The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 06, 2002

VSNL wants patch-up with MTNL: Tata
THE Chairman of Tata Group, Mr Ratan Tata, today reiterated his commitment to resolving the current stand-off between Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) on the issue of revenue-sharing. Of late, VSNL, which ... More

Ratan Tata firm on quitting office — VSNL gets new cable station
MR Ratan N Tata, Chairman, Tata Group, has reaffirmed that he would be stepping down as Chairman in December. Mr. Tata, who had earlier in the day inaugurated VSNL's newly-commissioned cable station here, also said that the current proviso that ... More

Hutch launches `roaming returns' service in AP
HUTCH, part of Hutchison Telecom, today launched `Roaming returns', an exclusive loyalty programme for people visiting Andhra Pradesh and `Regional Roaming', an advanced service for people on the move. Hutch is the first to offer `roaming ... More

AirTel to ring in music messaging in Chennai
AirTel subscribers can also send a song to another AirTel subscriber using this service. More

Spice branding value-added services
SPICE Telecom's Karnataka circle has gone one step ahead in differentiation. It has started branding its value-added services under the name, Genie. Over the last two years, mobile providers have strengthened their focus on value-added services ... More

Spice cuts roaming charges
BANGALORE: Spice Telecom has reduced roaming charges to Rs 1.49 per minute across select partner networks for its subscribers in Karnataka. Rates are now Rs 1.49 per minute for outgoing and incoming calls and SMS, down from the earlier ... More

STOCKS

Hexaware surges on German order
HEXAWARE Technologies witnessed increased activity today, with a large amount of the company's shares being traded on the bourses on the back of a strong order book. On the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the stock closed at Rs 75.76, falling 1.9 ... More

SOFTWARE

UNDP okays K-bip's local font project
A PROJECT on `Localisation of Free Software for Malayalam font'' submitted by Kerala Bureau of Industrial Promotion (K-bip), an autonomous body of the State Industries Department, has been approved by the United Nations Development Programme ... More

IT TRAINING

Aptech entrance test gets good response
THE common entrance examination conducted by Aptech Computer Education, the education division of training major Aptech Training Ltd, has received good response. Around 3,000 students participated in the Aptech Computer Education - Common ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Premji has a date with talent
THIS year, Wipro celebrated Teacher's Day as Talent Transformation Day. It was a day-long programme with vendors such as IBM, Sun, Microsoft, CISCO, Oracle, Rational and Redhat making technology presentations and demonstrating their products. ... More

INTERVIEW

Touchtel to reach out to residential customers
BHARTI Telenet Ltd (BTL), belonging to the Bharti Enterprises, is the first private telephone service provider to launch its basic telephone services in Tamil Nadu in a segment that has been dominated by the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd ... More

SECURITY

`Banks must step up security system to deal with e-frauds '
"COMPUTER-related frauds and frauds committed by people in managerial positions are becoming a major threat to organisations in India," Mr Leeladhar, Chairman of Union Bank of India, said at the seminar on `Prevention of frauds and financial ... More

EVENTS

Kerala makes mark at Cebit Asia fair
KERALA has been able to elicit a favourable response from a number of investors taking part in the Cebit Asia 2002 Fair which concluded in Shanghai today. Announcing this, an official spokesman said that Kerala was the lone entry from India at ... More

RIGHTS ISSUES

Maars board okays rights issue
CHENNAI: Maars Software International Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the board of directors of the company in its meeting held on September 4 approved the company's proposal to issue shares of the face value of Rs 10 ... More

TRENDS

New business favours big vendors
``BIG is beautiful'' for software vendors now. As Indian software vendors jostle in the global market to grab fat chunks of outsourcing deals, a primary determinant that is slowly emerging to direct the flow of business is "size and scale of ... More

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