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OUTSOURCING


Goldstone starts BPO arm
HYDERABAD: The business process outsourcing (BPO) division of Goldstone Teleservices Ltd, has been inaugurated by the Managing Director of State Bank of Hyderabad, Mr.Rajendra Kakker. The division extends contact centre and back ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


BSNL, MTNL may block calls from mobiles
GOING ahead with the warning issued to the private cellular operators on Wednesday to allow for transit calls, telecom majors Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) are gearing up to cut off their networks from ... More

Cell operators call show-cause `unfair, illegal'
THE Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has responded to the TRAI's show-cause notice by requesting it to recall the same, as the direction "apart from being unfair, unjust and discriminatory, is illegal". In an official statement, ... More

Cell operators' refusal to honour transit calls — DoT evaluating course of action
JUST a day after Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) threatened to pull the plug on private cellular operators for refusing to honour transit calls through their network, the Department of Telecommunications ... More

MoU with S. Africa to be extended
NEW DELHI: India and South Africa have agreed to further extend by five more years the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for co-operation in the field of Communications and Information Technology. The MoU was signed between the two ... More

HARDWARE


Tata Elxsi Q3 net down 13 per cent
TATA Elxsi Ltd, the technical computing arm of the Tata Group, has reported a decline of 13.3 per cent in its net profit and nearly 8 per cent drop in its revenues for the third quarter ended December 31, 2002 over corresponding period in the ... More

SOFTWARE


ICICI Info solution for Lakshmi Vilas
BANGALORE: ICICI Infotech announced that Lakshmi Vilas Bank has chosen its core banking solution, Newton, to be deployed across all branches. Newton will seamless integrate with the banks' exisiting front end system, protecting its ... More

INTERNET


Law Commission reports on Web
THE Law Commission of India has placed 182 reports on its Web site — http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in — containing comprehensive information about the commission, the list of its reports and their full contents. The ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS


TRAI slaps notice on cell cos — Gives them time till Monday to present case
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued show-cause notices to the private cellular operators for defying its directive to provide interconnectivity to the basic telecom operators offering limited mobile services. It has given ... More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING


Satyam to deploy ERP solution for Jurong
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd has bagged the mandate from the Singapore-based Jurong Technologies Industrial Corporation Ltd, to implement an end-to-end Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for the latter's electronic contract manufacturer ... More

SECURITY


Ouch... Capt Crunch is back with a bang
This legendary phone `phreak' became a cult figure in the digital underground in 1971 when he discovered that the plastic whistle included in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes reproduced perfectly 2,600 HZ frequency which unlocked the AT&T phone network ... More

ISPS


VocalTec in talks for NLD foray — Expects to bring down STD rates further
VOICE over Internet Protocol (VoIP) major VocalTec Communications Ltd is in talks with the telecom biggies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), Reliance Infocomm and the Bharti group to deploy its packet voice ... More

E-GOVERNANCE


Skewed planning impeding e-governance, says Nasscom
THE unwillingness of governments to commit funding, the absence of a clear revenue stream for private sector and inappropriate tendering processes are hampering the growth of e-governance in the country, the National Association of Software and ... More

PIRACY


Cyber police conduct first piracy raid
THE Cyber Crime Police in Bangalore conducted its first software piracy raid, for the alleged illegal usage of Macromedia software, on Microtech Web Education, a Bangalore-based commercial training institute, conducting courses in animation, ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES


Patenting ITES will help boost returns: TiE chief
INDIA is well poised to garner a significant chunk of the global market for business process outsourcing (BPO), according to Mr Sridar Iyengar, President of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) of Silicon Valley. However, it would augur well for the ... More
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