The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 12, 2002

`Need to rework tech outsourcing strategies'
THE Electronics and Computer Sotware Export Promotion Council (ESC), an autonomous body under the Department of Information Technology, has called upon software services companies to rework their outsourcing strategies and focus on newer areas ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

BPL Mobile offer for festival days
AS competition hots up in the mobile telephony market, innovative value-added services seems to be the key for retaining market share. What better occasion there could be to innovate when Christmas, New Year and Pongal are round the corner and ... More

HARDWARE

IBM gains PC market share in nine months
IBM India reported a gain of 1.4 points in terms of PC market share in the first nine months of the current calendar, said Mr Alok Ohrie, Vice-President, PC Division, IBM India. Quoting IDC figures, Mr Ohrie said the company was the only MNC ... More

SOFTWARE

MS working on value addition to video conferencing
ARE you a corporate executive who is always on the move and feels that a large part of the meetings convened at the instance of your superiors are sometimes a drag on your time and productivity? Help is on the cards. You may soon be able to ... More

ICICI Info to roll out insurance products
ICICI Infotech Ltd, an information technology company promoted by ICICI Bank, plans to roll out its insurance product for Oriental Insurance Company in April. The first phase, which will cover about 400 offices of Oriental Insurance, is likely ... More

`Fast growing co in Asia-Pacific'
BANGALORE: Mastek has been recognised as one of the fast growing technology companies across Asia-Pacific. The company featured in the first 250 list of the Deloitte Touche Thohmatsu Asia-Pacific Technology Fast 500 programme, which ... More

Medicom bags Jordan contract
BANGALORE: Medicom, a product of the Bangalore-based Medicom Solutions (P) Ltd, has been selected to automate the King Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH) by the Jordan University of Science and Technology. The company's Healthcare ... More

Intelligroup implements SAP package
HYDERABAD: Intelligroup Asia, a provider of application implementation and offshore software development and support services, said that it has successfully implemented a fully integrated SAP R/3 solution for international work ... More

IT TRAINING

A blend of technology training with mind game
JUST imagine the possibility of training about a million school children across the country simultaneously on computer skills and thereafter exposing them to the mind game of chess. Well if what has been conjured by NIIT Ltd, and the chess ... More

GNIIT students to get lateral entry to KSOU
IT education pioneer, NIIT has entered into a tripartite agreement with Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and Virtual Education Trust to allow its one-year diploma and GNIIT students to pursue the university's B.Sc. and M. Sc. IT programmes ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

IDBI divests 2.07 pc holding in InfoTech
THE Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has divested a significant holding of 2.07 per cent in InfoTech Enterprises Ltd, the Hyderabad-based software solutions company specialising in the geographical information systems, engineering ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Indo-Fuji plans offices in Japan
BANGALORE: The Bangalore-based middle-ware application and system software company Indo-Fuji Information Technologies Pvt Ltd plans to open offices in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. These three offices would have an investment of 30 ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

Write to sell
BELLS and whistles may grab a customer's attention, but words make the sale. Thus reads the back cover of Net Words by Nick Usborne, a book on creating `high-impact online copy', and offering `an inexpensive cure for e-commerce blues'. A ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

TN: Pay phone, water, power bills under one roof
THREE government organisations, one of them belonging to the Centre, have come together in establishing a computerised common service centre in Tirunelveli that helps save the public from rushing from one office to another to pay their dues for ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Cellnext to unveil MMS centre
CELLNEXT Solutions Ltd, an IT company promoted by the Escorts Group, is launching a multimedia messaging services (MMS) centre to cater to content providers such as portals and cellular operators. The MMS centre would be ready for commercial ... More

NitAl to unveil new products
PUNE: NitAl Computer Systems Pvt Ltd, the 100 per cent subsidiary of the Portland-based NitAl Consulting Services Inc, is to hit the market with a product that would act as an interface and would be present internally and externally ... More

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