INFO-TECH
OUTSOURCING
Kerala to unveil BPO policy soon
KERALA plans to IT-enable itself further by joining the intellectual property rights (IPR)-friendly zero-piracy movement and a business process outsourcing (BPO) policy. The State's aim is to repeat its success with tourism in the infotech ...
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AWARDS & HONOURS
Rajyotsava Award for Nilekani
BANGALORE: Infosys CEO, Mr Nandan Nilekani, and Biocon India CMD, Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, are among 56 persons named for this year's Rajyotsava awards. The Former Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board, Dr D.M. Nanjundappa, ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Govt queers Samsung tele equipment plan
KOREAN electronics giant, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd's plan to take up wholesale trading of telecom equipment in India has been put on hold by the Government. The decision to put a brake on the plans follows the company's inability to ...
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Tata Teleservices NCD gets `P1+(SO)'
CRISIL has assigned a `P1+(SO)'rating to the Rs 130-crore zero coupon non-convertible debenture (NCD) issuance of Tata Teleservices Ltd. The rating indicates a high degree of safety regarding the timely payment of financial obligations on the ...
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BSNL puts off CellOne launch in9 AP cities
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has simultaneously launched its CellOne cellular services in 84 cities and towns and across 4,600 villages in Andhra Pradesh, barring Hyderabad and eight other major cities. The operator has drawn up plans to ...
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BSNL mobile service comes to Mangalore
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) formally launched its mobile services in Mangalore today. However, BSNL mobile subscribers will actually get connected on November 1 when the facility will get operationalised all over Karnataka. Addressing a ...
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SC adjourns WLL case to Nov 20
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has adjourned its hearing on the petition filed by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) to block limited mobility based on wireless in local loop (WLL) to November 20. In what could be the ...
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Hutch, it's here!
A teleshop van launched by cellular operator Hutchison to promote value-added services in Hyderabad. Hutch Mobile Teleshop, the latest initiative from Hutchison Essar South Limited, was launched in the city on Wednesday. The Chief Operating ...
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HARDWARE
BEL, PicoPeta to make simputers
BEL and PicoPeta Simputers Pvt Ltd have announced that they will jointly manufacture and market a new range of the hand-held indigenously developed simputers for various applications. The first batch of 1,000 improved, co-branded BEL-PicoPeta ...
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Naidu calls for push to hardware sector
THE Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday made an offer to the BSNL, which left the latter in a fix. If the BSNL can offer an attractive price, we are willing to pick up 10,000 cellular phone connections from BSNL ...
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SOFTWARE
Mentorix bags $20-m contract from Pearson
MENTORIX learning Technologies has announced that it has won a $20 million, three-year contract from the Pearson group company, Pearson Education Technologies (Pearson Ed Tech) to develop integrated software solutions for the education ...
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MindTree upbeat on West Asian market
THE IT firm MindTree Consulting, co-headquarted in Bangalore and Somerset, New Jersey, US, entered the Gulf and West Asian market earlier this year and is targeting a sizeable growth in business in view of a strong prospect base in the region, ...
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`Corporatisation of STPI unlikely in near future'
THE corporatisation of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is unlikely to happen in the near future. The Union IT Secretary, Mr R.R. Shah, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of TiECon 2002 in Bangalore said, "I do not see ...
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`IT cos need skills to retain customers'
THE IT industry is now learning all that they did not teach at engineering schools. Speakers talking at a session on "Customer Centricity", as part of `IT.com', said that soft skills which helped to understand customers' business and even the ...
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Albion Orion goodwill drags SSI bottomline
THE net profit of SSI Ltd has reduced by more than half to Rs 1.13 crore on total revenues of Rs 59.5 crore for the first quarter ended September 30, 2002. This is compared to a net profit of Rs 2.78 crore on total revenues of Rs 82.87 crore ...
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Singapore Comp eyeing stake in Indian cos
SINGAPORE Computer Systems Ltd (SCS), a provider of information and communication technology (ICT) services, is planning to pick up equity stake in Indian software companies. The company is taking this route to gain access to the Indian market ...
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Wipro unveils Rational centre
BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has unveiled a Rational competency centre. Wipro's competencies built through the centre will help improve quality and predictability of software projects and lead to faster implementations, said a press ...
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DSQ net loss at Rs 22 cr
CHENNAI: DSQ Software Ltd has reported a net loss of Rs 22.24 crore on net sales of Rs 12.43 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2002, as against a net profit of Rs 4.01 crore on net sales of Rs 68.03 crore for the corresponding ...
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SECURITY
Singapore touted as recovery centre
THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore is hard selling the city-state as an ideal destination for Indian IT companies to set up their disaster recovery centres, and also use Singapore as a base for marketing their products in the ...
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E-GOVERNANCE
Andhra Bank plans e-Seva services
ANDHRA Bank is planning to introduce e-Seva services in collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh for collection of utility service payments. This initiative will be a more comprehensive facility to customers compared to the present ...
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EVENTS
The other end of IT spectrum
A woman worker carries water to the venue of the Bangalore IT.Com 2002 on Wednesday. Information technology has made no difference, at least to her.
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