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OUTSOURCING
OfficeTiger acquires UK's Devonshire group
OFFICETIGER, the New York-headquartered business process outsourcing company with a large operation in Chennai, has acquired Devonshire group of the UK, a leading provider and consultant of outsourced creative, document and staffing solutions to ... More

Australian bank in talks with Infosys for outsourcing
THE Commonwealth Bank of Australia is in talks with Indian software vendor Infosys Technologies to outsource its IT services. A high-level delegation from Commonwealth Bank including its Chief Information Officer recently visited Infosys and ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS
TCS bags quality award
NEW DELHI: TCS has been recognised by Bureau of Indian Standards as a winner of Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award (RGNQA) for 2003. The award recognises Indian manufacturing and service organisations that are at the forefront of the ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CDMA players seek adequate spectrum to stay in business
RELIANCE Infocomm and Tata Teleservices have said that they will be forced out of business if the Government does not allocate fresh spectrum in the 1900 Mhz frequency band. Mr S.C. Khanna, Secretary General, Association of Unified Telecom ... More

Tata Tele targeting 1-m subscriber base in AP
TATA Teleservices Ltd, which is targeting a subscriber base of one million users in Andhra Pradesh in the current fiscal, is offering customers a new range of services. The company has expanded services in 40 towns so far this fiscal, taking ... More

INSIGHT
Bharti Tele: A good show
BHARTI Tele-Ventures has managed to sustain or improve the operating profit margin in every business segment such as mobile, broadband /fixed, long distance and enterprise business, reinforcing the strength of its integrated business strategy. ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Bharti Q2 net zooms to touch Rs 334 cr
BHARTI Tele-Venture's net profit for the first six months of the current financial year has zoomed 407 per cent to Rs 630 crore, compared to Rs 124 crore during the corresponding period last year. The company had netted a total profit of Rs 620 ... More

MRO-TEK Q2 net rises to Rs 2.98 cr
MRO-TEK Ltd has reported a net profit of Rs 2.98 crore for the quarter ended September 30. The company's profit registered a 146 per cent increase over the corresponding period of the previous year's figure of Rs 1.21 crore. Revenues were ... More

HARDWARE
ISA formed to foster chip sector
IN order to promote India as the preferred hub for semiconductor design, testing and manufacturing a cluster of semiconductor firms have formed the India Semiconductor Association. Announcing the launch of the ISA here on Thursday, Dr Sridhar ... More

SOFTWARE
Infosys asks German SEs to stop `unauthorised' ADS trading
SOFTWARE major Infosys Technologies Ltd has asked several German stock exchanges to delist and stop the illegal trading of its American Depository Shares (ADS) immediately. The company on Thursday said it had recently learnt of the ... More

Dinesh Dalmia, DSQ move SAT against SEBI order
DSQ Software Ltd and its Managing Director, Mr Dinesh Dalmia, have not responded to the order by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) asking the company and Mr Dalmia to buy back 1.3 crore "irregular" DSQ Software shares, introduced ... More

HCL Info bags Rs 76-cr order
NEW DELHI: HCL Infosystems has announced that it has bagged a Rs 76-crore order from the Department of School Education, Punjab. The order comprises 18,200 PCs, servers, printers and uninterrupted power supply (UPS), a company release ... More

INTERNET
New policy unveiled for .in domain registration
The minimum fee charged by the .in registry will be Rs 250 and Rs 500 per year for registrations. More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Merchant banker to synergise BSNL, MTNL operations
TERMING the process of synergising the operations of BSNL and MTNL as "complicated", the Government today said that it would finalise a merchant banker "in a couple of months". "Already, six parties have been shortlisted. The merchant bankers ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Subex offices in Denver, London
BANGALORE: Subex Systems has announced it has opened two offices in Denver (Colorado) and London. A company release also announced the appointment of Mr Greg J. Le Neveu as Vice-President (Americas) and Mr Justin Johnson as ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
SEI CMM Level 5 for Accord unit
BANGALORE: The software division of Accord Software has been assessed at Level 5 of the CMM model of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. ... More

OUTLOOK
`IBM has big plans for India'
IBM's Chief Executive and Chairman of the board, Mr Samuel J. Palmisano, on Thursday met the Minister for IT and Communications, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, and discussed the company's expansion plans for India. "They (IBM) have a lot of plans. Ours ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Ideatec launches payroll software
COIMBATORE: Ideatec Softwares has launched `iPay', payroll management software. Though payroll packages are not new, Ideatec has given a slight twist to the package by offering a range to enable users make an easy choice. The iPay - ... More




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