INFO-TECH
OUTSOURCING
The Boston Group plans BPO foray, more centres
THE Boston Group, an e-learning technology solutions provider, plans to enter business process outsourcing (BPO) and expand India operations by setting up more centres. The Chairman of The Boston Group, Mr Subu M. Kota, told Business ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
`Nokia keen on telecom tech buy-out'
FINNISH cell phone maker Nokia Oyj, which has bid for buying into 55.4 per cent stake held by Mr Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in Hughes Software Systems, is likely to limit its buy-out to certain technology practices, analysts said. "The GSM ...
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Hughes Soft net doubles; to pay 50 pc dividend
HUGHES Software Systems Ltd on Monday reported that its net profits had doubled during 2003-04 to Rs 77.40 crore from Rs 37.9 crore on a sales income of Rs 358.3 crore. The company's turnover during 2002-03 was Rs 220.4 crore. After ...
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Mastek group net dips 38 pc
MASTEK group today reported a 37.5-per cent drop in net profit at Rs 10 crore for January-March 2004 as compared to Rs16 crore for the corresponding quarter in the previous year. The group's total income of Rs 105.3 crore showed a 6.3-per cent ...
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HARDWARE
Manufacturers to the world
Fewer and fewer famous brands actually make what they sell. With protection laws in place, companies have begun to outsource. And it is here that Electronic Manufacturing Service companies are playing a stellar role, says M.L. Tandon, Head of Celetro n India.
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SOFTWARE
IT cos happy with DCA salary disclosure exemption
Heeding to the demands of the industry, the DCA had recently exempted IT companies from sharing the remuneration details in their annual reports.
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SMEs account for 40 pc of Oracle India biz
SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs), the automobile, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications sectors and e-governance initiatives have emerged as key drivers of growth for Oracle India. In fact, with SMEs preferring to put in place robust ...
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InfoPro proposes clinical solutions for Indian market
INFOPRO Solutions, which provides clinical trial software solutions to pharma companies like Pfizer and Abbott, is still some time away from clinching Indian customers. But it is waiting, watching how the pharma research scene unfolds in the ...
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IT TRAINING
Red Hat in pact with ISDAC
RED Hat, the authorised open source and Linux provider, on Monday announced ISDAC, the CDAC centre for Excellence, as a Preferred Training Partner. This tie-up will be the first in Orissa to introduce the official curriculum of Red Hat's Linux ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Trilogy to hire 300 more; upgrade Bangalore centre
TRILOGY Software Inc plans to ramp up its development centre in Bangalore by adding 300 professionals by 2005. The company, which employs close to 100 people in India at present, plans to invest Rs 200 crore over the next three years. Trilogy ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Citigroup to acquire full ownership of e-Serve — Offers public Rs 800 per share
Citigroup, however, said that it might not go ahead with the offer if the final price as determined by SEBI's delisting guidelines works out to more than Rs 800.
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
MTNL arm eyes foreign partner for BPO operations
`We want to do something on the lines of what the Bharti group did for its BPO operations. We do not want to spend time and energy starting from scratch'
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INTERVIEW
Expanding goals
The growth in demand from US and Canada will increase the flow of orders to India, says Mr Girish Bhatia, Vice-President, CGI (India).
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VIRUSES
Alert to Mac users about MP3 virus
SYMANTEC Corporation, security solutions provider, has spotted a potential threat that could affect Macintosh operating system. This MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen) has been described as a Trojan that imbeds MP3 data in an application. Once the file is ...
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EVENTS
C-DIT workshop on April 17 in Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A one-day workshop on free software titled `From Windows to Linux' will be organised by the city-based Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) on April 17, says an official press release. Those ...
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Looking Back
TRENDS
Hi-tech weight
Even as the telecom sector has shown an unprecedented growth, there still remains a lot of groundwork to be done in wiring up the country. A group of workers in New Delhi labour to enable better connectivity on Monday. ...
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