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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DoT sets up monitoring cells to check illegal ILD calls
THE Department of Telecom has set up Vigilance Telecom Monitoring Cells at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad to detect the illegal routing of long distance calls. These monitoring stations will also ensure that the licence conditions are ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Bengal to create more built-in IT space
AN additional four million sq ft of "built-in IT space" will be created in Kolkata by March 31, 2006, according to Mr Manab Mukherjee, West Bengal's Minister for Information Technology. Addressing a gathering at the foundation-stone-laying ...
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STOCKS
Infosys to seek shareholders' nod for second ADS
INFOSYS Technologies will seek shareholders' approval for its second sponsored Amercian Depository Shares issue at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled on December 18. The ADS would be issued against the existing equity shares to overseas ...
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HARDWARE
`UHP material vital to grow hardware sector'
MR K.K. Jaswal, Member-Secretary of the National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised/ Informal Sector, has said that lack of infrastructure, investment, integration and clear road maps caused the IT hardware sector to lag behind, while the ...
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SOFTWARE
Ramco VirtualWorks set to go global
`In 2004-05, revenue from VirtualWorks will be comfortably over 50 per cent, and in 2005-06, over 80 per cent'.
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SAP to focus more on CRM solutions
FOR SAP, the growing focus on customer relationship management (CRM) solutions is slowly replacing its mainstay business of being an ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor. Last year of the $1.2-billion ploughed into R&D, a significant amount
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Servista software centre in Pune
LONDON-based Servista, a service provider of customer care and billing software and services for the utilities and telecoms market, announced the opening of its software development and support centre in Pune. The company will initially ...
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SSA to invest $13 m in India over next year
SSA Global, a provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, on Monday said it plans to invest about $12-13 million in India for expanding its development and support activities over the next 12 months. "Last year, we had invested $10 ...
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SureWave for Samsung phones
HYDERABAD: JP Mobile, an enterprise mobility software solutions provider, has announced that its SureWave Mobile Defence software supports Samsung's PalmSource OS-based i500 and Microsoft Windows Mobile-based i700 Pocket PC Phone. The ...
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Microsense WiFi hotspots
BANGALORE: Microsense, a provider of wireless area network solutions, has said it expects to implement about 1,000 WiFi hotspots over the next six months, the company said in a press release. It was also building networks in association ...
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IT TRAINING
Microsoft ties up with Karnataka for learning programme
MICROSOFT India has tied up with the Karnataka Government to roll out its partners-in-learning programme in the State. The programme encompassed Microsoft's flagship India education initiative `Project Shiksha - empowering the future' as ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
US Congress nod for hiking skilled worker visas
IN a move that will benefit India, the US Congress has passed a measure that would increase skilled worker visas by 20,000, including of the H-1B category. This measure was part of the massive $388 billion spending bill that lawmakers passed ...
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EVENTS
C-DAC workshop on supply chain management
THE Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad, under the Union Ministry of Communications & IT, and International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, in association with the Department of Information ...
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I'm CM, not CEO: Reddy
THE Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, unlike his predecessor, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, does not like to be referred to as the Chief Executive Officer of the State. " I am the Chief Minister and not the CEO," he asserted at a press ...
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Chennai to host Indiasoft2005 in March
CHENNAI will host the Indiasoft2005, an information technology global networking event in India, on March 21 and 22 next year. To be organised by the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC), the event is likely to ...
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`GITEX expo to bring together leading IT players'
THE fourth edition of GITEX Hyderabad, to be held at the HITEX International Exhibition Centre here from January 12, is expected to bring together leading Indian and global information technology players on a single platform, according to the ...
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WORK LIFE
Facility managers pool in offing
IFMA India, the Indian arm of International Facility Management Association, and Nasscom (the National Association of Software and Services Companies), will work together to facilitate infrastructure development across the country. The two ...
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PEOPLE
SAS CEO coming next month
THE SAS CEO, Dr Jim Goodnight, would visit India next month to co-chair various sessions at the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit in the Capital. During his first visit to the country, Dr Goodnight would also meet key Government ...
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