload method, email, revenue capability, advertising rights, application development capability, flexibility, support and reliability were the various parameters taken in consideration. The other web sites in the Top 20 category comprised Hypermart (#10), FortuneCity (#20)and Crosswinds(#11).
Tata Infotech sets up an ISP competency center
Tata Infotech Ltd (TIL) has set up an internet service provider (ISP) competency center at Worli, Mumbai, which will showcase the products of its various business partners such as Compaq, Cisco and Sun. TIL's ISP center will demonstrate to various ISP prospects typical business models that will involve mail server solutions?Sendmail, Netscape mail, Sun?s SIMS, an authentication software?Radius, a storefront software-Intershop, a customer care and billing software-Solect, firewall solutions, and a voice response solution?Call M@il, to name a few. The hardware at the competency center includes Sun servers, Compaq Proliant and Digital Alpha servers and Dialogic?s voice response solution for a unique phone mail solution.
Intercope brings voice over internet
Bangalore-based InterCope India has launched ivoice, a free service to users who wish to send and receive voice messages through the internet to normal telephones.
Users can log into an ivoice enabled website www.icope.com from anywhere in the world, record their message, specify the phone number and the voice message gets delivered in the original voice to a normal telephone. The receiver has the option to respond to the message on phone and this will be delivered back as a reply -again in the receiver's original voice. The sender gets a confirmation of the message delivery via email along with a voice response of the recipient. ivoice allows the message to be protected by a security code that is shared only between the sender and the recipient, thus ensuring privacy.
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