The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Just the thing to do now
The next time you catch youngsters drawing doodles with the mouse, don't despair. With US companies keen to tap Indian animation talent, they could just be on the right track. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

BSNL, MTNL roll back phone tariffs partially
BOWING to political pressure, both Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) have partially rolled back their landline tariff rates including free-calls that would cause them a revenue loss of Rs 3,616 crore in the ... More

It's the bill that counts
Whatever service you opt for as a phone user, what matters most finally is the bill you run up, right? More

New tariffs sound death knell for PCOs
THE drastic reduction in national long-distance telephony rates has put paid to a cosy arrangement that exists between STD/ISD PCO operators and their corporate customers. This as well as the increase in fixed-to-mobile tariffs have made STD ... More

Cell subscriber base at 13.3 m
THE cellular subscriber base has topped 13.3 million with as many as 6.47 lakh additions in the month of April. As per the latest estimates provided by the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI), While Bharti continue to top the charts ... More

Telecom exchange planned at Bangalore
THE country's first telecom exchange is being planned at the recently announced Global Telecom City in Bangalore, a park for telecom companies. The Rs 2,600-crore project, promoted by Data Access, is still in early stages, according to company ... More

Alcatel joins GSA India

SOFTWARE

Reality Check
IT's seen them - the greed-breed who got their noses bloodied, and then the blame-game that followed. It's now time to stop looking at the industry through the prism of today's top players. More

Small screen, Big prospects
What's the connection between computers and the small screen? Well, here's one player who's making it happen. More

Forget those fuzzy figures!
It's transparent financial statements with XBRL or Extensible Business Reporting Language. Looks like accountants and analysts need shed nothing but their costs. More

Digital net up 14 pc; income jumps 27 pc
DIGITAL GlobalSoft Ltd., the local software arm of Hewlett-Packard Co., said net profit for 2002-03 was Rs 106.02 crore, up 14 per cent from Rs 96.67 crore a year ago. Total revenue for the year grew by 27 per cent to Rs 439.94 crore from Rs ... More

Satyam promises trust, integrity, transparency
SATYAM Computer on Tuesday said that its first global customer summit - SatyamWorld - held in San Diego, California, earlier this month, focussed on `Business Fusion', where over 80 top-notch global companies attended. The Satyam ... More

INTERNET

IT has a lighter side
In the midst of doom and gloom, there's also the lighter side if you care to look for it. More

Singareni launches Web site, EPR
AFTER scripting a remarkable turnaround which enabled the State-owned coal major, Singareni Collieries Company Ltd, to extricate itself from a prolonged financial mess, the company management has trained its attention on streamlining its workflow ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

APAR Infotech merges with Ness Tech
NESS Technologies, a Delaware-based IT solutions provider, on Tuesday signed a merger agreement with APAR Infotech, a Pittsburgh-based software services company in a stock swap valued at $78 million. Upon completion of the merger, Ness expects ... More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Navision India targets SME segment
NAVISION Software, part of Microsoft Business Solutions, is one of the largest enterprise solutions providers in the world with over 2,70,000 deployments. With Navision India it is targeting the burgeoning small and medium enterprises (SMEs) ... More

SECURITY

Cisco unveils new Firewall offer

BROADBAND

Tejas products for Taiwan firm

EVENTS

Nasscom to organise 2-day strategy meet in Bangalore
NASSCOM will be organising its annual ITES-BPO strategy summit in Bangalore on June 12-13,2003. The event is slated to be the largest ITES-BPO event in the Asian region for this sector. According to an official statement, Mr Arun Shourie, Union ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

Plexion gets $2-m fund from JP Morgan
PLEXION Technologies, an engineering services company, today said it has received a second round funding of $2 million from JP Morgan Partners. A press release quoting Mr Jonathan Lynch, general partner at JP Morgan Partners, New York, said, ... More

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