Indian Shares

Tiffinwalas are responsible for delivering hot lunches to Indian workers. The BBC has an interesting article about the role of Tiffinwalas, the supply chain management they run and there initiative to use Web and SMS technology.

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"The Indian economy is growing at staggering pace and more and more goods need importing and exporting. Ceasing on this oppourtunity Flyington Freighters has launched a cargo airline. Flyington Freighters of India placed an order for 4 Boeing 777-200F aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow."

Source: DigitalAirliners.com

IBM is looking to provide small and medium businesses with pre-packaged solutions which have a fixed price and quality driven. IBM will be providing the following packages:

• IBM e-Mail Security Services
• IBM Security Assessment Service
• IBM Site Assessment Services

IBM has launched the latest version of its DB2 database product, and Version 9 contains a significant input from IBM India. IBM India Software Labs is acknowledged as having made a significant contribution to the 5 year development of DB2 9 (aka Viper) and in particular the products testing.

IBM DB2 V9 is a major update to provide further capabilities for handling XML data and building SOA environments.

It is being reported that Telstra and Optus are looking to outsource work to India from Australia to reduce costs. Optus is an Australian leader in integrated telecommunications, delivering cutting-edge communications, information technology and entertainment. Telstra provide a range of fixed phone, mobile, Internet and Pay TV solutions.

Optus is looking to increase the size of its Indian call centre and Telstra is looking sign a major deal outsourcing deal with Wipro. In 2004 Telstra outsourced parts of it's business to IBM, EDS and InfoSys.