The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Longer the outsourcing, better the results: Expert
OUTSOURCING might well be the flavour of the season, but it takes time to implement an outsourcing strategy, and longer "to do it right". According to Mr N.T. Nair, former chairman, The Institution of Engineers, Kerala State Centre, and ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

`Third World to power telecom revival'
THE rebound of the telecom industry will come from the developing world, according to Mr Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union. Addressing presspersons here, he said that "the industry is in a soul searching ... More

BSNL pegs revenue in TN at Rs 2,100 cr
BSNL Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle hopes to end this year with revenues of about Rs 2,100 crore against the Rs 1,800 crore it earned last year. Of the estimated revenue for the year, basic services are expected to contribute about Rs 1,950 crore and ... More

INSIGHT

No hiding place
YOU must by now have heard of SoBig, Slammer, Code Red, Nimda, IloveYou and others. They are viruses unleashed on the World Wide Web by malicious programmers to disrupt trade and commerce, governments and universities ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Mastek incurs Rs 92-lakh loss
MASTEK Ltd has reported a loss of Rs 92 lakh for the quarter ended September 30, 2003 as against a profit of Rs 10.2 crore recorded during the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Income from operations dipped to Rs 24.53 crore (Rs 34.16 ... More

SOFTWARE

Nihar Info plans pref offer, BPO foray
NIHAR Info Global Ltd, the Hyderabad-based software services company, has drawn up plans to foray into business process outsourcing (BPO) space early next fiscal and is considering a preferential offer to fund its expansion and marketing ... More

Solix tool for data migration
HYDERABAD: Solix Technologies Ltd., an enterprise software solutions company, has launched UpgradeJinni, a data migration and customisations upgrade tool which includes features that enable easy reimplementation and consolidation of data ... More

INTERNET

Here's a tool to build your own homepage
IMAGINE building a homepage that fits the unique requirement of each Internet user. A perfectly "customisable homepage'' has been the dream of every Internet user for years. Now, this dream is being translated into reality. Humanizing ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Kyocera to shift software jobs to India from US
CDMA handset maker, Kyocera Corporation is planning to shift jobs involving software development to India. "We are looking at shifting software jobs from our San Diego centre," Kyocera Wireless Corp Vice-President for software engineering, Mr ... More

CONVERGENCE

MS, Vodafone plan mobile-PC convergence
BRINGING a convergence between PC and mobile applications and services has always remained a challenge for the computing and telecom industries. At the ITU World Telecom 2003 on Monday, Microsoft Corp and Vodafone announced an initiative that ... More

BROADBAND

`Broadband wireless tech to propel productivity'
THERE has been little discussion within the mobile industry on what the consumer wants, says Mr Nikesh Arora, Board Member of German-based T-Mobile International AG & Co. He was addressing an industry roundtable on the theme "Reconnect" to ... More

PEOPLE

Idea Cellular head named
HYDERABAD: Idea Cellular Ltd, has announced that Mr Pradeep Srivastava would assume the office of Head of its Andhra Pradesh circle operations. Mr S.K.Subramanian, the chief operating officer, has moved to corporate office for special ... More

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