The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 25, 2003

Storage market up 15 pc in Q2:IDC
THE disk storage systems market registered a sequential growth of 15.1 per cent in value terms to reach $34.1 million during the second quarter of the calendar 2003, according to IDC India. This further translates into 974 terabyte installations ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Reliance offers Gulf card
RELIANCE Infocomm has launched Speak2Gulf card, which offers calls to Gulf countries at Rs 11 per minute depending on the denomination used. The Speak2Gulf card enables the Reliance customer to avail of ISD rates for calls to specific countries ... More

HP bags Bharti deal
HEWLETT-Packard (HP) has clinched a project to build a centralised fault management infrastructure for Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. Bharti Cellular Ltd, the wireless services group of Bharti, needed a centralised network operations centre to ... More

Adaptive chips to add zing to cell phones
EVERY once in a while you meet a friend or a colleague displaying the `gift' that he has got from abroad: a swank new cell phone. But, he isn't exactly smiling. Reason. The phone doesn't work on the local network and attempts to `fix' the ... More

Bharti to invest Rs 150 cr in TN — Roaming in Chennai, TN circles cheaper
TAMIL NADU is emerging as a core market for the Bharti group with the company investing close to Rs 2,500 crore in various arms of its communication business in the State. The mobile phone industry in the State (both Chennai and Tamil Nadu ... More

RPG Cell sprucing up image in Chennai
RPG Cellular Services Ltd, the second largest cellular operator in the Chennai circle, is keen to reinforce its brand, both in the post-paid and pre-paid categories. With a marketing expenditure of about Rs 10 crore this year, a majority of ... More

BPL to launch cell phones soon — Tie-up with Sanyo for batteries
The cellular handsets would soon be tested in Denmark, as per international telecom norms, before being formally launched in the international market, Mr Nambiar said. More

HARDWARE

PC sales up 26 pc in Q1: MAIT
The growing proportion of the assembled/unorganised PC market is of immense concern to us," said Mr Vinnie Mehta, Executive Director of MAIT in a statement here on Wednesday. More

INTERNET

MSN to shut chat rooms in 28 countries
IN a bid to protect its users from unsolicited information such as spam and children from inappropriate communication online, Microsoft Corporation said on Wednesday that it would close down MSN Chat room services in 28 countries including India ... More

SECURITY

CA unveils security management solution
COMPUTER Associates has announced the launch of eTrust Security Command Centre (eSCC), an enterprise security management solution, which allows organisations to reduce risk by proactively managing the security operations. Talking to ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Emazines character recognition tool for Telugu, Hindi
EMAZINES Software Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad-based company, has developed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technologies for regional languages -- Telugu and Hindi, which the company claims is much more complex in comparison to English ... More

Application networking series from NetScaler
APPLICATION intelligent networking company, Netscaler, has launched its 9000 series secure application networking systems in India. Announcing this, the President and CEO, Mr B. V. Jagadeesh, said the series provided customers with secure, ... More

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