The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 27, 2003

Tata Indicom cuts ILD rates in Mumbai, Delhi
TATA Indicom has announced reductions of up to 50 per cent in its international long distance rates for Mumbai and Delhi in its second tariff cut in the space of one month. The tariff for calls to the US, Europe and Canada are down to Rs 9.60 ... More

HARDWARE

MosChip plans rights issue
MOSCHIP Semiconductor Technology Ltd has drawn up plans to consider a rights issue to raise additional funds for expansion. The Hyderabad-based fabless semiconductor technology solutions company will also take up the issue of scheme of ... More

SOFTWARE

SAP announces partners
BANGALORE: SAP India has announced industry-specific channel partners for small and midsize businesses. The list includes Mahindra Consulting, which will offer customised solutions for automotive suppliers industry; Ygyan Consulting ... More

Navision unveils new software
BANGALORE: Navision India, the exclusive distributors of Microsoft Business Solutions in India, has launched the Microsoft Business Solutions — Navision Standard, an integrated business management solution specifically targeted at ... More

Fluent to invest more in India
THE US-based Fluent Inc, players in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is planning to invest more in India. Talking to Business Line, Mr Dipankar Choudhury, Chief Technology Officer, Fluent Inc, said as a preliminary ... More

IT TRAINING

Kerala IT varsity is Sun's regional e-learning centre
SUN Microsystems has named the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IITM-K) as its regional Centre of Excellence for e-learning. The first regional Excellence Centre (COE) selected in India, IIITM-K will join ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Quark India plans to raise staff strength
Quark's R&D team in the US has gone down from 800 to about 80 now. Mr Sehgal said, "This reduction has occurred over the last five to seven years; jobs moved to several other countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Singapore, in addition to India. " More

Headhunting goes 24x7
THE 24x7 industry has spawned some interesting trends, both within IT and in supporting sectors. And vendors are outsmarting one another to get a chunky piece of the growing BPO pie. While it's normal for transport companies or caterers to ... More

'Rightsourcing is the way ahead'
WHY does a leading EDA (electronic design automation) solutions provider such as Mentor Graphics Corporation, have a solutions centre in Cairo, Egypt, or for that matter in Russia? Does it make sense to locate such dispersed facilities across ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Altair's reselling pact with HP
BANGALORE: Altair Engineering has announced a reseller agreement with Hewlett Packard, which allows the latter to resell Altair's PBS ProTM distributed computing technology across its entire product line. In addition, the companies will ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

US economy to benefit from offshoring: McKinsey report
EVEN as many policymakers in the US try to check outsourcing services to countries such as India through legislation, a McKinsey report says the American economy stands to benefit immensely from offshoring. The report says that for every dollar ... More

SECURITY

Info security market growing at a fast clip
PATCH management and security consultancy are the new buzzwords in the Indian information security market. Pegged at Rs 350 crore, the information security (IS) market in the country is growing at a rate of 50 per cent exceeding that of the ... More

EVENTS

`IT sector must tap non-English speaking countries'
THE knowledge-based industries in the country should gear themselves to expand their exports into non-English speaking countries, according to Dr S. Narayan, Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister. Addressing a session on `Special economic ... More

TI developer meet
BANGALORE: Texas Instruments India has announced the annual Texas Instruments Developer Conference 2003 (TIDC) designed specifically for new and experienced software and hardware designers, engineers, solutions developers, suppliers, ... More

ICA plans to create special team for IT sector disputes
THE Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA), which is now considered to be an apex arbitral institution in the country, is now in the process of identifying and training specialised arbitrators for disputes connected with the Information Technology ... More

OUTLOOK

vCustomer upbeat; in expansion mode
VCUSTOMER Corporation has announced that it will take up its head count from the level of 2,983 people today to approximately 6,000 by end of 2004. The company is also increasing the number of its centres from the existing three in Delhi to ... More

PEOPLE

Cordys Asia V-P (Sales)
HYDERABAD: Cordys Asia, formerly Vanenberg Asia, has appointed Mr Ravi Vedantam as the head of sales and marketing to handle its operations in the region. He is expected to work as Vice-President Cordys, according to a company press ... More

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