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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Microsoft plans research facility in Bangalore
MICROSOFT Research said on Wednesday that it has selected Bangalore as the location for its third research facility outside the US. Microsoft Research Lab India Pvt Ltd, scheduled to open in January 2005, plans to employ about 24 scientists, ...
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AWARDS & HONOURS
Infosys wins Global MAKE award
INFOSYS Technologies said today that it has won the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) award for 2004, second time in a row. Infosys, which is the only Indian company to ever be named a Global MAKE had won the award for the first ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
`Illegal routing' of long distance calls — Reliance, BSNL to settle dispute out of court
IN a bid to diffuse the ongoing controversy, Reliance Infocomm and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) have decided to sit across the table and try to negotiate an out-of-court settlement on the alleged illegal routing of long distance calls. The ...
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Spectrum policy to address 1900 Mhz band allocation issue
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, on Wednesday, said that the spectrum policy to be announced this month will address the controversy between GSM and CDMA operators over allocation of radio frequency for third generation services (3G) ...
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palmOne unveils new smartphone, handheld
PALMONE, Inc today announced the launch of the Treo600 smartphone and Tungsten T5 handheld in the country and indicated that it continues to explore India as a possible software location. "We continue to explore this possibility, but we have ...
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BSNL revises CellOne rates in Kerala
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has revised tariff for calls made under the `Friends and Family Talk' scheme for CellOne subscribers with effect from Wednesday. The registration fee for land phones in urban areas has also been slashed with ...
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SOFTWARE
IT cos indifferent to oil sector: Raha
THE ONGC Chairman & Managing Director, Mr Subir Raha, said here on Wednesday that domestic IT companies were "totally indifferent" to the software needs of the oil and gas sector and that they had taken "zero initiative" in this ...
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Reliance plans IT solutions centre at Kolkata
THE Reliance Group will set up an IT solutions development-cum-services centre in Kolkata. This will be the first time that the group will set up such a centre outside of Mumbai, according to Mr Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of ...
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Deploy IT in govt work: Infosys chief
THE Chief Executive Officer, President and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mr Nandan M. Nilekani, today presented a strong case for deployment of information technology (IT) in governance (governmental administration) and said a ...
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IT TRAINING
NIIT targets over 1 lakh under World Computer Literacy Mission
KEEPING in line with its efforts to usher computer learning across every section of the society, NIIT on Wednesday kicked-off World Computer Literacy Mission 2004 activities with a batch of special children from NGOs — Akshay Pratishthan, ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Alliance Consulting buys Mensamind — To invest $50 m
The headcount at Mensamind may increase from the present 100 to about 1,000 over two years.
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i-flex acquires SRA's workflow, document imaging products
I-FLEX Solutions Ltd has acquired the workflow and document imaging products from SRA Systems, a Chennai-based software firm and a technology partner of i-flex. It is learnt that around 20 employees from SRA Systems have been transferred to ...
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NEW PROJECTS
Nokia to invest $150 m to set up handset facility
FINNISH telecom major Nokia has announced an investment of up to $150 million over the next four years to set up a mobile handset manufacturing facility in India. The unit is expected to give employment to about 2,000 people. Announcing the ...
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
Tata Tele, LG tie up for CDMA handsets
TATA Teleservices has tied up with LG Electronics Inc, to launch the LG AD 5235 handset, a 65000-colour CDMA folder handset powered by BREW technology. The BREW operating systems has high speed mobile interface for delivering mobile features, ...
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ISPS
Reliance Info announces unlimited surfing offer
RELIANCE Infocomm today announced unlimited Internet surfing at Rs 650 a month for its subscribers subject to data downloads of up to 1 GB, and unlimited data downloads for Rs 1,500 a month, as part of the full suite of ISP services that it has ...
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Teledata enters VoIP business — Bags Nagaland Govt, Singapore Maritime contracts
TELEDATA Informatics Ltd, which is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider for the education and marine sectors, has entered the voice over Internet protocol business (VoIP) for international long distance (ILD) telephony. The ...
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EVENTS
Linux conference gets under way in Bangalore
THE annual free and open source software (FOSS) event, Linux Bangalore/2004 got underway here today. The three-day conference from December 1-3 will feature speakers from the Indian industry as also from the US, Europe and Australia. ...
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