It also has the capacity to inform users automatically if they should break their performance record. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, Thailand's Bangkok Bank has initiated two projects to help the country's small and medium-sized businesses qualify for bank loans. The first, unusually, trains bank staff to help customers write business plans. The second encourages farmers to use agricultural technology, an archive of which has been created and built by the bank. It is the first video recorder to record onto compact discs.
Picture quality is similar to that of videotape.
The CDs can be played on the Terapin, on PCs and on Video CD and DVD players. On the outskirts of New Delhi, the Tata Energy Research Institute has built an environmentally friendly building that cuts energy consumption by two-thirds. Rajesh T.S. Reddy developed what became the world's first software to send and receive mobile text messages globally, free of charge. It does this through an icon on a computer screen that instantly relays the text message to the receiver on the end-user's cellphone or pager. The company, which Reddy started as Gray Cell Inc. in 1996, was this year rechristened Unimobile and shifted its headquarters to California.