Sify relaunches Satyamonline.com
Satyam Infoway (Sify) on Thursday relaunched its flagship portal satyamonline.com as Sify.com. with enhanced and additional features including free e-mail services and a channel for youth. "The change to sify.com represents the beginning of next phase of growth for our portal business," Sify chief operating officer George Zacharias said relaunching the portal. Sify had carried out an extensive consumer research for a new user interface and enhanced channels and services. The Internet and e-commerce company enhanced its free e-mail service, shopping channel and introduced a `Sify youth' channel, it said.

EVI to set up shared call centre for 14 banks
Equifax Venture Infotek (EVI) on Thursday announced it would set up a shared call centre for 14 banks across the country with an initial investment of Rs 3 crore. In the first phase, EVI would set up the centres in eight locations and would provide services to all banks that are EVI partners, a company statement said in New Delhi.

"The centres connected to a central database in mumbai are aimed at benefiting banks, merchant establishments and cardholders," it said. The upcoming centres would make available all updated customer information at a single point and then disseminate the same to all centres where the customer logs in. The company would Web and multimedia- enable the call centres in the second phase of the projec Birla 3M's ultra-light range of portable projectors Birla 3M's visual systems division rolled out on Thursady two super light variants the 3M MP 7630 and the 3M MP 7760 in the ultra portable multimedia projector segment, weighing just 2.3 kgs and 2.9 kgs respectively. The rationale behind the super light range is its ultra portability a huge benefit for travelling professionals who are requried to make presentations while on the move. Moreover, a personal projector would also eliminate the problems associated with handling unfamiliar equipment for strategic meetings and conferences. The projectors are based on theintelligent image scaling technology, which makes them compatible with compujters of different resolutions loaded with features to ensure optimum image quality and facilitate dynamic presentations.

PC Quest ranks TVSE' dot matrix printer as No 1 TVS Electronics has won PC Quest's Users Choice Award in the dot matrix printer category for the Year 2000. The 12th Annual User's Choice Awards ceremony was conducted in Bangalore recently. The company also received nominations in almost all its product categories - UPS systems, inkjet printers and language solutions. Products need to obtain a certain minimum level of votes from the survey to be nominated, said Gopal Srinivasan, director, and TVS-Electronics.

NEC-Enkay Telecom pact on Net-enabled EPBAX system
With the launch of the latest EPBAX in Delhi and Mumbai, the much-awaited voice-ovr Internet will soon become a reality. The product has been launched by NEC, in collaboration with Enkay Telecom having launched the latest EPABX. "