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Reliance Info `one of the cos' looking at Sify
RELIANCE Infocomm is one of the contenders for Internet services company Satyam Infoway. "We are just one of the companies looking at it; as part of our business strategy we would be considering all business opportunities," said a spokesperson ... More

OUTSOURCING


BPO sector demand, silver lining for Chennai real estate
Contrary to the belief that the IT companies would take up space in the so-called IT corridor or in any specific location, the IT sector has leased substantial space over the last year in areas such as Guindy, T. Nagar and Egmore. This is indicative that the sector does not have any specific location preferences, the report said. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


Cell subscriber base touches 7.69 million
THE cellular subscriber base in the country has reached 7.69 million, with over 3.51 lakh additional customers in the month of July 2002. As per the latest estimates of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the total number of ... More

`Mohanlal, BPL project Kerala's integrated face'
"Gifted with enormous natural resources, industrious citizens and a knowledge and culture accumulated over generations - which the world is today beginning to acknowledge - there is an opportunity for the State to play a greater role." More

Hutch offers new pre-paid scheme in AP
HUTCHISON Essar South Ltd, the cellular service provider, has come up with yet another new offering to the customers in Andhra Pradesh. The scheme called `Go Hutch for Rs 74' allows pre-paid customer to go mobile at an increased talk time ... More

HARDWARE


`Disk storage market grew 64 pc in 2001'
IDC has said that the disk storage market in India witnessed a robust growth in 2001. IDC Research has estimated the disk storage market in India at 1709.6 terabytes in 2001, a growth of 64.2 per cent over corresponding figures in 2000. In ... More

SOFTWARE


D Link to buy back shares at Rs 80
D LINK India today announced that it would buy back the company's shares, not exceeding Rs 16 crore, at a price of up to Rs 80 per equity share. The company has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the board of directors at its meeting ... More

Wipro to sponsor two chess players from TN
IT major Wipro as announced that it would sponsor two young chess players from Tamil Nadu - Deepan Chakkravarthy and M. Priyadarshini. The two players from Madurai have joined three others from Pune, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh in the Wipro chess ... More

New software product from Visu soon
VISU Consultants Ltd, a Rs 50-crore group, which has released a number of educational software products for the benefit of students appearing for different examinations, is ready to launch a new product, Virtual Lab, incorporating the finer ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


Brigade scouting for acquisitions with $50-m funds
THIS is a brigade with a difference. With a money chest of $50-million and ideas to become a global corporation, it is scouting for strategic acquisitions to ramp up operations and firming up plans to leverage Hyderabad and Chennai centres to ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES


Pramati to set up tech lab with IIIT-H
IN yet another industry-academia initiative, Pramati Technologies, a middleware software vendor, has teamed up with the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, to establish a middleware technology lab and develop Java ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT


Satyam to set up overseas centre for Saint Gobain arm
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd has announced that it has signed up with Saint Gobain Abrasives, Inc, a Massachusetts-based corporation, to provide IT services. As part of this initiative, it will set up an offshore development centre (ODC) for ... More

SoftBrands to shift base for DemandStream
The product development of DemandStream would move to Bangalore in three to four months. More

BROADBAND


RailTel to award Rs 150-cr OFC contracts this year
RAILTEL Corporation plans to award contracts valued at over Rs 150 crore this year for building the 20,000-route km of optical fibre cable (OFC) to connect the four metros and four mini-metros - Ahmedabad, Pune, Secunderabad and Bangalore - ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES


Karnataka unhappy with Nasscom ITES rating
Many a time, the competition among States was a media creation, he said and added that there was enough business for all as barely the bottom had been scratched. More

OUTLOOK


`Joshi's exit will not impact Infosys'
INFOSYS Technologies has said that the exit of its Chief Marketing Officer, Mr Sanjay Joshi, would not have any impact on its operations. "Mr Sanjay Joshi is leaving Infosys for professional reasons. This development will not impact our ... More

Tyco Power Systems upbeat despite price pressure
INCREASING pressure on price and intense competition should not impinge on Tyco Power Systems retaining its market share in the telecom segment. It has a small pie in the public sector telecom service companies, but its supplies to the Bharat ... More

PEOPLE


Subrahmaniam is Covansys President
CHENNAI: Covansys Corporation, a global consulting and technology services company, has announced the promotion of Mr Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its wholly owned subsidiary, Covansys ... More

TRENDS


Debtor days down for software cos — No indicator of recovery, say analysts
DEBTOR days — a ratio of receivables to sales — have come down for the software industry. In the case of some companies, the reduction is considerable. One inference from this is that in proportion to increasing revenues, many ... More
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