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Monday, October 20, 2003
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DirectWay Fusion

HUGHES Escorts Communications Limited (HECL), India’s leading satellite service provider, has announced the launch of DirectWay Fusion — a revolutionary new concept in Indian retailing space, to deliver a basket of services ranging from pre-paid and post-paid transaction services including bill payments, education, broadband Internet and a host of other services to consumers. HECL is looking to roll out nearly 250 kiosks by the end of 2003. DirectWay Fusion will be taken to 200 more Indian towns and cities by 2005 making the total number 5000.

3G secure JavaCard

STMicroelectronics and the Kudelski Group announced the signature of a framework development and licence agreement to provide a 3G Secure JavaCard system solution. This system solution consists of an advanced background compatible 3G SIM/USIM card with a revolutionary design enabling telecom operators as well as third-party application providers to easily design and deploy new mobile services with the utmost security features. The jointly developed solution represents a truly open and standard-compliant card in the telecom market. It will be deployed in the course of the first half of 2004.

JobsAhead MoU

India’s e-recruitment company, JobsAhead, has signed an MoU with National HRD Network (Delhi Chapter). As per the agreement, JobsAhead will jointly co-host NHRD (Delhi Chapter) interactive monthly forums. The monthly forum is not just a good platform for bringing together professionals in the area of HR but significantly acts as a catalyst in promoting flow of best HR views, ideas and practices amongst them.