The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 13, 2002

VSNL: Making it ring the Tata tone
IS Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) an international long-distance service provider or Internet service provider? It may sound strange, but the country's leading ILD operator, having a near monopoly over the market, is facing an identity ... More

Tariff cuts boost cell-phone subscriber base in South
Karnataka has shown the fastest growth in cellular usage among the A circle regions with a subscriber base of about 4.5 lakh and the average growth rate in the region during the sequential quarter was about 35 per cent. More

BPL cellular biz loses top honcho
BPL's cellular business has lost a top honcho. Mr K. Ravishankar, a wholetime director of BPL Communications Ltd, has quit. Mr Ravishankar has been associated with the BPL Group since 1996. He occupied several key posts including that of the ... More

Matrix plans to expand centre
MATRIX Telecom, a Vadodara-based telecom products company, has announced plans to expand its manufacturing centre with an investment of Rs 1 crore for expansion. This would include adding 10,000 sq.ft. base and plans to launch some more ... More

Use mobiles to spot stolen vehicles
To avail themselves of the facility, the users would have to go to the short message service (SMS) window of the handsets and write the registration number of the vehicle. This message then has to be forwarded to 100. More

Philips eyeing 10 pc of handsets market
THE vibrant growth of the cellular industry, which notched up a 70 per cent accretion in the subscriber base has encouraged Philips India Ltd, to draw up plans to take a 10 per cent share of the Rs 2,000-crore mobile phones market by 2005. ... More

RPG's new service

SOFTWARE

IBM to continue investing in India
IBM, the global computing major, has said that it would make substantial investments in India with the objective of becoming the leading information technology solution provider in the country in the next couple of years. The company will make ... More

Wipro solution for Korean co
BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies said that HomeNetwork System of Korea has selected Wipro's CommEngine software for its home server and client products. Wipro's solution will drive these products to provide end-consumers benefits such ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

Infosys assessed at Level 5 on PCMM model
INFOSYS Technologies has announced that it has been assessed at Level 5 on the PCMM model by KPMG Consulting, becoming the first company in the world to be assessed at the optimising level on the updated version 2.0 of the model. The assessment ... More

OUTLOOK

MS to target independent solution vendors
The focus would be on encouraging these independent solution vendors to develop applications based on the Unicode standards. For developers, the alliance with Microsoft would act as a strategic incentive. More

Parsec focus on export market, BOT model
PARSEC Technologies Pvt Ltd, the call centre solutions company, now plans to look at the export market. The company, which set up a subsidiary in the US last-year, has plans to renew focus on that market later in the year. However, the ... More

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Looking back
Aug. 4-Aug. 10
BSNL set for nationwide GSM services launch

Aptech Training to focus on ITES, BPO sectors

Top cos see staff cost increasing

Hyderabad, Kochi take pole position as ITES destinations

PackMate takes the visually impaired to cyber world

Tax charges on top three cos higher

Debtor days down for software cos — No indicator of recovery, say analysts

`Disk storage market grew 64 pc in 2001'