The Hindu Business Line : Friday, February 14, 2003

Reliance Info logs 2.2 m bookings
RELIANCE Infocomm has logged in 2.2 million subscribers for its limited mobility services in just one month since bookings commenced across the country, even as the growth in mobile subscriptions has drastically fallen in the month of ... More

Cell base put at 11.16 m
AS per the latest estimates of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the total number of cellular subscribers has been pegged at 11.16 million in January as against 10.48 million in the previous month. The four metros continue to be ... More

SOFTWARE

Embedded software seen `exciting area'
"THE 1990s was the decade when the Internet arrived, but it was limited to our desktops only. However, now because of embedded systems, the Internet has come to where we actually live. And, that is the real opportunity. Indian companies have huge ... More

Oracle to expand India operations
ORACLE India, part of the global major Oracle Corporation, has announced that it has firmed up plans to expand in India, ramping up operations from about 2600 people to about 4,000 and establishing a new development centre in Hyderabad to be ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Nasscom, Nasdaq ink MoU
THE National Association for Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nasdaq to foster closer ties with the US financial market. As per the MoU, Nasdaq and Nasscom will implement a series ... More

Wipro, Concerto in partnership
WIPRO Infotech and Concerto Software, a provider of software for contact centres, have announced a partnership, through which the two will jointly address the contact centre market in India and West Asia. Wipro, which has already supplied ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Mascot Systems set to buy Chinese services firm
MASCOT Systems is in advanced stages of acquiring a small-sized Chinese software services company, even as it has announced plans to set up a wholly owned subsidiary at Wuxi, in China. "We are in advanced talks to take over the assets of a ... More

BROADBAND

PowerGrid to lay OFC network — $117-m World Bank loan to be revived
TWO years after proposing the project, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has been given the nod to set up a communication highway along its transmission lines, which criss-cross the country. After setting up the networks through ... More

ISPS

TRAI debating service provider status — ISPs' claim for revenue share suffers setback
THE Internet Service Providers' (ISPs) demand for a revenue share from telecom companies has suffered a setback with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) saying there is ambiguity about the status of an ISP as a service ... More

Precision Techserve in talks with Altigen
THE Chennai-based Precision Techserve is in talks with Altigen Communications Inc., of US, for partnering Altigen in India for IP telephony. The company has a tie-up with Cisco, under which it markets, implements and maintains Cisco's IP ... More

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