The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 29, 2002

Voice and Data awards
BANGALORE: Idea Cellular bagged the top cellular services company Voice and Data award for 2001-02. The awards were given on the basis of revenues earned during the fiscal 2001-02. LG Electronics was adjudged the fastest growing ... More

Data Access gets award
NEW DELHI: Telecom equipment provider VocalTec Communications Ltd, which offers packet voice solutions for carriers and service providers, has named Data Access as the recipient of its Outstanding Customer Award for 2002. According to a ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Spice plans to invest Rs 100 cr in Punjab
SPICE Telecom, the leading private cellular provider in Punjab, intends to invest Rs 100 crore towards strengthening its infrastructure at 100 new sites and upgrading the existing switch to the latest version. A company spokesman said that the ... More

Escotel zone opened in Kochi

STOCKS

Public pie in IT cos gets bigger
IS the Indian public buying shares on bad news hoping to sell when things become better? Or is it left groping in the dark while foreign institutional investors have seen the light at the end of the tunnel? Either interpretation is possible if ... More

SOFTWARE

Borland to double tech, sales team — Aims at 30 pc growth this fiscal
Borland is also exploring the possibility of tapping other markets in the Indian sub-continent including Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. More

Fast Forward lines up insurance solutions
FAST Forward Systems India, the fully-owned subsidiary of the Singapore - based Fast Forward Technologies, which is focussing on niche insurance and financial markets space, has lined up a range of solutions including Broker Connect, a solution ... More

Interra Systems to invest $10 m
NEW DELHI: Design solution provider Interra Systems Inc has announced plans to invest $10 million to expand its infrastructure and capacity of its operations in the country. The company offers products and services to memory and ... More

INTERNET

Gocher to head Yahoo! India
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India, has announced that Mr Darren Gocher will take over as Country Head for India. Mr Gocher will replace Mr Deepak Chandnani who will be relieved on December 14. Mr Neville Taraporewala, who heads the media business is is ... More

IT TRAINING

Quality Engg-Manipal institute tie up

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Triple Point Tech sets up Indian arm
TRIPLE Point Technology Inc provider of enterprise-wide energy trading and risk management solutions has opened its Indian operations here. The Pune office would serve as the centre of Triple Point's Asian operations and would offer sales, ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

Global E-Secure bags GNFC contract
MUMBAI: Global E-Secure Ltd has announced that it has won an order from Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company (GNFC) to set up a project to provide digital signature certificates based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) ... More

SECURITY

Face recognition may be the next best biometric bet
AFTER finger printing, palm imprints and iris scans, the next best biometric bet that could securities high-risk zones is said to be face recognition. The Bangalore-based ILI Technologies, one of the few and early movers in biometrics, has ... More

Insurers plug for cover against cyber-terror
THE insurance and reinsurance players have stressed on the immediate need to develop adequate capacity for offering cover to the Indian information technology industry against the cyber terrorism. Speaking at the second day of the Insurance ... More

CONVERGENCE

Govt rapped for `haste' in allowing DTH services
THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has said that the Government has been in an "unseemly and unnecessary hurry'' in allowing Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV services. "The committee is deeply concerned to note that the ... More

EVENTS

Anand campaigns for World Computer Literacy Day
Chess champion and NIIT Brand Ambassador, Vishwanathan Anand, along with his wife, Aruna Anand, interacting with orphan children of Udayan and presenting them NIIT's computer literacy programme — Swift Jyoti — to support the December ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

Asian Venture Forum India 2002 to look at new opportunities
IN a depressed global market scenario, India continues to offer some good opportunities for investment, according to Mr Dinesh Vaswani, general partner, Walden International. Speaking at a press briefing to announce the 2002 Asian Venture Forum ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

IBM Global assessed for PCMM
BANGALORE: IBM Global Services India (IGSI), Export Services has been assessed successfully for People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) Level 5, Version 2.0, awarded by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Bharti launches new SMS service
BHARTI Mobile Ltd, has announced the launch of a multi-player mobile dating game LuvM8 that uses SMS (short messaging system) exclusively for AirTel Magic subscribers wherein players are asked a series of clever and funny questions related to ... More

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