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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Reach, VSNL oppose integration of Flag, Falcon
INTERNATIONAL wholesale carrier Reach and VSNL have raised objections to the proposed integration of the FLAG Europe Asia (FEA) cable system with FALCON, both owned by Reliance Industries. The two international long-distance carriers have ...
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BPL Mobile hopes to double subscriber base in 6 months
It has decided to rollout 100 new cell sites across the State in the next 100 days, taking the total number of cell sites to nearly 300.
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Airtel plans to cover 55 more towns in Karnataka
AIRTEL, which now covers 230 towns in Karnataka, is planning to cover another 55 by March 2005. Mr Rohit Malhotra, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Bharti Cellular Ltd, Karnataka, told presspersons here that of the 55 towns planned, 25 ...
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Reliance Info launches fixed wireless telephony
RELIANCE Infocomm Ltd on Wednesday formally unveiled its fixed wire-free phone (FWP) for subscribers in Tamil Nadu circle, which the company officials hope, will push further its current market share up by another 5 per cent to 25 per cent. ...
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HARDWARE
PC sales grow 37 pc in first half
THE report card for computer sales is out. Fuelled by attractive price points and an increased consumption among verticals and in smaller towns and cities, PC sales have grossed a record 1.71 million units in the first half of the current ...
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SOFTWARE
Satyam sets up grid computing facility
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd has has set up a dedicated grid computing practice and a grid computing facility in Chennai, according to its Director, Consulting and Enterprise Solutions, Mr G.B. Prabhat. The Hyderabad-based software firm has ...
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Bell Labs opens Bangalore R&D unit
BELL Labs, the research and development outfit of Lucent Technologies, opened its research centre in Bangalore on Wednesday. It expects to hire some 25 people over the next 18 months, said the company president, Mr Jeff Jaffe, adding India ...
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Wipro to set up integrated centre at Bhubaneswar
WIPRO Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Orissa Government for setting up a major software development and BPO services centre at Infocity, a sprawling complex covering 30 acres exclusively developed for IT industries on the ...
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Nasscom signs MoU with Pak counterpart
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and Pakistan Software Houses Association have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to increase trade and cooperation. The MoU was signed recently during the visit of ...
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Interra plans Bangalore centre
BANGALORE: Interra Systems has announced plans to further expand its presence with the addition of a development centre in Bangalore. The Managing Director of Interra Systems India, Mr Sanjay Mittal, in a statement on Wednesday, said: ...
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IT TRAINING
Cos gearing up for major share of e-learning pie
INDIA, with its huge English-speaking workforce that already has had experience in BPO, e-learning and tech support domains, is strategically poised to get a large portion of the $21-billion business that e-learning is expected to be globally by ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Sterling Commerce to buy Yantra Corp
Sterling has said it expects to retain all Yantra employees and operate the company as a new business division.
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
Four Soft enters China through joint venture
FOUR Soft Ltd has established a joint venture company - Four Soft Logistics Software Company Ltd - with a local partner at Shanghai to market its products and services in mainland China. The Managing Director of Four Soft, Mr Palem ...
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SoftPro to service JBoss wares
HYDERABAD: SoftPro Systems Ltd has signed an agreement with JBoss Inc, to be its authorised service partner. This will enable SoftPro to provide services of systems integration, consulting certification, and first level support to ...
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OUTLOOK
`Products, tech services market to grow to $ 8-11 b'
THE product and technology services market in India is estimated to grow to $8-11 billion by 2008, thus indicating the plethora of opportunities on anvil for players, according to the National Association of Software and Services Companies ...
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