The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 08, 2002

HCL Infosystems wins Toshiba award
HYDERABAD: The office automation division of HCL Infosystems Ltd has bagged the Toshiba gold award for the second time for its overall copier sales and marketing performance in 2001. The award was instituted in 1998 by the Electronic ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Link collapse: Bharti uses VSNL gateway
JUST weeks after launching its international long-distance services, Bharti Telesonic Ltd (BTSOL), the long-distance arm of the Bharti group, has had to divert a large part of its telephony traffic through the gateways of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd ... More

Cellular operators unhappy with TRAI's tariff approach
DESPITE the cellular tariffs and airtime being far below TRAI's reference benchmark levels, cellular operators are unhappy with the approach followed by TRAI's consultative paper in arriving at a new tariff package. They feel the new package will ... More

Tata Tele all set to find feet in Delhi — Waiting for spectrum allocation
TATA Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), the basic telecom services arm of the Tata group, is all set to launch a full-fledged attack on the Delhi turf of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) which is being nibbled away by Bharti's Touchtel. According to ... More

Escotel customer base crosses 2.6 lakh in Kerala
ESCOTEL, one of the cellular service providers in Kerala, has claimed that its subscriber base in the State has crossed 2.6 lakh. This was out of the company's total number of 5.75 lakh subscribers in all the circles of operations - Kerala, ... More

TAXATION

Tax charges on top three cos higher
THE wheel has turned a full circle. Long years of tax exemptions for the software industry have caused many a debate and heartburn. Now, those against such exemptions may feel their hearts warm up as they look at figures - especially for ... More

SOFTWARE

Silverline inducts Nirmal Jain as CEO
SILVERLINE Technologies Ltd has restructured the company board, inducted Dr Nirmal Jain, Managing Director of Tata Infotech, as its Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to bring in a strategic shift in its overall operations towards a ... More

Wipro edges up tracking Cisco ramp-up
SHARES of Wipro edged up higher at 2.75 per cent on Wednesday while the Sensex ended in a negative territory. Wipro rose on the back of news that its client Cisco Systems will ramp up its engagements at its partner sites, dealers said. ``This ... More

Cranes varsity in Hyderabad soon
CRANES Software International Ltd (CSIL), the Bangalore-based scientific and engineering software solutions company, has announced its plans to establish the company's Cranes varsity centre and product marketing facility in Hyderabad and mulls ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Divine ties up with Satyam
DIVINE India, the Indian arm of the US-based extended enterprises solutions, Divine Inc, has announced a tie-up with software major, Satyam Computer Services Ltd to design, implement and manage content management solutions in India. Divine's ... More

Sirius centre for mobile handsets
HYDERABAD: Sirius Communications, a Hyderabad-based firm, has entered into an alliance with AL Communications Ltd of Korea for establishing an exclusive centre for mobile phone instruments. The Korean firm has long association with ... More

CDAC to computerise operations
BANGALORE: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing has signed a MoU with the Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka, for the computerisation of its operations. The project, codenamed KAVERI (Karnataka ... More

ON-SITE DEVELOPMENT

Polaris sets up centre in Singapore
POLARIS Software Lab Ltd has announced the launch of its first business continuity centre (BCC) as part of its "ongoing global growth strategy" in Singapore. The company is investing S$1.5 million in the 150-seat onsite development centre, ... More

BROADBAND

Sify, VSNL in bandwidth pact
SATYAM Infoway Ltd and Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) have jointly announced the single largest contract for international bandwidth capacity placed in India. The 155 Mbps of bandwidth will be made available by VSNL through a half circuit ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

IDRBT is now digital certification authority
Digital certificates issued by the IDRBT CA are now legally valid in the Indian courts as per the Information Technology Act 2000. More

OUTLOOK

Mindteck focus on embedded space to spur growth
MINDTECK expects its focus on the embedded space to drive its targeted growth of 30 per cent for the year 2002-03. The company, which earned revenues of $20 million globally, expected over half the revenue growth to come from its new ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Infosys unveils Choreo to showcase BPML tech
SOFTWARE major Infosys Technologies today announced that it has developed a process engine code-named Choreo to demonstrate Business Process Modelling Language (BPML) technology. BPML is a specification for modelling end-to-end business ... More

Virtualisation, key tech for storage: HP
DATA availability, integrity, and storage are becoming increasingly important in today's enterprise computing environment. Employees, customers, and partners increasingly demand 24x7 data access, while the amount of storage space needed for ... More

Prakar Software new version
BANGALORE: Prakar Software Ltd, Bangalore, specialising in computerisation of bank accounts, has launched the 2002 version of Auto Banker. This software is exclusively for credit co-operative societies, banks and financial ... More

Discreet launches animation software
HYDERABAD: Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc, has announced the launch of its 3ds max 5, a professional 3D animation and modelling software used by animators to create 3D animations. At a roadshow organised by the company in ... More

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