The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 03, 2005

BSNL sends disconnection notice to Tata Tele — SC hearing today on appeal against tribunal order on ADC
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has directed all its circle units to issue disconnection notice to Tata Teleservices for non-payment of access deficit charges (ADC) while offering fixed wireless telephone services (Walky). In a notice sent to ... More

BSNL to invest Rs 1,000 cr in Bengal
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will invest Rs 1,000 crore on various initiatives in West Bengal between now and March 31, 2006. Of the proposed corpus, Rs 650 crore would be invested in the West Bengal Telecom Circle while the balance Rs 350 ... More

Optical fibre cables: PowerGrid earns Rs 20 crore lease rental
THE public sector Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has begun generating revenues from its telecom operations in the southern region. Sources said this year PGCIL has earned about Rs 20 crore as lease rentals for its optic fibre cable ... More

INSIGHT

Sharing the secret
Software companies are increasingly outsourcing product development to vendors to save on time and focus on branding. They are open to sharing intellectual property (IP), the core of their business, with the vendors. When trust begets trust... More

Software cos fail to make a dent in home turf
IT is not merely the attraction of dollar revenues from the US market that seems to be taking the sheen off the domestic IT market for Indian software product companies. A mix of factors, such as fixation for foreign IT products, delay in ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Maan Sarovar to build two IT parks in Chennai
THE Chennai-based Maan Sarovar Properties Development (P) Ltd is investing Rs 120 crore to set up two IT parks on Chennai's Information Technology highway, Mr Saurabh Gulechha, Head-Marketing, Maan Sarovar, said. Maan Sarovar Heights, covering ... More

Google, Patni among cos seeking land to expand operations in AP
GOOGLE, Sonata, Patni, Verizon and Qualcomm are among a host of global companies knocking at Hyderabad to set up their own facilities, according to a press release from the State Department of Information Technology and Communication. Several ... More

EDUCATION

Second phase of Akshaya to get under way in Kerala
THE State Government is all set to launch a project that would take the Akshaya e-literacy project to seven more districts. The pilot project has been running in Malappuram where it was introduced quite sometime back. A spokesman for the ... More

HARDWARE

MediaLab to distribute low-cost laptops to 15 million children
INDIA, which fancies itself as a software hotspot, is conspicuous by its absence among the developing countries that have plans to distribute low-cost laptops to children. These laptops are being developed by a non-profit group ... More

SOFTWARE

MedRP Soft to expand operations
MEDRP Soft Solutions India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of MedRP Intl and Tech, is planning to increase its operations in India by expanding to Bangalore and Mumbai in the next six months. The company will also set up an office in the UK, with back ... More

`Focus more on customised tools'
INDIAN IT firms should focus more on developing customised products such as Arabic software to gain a bigger market share of the huge IT products and services market in the Gulf and West Asia, said Mr Nalin Kohli, Chairman, Electronics and ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

HCL BPO scouting for US-based co
The company is confident because of the successful management of its operations in Ireland after acquiring an entity there. More

SECURITY

Popular - and targeted
Popularity comes at a price, as is the case with Internet browsers too. As they gain in use, they catch the eye of virus creators. More

EVENTS

Looking back

PIRACY

Microsoft to expand legal team here to combat piracy
It is not easy to understand local issues unless we have partners, since every country has its own set of laws, says Mr Bradford L. Smith. More

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