The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 15, 2003

Fixed wireless is some rival to cell phones
TECHNOLOGY can stand many a telecom regulation on its head, it appears. While the CDMA limited mobility services are perceived as a threat to the GSM cellular operators, there is a potential threat in the form of an even more limited kind of ... More

BSNL knocks DPE door again for `navaratna'
IN what is turning out to be a repetitive procedure ever since its corporatisation close to three years ago, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has once again sent in a request to the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) to grant it a navratna ... More

`Colour Hungama' from Reliance Info
FOLLOWING up on its `Monsoon Hungama' scheme which allowed a customer to go mobile for an initial payment of as little as Rs 501, Reliance Infocomm has launched `Colour Hungama,' another Reliance IndiaMobile scheme aimed at marketing high-end ... More

COAI asks TRAI to enforce TDSAT order on WLL handsets
THE Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has written to the telecom regulator seeking immediate enforcement of the TDSAT order with regard to restricting WLL handsets within a short distance charging area or SDCA. In its letter to ... More

MTNL rings in Mauritius

HARDWARE

Canon bullish on growing market for consumables
Currently, India's printer market is estimated at five lakh units per annum and has seen a growth rate of about 25 per cent. Canon at present has a market share of 16 per cent in this segment and is targeting to increase it to 20 per cent this year. More

SOFTWARE

Wipro shows it really cares
WIPRO's hardworking techies, like others of their ilk in Bangalore, can afford little time and effort to participate in community activities or share Bangalore's problems as the city expands and grows. Though it is the IT industry that has put ... More

FII holding in Satyam at 60 pc
WITH foreign institutional investors (FIIs) including Templeton Global, Merrill Lynch increasing their exposure in Satyam Computer Services Ltd stock, its overall foreign shareholding has gone up to 60 per cent in July, up from 55.18 per cent in ... More

Fortune restructures board

INTERNET

`Account-less' Net access from BSNL
BSNL has announced the launch of its `account-less' Internet service in the Thiruvananthapuram telecom district from August 15. Using this service, all BSNL subscribers can access the Net without buying a separate Internet account, a company ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

TVS-E to buy out partner in Fugen
THE Chennai-based Fugen Information Technology Limited is to become a 100 per cent subsidiary of TVS-Electronics Group Cluster, which incubated Fugen about four years ago through seed funding, Mr S. Premkumar, CEO, Fugen, told Business ... More

Panex may join KPIT
MUMBAI: The board of KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd is meeting on August 23 to consider the acquisition of Panex Consulting. Panex Consulting, a Houston-based IT consulting company has revenues of $7 million per annum, and specialises in SAP ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Yahoo! opens software centre in Bangalore
GLOBAL Internet firm, Yahoo!, inaugurated its software development centre in Bangalore today. The Minister for Information Technology, Mr D.B. Inamdar, and Mr David Filo, Co-founder and Chief, Yahoo!, formally launched the centre "Bangalore has ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Oracle betting on e-governance boom
"This is one of the reasons why we have established a centre for e-governance in India, the second such centre outside Washington." More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

MindTree assessed at Level 5

PEOPLE

Hinduja TMT's new senior V-P

TRENDS

Infosys changes tack on pricing strategy
In this new model, pricing depends on value offered as against the current cost plus margin approach. The shift has been aided by swelling service offerings like package implementation and enterprise applications. More

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