The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 12, 2005

LGEIL to roll out storage products from next year
LGEIL, the Indian subsidiary of LG Electronics, expects its Pune plant to start making data storage products from next year. These would include CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, PC drives etc. The company also expects to roll out about 1.5 million mobile ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

People Infocom plans to double headcount at Mumbai centre
PEOPLE Infocom Pvt Ltd, which provides mobile content and applications under the brandname `Mauj Telecom' is planning to double the headcount at its Mumbai development centre to about 220 professionals in the next three months and would also set ... More

Bharti set on Rs 4,000-cr network expansion
BHARTI Televentures Ltd plans to invest Rs 4,000 crore this fiscal in network expansion across 23 circles. It is set to double its base stations from the present 10,000 to 20,000 and expand to 5000 towns and cities from about 2,800 now. This ... More

AirtelExpress van tour in Mangalore
MANGALORE: The `AirtelExpress' van of Airtel, which was flagged off in Bangalore on Wednesday, will cover 50 towns in the Mangalore region. Quoting Mr Deepak Mehrotra, Chief Operating Officer of BhartiTeleventures Ltd, Karnataka, a ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Kerala Cabinet clears Smart City MoU
THE draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Smart City project in Kochi, proposed to be set up by Dubai Internet City (DIC), has been cleared by the State Cabinet. One of the major changes effected in the original draft MoU, to be ... More

SOFTWARE

Sasken Comm IPO subscribed 12 times
SASKEN Communication Technologies Ltd's initial public offer, which opened on Thursday, was oversubscribed 12.27 times on the very first day. The public issue of five million shares at a face value of Rs 10 each for cash made through the ... More

Kanbay carves out innovations group
Kanbay plans to pool in resources from across the company, which would also include domain experts bringing in cross-functional expertise to the innovation centre. More

Infosys scores high in AMR ranking
INFOSYS Technologies is among the global top in a ranking of consulting and IT service providers to the consumer products industry. The evaluation, called the risk assessment profile, conducted by AMR Research, ranked Infosys first among ... More

BT Web conferencing tool
BANGALORE: BT has announced the launch of Microsoft Live Meeting, a Web conferencing product that enables users to stage live, interactive and large-scale event-type conference calls as well as smaller, collaborative meetings in Asia ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Apere sets up India centre, to invest $2 m
APERE Inc, a network security solutions provider, has announced the establishment of its India development centre in Hyderabad where it expects to invest $2 million this year and about $25 million in two years. The Founder Chairman and Chief ... More

MARKETING

Lenovo India outlets
BANGALORE: Lenovo India said on Thursday that it has opened its exclusive brand store, the ThinkWorld in the cities of Hyderabad, Raipur and Madurai. This initiative is in association with its channel partners Aparajitha ThinkWorld, ... More

PEOPLE

Ericsson appoints new India head
ERICSSON announced on Thursday the appointment of Mr Mats Granryd as the Head of Market Unit — India & Sri Lanka and Managing Director of Ericsson India Pvt Ltd. Mr Mats Granryd has replaced Mr Jan Campbell who will now be responsible for More

Key organisational changes at Bharti Tele
BHARTI Tele-Ventures, on Thursday, announced key organisational changes at the top management level. Mr Ashok Juneja, Director - Planning and Special Projects, Mobility, moves back into the Corporate Office as Corporate Director - Network ... More