The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 27, 2003

Polaris BPO arm to be more than call centre
Optimus will soon offer Orbi One that would help banks with customer acquisition, card issuance, billing and settlement on a rental model. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AirTel waives roaming charges for post-paid customers
AIRTEL has announced a waiver of roaming rentals for all post-paid subscribers across the country. Starting January 1, AirTel post-paid customers can roam freely without paying any STD deposits or a monthly roaming rental of Rs 99. While ... More

On public demand
A shopkeeper at the busy Shivaji Nagar bus stand in Bangalore has installed five pay phones and hopes to add two more. BSNL's PCOs have evoked good response as the charge works out to Re 1 for 90 seconds and is cheaper than STD for ... More

SOFTWARE

NIIT board okays spin-off scheme
NIIT Ltd on Friday said that its shareholders who hold 100 shares of Rs 10 each will get 75 shares of the same face value of the newly spun-off software company, NIIT Technologies Ltd (NTL). According to a draft scheme of arrangement to split ... More

Three IT companies plan expansion in Karnataka coastal region
INFORMATION technology and infrastructure sectors have been able to attract a considerable amount of investment in the recently concluded Coastal Investors' Meet in Karwar. Apart from the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys ... More

SECURITY

Honeywell charts plan to consolidate operations
`If one were to bring in set templates and try to work up strategies based on those fixed models, they would not be able to grow the business.' More

Bartronics unveils biometric products
BARTRONICS India Ltd (BIL), an automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) solution provider, on Friday launched a multi-layered embedded fused biometric security system (MLEFBS) and a touchless fingerprint system (TFPS) that use multiple ... More

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