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• IBM launches technology centre
• Boston to offer online training in insurance
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IBM launches technology centre

Jan 11, 2003: New Delhi: The IT major, IBM, announced the launch of a technology centre that would provide a platform for corporate and other organisations to understand how they could optimise the advantages of information technology in improving their revenues through simulations and demonstrations of cutting edge technologies. The IT solutions to be show cased at the centre would range from next generation of applications and bio-informatics and grid computing, knowledge management and application of e-commerce to local initiatives such as speech recognition and text translation in Hindi. The main feature of the technology centre was that it would offer tailor made solutions to the various IT related needs of corporate and other customers.

Boston to offer online training in insurance

Jan 21, 2003: Hyderabad: The US based $35 million to the Boston Group is all set to offer online training courses to generate ‘insurance agents’. The company is hopeful of signing a MoU with the insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and a few insurance companies, to launch its online courses in February, simultaneously with its ‘Financial Campus India.com’ portal were developed specifically for Indian requirements. Plans for the next six months include tying up with two other Universities, which are into engineering and technical education with which negotiations are now on.