The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, January 07, 2006

Outsourcing demand to remain strong: Forrester
Maintenance, custom development top list
THE demand for outsourcing software-related work is expected to remain strong with clients continuing to outsource applications maintenance and custom application development, and undertaking several consulting projects over the next 12 months, a ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Reliance Info offers lifetime free rental on post-paids
RELIANCE Infocomm has launched a Lifetime Rental Free (Plan Life900) plan for its post-paid customers for a one-time payment of Rs 900 and monthly Rs 50 CLIP charges. This comes barely two weeks after the company announced a lifetime validity ... More

Threat from cheaper Chinese handsets — DoT backs move to put mobile imports on watch list
THE Department of Telecom has backed the industry demand to include mobile handsets, parts, components and accessories on the Government's `war room' watch list to counter dumping of cheaper products from China. The Government had set up the "war ... More

2005 saw 30 m more phone subscribers
TELEPHONE subscriber base went up by 5 million users in December, taking the total tally to nearly 125 million. More than 30 million new users were added during 2005, making it the highest addition in any single year. With this, tele-density ... More

HARDWARE

`Indian chip industry needs new models'
THE Chairman and CEO of Conexant Systems Inc, Dr Dwight W. Decker, has called for new models to meet the demanding semiconductor business in India. Speaking on `A New Business Model for the Fabless Startup', hosted by the India Semiconductor ... More

TI India bullish on semiconductors
TEXAS Instruments India (TI India) is bullish on the growing Indian market for semiconductors driven by areas of digital entertainment, broadband, mobile phones, telecom sector along with other technology applications. The Managing Director of ... More

A PC for Rs 3,500!
NOVATIUM, a company incubated by a telecom group set up by the faculty of IIT (Madras), has developed a network personal computer (PC) that would cost just Rs 3,500. The PC, which will be connected by a common server, will have no virus ... More

Karnataka Govt to finance PCs for staff
A GOVERNMENT assisted PC purchase programme was announced in Bangalore on Friday. The programme Gyanodaya will offer affordable PCs for an EMI of Rs 399 for four years to government employees. PCs with different hardware configurations will be ... More

SOFTWARE

Tulip IT Services: 25 p trades to be settled at Rs 171.15
THE BSE today said some trades executed at 25 paise in the shares of Tulip IT Services on Thursday will not be settled at this rate. The exchange said trades executed below Rs 96 would be transacted at Rs 171.15. This means that investors who ... More

Edit pictures, get scammed
EDIT seven pictures on Adobe Photoshop, a common software, and walk away with Rs 7,500 per month. Too good to be true? For about 5,100 people, mostly students in Ahmedabad, it was exactly that as they fell prey to a Ponzi scheme that allegedly ... More

Take Solutions' new tool
CHENNAI: The Singapore-based Take Solutions has launched e-Registry, an electronic filing solution in India. The Web-based software application is targeted at banks, government agencies, mortgage companies, notary public and financial ... More

Satyam deploys Oracle tech for telemedicine project
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd and Oracle India have empowered the Byrraju Foundation with a technology solution that helps reach out telemedicine to about 150 villages. By deploying Oracle application, Satyam has ensured that the system will ... More

eInfochips gears up for Japanese biz
ENGINEERS at the design centres of the Ahmedabad-based AISC design services and embedded systems solutions provider, eInfochips, have more to do these days than their core job profiles and if they seem to speak in a language that sound strange to ... More

SECURITY

MS releases patch for flaw
MICROSOFT Corporation India on Friday announced that it has released a security update to help protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the Windows Operating System, in response to ... More

`Trend Micro is market leader'
COIMBATORE: Internet content security software and services company Trend Micro has been identified by IDC as the leader in network anti-virus space for the first half of 2005. According to IDC's Asia-Pacific Semi Annual Security ... More

CONVERGENCE

`4G poised for take-off'
FOURTH-generation (4G) wireless systems are poised to take off, driven by consumer electronics, digital lifestyles and convergence applications that bring television onto mobile phones, according to the Chief Executive Officer of ATI ... More

EVENTS

HYSEA Tech Day
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA) is organising its annual Technology Day event on January 11. The event, aimed at appraising its member-companies of emerging industry trends that could present growth ... More

PEOPLE

Former Oracle India MD joins Solix
SOLIX Technologies, an information management solutions provider, on Friday announced it has inducted Mr Shekhar Dasgupta as President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Solix, Mr Dasgupta, was Managing Director at Oracle India and ... More

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