IBM, Rolta India in pact for e-biz market
IBM India Limited and Rolta India Limited have entered into a strategic relationship to explore the possibilities of the e-business market in India. The relationship agreement was signed here by Mr Ranjit Limaye, managing director and CEO, IBM India and Mr KK Singh, chairman and managing director, Rolta India, according to an IBM release.

Sify unveils autowebex.com
Satyam Infoway Limited has launched autowebex.com, a portal for the automotive industry. This is part of a series of Sify B2B e-commerce portals. Autowebex will offer a secure marketplace with exclusive and customisable e-office capabilities for each company. Each will be able to perform vendor development activities on the portal.

InterWeb inks MoU with Valadeo for Website, hosting
InterWeb Pvt Ltd on Thursday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Valadeo Technologies Corp to offer next-generation Website creation and hosting services in India. This is the prelude to a broad agreement intended to identify and develop mutual business opportunities that leverage Valadeo's extensive products and services in the Web hosting market and Pugmarks marketing, distribution, Website development and hosting solutions.

DHL offers short message service for tracking parcels
DHL Worldwide Express has achieved a key milestone in harnessing mobile communications to support customers. The air express service has introduced mobile Short Message Service SMS for tracking parcels anywhere in the world and WAP tracking service to allow quicker access to shipment information.

DHL SMS tracking is yet another way to track DHL shipments by using your mobile phone (as long as it supports sending/receiving of text messages).

Domain name registrars unite to create registry with global appeal
Afilias, an international consortium of nineteen of the world's leading domain name registrars, this week applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate an unrestricted generic top level domain (TLD) registry, intended to transform the Internet into a truly global resource for individuals and businesses everywhere.

Content is not just king, but an emperor: Jeetendra

Clarification

The heading for the story on Polaris Software in eFE dated October 5, 2000 should have been `Liability for Polaris in the Data Inc suit limited to $1,00,000' and not `Polaris Software to pay $1,00,000 in damages to Data Inc'. The error is regretted.