The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 11, 2003

KPO - the next wave to BPO: High-end knowledge services in keen demand
WHEN sales representatives of a large pharmaceutical company span out in New Jersey in the US, they carry a call plan that lists the names of doctors who are most likely to prescribe their products. Little would they know that a team sitting ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Unified licensing regime — Small cellular units set store by `alternate solutions'
EVEN as the Supreme Court admitted a petition against the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) order on limited mobility (WLL), a couple of smaller cellular operators have voiced their dissent against any more legal action. ... More

BSNL extends CellOne, to offer GPRS service
OVERWHELMED by the response to some of its recent promotional schemes that increased its subscriber base significantly, State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has extended some of the CellOne schemes, plans to expand its network to about 66 more ... More

Hutchison Essar unveils location-based services in AP
HUTCHISON Essar South Ltd, the private cellular services provider, has launched two location-based services in Andhra Pradesh. The company has expanded its network to 106 towns in the State, enhancing coverage in neighbourhood towns of ... More

Escotel plan for women in Kerala
KOCHI: Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd (Escotel) has launched a budget plan, the first post-paid plan in Kerala specially designed for women. Available exclusively to women subscribers, the budget plan offers a low monthly rental of ... More

INSIGHT

How telecom wires got so tangled
Given the long history of botching up telecom policies, it is hardly surprising that the Government should be accused of favouring one company by introducing a unified licensing regime. As in the past, this time as well, the Government has not been t ransparent and fair, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, recounting the story of the great Indian telecom tangle. More

SOFTWARE

Microsoft India centre expansion under way
MICROSOFT India Development Centre (MIDC), the global product development unit based in Hyderabad and part of Microsoft Corporation Inc, has embarked on a rapid expansion cum recruitment drive that will see its headcount double here. The ... More

Syntax in talks with US partner
SYNTAX Soft-Tech (India) Pvt Ltd, the Bangalore-based IT firm is looking at offloading close to 30 per cent of its equity in favour of its US-based partner. Mr P. Prashant, Director, Syntax said the company was in talks with its US partner and ... More

Yash Tech opens SAP centre
YASH Technologies, an IT consulting firm with a development centre in Hyderabad, on Monday announced that it has set up a SAP Competency Centre for Enterprise Resource Planning here that will focus on SAP implementation and support to its ... More

Kerala to build on `leads' from Bangalore IT fair
THE Kerala State IT Mission, the official implementing agency for IT in the State, has said that it proposed to build on the leads generated from its participation in the just concluded BangaloreIT.com. As the foremost IT event in the country, ... More

Ethiopian bank to use i-flex tool
BANGALORE: i-flex Solutions has announced that Dashen Bank SC of Ethiopia would be deploying its flagship product, FLEXCUBE. The deployment encompasses all the 29 branches of the bank, enabling it to ramp up its retail banking operations ... More

NIIT opens new centre; to hire more
NIIT, the software and computer education major, on Monday opened a new development centre here and announced plans to hire more people as business prospects look up. The new facility will house 300 professionals, and the company intends to ... More

INTERNET

Nrilinks.com to launch eQuotes
NRILINKS.com, the three-year-old portal that provides an e-platform for the non-resident Indians to keep in touch with their kin back home, is going to launch eQuotes in a couple of weeks. "The solution would let the NRIs coming back to India ... More

IT TRAINING

Simputer may be used for Akshaya project
A HIGH-LEVEL delegation from the Kerala State IT Department has held discussions with a Simputer team in Bangalore to evaluate the possibilities of utilising the Simputer mobile computing platform in the Akshaya e-literacy project. The ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Capita buys 60 pc stake in Mastek BPO arm
UK professional support services firm Capita Group Plc has acquired a 60-per cent stake of Mastek Ltd's wholly owned BPO subsidiary to form a joint venture. The company would be renamed Capita Mastek BPO Ltd, and is expected to service the ... More

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