INFO-TECH
AWARDS & HONOURS
Award for MphasiS top brass
MUMBAI: Mr Jerry Rao, Chairman and CEO of MphasiS, and Mr Jeroen Tas, Vice-Chairman of MphasiS, have been awarded the Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year 2004 in the information technology category for the New York region. The ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bharti unit for corporate clients
IN a bid to tap the lucrative corporate segment, Bharti Tele-Ventures has created a new business unit by merging its data and broadband group with key corporate accounts of mobility and fixed line businesses. The new unit called "Enterprise ...
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Reliance Info bad debts at 16 pc of service revenues
RELIANCE Infocomm's provisioning for bad debts for the year 2003-2004 amounted to 16 per cent of service revenues, among the highest in the industry, according to telecom experts. The company provisioned Rs 436 crore for bad debts, while ...
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Tata Tele to invest Rs 445 cr more in AP circle
TATA Teleservices has unveiled plans to invest Rs 445 crore in the Andhra Pradesh circle this year to expand its network to 166 towns, up from 21 now and double its subscriber base from close to 5 lakh now. The Chief Operating Officer of Tata ...
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SOFTWARE
'15,000 may come back for US visa renewal'
THE National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has admitted that the new visa rules announced by US would mean an increase in time and cost of processing visas for technology companies in India, but urged players to bear ...
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Patni eyes strategic buys, expansion
POST-IPO, the Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems plans to make strategic investments on acquisitions, infrastructure development, employee ramp-ups and reduce its exposure to GE by growing its marquee client base. "Prior to the IPO itself, we ...
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Software management course by Trivandrum CSI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Trivandrum Chapter of Computer Society of India (CSI) will be organising a part-time course on software project management of one-month duration in the evening hours at the Chapter premises on Ambujavilasom Road in ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Hutch acquires Aircel in all-cash deal
HUTCHISON Essar on Friday announced that it has acquired the cellular operations of Aircel from Sterling Infotech Ltd. A company release did not disclose the price of the acquisition. Market sources put the figure at Rs 1,600 crore, making it ...
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
TCS, IBM expand ties
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd on Friday announced it has expanded its long-standing relationship with IBM to cross-sell each other's products and services. Under this agreement, TCS will train its employees and create focussed solutions using ...
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ISPS
Madurai BSNL introduces direct Internet access
MADURAI Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has introduced direct Internet access service that enables the browser in the Internet to make calls from telephone simultaneously. Mr K. Subbiah, BSNL General Manager, said that a subscriber could use of ...
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NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES
HP freebies for notebooks
NEW DELHI: Hewlett Packard India has announced a free bundling of back-up recovery service — HP BRS — on select configurations of HP Compaq NC4000 ultra portable notebook and HP Compaq NC6000 thin and light notebooks targeted ...
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BenQ enters notebook market
NEW DELHI: Networked digital devices company BenQ has announced its entry into Indian notebook computer market with the launch of two Centrino-based `Joybook' models. The two models - Joybook 5000 and Joybook 6000 - priced at Rs ...
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