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5.0 Version of Adobe Golive

MUMBAI: Adobe Systems India has introduced the 5.0 Version of Adobe Golive used by coders and designers in web production workflow. ``Coders will be helped by Golive's ability to write accurate and intelligent code and designers will have a comprehensive set of tools to showcase their creativity by developing cutting-edge and well designed websites'', Mr. Himanshu Goyal, business development manager, told reporters here.

- PTI

VSNL to have one GB bandwidth

MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) will raise its bandwidth capacity close to one giga byte soon to improve Internet infrastructure, the VSNL director (operations) Mr. Amitabh Kumar said on Tuesday here. ``We are talking to Flag, undersea cable operator, for 500 mega byte bandwidth capacity, taking the capacity to about one GB for the Net infrastructure and web access,'' Mr. Kumar told newsmen on the sidelines at a seminar on `E-nligtenment' here.

- PTI

Exim Bank to invest in VCF

MUMBAI: Export Import Bank of India will invest Rs. 25 crores in venture capital fund to be launched in collaboration with other similar institutions sometime this fiscal, Exim Bank managing director, Mr. Y. B. Desai, said here. The total corpus of the VCF was yet to be decided but Exim would contribute Rs. 25 crores and the total size would be finalised once the government gives the green signal, he said.

- PTI

Versaware launches BBC's eBook

CHENNAI: Versaware Technologies India has partnered with BBC Worldwide in creating and launching its electronic publication. The eBook titled `On the Edge' by Rupert Smith. Versaware Technologies has its production and development facility at Pune. The eBook is available in glassbook, Versabook and Mobipocket formats for download to a PC, laptop and Palm PAD (personal digital assistant).

- Corporate Bureau

APT bags Malaysian Govt. contract

HYDERABAD: AP Technosis (APT), a leading application service provider (ASP), B2B and B2C company has won a $52,000 contract from the Malaysian Government to restructure the existing voting system to electronic mode. The tasks for APT is also to ensure a system that will facilitate faster counting of votes as well as avoid dummy voting, a release said.

- PTI

UTI picks up stake in Ind-Swift Lab.

MUMBAI: The Unit Trust of India has picked up 4.98 per cent stake in Ind-Swift Laboratories. In a notice to stock exchanges, the company informed that UTI had bought five lakh equity shares. The company also said that it had entered into exclusive marketing agreements with some major international pharmaceutical companies. The agreements would come into effect on the expiry of the product patent in those countries.

- PTI

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