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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bharti, Nokia in $275-m tie-up
BHARTI Tele-Ventures and Nokia on Thursday announced a $275-million `MEGA Networks' initiative to build and manage networks that would boost the quality of service offered by the leading Indian cellular service provider. As part of the ...
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INSIGHT
BPO: US must go beyond the knee-jerk response
IT IS surprising, even to the not-so-ardent supporter of globalisation, to see the US, the champion of free trade, raising a hue and cry about outsourcing to India, and behaving in a manner that goes against the very ...
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POLICY
UPA downplays IT sector
HAS the political setback of the tech-savvy state governments in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka impacted the psyche of the present government? On the face of it seems so with the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) appearing to have downplayed the ...
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Kale Consultants posts slight dip in revenues
FOLLOWING its restructuring strategy, the Pune-based Kale Consultants Ltd has posted a 5.1 per cent dip in revenues for the year ended March 31, 2004. The company has recorded total revenues of Rs 48.1 crore for the 2003-04 fiscal compared to ...
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HARDWARE
HP's breakthrough to raise workload capacity
HEWLETT Packard claimed on Thursday that it has achieved a breakthrough innovation in its standards-based server portfolio by including the new features in system design to increase the workload capacity and cut costs for HP Integrity server ...
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SOFTWARE
Betting on fixed price vs T&M contracts
WHEN the US slowdown hit Indian software vendors in late 2000, industry watchers had predicted the rise in client preference of fixed price contracts, as opposed to time and material projects. Figures for the 12 months ended March 2004 show that ...
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Topsgrup plans IPO
THE Rs 100-crore security solutions provider Topsgrup plans to come out with its maiden public float over the next three months to fund its expansion plans. The company is targeting a 50 per cent jump in turnover at Rs 150 crore this ...
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OSS in pact with Texas Digital
BANGALORE: The Bangalore-based OSS Technologies, an IT infrastructure consultancy, integration and services company, has struck a strategic partnership with Texas Digital System (TDS), an industry leader in visual messaging, to launch all ...
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Sapient facility in Bangalore
BANGALORE: Sapient, a leading business consulting and technology services firm, on Thursday announced plans to enhance its Global Distributed Delivery (GDD) capability by expanding its Indian operations to Bangalore. The expansion stems ...
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Infinera plans expansion
BANGALORE: Infinera, a provider of telecommunications systems based on breakthrough photonic integration technology, has announced its expansion plans in India to include software development and an advanced telecom lab. Infinera ...
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IT TRAINING
Aptech bags Orissa Govt order
CHENNAI: Aptech Ltd on Thursday said that it has bagged an order worth around Rs 7 crore from the Orissa Government to train primary students in over 300 schools across the State. Within three months of completing this initiative, Aptech ...
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OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Large firms set to drive communications offshoring
A NASSCOM research finding has shown that offshoring of processes is becoming a significant business trend within the global communications industry. There are pointers that the communications operators are expected to save around $14.5 billion ...
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Color Chips arm in Philippines
HYDERABAD: Color Chips has informed the BSE that the board of directors at a meeting held on May 26 has resolved to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Philippines. This subsidiary is being established to locate a overseas production ...
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
54.3 pc of electronic output exported
INDIA exported 54.3 per cent of its total production of electronics hardware and computer software and services to 181 countries in 2002-03. During 2002-03, 10 destinations accounted for 88.27 per cent of India's electronics and computer ...
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PIRACY
Intoto partners D-Link for security solutions
INTOTO Inc., a provider of security software, has announced a partnership with D-Link India to offer its intrusion prevention products based on Intoto's IntruPro solution to the enterprise segment. As a result of the collaboration, D-Link India ...
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STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Sun certificate for ObjectFrontier
CHENNAI: Sun Microsystems has awarded its SunTone certification to ObjectFrontier, a software tools developer. According to Mr M.B. Sam, Head, Strategic Alliance, Sun Microsystems India, the certificate is a stamp of quality and ...
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