Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India (HMSI), a 100 per cent subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company, Japan, is planning to export motorcycles and scooters from India to the Middle East, south east Asia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Launching its new version of 150 cc Honda Unicorn and 125 cc new Shine in Chennai, Mr Yadvinder S Guleria, head-sales, HMSI, said that the company was in talks with some major dealers in those countries.

Currently the company is exporting 15,000 motorcycles to Europe from its Haryana factory.

"We have emerged as the fourth largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India by growing faster than the industry year after year. We are now targeting rapid expansion of our business in future to be one of the top group two-wheeler companies in India by 2010," he said.

The company is planning to introduce a new scooter in the second half of this year.

"We are studying the high-end motorcycles for the Indian market. We want to introduce high-end bikes in the market. It will be between 200 cc to 500 cc," he said.

Mr Guleria said the company had developed 100 dealers in 2006-07, thus making a total of 391 operational outlets. In 2007-08, the company plans to expand network to 693 outlets.

Courtesy : Asianage.com

The security of wireless voice services and mobile data are key considerations for users and their employers. However, a majority of users overestimates the risk, misunderstands the security threats that do exist, and looks for protection from sources that cannot help, says a new survey by In-Stat.

The current reality is that cellular voice and data services based upon digital technology are as secure as wireline networks. The bigger problem is that end-users lose, or have stolen, a large number of mobile devices.

"If we look at the projected value of lost mobile devices, we see that smartphones represent a disproportionate value of lost hardware. This does not include the value of data that could be accessed should an organisation not know about the loss of the device," it says.

Since it is impractical to "put the genie back in the bottle" and limit access to corporate information to landline connections, organisations need to take over at least some control of these devices. Too many organisations allow end-users to select their own devices, mobile data networks, and degree of access to corporate databases.

But the problem with this is that users select the method that is most convenient and costs less, not necessarily the one that is most secure. Based upon this survey, users are extremely misinformed about security threats. Most are concerned with problems that have been solved for almost a decade.

Compounding the security problem is that users reject even minimal steps to increase security. For example, many users resent that a carrier can disable a stolen device and many carriers find that many use default passwords, an obvious security risk

Courtesy : Asianage.com