The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 28, 2002

ICICI gets into BPO, invests Rs 200 cr
THE ICICI group today announced its foray into the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) space with the launch of ICICI OneSource Ltd. The group has invested around Rs 200 crore in the venture, of which Rs 120 crore has already been deployed and Rs ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Proof of identity may shrink pre-paid base
WILL the Ministry of Communications directive on prepaid cards do for the mobile operators what the Income-Tax Department directive on one-by-six formula did for the basic players? The latter is reported to have led to the cancellation of a ... More

BSNL move hailed

HARDWARE

Logitech eyeing 50 pc growth
``We want to tap all the opportunities available in the Indian market, as the number of people going in upgradation of peripherals is increasing every year.'' More

SOFTWARE

Laser Soft scouting for partner in US
LASER Soft Infosystems Ltd is scouting for a partner in the US to market its products there. During the year, the company had forged an alliance with Tetrasoft, based out of St Louis in the US. It continues to look for acquisitions there. ... More

Satyam fine-tunes skillsets for HIPPA
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, the software solutions provider, is leveraging its technology expertise to address the emerging HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance business opportunity for the US health care ... More

Kale Consultants back in black
KALE Consultants Ltd has returned to profitability in the year ended March 31, 2002 with a net profit of Rs 2.03 crore against a net loss of Rs 6.73 crore in the earlier year. Total income for the year was Rs 50.46 crore, up 44 per cent from ... More

e-Cosmos Tech pact with varsity

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

LMW to implement ERP package
LAKSHMI Machine Works (LMW), a leading player in textile machinery manufacturing in this part of the country, has embarked on a strategic IT initiative with the implementation of enterprise resource management (ERP) solutions. The project - ... More

SECURITY

Training police personnel to outwit cyber criminals
The trainees would be familiarised with safe storage and seizure of digital evidence and analysis of the evidence from the forensic aspect. Several such training programmes would be organised in the future, Mr R.K. Jain, Government Examiner at the Go vernment Examiner of Questioned Documents, said. More

eSurveillance — to check cyber crimes
THE invisible eye to monitor cyber crimes, eSurveillance, will soon be a reality in India. The Government agencies are evolving ways to implement it and check Internet related crimes. The Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who are the gateway ... More

E-MAIL

`Monitor e-mail to minimise info risk'
DEPARTURE of key personnel should be treated as a potential disaster by companies because they are exposed to tremendous information risk, says global consultant, KPMG. According to Mr Peter W. Morriss, Global Head of Information Risk ... More

EVENTS

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