The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 06, 2004

OUTSOURCING
IDC sees `very strong' growth for BPO sector
PREDICTING that India would be amongst the top three growing IT markets in Asia Pacific, IDC said Indian IT industry revenues would touch $55 billion by 2008, thus reflecting a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.1 per cent between ... More

Colt Tele plans BPO centre at Gurgaon
WHILE most international firms have been in the silent mode about setting up back office operations in India, a European provider of telecom services plans to set up a BPO here even though it will lead to job losses at its European ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DoT to simplify norms for spectrum allocation
TELECOM service providers may find getting clearance for allocation of radio frequency easier. The Department of Telecom has proposed to set a three months timeframe for the Standing Advisory Committee for Frequency Allocation (SACFA) for ... More

TRAI open to changes in unified licence guidelines
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, in an unprecedented move, will allow the industry to suggest changes in the guidelines for unified licence regime after it has been announced. The regulator will issue `draft' guidelines on the proposed ... More

HARDWARE
TVS-E signs up with Siti to supply set-top boxes
TVS Electronics Ltd on Thursday launched its direct-to-home (DTH) set-top-boxes (STB). It has signed up with Siti Cable Network, part of Zee Network, as its first customer. The "Made in India" DTH STBs are manufactured at the company's newly ... More

Samsung peripheral sales target
SAMSUNG India Electronics Ltd hopes to register a 30 per cent growth in revenue from sales of IT peripherals in the current calendar year. In 2003, the company's earnings from IT peripherals sales stood at Rs 1,100 crore, according to Mr Anish ... More

AMD Sempron processors
NEW DELHI: Microprocessor company, AMD, on Thursday announced the availability of Sempron processors aimed at meeting the computing needs of buyers of desktops and notebook PCs, and said players like HCL Infosystems and LG would offer the ... More

Infiniti range from HCL Info
NEW DELHI: HCL Infosystems has announced the launch of its new range of Infiniti Global Line 2700 series with Dual Intel Xeon processors targeted at providing faster speeds for enterprise applications. "Infiniti Global Line 2700 series ... More

Novell's new Linux server
BANGALORE: Novell has introduced Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9, with significant performance, scalability, manageability and security enhancements designed to handle corporate workgroup and data centre requirements with ease. With this ... More

Service support for IBM
BANGALORE: D'gipro Design Automation& Marketing Pvt Ltd has announced that it will provide sales and technical support for all IBM semi-conductor products to the Indian market. A VLSI solution provider, D'gipro's experience in the IC ... More

SOFTWARE
India centre to play key role in SumTotal expansion
SUMTOTAL Systems Inc, the business performance and learning technology solutions provider, has drawn up plans to expand Indian operations, broaden scope of work to cover product development and support from here and also bring the entire ... More

Mastek to pay Rs 3
THE board of directors of Mastek Ltd has proposed a dividend at Rs 3 per share (face value of Rs 5), according to a company notification to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The annual book closure has been fixed for September 16-20, inclusive of ... More

Trijal Ind bags export order
MUMBAI: Trijal Industries Ltd, which is in the process of having a nationwide launch of its Unified Messaging System (UMS) product, TRUMS, has bagged an export order worth one million euros from a German company for supply of a special ... More

Braving the rain
Investors waiting in the rain to submit their TCS public issue forms in Mumbai on Thursday.

BROADBAND
`Broadband policy will be consumer-friendly'
THE Communications and IT Minister, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, on Thursday, said that the broadband policy, to be unveiled next week, will be consumer-friendly. The policy would be aimed at increasing the Internet usage through tax sops and ... More

ISPS
New Hathway Net package for Rs 750 per month
BROADBAND cable ISP company Hathway Cable Internet has introduced its new broadband package — Hathway 256 kbps providing high-speed Internet through cable for just Rs 750 per month. This new initiative will expose the residential Internet ... More

IPOS
TCS IPO subscribed six times
TATA Consultancy Services' initial public offer has been over subscribed six times, according to merchant bankers. Book running lead managers say that this figure is likely to go up as uploading of applications was still underway. As of 7:00 PM ... More

TCS offer lures Gulf NRIs back to Indian markets
THE Tata Consultancy Services IPO has evoked big interest among NRIs - a trend which has not been in evidence since the early nineties. On a visit to Kerala, Mr K.V. Shamsudheen, Director of Barjeel Geojit Securities LLC, told Business ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES
Reliance Infocomm launches call centre in Chennai
RELIANCE Infocomm Ltd has inaugurated its call centre in Chennai to attend to customer calls from the four southern States. The centre, spread over 8,000 sq. m, can now seat over 1,200 customer service personnel. It will be expanded to seat ... More

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