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WNS Group tops BPO rankings
THE WNS Group, Wipro Spectramind and Daksh have bagged the first three slots in the list of top 15 rankings of the third party call centre and BPO companies released by the National Association of Software and Services Companies on Tuesday. ...
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Indo Rama, Accenture sign outsourcing pact
INDO Rama has signed an agreement with Accenture to outsource its transaction-based finance functions. The agreement is designed to help Indo Rama improve business efficiency by allowing the company to focus on its core activities while ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Phone subscribers up 15 lakh in May
THE number of telephone subscribers in the country has gone up to 79.48 million following the addition of 1.53 million fresh subscribers in May this year, according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Fixed-line users were placed ...
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Aircel to reward `loyal' customers
AIRCEL Cellular Ltd, one of the cellular operators in Chennai circle, plans to launch a loyalty programme for its pre-paid subscribers. The programme - Frequent Buyers Scheme - is meant to reward pre-paid subscribers and to ensure that ...
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Basic players want duty cut on fixed wireless terminals
THE Association of Basic Telecom Operators (ABTO) has sought reduction of duties on the fixed wireless terminals to 5 per cent, in order to bring them at par with that levied on mobile handsets. At present, fixed wireless terminals are ...
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HARDWARE
Intel to set up shop in Kerala
AS part of its `emerging markets expansion programme', Intel will enhance its presence in the Kerala market over the next few months. Mr G.B. Kumar, Director-Sales, South Asia, Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd, told Business Line that the ...
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SOFTWARE
How much does Linux save for its users?
EVERYONE knows that Linux is an inexpensive software tool. But how much do you save if you opt for it? That question has been nagging us for sometime. While claims abound, users haven't audibly vouched for it. So Business Line sounded ...
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IBM's `Express Portfolio'
BANGALORE: IBM on Tuesday unveiled the "IBM Express Portfolio" with a broadened range of hardware, software and services offerings that are designed, developed and priced to meet the IT needs of small and medium businesses (SMB). The ...
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Satyam bags Khanna Paper deal
HYDERABAD: Satyam Computers has announced it has won a contract from Khanna Paper, a paper manufacturer, to provide Oracle application support. This is aimed at helping the company address the bottlenecks at the operational and ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Flextronics to buy 55 pc stake in Hughes Soft for $226 m — Open offer for another 20 pc
THE Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics said on Tuesday it would buy a majority 55 per cent stake in Hughes Software Systems (HSS) for $226 million (about Rs 1,017 cr), claimed to be the biggest acquisition deal in the ...
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TH Lee eyes more acquisitions in India
HAVING acquired a majority interest in SPI Technologies Inc recently, TH Lee Putnam Ventures has identified India as one of its key component for the company's growth strategy. While TH Lee is a technology focussed private equity firm, SPI is a ...
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STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Netkraft assessed at Level 5
BANGALORE: IT services firm Netkraft has announced that it has been appraised at Maturity Level 5 using Continuous Representation (CR) of the Capability Maturity Model Integration Ver 1.1 (CMMI). The uniqueness of this appraisal is that ...
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Solix Tech gets SEI CMM
HYDERABAD: Solix Technologies, an enterprise data management solutions provider, has announced that its Hyderabad Global Development Centre has attained the SEI Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 5 rating for its software ...
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OUTLOOK
NetMagic targets US, UK markets
NETMAGIC, a managed services provider, is banking on labour arbitrage and value-added services to target markets in the US and the UK. The company plans to push its remote infrastructure management and remote network operations centre (NOC) ...
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