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Rural telephony — Intellicon to market switches of Turkish co
AHMEDABAD-based Intellicon Ltd announced on Thursday that it has tied up with Karel, a Turkish telecom company, to market rural telephone exchanges in the country. Karel offers telephone switches of smaller capacity that are claimed to be a ... More

HARDWARE


Sahara table PC at Rs 67,000
NEW DELHI: Sahara Computers and Electronics Ltd (SCEL) on Thursday introduced the Windows XP Tablet PC priced at Rs 66,999. Powered by Intel Pentium M Dothan 1.7GHz processor, the Tablet PC sports 512 MB DDR RAM, which can be further ... More

SOFTWARE


iGATE to expand Canadian operations
AFTER Japan, it is Canada now for iGATE Global Solutions. It plans to ramp up its Canadian operations aggressively, the company has said. iGATE, which has over 250 employees servicing the Canadian market, expects to double its headcount next ... More

CMC unit assessed at Level 5
NEW DELHI: CMC Ltd announced on Thursday that its Systems Integration Business Unit of the northern region has been assessed at SEI-CMM Level 5, the highest level of Capability Maturity Model (CMM) of the Software Engineering Institute ... More

Mastek `Elixir' for insurers
MASTEK has launched `Elixir', a solution for policy administration by insurance companies in India. This is a component-based solution designed specifically for insurance companies that want to launch hybrid products and improve the efficiency of ... More

INTERNET


Caution on Trojan e-mail spam
COIMBATORE:With the festive season round the corner, users have been cautioned by Trend Micro of a Trojan e-mail spam that is presently doing the rounds. Trendlabs has detected the Trojan e-mail `TROJ_SAMX.A'. The spam upon execution ... More

IT TRAINING


AP Govt seeks help for knowledge centres
THE State Secretary for Information Technology and Communication, Ms K. Ratna Prabha, called for support from various departments, and the private sector in implementing Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKC) across the State. She was speaking at a ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES


Four Soft woos overseas techies to fuel expansion
FOUR Soft Ltd, a technology products and services company, plans to expand and wants to hire engineers who are located overseas but are keen to return home. It expects to support them with an attractive employee stock option plan (ESOP), which ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


Wipro buys mPower in all-cash deal
WIPRO Technologies on Thursday announced the acquisition of the US-based mPower Inc in an all-cash deal worth $28 million. This amount includes the takeover of the Chennai-based MPACT, a joint venture of MasterCard and mPower. MasterCard, ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT


Global E-softSys to open development centre in Mangalore
GLOBAL E-SoftSys Pvt Ltd, an enterprise and e-business software solutions provider, will open its new offshore software development centre in Mangalore on Friday. Addressing newspersons here on Thursday, Mr K.U. Shenoy, the company chairman, ... More

INTERVIEW


Broadband helps stem loss of fixed lines: MTNL
THE Executive Director at Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd , Mr M.S. Rana, says broadband has helped in tapering down loss of fixed line business. He adds that the company's focus on broadband will help retain customers. Excerpts from CNBC-TV18's ... More

`As IBM's arm, Daksh has best of both worlds'
IN one of the largest acquisitions in the IT-enabled services (ITES) space in the country, computing giant IBM took over Daksh in April 2004. Now, 20 months down the line, Daksh's founder and CEO, Mr Sanjeev Aggarwal, who is now the CEO ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES


B-schools urged to focus on soft skills
THE business schools in the country have failed to develop soft skills in the students, placing them at a disadvantage in the job market, said Prof J.V. Prabhakara Rao, Principal of the College of Arts and Commerce, Andhra University. At the ... More



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