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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
BSNL extends booking date for `Plan 360' in TN
ENTHUSED by the public response to its `Plan 360' in Tirupur and Coimbatore, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has extended by a month the last date of application both for new booking and for migration by existing customers, up to August ...
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Hutch faces heat over Dravid ad hoardings
WHILE telecom services provider Hutch has withdrawn its controversial television commercial featuring cricketer Rahul Dravid and a parakeet, activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are going hammer and tongs against the ...
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POLICY
AP Govt not to probe IT land deals, for now
WHILE rejecting the Opposition demand for a probe into land allotments to various IT companies in the State, including to the K. Raheja Group for their Mindspace project, the Andhra Pradesh Government has said that further action would be taken ...
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TAXATION
Karnataka Budget imposes steep hike in sales tax on hardware, software
THE State Government on Monday proposed a steep hike in sales tax on computer hardware, software, electronic goods and software services. The ST has been hiked to 12 per cent from the existing five per cent on computer software (including works ...
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Teledata Q1 net soars 361 pc to Rs 10.97 cr
TELEDATA Informatics Ltd has recorded a 361 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 10.97 crore for the quarter ended June 2004 from Rs 2.38 crore in the same quarter last year. Net sales grew 570 per cent to Rs 44.98 crore (Rs 6.72 crore). Speaking ...
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Sify operating profit, revenues dip Q-on-Q
SIFY Ltd has reported a net loss of Rs 5.47 crore ($1.19 million) in the quarter ended June 2004, compared to a net loss of Rs 20.70 crore ($4.50 million) for the same quarter the previous year. Its operating profit for the June 2004 quarter ...
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SOFTWARE
Wipro setting up development facility in Kochi
INFORMATION Technology major Wipro is setting up a development facility at Kochi, which will be the `nerve-centre' for the company's West Asian and Australian operations. Wipro has leased 14.26 acres at Kochi for the project, where it will set ...
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HelloSoft develops VoIP tool for mobiles
HELLOSOFT, a wireless technology solutions provider, has filed for about a dozen patents from its R&D centre located here and has developed a new Internet Protocol-based application for mobile phones and wireless devices that bypasses the ...
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Free software in Malayalam
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Free Software Foundation India has attributed the delay in the development of free software in Malayalam to non-existence of benchmarks in areas such as keyboard layout, encoding and sorting. Free software ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Monsterindia to host `great resume' contest
MONSTERINDIA.COM, part of the global online careers network Monster.com, has announced the launch of their Kiska Resume Jitega Contest for job-seekers. It is aimed at ensuring that job seekers create compelling resumes that will help ...
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E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
`IT firms can tap airline sector for maintenance deals'
NEARLY 18 per cent of air travel bookings in the US are made online. In Europe, Internet travel vendors such as www.lastminute.com allocate nearly £22 million on IT-spends. Yet the Indian IT sector has ...
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EVENTS
TELECOMM India expo from Oct 25
THE sixth edition of TELECOMM India 2004, the international exhibition and conference on telecom and IT sectors, is all set to unroll from October 25 at Mumbai. Two hundred companies from across the world are expected to showcase their ...
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IPOS
TCS pegs IPO in Rs 775-900 band
TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday announced the price band for its initial public offer at Rs 775-Rs 900. The IPO is scheduled to open on July 29 and close on August 5. Over 55 lakh equity shares with a face value of Re 1 are on offer. ...
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VENTURE CAPITAL
Nokia venture capital firm opens office here — Pune start-up gets $10-m investment
FINNISH telecom major Nokia has set up office of its venture capital firm, Nokia Venture Partners, in New Delhi. The venture capital firm, with a global fund of $650 million, invests in early-stage technology companies. The company has ...
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