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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Skill City in talks with Karnataka Govt
The facility is expected to be as big as "Infosys' campus" More

NEW BUSINESS
TCS bags UK contract
TCS has bagged a five-year "multi-million pound" contract from UK-based United Biscuits. The company did not specify the size of the deal. United Biscuits has made TCS its preferred IT supplier for applications development and ... More

OUTSOURCING
Motif opens new centre at Manila
The Ahmedabad-based leading global business process outsourcing provider, Motif Inc, has announced the opening of a new operations centre in Manila, the Philippines. Motif now provides operational redundancy and access to a diverse talent pool ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Siemens tech for networks
On the merger, the Siemens Mobile Network President said that it was not because of new business or competition, but `size and the new structure of the markets with fixed and mobile access profiles. More

Airtel cuts price
Airtel has reduced the price of its starter pack in the prepaid segment in Chennai, according to a press release. It will offer a student prepaid starter pack at Rs 149 — cost reduced from Rs 224. This pack has a talk time of Rs 50 and is ... More

Mobile boom
AN ELEPHANT being photographed on a mobile phone in Thrissur. Telecom operators in the country added nearly 6.6 million subscribers in October this year, the highest number of new cellular users in the world. GSM operators added 4.7 million ... More

INSIGHT
What's on your mobile?
The mobile content market is poised for a big leap but the technology available will restrict its usage to voice and SMS formats. More

HARDWARE
IFC may invest Rs 100 cr in Moser Baer project
Funding for solar photovoltaic cells and module facility More

`Good' demand for Core 2 Duo
Intel Technology India, the Indian arm of the global chip technology company Intel, finds the market perception for its new generation desktop `Core 2 Duo' processor is good. "We could sense that from the past four months' sale ... More

SOFTWARE
SocGen Centre to expand
Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SGCSC), the global knowledge centre for the Societe General Group is expanding its operations in Bangalore. SGCSC has set up its third facility in Bangalore that can accommodate some 200 people and also ... More

Satyam sets up centre for Sony Europe
Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced the launch of a 40-seater offshore development centre (ODC) at its Bangalore campus for the Japanese electronics giant, Sony Europe. This centre will provide Sony Europe with SAP application ... More

IPR
`India needs stronger IP regime'
The Microsoft Technical Computing Vice-President, Mr Tony Hey, has said that for Indian IT companies to emulate global giants such as Microsoft, there has to be a much stronger intellectual property regime in the country. Commenting on the R&D . More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
E-auction runs into rough weather at Kochi
ACCENTURE IRKED More

SECURITY
Spam busting during the festive season
IronPort Systems, an Internet gateway security provider, predicts that the number of spam messages a day will average 78 billion globally this year-end. Worldwide, spam volumes increased from 31 billion messages a day in October 2005 to 61 ... More

ISPS
Tadiran offers IP tools for enterprises
To make migration to Net telephony swift and easy More

EVENTS
IBM unveils `desi' solutions for BPOs
Tools automate evaluation of call centre agent's language skills More

IPOS
IPO: Idea hopes to raise Rs 2,500 cr
Aditya Birla Group Company Idea Cellular has approached market regulator SEBI for clearance of an initial public offering, hoping to mop up an estimated Rs 2,500 crore. The company is likely to offload about 10 per cent equity through the IPO and ... More

OUTLOOK
Cisco to locate unit in Chennai
India key to its global growth strategy; plan to triple manpower to 6,000 More

`Manufacturing sector offers bright scope'
IT companies can vie for a share of the $100-billion opportunity in the IT-intensive product space, with manufacturing companies worldwide trying to embed IT solutions in their products to enhance utility. Speaking at the two-day Global ... More

Target $200-b software exports by 2010: Kalam
Make available bandwidth to bridge digital divide More






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