News in Brief

AMD has capacity for 30% marketshare

By the end of this year, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expects to be

able to produce enough microprocessors to take a 30 percent share of the

worldwide microprocessor market. That would be stunning achievement in the face

of tough competition from Intel which had effectively nullified the competitive

threat from AMD’s microprocessor business just three years ago. AMD officials

said this week that they believe to have the capacity in place to ship enough

processors to take a 30 percent marketshare by the end of the year, up from

about 21 percent in the first quarter and 17% at the end of 2000. Whether AMD

will actually have a 30 percent share of the market will depend on how the

market for its chips develops in the next several months. AMD’s gain, should

is materialize, will result from a combination of a modest 15% increase in AMD's

own sales and the sales slump Intel is experiencing. — SVNS

Subex wins orders from US clients



BANGALORE: India's Subex Systems Ltd. which specialises in software for the
telecommunications sector, said on Monday it had won orders worth $200,000 from

clients based in the United States. Subex said in a statement the orders were

for one of the products of Canadian software firm Magardi Inc. Last month Subex

acquired the software products business of Magardi. "One of the key

expected outcomes of the acquisition was to gain access to clients in North

America," said Sudeesh Yezhuvath, chief executive officer of Subex'

software products business. Shares of Subex ended nearly one percent down at Rs

56.55 while Mumbai's main 30-stock index closed up 0.39 per cent.-Reuters

Netscout to offer nGenius probe to Cisco customers



WESTFORD: Performance management software provider NetScout Systems said on
Tuesday it will offer its nGenius probes to Cisco Systems Inc. customers. The

company said that Cisco will no longer resell the products under the Cisco

SwitchProbe private label. The company said it will continue to work closely

with Cisco. NetScout shares traded down 28 cents or 2.99 percent to $9.07 at the

close of Tuesday trading on the Nasdaq.



NetScout said it expects some confusion in sales deals during the handover of
distribution of the probes, appliances that allow users to monitor traffic on

computer networks. The company had no comment on the potential impact on sales

but had scheduled a conference call for later on Tuesday. -Reuters

Microsoft not interested in owning cable company



CHICAGO: Microsoft Corp. has no interest in owning a cable company, although it
continues to push its interactive television software, said Jon DeVaan, senior

vice president of Microsoft's TV division on Tuesday. Some observers have

speculated that Microsoft, a major shareholder of AT&T Corp. could be a

buyer of AT&T Broadband, the cable division slated to be spun off over the

next 18 months.



"We're a software company," DeVaan said at the National Cable &
Telecommunication Association's Cable 2001. "We're not going to own a cable

company. We believe that as broadband succeeds, the value of our software

increases. And we plan to use our investments to help that happen."

AT&T Chief Executive Michael Armstrong told reporters on Monday that the

AT&T Broadband unit is not for sale.-Reuters

Rational launches Rational suite v2001A in India



BANGALORE: Rational Software Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd., the wholly owned
subsidiary of the US based Rational Software, has announced the launch of

Rational Suite v2001A in India. This sixth synchronized release includes three

new products- Rational Developer Network, Rational QualityArchitect Real Time,

and Rational Test RealTime and the Java-oriented enhancements to Rational Rose,

Rational ClearCase and Rational Suite ContentStudio. Rational Developer Network

(RDN) is a developer portal that delivers targeted content to the Rational

Developer community. RDN delivers results from Rational’s e-development

accelerators initiative, including information, training, best practices and

artifacts, tailored exclusively to the world wide community of practitioners ho

use Rational Suite. - CIOL Bureau

Lucent, IBM forge products, services pact



MURRAY HILL: Lucent Technologies Inc. said on Tuesday that it had forged a pact
with International Business Machines Corp. for the computer maker to include

Lucent's data, wireless and optical products in offers to service providers and

corporations. The agreement, which is expected to take effect internationally in

the next few weeks, will significantly expand Lucent's worldwide sales presence

and add several hundred million dollars in revenues to both companies over the

next two years, they said. Terms of the pact were not immediately available.

Lucent will offer its wireless, data, and optical products for services such as

virtual private networks or voice-over-Internet networks. IBM, meanwhile, will

contribute e-business, e-business infrastructure and business management

solutions. - Reuters.

Vintron Informatics introduces Karyo Slim line PCs



NEW DELHI: Vintron has introduced the Karyo a new series of Personal Computers
thus extending its existing series of Elixir & BIZ PCs to enable the

consumer to exercise the power of choice. The karyo range of PCs from Vintron

features a Slim, Sleek cabinet that can be placed either vertically or

horizontally depending upon the space availability. There is a vertical position

stand available with the cabinet. Also care has been taken to keep the overall

look aesthetically pleasing.



This range is available in 2 models - Karyo 1000 starting from Intel Celeron 700
MHz processor priced at Rs 33,750 (Plus local tax extra) and Karyo 3000 starting

from Intel Pentium III 733 MHz processor priced at Rs 37,250 (Plus local tax

extra). Keeping in line with the ideology at Vintron, these series are also

priced very competitively to ensure value for money.-CNS

NEXT to train insurance agents



NEW DELHI: National Institute of Excellence in Teleworking (NEXT), an Indian IT
enabled services training company has obtained the approval of the IRDA

(Insurance Regulatory Development Authority) to offer Insurance agent training

to a large number of private sector insurance players. NEXT being the first

leading institute for training medical transcription and call center agents,

anticipates to train over 500 insurance agents in 2001-2002.



The company runs a profitable organization having trained over 1000 medical
transcriptionists for HealthScribe and 500 call center agents for leading call

centers with the latest assignment from the world's leading computer vendor for

training 600 agents for their tech support center at Bangalore.-CNS

MRO TEK will distribute Enterprise Caching suite



NEW DELHI: The networking and last mile access solution provider, MRO-TEK Ltd.,
has announced that it has entered into strategic alliance with US based Expand

Networks to exclusively distribute Enterprise Caching suite of products to its

base of clients, providing them with a network optimization solution that

enables performance boosts of up to 400 percent or more.Expand Networks'

easy-to-install, scalable solution enables enterprises to optimize the

performance of their existing network infrastructure and avoid costly upgrades.



MRO-TEK Ltd., vice president, sales & marketing C S Ramakrishnan said,
"Expand Networks technology will allow enterprise networks to squeeze

significantly more throughput, capacity and speed from existing leased lines,

avoiding expensive and time-consuming upgrades of network infrastructure."

-CNS