The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, July 06, 2002

India Life eyeing old economy companies
Currently, nearly 80 per cent of the company's clientele consists of new economy companies, predominantly from the information technology sector, while the old economy companies account for the rest. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

`Cell-phone users change handset in 16 months'
AVERAGE cellular users in the country go in a for a new mobile phone handset in 16 months, a survey by IDC has found. IDC says that Bangalorians are the first to change their handsets (in just nine months) while cell phone users in Chennai keep ... More

Cellular operators peeved over TRAI order
THE Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has expressed its disappointment at the revision in monthly rentals for wireless in local loop (WLL) limited mobility services as mandated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ... More

HARDWARE

PC sales crash by 11% in 2001-02
HIT by economic recession, personal computer (PC) sales in the country during 2001-02 fell by 11 per cent to 1.67 million units from 1.88 million units in the previous fiscal, according to a survey by MAIT (Manufacturers Association of ... More

SOFTWARE

Ariba to boost Bangalore development centre — Finalising integration partner
ARIBA Inc, an enterprise spend management (ESM) solutions provider, is getting aggressive with its plans for India. The company had set up a development centre in Bangalore recently and planned to ramp it up significantly over the next 18-24 ... More

NIIT software business gets distinct identity — Not a prelude to spin-off, says Pawar
NIIT today announced that it has renamed its global software business as `NIIT Technologies' with the objective of giving it a distinct identity, but ruled out hiving it off as a separate entity. Announcing this at a press conference here ... More

Pentasoft lists new projects
PENTASOFT Technologies Ltd has bagged orders for its various products in insurance, training and e-learning sectors. The company's insurance product, PENTALIFE, bagged an order from Hong Leong Assurance Berhard (HLA), an insurance company in ... More

INDUSTRIAL POLICY

TN Govt aims to be IT gateway
THE State Government hopes to position the State as a gateway to South Asia on the strength of its connectivity and infrastructure available to the information technology industry, according to Mr Vivek Harinarain, Information Techno- logy ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Karnataka: e-governance policy on cards

OUTLOOK

MindTree keeps target steady, strategy flexible
THE target — $231-million by 2005 — still holds good for Mindtree Consulting, though the company is working out `multiple ways of getting there', according to Mr G Ramaswamy, Director, Marketing. ``The company has to decide whether ... More

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