The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 01, 2003

HP plans buyback in Digital, to delist — Indicative price Rs 750 per sahre
HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP), a 50.6 per cent stake owner in software services vendor Digital GlobalSoft Ltd, has proposed to buy back stakes held by local minority shareholders and subsequently delist Digital from the bourses. The share buyback will ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS

ITC bags award for e-Choupals
ITC has bagged the Seagate Intelligent Enterprise of the Year award for the most innovative use of information technology. According to a company press release issued here, the award was given in recognition of ITC's e-Choupal initiative that ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TRAI may lower cap on global bandwidth rates
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is likely to revise downwards the ceiling on the tariffs being charged for international leased bandwidth. This move is likely to benefit stand-alone Internet service providers (ISPs) and big ... More

More mobiles, and sparrows take flight
THE wireless telecom revolution is catching on at the expense of a tiny winged creature — the house sparrow. The tiny birds are fast disappearing from cities "contaminated" with electromagnetic waves arising out of increased number of ... More

HARDWARE

PC majors join `assembled' race
Consumers seem to prefer an assembled PC with the choice of their configuration to a low-priced branded machine. More

SOFTWARE

Human-machine interface software for shopfloor
THE manufacturing sector has begun to change driven by new technologies that have helped bring in efficiencies in production. The plant floor is leveraging the advantages of human-machine interface (HMI) software as also specialised servers which ... More

INTERNET

Mahamaza takes online bazaar to non-metros
"Unlike urban-oriented sites where most of the sales come from items such as music or gifts, more than 50 per cent of our sales come from electronic items," says Mr Anand. More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

CMS Computers ties up with German co
THE Rs 350-crore CMS Computers Ltd has tied up with Bowe Systec of Germany for technology that helps CMS mail out billing or transaction statements to its clients' clients. CMS' outsourcing division is in the business of printing out telephone ... More

Numeric Power to beef up ties with French partner
NUMERIC Power Systems may form a joint venture with its French partner, Merlin Gerin. The nature and scope of the JV is likely to be decided in January, Numeric's Managing Director Mr R. Chellappan told a press conference here. Numeric ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

Payment broker system relevant to e-business
The advancement in telecom technology and voice data convergence and transition of major part of usage from voice to data service will have certain adverse impact on the of current telecom business models. More

EVENTS

Conference on hardware
HYDERABAD: Eyeing the $10-billion opportunity in the infotech hardware exports sector, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with the Manufacturing Association of Information Technology, is organising a two-day ... More

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