The Hindu Business Line : Friday, June 03, 2005

A network to access digital libraries
VIRTUAL libraries are not a distant dream any longer if the plan to automate them and digitise data is anything to go by. The University Grants Commission has embarked on an ambitious programme just to achieve this while networking various ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Samsung mobile with FM facility
Mr S. H. Oh (right), President and CEO, South West Asia Regional Head Quarters, Samsung, and Mr H.C. Ryu, Director, Telecom Business, Samsung, at the launch of its lightest GSM handsets with FM Radio at a press conference in Bangalore on ... More

ELECTRONICS

NeST Group to set up VLSI design centre
NEST Group, a Kerala-based information technology company, plans a big foray into semiconductor design and development, envisaging the setting up of a manufacturing foundry for memory chips at an investment of a billion dollars. The Rs ... More

SOFTWARE

34 pc growth in software, services exports
CONTINUING its growth momentum on the back of strong off-shoring interest, the country's software and services exports were expected to grow by 30-32 per cent in 2005-06, said the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) ... More

i-flex to focus on BRIC
HAVING established its footprint in the banking industry globally, i-flex Solutions Ltd, stated to be the world's largest core banking product vendor, has identified the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) geographies as major thrust ... More

Seth Services tool for Hutch
NEW DELHI: Seth Services said on Thursday that Hutchison Max Telecom Ltd has deployed its data analysis solution for revenue assurance, to guard against dropped (unbilled) calls. Seth Services is the Indian partner of Canada-based ACL ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Bose Corp plans to hike headcount at Bangalore unit
BOSE Corporation, the US-headquartered $1.7-billion turnover audio systems and acoustics major, has announced plans to augment the headcount at its Indian software hub located in Bangalore under a wholly-owned subsidiary named Bose Technology ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Goldstone Tech completes Stay Top buy
GOLDSTONE Technologies Ltd has completed the acquisition of Stay Top Systems Inc, a provider of Oracle services. It plans to raise about $2 million either through equity or debt to augment additional capital. The Managing Director of Goldstone ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

TRAI sets higher tariff for managed leased lines — But BSNL, ISPs not satisfied
EVEN as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) announced a higher ceiling tariff for leased lines with Managed Leased Line Network (MLLN) technology, Internet Service Providers and BSNL have expressed their dissatisfaction over the ... More

VIRUSES

Yellow alert on Mytob worm
TREND Micro has raised worm_mytob.bi to yellow alert status. This is the fourth variant of the ever-popular family of worms to reach the alert stage - and the second in this week to do so. TrendLabs has declared a `medium risk virus alert' ... More

ISPS

`BSNL should cut Net access charges further'
WHILE the decision of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to lower Internet access charges is welcome, an expert view is that the proposed tariff is much higher than justified. In a decision taken a few days back, BSNL decided to reduce ... More

Hathway Cable adds Mysore
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable Internet, a broadband cable ISP, has added one more city to its Internet list - Mysore. It is present in eight cities - Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik and Ludhiana. Hathway ... More

TRENDS

`Domestic IT spend may touch $6 b this fiscal'
THE domestic software and services market, excluding hardware, grew 23 per cent to $4.8 billion in 2004-05, over previous year's $3.9 billion. The software and services sector market was worth $4.2 billion whereas the IT-enabled services and ... More

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