The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 07, 2004

OUTSOURCING
Nissan in talks with Infosys for outsourcing
NISSAN Motor Corporation is said to be in advanced talks with Infosys for outsourcing its IT services. The Nissan Motor CEO and President, Mr Carlos Ghosn, visited the Infosys campus in Bangalore on Wednesday and held exploratory meetings with ... More

Malaysian BPO firm sets up unit in Bangalore
MALAYSIA has entered the ITES space in India for the first time by setting up Scicom Contact Centre Service (India) Pvt. Ltd, a contact centre for Nokia. Scicom Contact Centre is a subsidiary of Malaysian BPO services provider, scicom (MSC) Sdn ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
GSM players add 1.5 m subscribers in September
WITH mobile tariffs crashing, Global System for Mobile (GSM) based cellular operators added another 1.53 million users in September to take the total subscriber base to 33.5 million. This is the highest ever increase in subscriber base recorded ... More

BSNL plans undersea cable link to Lanka
AFTER Bharti's i2i cable and VSNL's Tata Indicom cable on the Chennai-Singapore route, it is now Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, which is planning an undersea cable route out of India. BSNL is planning to lay an undersea cable between Chennai and Sri ... More

Sam Pitroda favours greater autonomy for MTNL, BSNL
TELECOM icon and member of National Advisory Council Mr Sam Pitroda, today favoured greater autonomy for state-owned telecom firms MTNL and BSNL either "individually or collectively" and said the ultimate goal should be to reduce Government ... More

AT&T bags Wipro deal
NEW DELHI: AT&T on Wednesday announced it has won a contract renewal for hosting and voice services from Wipro Technologies. "As part of the hosting contract, Wipro's data servers will be located in AT&T Internet data centres in ... More

SOFTWARE
HCL Tech develops risk tool for banks
HCL Technologies has developed an operational risk management and measurement engine called OpRisk Shelter to identify, measure and manage expected loss related to operational risks of a bank. "The development of a solution for monitoring ... More

IT majors evince interest in technology park near Pune
The State already has 27 public IT parks and its development in this sector has been marked by multi-city growth into smaller cities such as Pune. More

INTERNET
Internet user base grows 8 pc in Q2
THE subscriber base of Internet Service Providers (ISP) has increased by 8 per cent during the quarter ending in June. The numbers of subscribers has increased from 4.55 million in the previous quarter to 4.93 million, according to the quarterly ... More

IT TRAINING
Aptech partners Korean co
HYDERABAD: Aptech Ltd has announced a tie-up with the Seoul-based firm, BIT Computer Co Ltd, to offer software training programmes to engineers in South Korea aimed at enhancing Korean engineers' global capability. An MoU was signed on ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
MindTree buys ASAP Solutions
IT services firm MindTree Consulting said on Wednesday that it has acquired the Noida-based ASAP Solutions for an undisclosed sum in an all cash deal. The buy-out would help MindTree expand its capabilities in areas of enterprise resource ... More

Trianz buys Eximsoft Tech
TRIANZ Consulting, a US-based business execution consulting firm, has announced the acquisition of Bangalore-based Eximsoft Technologies Pvt Ltd. The all cash acquisition would enable the firm to foray into new geographies such as Japan and ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
Lera Tech, Dubai co in pact
HYDERABAD: Lera Technologies, a Hyderabad based software services provider, has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Al Ghandhi Solutions (AGS), Dubai, to offer technology services for the diversified group as ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
SriLankan Cargo launches e-filing of manifests
CUSTOMERS of SriLankan Cargo, the cargo arm of SriLankan airline, can now save up to 80 per cent of the costs incurred on advance filing of cargo manifests on account of the newly launched electronic House Air Way Bill, or e-HAWB, on its ... More

SECURITY
`Internal security threat needs more attention'
INDIAN companies are aware of but do little to implement information security programmes within their organisations, according to Ernst & Young. Its 2004 global information security survey found that although Indian business heads showed more .. More

BROADBAND
Bharti offers PC with broadband at Rs 999 a month
NOW you can own a computer, broadband connection, telephone line, Microsoft windows XP and pack of games for just Rs 999 a month. Bharti Tele-Ventures has tied up with HCL and Bajaj Auto Finance Ltd, which will enable consumers to get a ... More

Bandwidth prices from India high: Gartner
INTERNATIONAL leased line prices for bandwidth from India are five times more expensive, as compared to hub routes such as Singapore-Hong Kong or Singapore-Tokyo. However, in the case of intra-city leased lines, India, along with a couple of ... More