The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 13, 2002

MTNL may take stake in Sri Lanka Telecom
MAHANAGAR Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) is considering picking up an equity stake in Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) - the premier telecom service provider in the island nation. According to official sources, after being approached by merchant bankers ... More

Spice Telecom to spice up its act -- Plans Rs 50-cr expansion
SPICE Telecom, one of the two mobile phone service operators in Karnataka, will be investing Rs 50 crore this year to expand its infrastructure. It also hopes to double its present subscriber base of 1.5 lakh in the next two years and sharpen its ... More

SOFTWARE

The right way: Give & take
Employees at the Microsoft India Development Centre are touching society and people at levels other than software, through the `Giving Campaign'. More

Roller-coaster ride and after
Priorities change. How valid are the priorities of 18 months ago today? How have priorities changed, and how have companies adapted to the new circumstances? More

Some practical wisdom
Business cycles are a part of life. A business which is built to last has to learn to handle these. We see this as an opportunity to consolidate and become stronger for the future. Pentamedia's Chandrasekaran With today's ... More

All together now
Total Information Management is the way to go, says this software player. More

Polaris launches retail product
POLARIS Retail Infotech Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Software Laboratory, has launched a general application product for the retail industry called Retail Excel. Mr Nat Narayanasamy, Director and Head of Business-Polaris Retail, ... More

IBM offerings for e-business
COMPUTING giant, IBM, has said it is launching a range of software offerings in the Indian market, designed to help enterprises build secure and scalable e-business infrastructure. The software offerings were for security, Web management, data ... More

INTERNET

Convenience all the way
Of selling information confidently and tweaking and priming systems from anywhere, anytime. More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Wipro to buy out netKracker from ICICI arm
TECHNOLOGY major Wipro Ltd plans to buy out minority stake in loss-making retail Internet services unit netKracker Ltd for Rs 3 crore from the venture capital arm of ICICI. Wipro will also spin off its Fluid Power unit, which manufactures ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

TVA Help.com in tie-up with Apple
BANGALORE: The Bangalore-based TVA Help.com Pvt Ltd, which offers support services for notebooks and palmtops, has tied up with Apple Computer Inc, to provide support services for its iBooks and PowerBooks in India, said a press ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Giving IT roots
With a click of the mouse, farmers across AP can opt for an integrated credit facility and interact with markets across the country, says CoOptions Technologies. More

EVENTS

CeBIT 2002: A litmus test for tech market recovery
THE single largest fair for the information technology and telecommunications industry, CeBIT 2002, gets under way at Hannover tomorrow. In a relatively uncertain economic climate, this eight-day long event from March 13 to 20 is slated to be a ... More

High-profile participants likely to hog limelight
IN a highly challenging technology environment with sluggish corporate IT spending and long decision cycles, CeBIT, 2002 is being awaited with bated breath. Since this fair attracts high-profile participants from the IT and telecom industry, this ... More

TRENDS

`Basic telephony operators see creeping growth rate'
THE subscriber base of private basic telephony operators (BTOs) in the country is only around 5.5 lakh, in poor contrast to the subscriber base of cellular operators, which has crossed the five million mark. Hughes Tele.com and Tata ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Aiming high
Microtek International Ltd has launched its `Aspire Series' Pentium-4 motherboards. The MTEK845VI motherboard, based on the Intel 845 chipset architecture, is built on the ATX form factor and can fit into any standard ATX cabinet, says the ... More

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