The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, June 19, 2003

vMoksha eyes niche BPO slot
vMOKSHA, which is targeting $25 million in revenues for the year, is looking to enter the BPO space as well — ``we would like to exploit the opportunities in the sector and offer high-end services in a few verticals.'' ``We will be a ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS

6 win Microsoft .NET awards
MICROSOFT Corporation India Pvt Ltd has announced the winners of six .NET awards in Chennai. STG Chennai has won the best .NET Training Institute Award; Satyam Computer Services Ltd the best .NET Application by a System Integrator award, and ... More

Cognizant gets LOMA award

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

BSNL drops ILD plans, to tie up with VSNL
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has more or less dropped its plans for starting international long-distance (ILD) services, and is instead seeking to forge a strategic alliance with the Tata group-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) at the ... More

HC stays proceedings in case against Tata Tele officials
THE Andhra Pradesh High court has stayed proceedings in the CDMA limited mobility handset-tampering case filed by Reliance Infocomm against six Tata Teleservices officials. Mr Justice K.C. Bhanu of the AP High Court on Tuesday stayed further ... More

Reliance announces 2 tariff plans at low monthly rentals
RELIANCE Infocomm on Wednesday announced two new tariff plans for its IndiaMobile service at low monthly rentals of Rs 149 and Rs 249. These packages are clearly designed seeking to allow Reliance to strike at the core growth sector of the GSM ... More

Mobile subscribers to outnumber landlines in Bangalore by March
THE number of mobile subscribers in Bangalore are expected to exceed the number of landline subscribers by the end of the current fiscal year. According to current projections of the cellular operators in Karnataka, the number of mobile ... More

Getting connected
Kerala takes the third slot in telephone density in the country with 11.13 per cent after Delhi and Punjab. Bihar, with 1.32 per cent, comes last. A report by the Department of Telecommunications points out that telephone is still a rarity in ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

MTNL net down; proposes 45%
DESPITE a decrease in revenues and net profit, the board of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has recommended a 45 per cent dividend. In a statement MTNL has said that it has made a net profit of Rs 877.15 crore during the current financial ... More

Cranes Software net jumps

SOFTWARE

Polaris gets more Citi revenue; i-flex less
REVENUES from Citigroup for two of its major Indian software vendors, Polaris Software and i-flex Solutions, have seen some interesting changes in the last quarters. For Polaris, the Citigroup revenues increased to 65 per cent in the fourth ... More

Satyam bags World Bank order

INTERNET

Site to ease campus interviews
JUST look at the statistics: Every year, Patni Computers recruited about 700 people from campuses across the country, HLL about 50-70 people, Colgate Palmolive about 30 people, Infosys, Wipro and TCS takes in at least 30 per cent of its new ... More

Kerala tourism Web site to be updated
THE State Government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 18 lakh for the development of the Kerala Tourism Web site. According to an official release, the amount will be spent on improving the site, More

IT TRAINING

IBM centre for advanced studies

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Smart cards: ECIL ties up with SETS
ELECTRONICS Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad has entered into a strategic alliance with the Society of Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS) to provide smart card-based applications. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was ... More

ISPS

Internet exchange ready, but where are the takers?
IN what could give a fillip to Internet services, the country's first Internet exchange is ready at Software Technology Parks of India's (STPI) Noida facility near here, but no Internet service provider (ISP) has joined it. The National ... More

PEOPLE

Clarification

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

New range of PCs for businesses from H-P
HEWLETT-PACKARD India Pvt Ltd on Wednesday introduced a new range of secure, high-performance desktop-based products for business customers. The H-P Compaq D220 series of desktops, available at a starting price of Rs 35,990, addresses the lower ... More

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