The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 09, 2005

MphasiS opens BPO facility in Mangalore
Mr Jerry Rao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company, addressing presspersons prior to the inauguration of the facility said, there was good scope for BPOs. "Indian economy is going to grow at 7-8 per cent. As domestic financial ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS

Moser Baer chief gets award
NEW DELHI: Mr Deepak Puri, Chairman and Managing Director of Moser Baer India Ltd, has been conferred the `Global Industry Leader 2005' award by Optical Disc Systems, a magazine on optical media manufacturing technology. "Moser ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

GSM subscriber base up by 1.2 m
GLOBAL System for Mobile (GSM)-based cellular operators recorded an increase of 1.24 million new subscribers to take the total to 41 million at the end of March. This takes the total mobile subscriber base to 52 million including those owned ... More

BSNL mulls cut in ISD tariffs
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd is mulling a cut in international long distance tariffs especially in sectors where the current rates are on the higher side. One of the sectors that may see a drop in tariff is the India to Gulf ISD calls, which now ... More

Cell players' suggestions on rural coverage
CELLULAR operators have mooted creation of common infrastructure for offering mobile services in rural areas. The operators have also urged the Government to set up independent infrastructure companies from whom the mobile operators can lease out ... More

Motorola begins work on Hyderabad design centre
FOLLOWING its move to invest $17 million in Bangalore R&D centre, Motorola India today announced its engineering design centre in Hyderabad and the company plans to locate its technology campus here complementing its present development ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Toxic junk
Used computer monitors dumped in a waste collection shop in Kochi. Developing countries import outdated computers from the West and dump them after use. According to experts, at least one lakh computers used in Kerala need upgradation. Such ... More

STOCKS

Uneasiness affects infotech stocks
According to Mr Gaurav Dua of Anagram Stockbroking, an uncertainty prevails on the impact of fringe benefit tax. More

HARDWARE

LightScribe Tech HP laptops
NEW DELHI: Hewlett Packard has launched India's the country's first series of consumer notebooks with LightScribe technology targeted at achieving better levels of productivity and efficiency. "HP will be offering this combination in ... More

New Novell server
BANGALORE: Novell will soon introduce Novell Open Enterprise Server, a secure and liable suite of services that combines NetWare and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to deliver management, collaboration and application services. Open ... More

SOFTWARE

Post-VAT, software vendors seek downstream biz
Enterprises would now have to rework their warehouse strategies and handle supply-chain issues, presenting new business opportunties for vendors. More

HCL bags Rs 20-cr software development project from BDA
HCL will design, develop, implement and support an integrated management information system for BDA. More

Private equity cos invest over $66 m in IT sector
PRIVATE equity firms invested over $327 million (Rs 1,400 crore) in 30 Indian companies during the quarter ended March 2005. According to data from TSJ Media, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded companies worldwide, ... More

Intransa plans expansion
INTRANSA Inc, a provider of Internet Protocol (IP) storage solutions, is planning to expand its operations in India. Mr Udi Paret, Vice-President, Intransa Inc, said the company has seen a rapid growth in India in terms of customer acquisition ... More

Viteos Tech renamed
BANGALORE: Viteos Technologies Ltd has announced the change of its name to `Viteos Capital Market Services Ltd' to reflect its intensified focus on capital market services, having entirely exited its call centre services. Viteos is an ... More

Polaris to appeal Rs 18.3 cr I-T notice
POLARIS Software Lab Ltd on Friday said that the income-tax authorities have served the company a notice for payment of Rs 18.03 crore as additional taxes under the Income-Tax Act, 1961 for the financial years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. This, ... More

INTERNET

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ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Ex-employees of MsourcE held for `bank funds transfer'
THE cyber crime cell of the Pune police has arrested four former employees of a BPO centre in the city, for duping four account holders based in New York. These people were earlier with MsourcE, the BPO arm of MphasiS-BFL Ltd. Including the ... More

TRENDS

SMBs shifting to primary-vendor networking tools
THE Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in Asia Pacific are moving away from multi-vendor networking solutions to primary-vendor suites, a recent study by Frost & Sullivan has said. The main drivers for this trend are considerations for ... More

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