Mediaware Infotech benefits from niche strategy
While advertising is a mega business, not many software companies are focused on developing products that address the needs of this industry.

Essar and Bankstar offer RTGS solution
Essar Information Technology and Hong Kong-based banking software solutions provider Bankstar Technologies, have released an integrated banking solution to make effective use of the RBI’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system.

Bartronics expands into biometrics
Hyderabad-based Bartronics India, a provider of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) and bar coding technology, is upping its R&D spend.

Cendura to launch new version of Cohesion, takes up ‘sales-driven strategy’
Cendura Corporation, is launching a new version of ‘Cohesion 3.0’ that will have five modules. The existing blueprint technology-based Cohesion 2.0 has three modules and two more —Intelligent Configuration Management (ICM) and Reporting—have been added.

Avocent targets BPOs in India
Avocent, a US-based supplier of KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switching and network connectivity solutions plans to focus on the Indian BPO industry.

Centre mulls over data protection laws
Information technology and communications minister Dayanidhi Maran said that the Centre was formulating laws to protect data and these would be introduced shortly.