News in Brief

Stella Maris girls to get IT training from Pentasoft



CHENNAI: Pentasoft Technologies Ltd (PSTL) has entered into a memorandum of
understanding with Stella Maris College, Chennai to set up an Advanced Computing

Center within the college premises. V Sridhar, General Manager - Education and

Training (E&T) Division, PSTL and Stella Maris Principal, Rev Sr Annama

Philip, signed the MoU. According to the MoU, Stella Maris would provide fully

furnished laboratory space to set up the advanced computing Center, while

Pentasoft would meet all hardware and software needs. The courses offered

include MS Office, Internet Concepts & HTML, C++, Basic Java, Oracle 8.0,

e-Accounting and e-management - CIOL Bureau

NewspaperToday.com launches e-review guide



KOLKATA: TheNewspaperToday.com, a leading e-newspaper in India, has launched its
first e-magazine and review guide - TNT Movies. Readers of the TheNewspaperToday

can view trailers, reviews, ratings and previews of Bollywood and Hollywood

movies in the Website. TNT Movies can be accessed from Page 1 of The News Paper

today. The site also offers show timings, opinion polls, bulletin boards and

also online reservation for movies. -CNS

Cisco plans new initiatives in China



BEIJING: Top network equipment maker Cisco Systems will soon launch a new
program to help Chinese firms make better use of the Internet, even as it pushes

up its sales of $1 billion in China this year, the firm's executives said on

Wednesday. It would pick a group of existing and potential customers in the next

two months and offer education and help in locating vendors and consultants,

Cisco's Internet Business Solutions (senior vice president) Susan Bostrom, said

in an interview. As part of the plan, some of the selected top executives of the

companies would visit Cisco's headquarters in San Jose, California. Cisco is

presently working with the China Enterprise Confederation business group and the

United Nations Development Program to identify the prospective candidates -

Reuters.

NEC's Brazil unit wins $260 m. order



TOKYO: Japan's biggest computer maker, NEC Corp, announced on Wednesday that its
Brazilian unit had won a $260 million order from Brazilian telephone carrier

Telesp for a CDMA-based fixed wireless access (FWA) system. The system will

allow Telesp to install up to 300,000 lines in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city,

helping it meet telephone service targets set by the government ahead of a 2003

deadline, NEC said. Telesp, a unit of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, was one

of the first companies to install CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) FWA

systems in Brazil. It has become one of the country's largest network operators

since the government deregulated the telecommunications sector in 1998, seeking

to raise telephone subscription levels to 28.5 per cent in 2003 from a current

15 per cent - Reuters.