The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 09, 2002

PC sales forecast scaled down by 32 pc
REELING under the impact of the economic slowdown, the hardware sector has scaled down its personal computer (PC) sales forecast for the current fiscal by more than 32 per cent, at 1.65 million units, over its earlier estimate of 2.45 million ... More

SOFTWARE

TCS to sign Rs 180-cr deal with GE Medical
TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) is understood to be in talks with a General Electric (GE) group company, GE Medical Systems, for a large medical solutions contract. According to sources familiar with the development, TCS is close to signing a ... More

Hughes works out $ 400-m funding plan
HUGHES Network Systems (HNS) has worked out a $ 400 million financing plan with FIs and banks to ramp up its existing basic service operations and make some very significant new investments in the coming months. Announcing this at a press ... More

Bahrain wooing IT companies
Information technology is one of the important areas, which Bahrain is seeking foreign assistance as it has embarked upon a major initiative in IT and telecommunications sectors. More

CCEA okays Sterling GDR/ADR issue

IT TRAINING

Aptech sets date for share entitlement
APTECH Ltd and Aptech Training Ltd today announced that they have set February 8 as the record date for determining entitlements of shareholders of Aptech Ltd to equity shares to be issued and allotted by Aptech Training Ltd. Aptech had on ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

UK firm to launch high-speed scanner

ISPS

ISPs' plea against discrimination
THE Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) has urged the Government not to discriminate between telecom service operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) when opening up Internet telephony in the country. The Government ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

AP to launch new integrated network
IN Andhra Pradesh, the total cost of e-governance is estimated around $400 million and a generic office management product, .gov, would be launched in March. It would be an integration of technologies to deliver an electronic workplace, according ... More

EVENTS

Invest more in bandwidth, says Microsoft
THE global software major Microsoft has urged India to invest aggressively in bandwidth and wireless to effectively exploit the opportunities emerging in the technology sector. ``India will be left behind unless it invests aggressively in both ... More

PIRACY

Tactics to combat cyber-attacks
INFORMATION networks are the lifelines of any organisational set-up, be it military or corporate. Ultimately, their efficiency depends on the effectiveness of the information networks encompassing the sensing, collection, reception, analysis, ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

Quality key to IT-enabled services growth: Experts
INDIA, which continues to offer both cost advantage and competitive environment in emerging IT Enabled Service (ITES) space, has to keep a constant watch on quality so that it can play a decisive role in third party services, experts opined. ... More

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