The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 22, 2003

`Robust ecosystem' must for storage systems
AN "ecosystem" needs to be created around the evolving storage industry, with customers, vendors, marketing and technical departments coming together, according to Mr Kumar Malavalli, Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the inauguration of the ... More

OUTSOURCING

NJ Bill no big deal, says Corbett
"YOU are making too much out of this. This is no big deal," was the response from an outsourcing expert, to a question on the impact of the New Jersey Outsourcing Bill on India's software industry. The State of New Jersey in the US recently ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Cell-to-cell incoming calls made free
TODAY can, without doubt, go down in history as the day of the `mobile consumer' in the country. Even as private cellular operators have made the expected announcement of free mobile-to-mobile (M2M) incoming calls, Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) ... More

BSNL, MTNL, Reliance stay out
CLOSE to 1.5 million cellular subscribers across the country have reason to be dejected. The reason — the good news of free incoming M2M calls exclude the subscribers of Reliance, BSNL and MTNL. While Reliance Telecom which offers ... More

BPL Mobile hikes rental, access fee
BPL Mobile, which has the second largest subscriber base in Mumbai after Orange (Hutch group), has announced free incoming calls from any other GSM mobile from January 23, for both its pre-paid and post-paid subscribers here. It has brought ... More

Long-distance operations — Telecom rivals to join hands
THE controversy-ridden telecom sector, which has seen the top Indian corporates houses - Reliance, Tata and the Bharti groups - at each other's throats, is all set to witness their first-ever "joint venture with equal stakes", courtesy their ... More

Hutchison to unveil more services in Karnataka — Plans Rs 150-cr investment
HutchAlive, which was launched today, offers a wide range of text-based infotainment services that arrives unobtrusively on a subscriber's phone, through the cell broadcast service. More

Hutch offers interactive messaging with Celltick
HUTCHISON, Essar-affiliated cellular services company, has launched what it calls the ``world's first personalised, interactive broadcast service'' across the circles of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and ... More

Basic operators oppose access fee on cell calls
THE interconnection controversy between cellular and basic operators that cooled off on Monday is threatening to erupt one again. Even as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced that it would be issuing its much-awaited ... More

Hutch to expand in AP; launches HutchAlive
LAUNCHING HutchAlive, a personalised interactive cell broadcast service based on SMS platform, Hutchison has announced plans to increase its footprint in Andhra Pradesh and reach out cellular services to more towns. HutchAlive helps deliver ... More

Reduced tariffs eat into BSNL revenue
COMPETITIVE reduction in long-distance tariff and dominance of rural connections have combined to adversely affect the revenue per line realised by the Kerala Telecom Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). Mr P.P. Ramachandran, Chief ... More

HARDWARE

HCL Insys Q2 net dives on impairment costs
HCL Infosystems Ltd said its net profit for the second quarter dropped by 80 per cent to Rs 2.83 crore on account of impairment charges of Rs 30.24 crore on its current assets, even as its net sales more than doubled to Rs 597.43 crore. For the ... More

New mainframe at ER&DCT
THE Electronics Research and Development Centre of India, Thiruvananthapuram (ER&DCT), an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Communications and IT, has commissioned the new generation Multiprise 3000 Mainframe of IBM vintage ... More

UbiNetics in pact with National
BANGALORE: UbiNetics, a 3G technology company, has signed a licensing agreement with National Semiconductor Corporation to jointly develop next generation wireless chipsets for the handset market. UbiNetics will supply multi-mode ... More

Cisco's 1,000th networking academy
NEW DELHI: Networking equipment maker, Cisco Systems, has said it has established its 1000th `Cisco Networking Academy' in the Asia-Pacific region in Tripura. The Cisco Networking Academy Programme provides students with IT knowledge ... More

SOFTWARE

Medimedia to focus on doctors, hospitals
HEALTHCARE content provider Medimedia is looking at expanding its India operations with focus on patient information through doctors and hospitals. The Indian arm, Medimedia Health Private Ltd, which came in during April 2002 through the ... More

JP Mobile software for Nokia device
JP Mobile Inc, a software provider that extends and manages corporate data on handheld devices, has entered into an agreement with Nokia to make SureWave software available on the in-box CD shipped with every Nokia 9290 Communicator. The ... More

IT TRAINING

Top it with some icing
Plain cakes don't always appeal. A dollop of cream makes a difference. Much like the job market scene. Job hunters need that extra topping - grooming, social graces, and English skills to brand themselves. And talking of branding, don't miss the story on page 3. More

EVENTS

Jayalalithaa skips Nasscom meet
DID the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, miss an opportunity to highlight the State's potential in the IT sector when she did not turn up for a Nasscom meet in Chennai, which she was scheduled to attend? Yes, feel some of the ... More

TRENDS

Making the ride happen
Does society help make companies or are companies the ones to contribute to society? Whatever, it's a roller-coaster ride that needs both, the machine and man, or in this instance society and corporates. eWorld offers an update on CSR or corpo rate social responsibility, in the technology sector. More

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