The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 18, 2002

SC refuses to stay WLL services — Asks tribunal to review its decision
THE Supreme Court has directed the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to take a fresh look at its decision to allow limited mobility services based on wireless in local loop (WLL), especially in terms of providing the cellular ... More

Both parties claim victory
IRONIC as it may sound, both the telecom siblings - cellular operators and basic service operators - who have been at each other's throats over the issue of limited mobility services have claimed "victory" over the Supreme Court decision to ... More

Does `2' prefix point to BSNL-MTNL merger?
DOES assignment of the same prefix number `2' to both Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) telephone numbers across the country indicate a more-than-mild intent on the part of the Government to merge the ... More

EDUCATION

No tears or fears!
Be it children or adults, quite a few have a phobia of mathematics. Now software can help one crack problems with ease. More

HARDWARE

`Supercomputing needs R&D investment'
THE sixth international conference on high performance computing in the APAC region, HPC Asia kicked off here. The four-day event will be a forum for technologists as well as the industry to network. With more powerful microprocessors in the ... More

SOFTWARE

India takes up Polaris arrests with Indonesia
INDIA today took up with Indonesia the arrest of the Polaris Software Labs CEO, Mr Arun Jain, and another company official in Jakarta over a commercial dispute and hoped that the issue would be resolved soon. The Foreign Office called the ... More

Wipro sees energy practice chipping in 30% to enterprise
THE energy and utilities division is likely to contribute close to 30 per cent of revenues to the enterprise solutions business of software major Wipro Ltd in the current financial year, the President-Enterprise Solutions, Mr Sudip Banerjee, ... More

Polaris says dispute is commercial, not criminal
POLARIS officials claim that the dispute between Polaris and its Indonesian customer, Bank Artha Graha, is commercial and that there is no criminal offence involved. The company has appointed Lucas Partners, an international law firm, as its ... More

INTERNET

Creation of new domain names okayed
THE board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation that manages the Internet's domain name space, has unanimously approved a plan to add "a limited number" of sponsored top-level domain (TLD) names to ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

It's how to spend versus how much!
The ability to do more with less is at the heart of IT spending. How savvy are you on the `more value-less dough' strategy? More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Zensar upbeat on BPO revenue in second year
ZENSAR Technologies, the RPG group's technology arm, expects a revenue of Rs 15 crore from its business processing outsourcing (BPO) outfit in the second year of operations, said the company's Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Ganesh ... More

SECURITY

`Hurdles in IT Act use must be removed'
INDIA is among the few countries to have an IT (Information Technology) Act in place and we should identify and remove the remaining legal hurdles to have a headstart in its implementation, said Dr R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor, ... More

BUSINESS MODELS

New strategies are critical: TCS chief
WHILE the India IT brand is well established and growing at a compounded annual growth rate of about 35 per cent, the current business scenario calls for new business strategies for it to move into a major consolidation phase, according to Mr S. ... More

EVENTS

Kalam to inaugurate MysoreIT.com

VENTURE CAPITAL

Sify completes fresh investments
CHENNAI: Satyam Infoway Ltd has announced the completion of the $13 million investment by SOFTBANK Asia Investment Fund (SAIF) and the $3.5 million first tranche of investment by VentureTech Solutions Pvt Ltd. In a statement released, ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

NeST call centre to go on stream in January
THE Kochi-based NeST group of companies is all set to commence its first international call centre in the State from the first week of January next year. The 1,000-seat call centre will start its operations from Kochi. Around 100 seats have ... More

More thrust on ITES, biotech sectors necessary: Naidu
THE Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Tuesday emphasised the need to focus on hardware and IT-enabled services and biotechnology as these two areas have the potential to bring in several changes in the way we live and ... More

E-recruitment kiosks for ITES
NEW DELHI: NIIT Planetworkz, NIIT's initiative for addressing the manpower needs of the ITES industry in India, has launched a proprietary technology to facilitate the remote selection of job seekers in the ITES sector. Called the ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Bengali version of Windows on anvil
Following approval of the version from Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft India has sought the West Bengal Goverment's help and advice on issues relating to the accuracy of the Bengali language. The move is expected to facilitate IT enablement of ... More

Deltagram launches instant voice messaging system
DELTA Innovative Enterprises Ltd, the Chennai-based network enabled communication service provider, launched an instant voice messaging service here today. The Executive Director, Delta Innovative Enterprises Ltd, Mr P.K. Venugopal, said the ... More

International roaming from AirTel
NEW DELHI: AirTel Magic, the pre-paid cellular brand of the Bharti group, has announced the availability of International incoming roaming for its customers in Delhi. AirTel Magic customers can now receive incoming voice calls and SMS in ... More

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