The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, January 12, 2002

Mobile subscribers touch 5.48 m
THE cellular subscriber base in the country has touched 5.48 million, having gained over 2.6 lakh additional customers in December 2001. As per the latest estimates of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the additions in the ... More

Escotel to invest Rs 750 cr in Kerala
ESCOTEL Mobile Communications Ltd (Escotel), a major cellular operator in Kerala with over two lakh customers, is to invest Rs 750 crore in the State within the next 24 months. The investment will be for setting up the third mobile switching ... More

Hutchison to provide voice messages
MUMBAI: Hutchison Max Telecom announced a tie-up with the Sabeer Bhatia-promoted TeliVoice to provide global voice messaging services (VMS) to its subscribers. The alliance will allow subscribers of Hutchison-affiliated brands such as ... More

Rao Technologies plans call centre
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore-based Rao Technologies has entered into a technical tie-up on a turnkey basis with Global Telesystems for the establishment of a call centre project in Coimbatore. The proposed outlay for this 120-seater ... More

HARDWARE

Texas Instruments to make imaging chips in India
TEXAS Instruments (India) is planning to make its next generation chip for the imaging market ``almost entirely from India,'' according to Dr Raj Talluri, Manager, Worldwide business imaging unit. The chip design and development would be moved ... More

SOFTWARE

TCS in talks with LIC for joint venture
The idea is to leverage LIC's expertise in finance, especially insurance, and the technological skills of a company like TCS. The company is expected to hawk insurance solutions, initially in the domestic market, but later on across the globe. More

Thirdware to hard-sell business solution
THE Mumbai-based Thirdware Solution Ltd plans to aggressively market the business analysis solution, Hyperion Enterprise, among the Indian listed companies, after SEBI's (Securities and Exchange Board of India) guidelines on financial ... More

SHCIL to refashion IT wing
STOCK Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SHCIL) is keen on refashioning its information technology division into a separate profit centre, with powers to take up its own marketing and client-servicing initiatives. The IT wing, which engages ... More

Borland aiming for 60 pc growth
Borland is focussing on verticals such as finance, telecom, hi-tech engineering and government and education in the Indian market. More

New CEO for Aztec Software
BANGALORE: Aztec Software and Technology Services on Friday announced the appointment of Mr William `Chris' Brown as the Chief Executive Officer of its global operations. He takes over from Mr S. Parthasarathy, who will continue to be ... More

TRENDS

Slowdown shadow over IT core projects
THE slowdown in the IT sector is impacting some of the long-term IT infrastructure projects even as the response from private companies participating in such projects too has become tepid lately. Several companies in the State, who had planned ... More

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