The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 04, 2002

Cognizant Tech to begin BPO services soon — Two call centres planned in Pune, Bangalore
COGNIZANT Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd is slated to commence its BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) operations from the first quarter of calendar year 2003. Two call centres of the company will be operational in Pune and Bangalore, ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Idea Cellular launches new Zero Plan
IDEA Cellular Ltd, has announced the launch of a new innovative plan— Zero Plan — for its post-paid subscribers that enables users to stay connected at zero monthly rental and with free incoming calls from three numbers of their choice ... More

Juniper bags BSNL order
COMMUNICATIONS infrastructure company Juniper Networks Inc has bagged an order from telecom major Baharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for its nationwide Internet Protocol / Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) network. Running on an optical ... More

BSNL to set up mobile PCOs in rural areas
IN an effort to bring telecom facilities at the doorstep of the people in the rural areas, the Department of Post has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, to set up mobile PCOs in rural areas. Speaking to ... More

HARDWARE

Dishing out designs
India can provide what the market wants - whether it is the crisp cookies and wafers that melt in the mouth or the chips that power IT. Catch the action on the chip design front. More

Seeing red on servers
THE overall server market in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) has seen a 5.7 per cent decline during the second quarter of 2002 compared to the corresponding period last year, with China leading the pack with a 13 per cent decline in server ... More

SOFTWARE

It's method over madness
IT companies that want to survive the storm have no option. They have to use method to beat the madness, as Hercule Poirot advocates. More

Linux finds favour with PC makers
IS freeware coming into fashion or are there deeper market forces at work? It is hard to tell. Over the last three to six months, a number of OEMs have been shipping Linux- bundled desktops, so far exclusively a Microsoft ... More

Polaris sees steady growth at 5-8% post-merger
REVENUE of Polaris Software Lab Ltd, post-merger with Citigroup's unlisted technology arm Orbitech Solutions, is likely to grow five to eight per cent every quarter in the next financial year, the Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Arun Jain, ... More

More stability, optimism in market: Premji
THERE is more pricing stability in the Indian software services market, the industry is back in the phase when it is growing and margins are rising, said Mr Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro, speaking to newspersons here on Tuesday. "I think the ... More

IT TRAINING

Get the better of language
Software now helps one to navigate those bumpy language tracts of spelling and syntax more easily. More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

ITC e-choupals to cover 1 lakh villages within a decade
ITC Ltd has firmed up plans to extend its e-choupal initiative to cover one-lakh villages across the country within the next decade. Starting with six e-choupals in June 2000, ITC's Internet-based, rural initiative has succeeded in linking ... More

Book on e-commerce in banking released

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

`Indian cos should be more aggressive to take on China'
INDIAN IT enabled services (ITES) companies and business process outsouring (BPO) units may have become the flavour of the season for the MNCs, but China is fast catching up and can emerge as a major threat in the next few years. This is the ... More

BOOKS

Who says elephants can't dance?
For proof, read up on the story of IBM's turnaround. More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

The latest...
GrapeCity India Pvt Ltd (formerly Bunka Orient) has, through a tie-up with Sitraka Software of Canada, introduced Sitraka's JClass ServerReport in the Indian market. JClass ServerReport generates professionally-formatted documents on the J2EE ... More

...goes on air
iServ India Solutions Pvt Ltd (a part of the Escorts Group) has announced the launch of Zybertalk Super Voice, a "unique VoIP `in a box' solution". It allows customers to place low-cost international calls through the Internet without losing ... More

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