The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Cellular users talk longer, but average revenue dips
"Prepaid platform is not popular as far as roaming is concerned, which is evident from the fact that the revenue from roaming is 0.29 per cent of the total revenue from prepaid subscriptionagainst 16 per cent roaming revenue in post-paid platform. More

BPL Mobile to invest Rs 500 cr on expansion
BPL Mobile is investing Rs 500-crore on network expansion, infrastructure, capacity doubling, brand and marketing. The investment will be made across the locations of Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Mumbai. Talking to ... More

CellOne extends pay by date

SOFTWARE

Satyam to have role in Bangkok airport project
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, part of a consortium partners led by Siemens, has announced the signing of a $8-million deal with the New Bangkok International Airport- Airport Information Management System (NBIA-AIMS). The consortium — ... More

Goldstone Tech chosen by Sun Micro for migration
GOLDSTONE Technologies Ltd has been selected by Sun Microsystems as its preferred partner for Forte to J2EE (Java to Enterprise Edition) migration business. The Executive Director of Goldstone, Mr Kaipa Vasudeva Rao, in a statement said, "We ... More

AT&T may ramp up account with Wipro, Infosys
THE relationship of software majors like Infosys Technologies Ltd and Wipro Ltd with AT&T Wireless is on the upswing. AT&T, which outsources operational software needs for technology development to Wipro and application software requirements ... More

Infosys wins Saudi client
ABU DHABI: Infosys has announced that Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) has chosen Finacle eCorporate, the Web-based cash management and corporate e-banking solution from the Finacle suite, on Microsoft .NET software, for its strategic e-banking ... More

IT TRAINING

Aptech to offer Oracle9i courses
APTECH Computer Education, IT training brand in the country, has announced that it has entered into the `Workforce development program (WDP) agreement' with Oracle India, which licenses select Aptech centres to offer courses on Oracle9i ... More

Kochi to be TCS first pilot spot

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Monster Worldwide buys out partner in Indian venture
MONSTER Worldwide Inc, the parent company of the global online careers property, MonsterÒ, on Tuesday announced that it had acquired the sole ownership of Monster India (www.monsterindia.com) through an ... More

Cognizant Tech buys Dutch co
COGNIZANT Technology Solutions on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Infopulse, a Netherlands-based IT services firm providing software to the banking and financial services industry. A communique from Cognizant said that it paid ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

SEAL centre in Chennai
CHENNAI: The New Jersey-based SEAL Consulting Inc, an implementation partner for SAP, a provider of enterprise resource planning software, has set up an SAP competency centre in Chennai to service its customers globally. A press release ... More

SECURITY

`Legal framework must to tackle cyber crimes'
EVEN as cyber crimes grow in number and across borders, lack of applicable laws in some States and of specialised agencies to tackle them has heightened the need for an effective framework to counter them. Highlighting the US experience on ... More

EVENTS

Wooing VC to the party
THE second slide in the presentation of Vishal Nivetia, CEO, GW Capital Pvt Ltd, brought awake even the participant most devoted to dozing off on the sly. It showed the change in investment patterns in the world of venture capitalists. Only ... More

Stand out!
A sizeable part of the outsourcing business is coming to India. But how long before rivals take it away? To retain appeal, we must show ourselves to be different, with some original thinking. More

Go for gold
Producing a report is one thing, providing critical insight through analysis is another. Stacking up just information is like accumulating a lot of ore without the glimmer of gold. This holds true for all, especially the contact centre industry. More

OUTLOOK

Subex sees $8-m revenue from China operations
THE telecom software product maker Subex Systems, which announced the launch of its Chinese sales and support office in Beijing on Tuesday, expects revenues of $8 million in the first two years of operations. Mr Subhash Menon, Chief Executive ... More

`Home is where growth is'
IT'S time that Indian software companies started taking note of the domestic industry as the country offers tremendous potential for growth, according to Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies. "The domestic software sector ... More

TRENDS

Doing it differently
You can serve tea straight or with interesting twists, with an eye on the impact. Much like Indian IT players are going about their merger and acquisition strategy. eWorld offers a feel of the changing equations in the M&A space. More

What next, for tech?
What's the future likely to be on the software front, for embedded technologies and the Net? Some sagespeak on what's set to click and what's not. More

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