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EMC to focus on mid-range products
EMC Corporation will focus on mid-range products in the Indian market to address the fast growing segment for storage solutions. "The Asia-Pacific market, led by China and India, is growing at a rapid 100 per cent. We expect the demand for our ...
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OUTSOURCING
`BPO cos need to upgrade to meet global challenges'
THE IT services outsourcing and business process outsourcing (BPO) sectors, which have created the India brand, need to upgrade to Version 2.0 to brace up to the emerging challenges and meet competition from other countries. The Managing ...
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US chamber to fight for cos' right to outsource
VOCAL against the backlash being faced by Indian companies on the issue of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the US, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the US Chamber of Commerce, Mr Thomas J. Donohue, on Tuesday said that the ...
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AWARDS & HONOURS
TCS bags HP award
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has received HP's India Excellence in Partnership Award. According to an official release, HP's Enterprise Systems Group and Imaging and Printing Group considered several criteria while making ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Tata Tele (Maharashtra) to invest Rs 700 cr more
TATA Teleservices (Maharashtra) would be investing Rs 700 crore on network expansion, billing systems, IT infrastructure and customer care facilities during the current financial year. This would bring its total investment in the ...
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Tata Tele (Maharashtra) sets up Wi-Fi systems in Delhi airports
TATA Teleservices is setting up Wi-Fi access systems at both the domestic and international airports in New Delhi. A Wi-Fi system allows an Internet user to access the Net from anywhere in a Wi-Fi enabled area, without having to connect his ...
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STOCKS
FIIs raise stake in SSI to 30 pc
THE holding of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in SSI Ltd has gone up to about 30 per cent for the quarter ended March 2004, from 18.34 per cent in December 2003. In the latest shareholding pattern disclosure, the new names among FIIs ...
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HARDWARE
Hardware exports up 66 pc in Dec
ELECTRONICS hardware exports registered a 66 per cent jump in December 2003, and is poised to grow at an accelerated pace during 2003-04. Mr Kamal Vachani, Regional Director for the UAE and Middle East of Electronics and Computer Software ...
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SOFTWARE
i-flex in global pact with FRS
MUMBAI: i-flex Solutions has entered into a global agreement with FRS, a unit of S1 Corporation, for promoting FRS' regulatory reporting and financial analytic solutions to banks worldwide. FRS has been described as a global leader in ...
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Synopsys to expand India operations
SYNOPSYS Inc, a $1.2-billion semiconductor design software and system-on-chip solutions company, has drawn up plans to expand its India operations by about 30 per cent this year. This would see a larger role for Hyderabad and Bangalore centres in ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
MeritTrac to offer offshore interviewing
THE next time a technology company in the US or Europe wants to recruit a `techie' it could look at outsourcing the entire technical interview process to a company in India. At least, that is what the promoters of the Bangalore-based MeritTrac ...
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Cognizant begins hiring in US
COGNIZANT Technology Solutions (CTS) added in excess of 1,000 staff in India during the first quarter ended March 2004. Sixty per cent of these were fresh graduates. Prior to this addition, the company had slightly in excess of 6,400 people in ...
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
VSNL enters MoU with Core Projects
VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd has entered into a memorandum of understanding with a company called Core Projects & Technologies Ltd to arrive at a definitive contract document to jointly offer customers fleet management services. This would consist ..
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STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
ISO plans quality norms for call centres
FOLLOWING the US backlash on outsourcing of services to developing countries like India, the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) is planning to come up with quality standard norms for call centres. Speaking at the Bureau of ...
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OUTLOOK
JP Morgan freeze may hit MphasiS' revenue
A SLOWDOWN in project flows from JP Morgan Chase, one of the top two clients of MphasiS BFL group, is likely to squeeze revenue growth in near term, analysts said. Software outsourcing to MphasiS is likely to stay cramped for sometime, ...
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Aptech eyes 50 pc growth in China
WITH over 100 centres in the `Land of the Dragon', Aptech Ltd, now plans to expand to 20 more centres in China and grow the IT training business by about 50 per cent this year. The Chairman and Managing Director of Aptech, Mr Pramod Khera, told ...
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