The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 07, 2002

StorageTek opens support centre
CHENNAI: StorageTek, the $ 2.6-billion information storage solutions company, has inaugurated a support desk service centre that it had outsourced to the city-based GAVS Information Services (Pvt) Ltd. The value of the order is $5 ... More

BHEL gets Yukthi solution
BANGALORE: Yukthi Systems Private Ltd has completed implementation of a security and e-mail solution for BHEL, with a firewall, IDS, mailserver, and back-up file server, all based on the Linux platform and other freeware. Interestingly, ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Tatas to rename Hughes Tele.com
THE board of Tata Teleservices Ltd on Friday decided to rename its recent acquisition Hughes Tele.com as Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra Ltd), subject to approvals; it also announced the completion of the acquisition and the reconstitution of the ... More

BSNL picks freeware for Internet-based billing
THE Thiruvananthapuram Telephones Secondary Switching Area of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has relied entirely on free and open-source software solutions to run its Web site (http://trivandrum.bsnl.co.in) as well as its new online Web-based ... More

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SOFTWARE

Satyam legal expenses sharply up on geography de-risking strategy
SATYAM Computer Services has seen a more than doubling of legal expenses for the year ended March 31, 2002. Legal expenses for the company rose to Rs 66.24 crore from Rs 27.5 crore the previous year. Asked if the company had to take legal ... More

`Largest' VSAT network
BANGALORE: Hughes Escorts has announced that INFINET (Indian Financial Network), the network owned and maintained by IDBRT (India's first autonomous centre for development and research in banking technology), became the largest VSAT ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Now, job quality matters more than pay & perks
THE US was the Promised Land — not just for the early settlers two centuries ago, but also for thousands of engineering graduates in India in the last ten years. And that is changing now. Many of them saw software programming as the ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Polaris subsidiary to buy iBackoffice assets
POLARIS Software Labs has announced that Optimus Outsourcing Company Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary, has made an offer for the purchase of the assets of iBackoffice. A statement from the company said that the Bangalore-based iBackoffice was ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Polaris, AIG form joint venture
AMERICAN International Group Offshore Systems Services, Inc (AIG) has formed a joint venture with the Chennai-based Polaris Software Lab Ltd, the companies announced at a joint news conference here on Friday. Mr Arun Jain, Chairman and ... More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

HTMT system for Ashok Leyland
MUMBAI: Hinduja TMT Ltd (HTMT) has developed a customised ERP system for group company Ashok Leyland Ltd. HTMT is implementing the system in Ashok Leyland's six manufacturing units and 60 locations across India. ``This system ... More

BROADBAND

Broadband access gateway — Lucent targets Indian operators
WITH the broadband services on offer by the major telecom groups in the country looking promising, communication networks major Lucent Technologies intends to aggressively push its latest offering — AnyMedia Line Access Gateway (LAG) among ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Dr Holmes to chant e-governance mantra
MR Douglas Holmes, an expert in e-governance and author of "e-Gov: e-Business strategies for Government," is set to visit India to take part in a seminar on `Government in the Digital Age'. Dr Holmes will be on a tour of the country where he ... More

EVENTS

Mistral Solutions to co-host seminar
BANGALORE: Mistral Solutions, provider of embedded solutions, and NMS Communications, provider of systems and building blocks for open telecommunications, will co-host a seminar on `Innovative solutions for tomorrow's networks'. The ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

ITES operations may push HTMT earnings — Expects 100 pc growth this year
THE IT division of Hinduja TMT Ltd (HTMT), expects to grow at 100 per cent this year, even as the overall growth of the company is likely to be in the range of 70-80 per cent. "We are looking at doubling our growth this year," said Mr R Mohan, ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

beforeSales unveils new product
BANGALORE: Sales force automation software solutions company, beforeSales, has launched beforeSales Professional Lite 3.0, which the company is targeting at small workgroup users and sales teams of up to 10 users. The advanced ... More

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