The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 26, 2003

IACC assails US move to ban outsourcing
THE Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) on Monday termed as `disturbing' the move by some US States to ban outsourcing, while stating that restriction on movement of people would do no good to the industry. Addressing a gathering marking ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Escotel Mobile ties up with Yahoo! for Youth card
CELLULAR service provider Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd expects its revenues to grow by 9 per cent to reach Rs 360 crore this fiscal, even as it has targeted operating profits in the region of Rs 160 crore. This was stated by Mr Rajan ... More

Escotel launches card for youth
ESCOTEL Mobile Communications Ltd (Escotel), one of the leading cellular service providers in the State, in a bid to double its subscriber base by luring the youth, launched the Escotel Youth Mobile Card here on Monday. For this purpose, the ... More

BSNL to add 1 crore mobile capacity
BSNL plans to increase its cellular phone capacity by one crore lines next financial year, for which it will be spending about Rs 5,000 crore. It has started getting presentations from equipment vendors and hopes to come out with an open tender ... More

Scheme launched for Chennai BSNL cell subscribers
WITH its subscriber base for the cellular phone service in Chennai crossing the one-lakh mark, BSNL Chennai Telephones has come out with promotional schemes for the Chennai circle. It has waived the activation charge of Rs 200 for all ... More

Surana Tele set for handsets foray
"There is a steep fall in demand for jelly-filled and optical fibre cables due to increased preference for mobile phones. The foray into the manufacture of products related to mobile telecom industry is a move to insulate against such developments." More

Mobile networks jammed
ALMOST all mobile networks in Mumbai - both cellular as well as WLL - were jammed for a couple of hours today as both call and SMS volumes shot through the roof in the immediate aftermath of the bomb explosions that rocked the city ... More

BSNL bags order
HYDERABAD: The State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, has bagged the Andhra Pradesh Government mandate to offer 7,500 cellular phones, which is part of the State's effort to empower babus with mobile phones. The Chief General Manager of BSNL, ... More

INSIGHT

Unified licence — Call of the big players
THE shadow boxing for the great telecom prize — a cellular market poised for explosive growth — has begun in right earnest. As expected, there has been a flurry of threats and counters of protracted ... More

HARDWARE

HP top PC vendor, says IDC survey
HP India Pvt Ltd, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), has emerged as the number one PC vendor in India during second quarter in 2003. HP has registered a market share of 8.9 per cent with 53,120 total units shipped in the second ... More

SOFTWARE

VisualSoft eyes inorganic growth
HAVING consolidated its software services business and recorded a growth of about 25 per cent in services last fiscal in a tough business environment, VisualSoft Technologies Ltd is eyeing possible growth opportunities which include acquisitions, ... More

Social equity can't be left to market forces: Analyst
Without a clear policy of affirmative action to spread resulting wealth, the profitability of a rapidly expanding software industry will do little to alleviate the poverty of the surrounding areas. More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

BroadVision, Pramati in pact for e-biz tools
BROADVISION Inc, the Nasdaq-listed provider of enterprise portal applications, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with the Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies, a provider of J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) compliant application ... More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Godrej Infotech to launch ERP package for SMEs
RETURNS on investment are a primary concern of small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) opting for back-end applications like enterprise resource planning. Addressing this requirement is a soon-to-be launched ERP package for SMEs from Godrej ... More

EVENTS

Looking back

RIGHTS ISSUES

Compudyne plans rights issue to raise Rs 15 cr
COMPUDYNE Winfosystems Ltd, the Bangalore-based multimedia and software provider for the entertainment sector, is planning to raise Rs 15 crore through a rights issue. The board of Compudyne has decided to issue two rights shares for every ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Linux-based BankAlert from SDG Software
SDG Software Technologies, a Hyderabad-based software solutions provider, has announced the introduction of Anti-Money Laundering solution SDG BankAlert, which can also run on Linux. Mr Suheim Sheikh, Managing Director, SDG Software, told ... More

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