The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Reliance package for shareholders — Offers discounts on mobile phone connections
RELIANCE Industries Ltd is targeting a whole new set of customers for its Reliance IndiaMobile services — 3.3 million Reliance shareholders. Mr Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, on Monday offered ... More

BEL to make sat phones
AFTER nearly five years of wait for the right space signals and a jinxed technology tie-up, Indian-made satellite phones will soon be a reality. Defence electronics major, Bharat Electronics, has gone ahead to develop briefcase-type sat phones ... More

`Phase out access deficit charges'
A BSNL representative said it should be compensated more because of its scattered network compared with other operators who have concentrated network. More

SOFTWARE

SGI bullish on energy sector
SGI, better known as Silicon Graphics Inc, the $1.3-billion provider of high performance computing, visualisation and complex data management solutions, is bullish on the energy sector and sees growing opportunities in oil and natural gas ... More

RSA Security in pact with Precise Biometrics
RSA Security and Precise Biometrics have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver 3-Factor Authentication, that includes multi-application smart card based solution designed to support passwords, digital certificate and authentication of ... More

Merger hiccups may delay Digital centre's break-even
THE cash break-even horizon of Digital GlobalSoft's Technical Support Contact Centre (TSCC) is likely to stretch beyond the earlier projected April-June quarter of fiscal 2004, sources have said. The company maintained that the contact centre ... More

Hubli to be made an IT destination
The IBM Centre of Excellence is being set up in collaboration with the Board for IT Education Standards (BITES) and the Hubli chapter of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B). More

HCL Tech bags Airbus order
NEW DELHI: HCL Technologies on Monday said that it has won a mandate from French aircraft manufacturer, Airbus France, for developing embedded software for the system data acquisition computer of its A 340 flight warning system. The ... More

ACCBank selects Flexcube
BANGALORE: Ireland-based ACCBank has selected i-flex Solutions as its banking solution provider. ACCBank will implement i-flex's flagship product FLEXCUBE for its banking operations. The selection of FLEXCUBE was based on the ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Wanna job? Call centre with the right `accent'
IT was one of those interviews for a call centre job. The pay - Rs 8,000 per month. And the educational qualifications were not demanding - a graduation in any discipline was preferred but not insisted upon. Those with a 12th Standard pass ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Rural telephony: DoT sets June, Dec deadline
Telecom companies preferred to pay penalties instead of rolling out services in the unremunerative areas as it would entail huge expenditures for them. More

E-GOVERNANCE

eSeva centres in AP by August
WITH the phase one expansion of the eSeva citizen services centres completed in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, and new functionalities getting added to broaden the services spectrum, the State Government is now seeking to reach ... More

EVENTS

Over 25 nations, 300 cos to participate — Bangalore IT.com to focus on SMEs
BANGALORE IT.com, billed as Asia's premier ICT event, expects to attract greater international participation this year. Bangalore IT.com 2003 was launched here on Monday with confirmation from nations such as the US, the UK, Germany, Hong Kong ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Apple to unveil new version Mac
THE next version of the Mac OS X, code named Panther, will be unveiled later this month at a developers meet in the US. The operating system, which is in the beta or development phase, will be shared with prospective customers at the meet to get ... More

Sify deploys MPLS networking routers
SIFY Ltd, Internet, networks and e-commerce services company, has deployed the country's largest multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)-based networking using Cisco's 12,000; 7,600 and 7,200 serious routers. This places Sify on par with other ... More

IBM India's new messaging service
BANGALORE: IBM India has announced the availability of IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging, a Web-based messaging offering that can help organisations to cost-effectively extend enterprise messaging to workers without a dedicated workspace ... More

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