INFO-TECH
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Competency centre to hone VLSI skill sets
WITH the demand-supply mismatch set to increase for engineers in the VLSI (very large scale integration) design space required for the semiconductor industry, Sun Micro Systems, Cadence, Locuz and Veda IIT have come together to establish a novel ...
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STORAGE
HP has 44.5 pc of storage pie: IDC
HEWLETT-Packard on Thursday said it has taken the top slot in external disk storage and total disk storage revenue in the third quarter of 2004 in the Indian market. According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) report, the ...
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OUTSOURCING
Hinduja TMT probing growth opportunities
HINDUJA TMT says its strategy of combining organic and inorganic growth would help it outpace the industry growth rate of 35-40 per cent. "We have been exploring opportunities in various verticals to drive growth," Mr Thiagarajan, Managing ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Mukesh to renounce sweat equity in Reliance Infocomm
MR Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has decided to renounce his sweat equity to the extent of 50 crore shares in Reliance Infocomm. Mr Mukesh is understood to have sought the annulment of these shares and the board of ...
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Tata Indicom launches Push-To-Talk services
Tata Teleservices, on Thursday, announced the launch of Push-To-Talk (PTT) services whereby customers can make unlimited calls to other Tata PTT subscribers at a flat fee of Rs 99 a month. Tata is the first mobile operator to launch PTT in the ...
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BSNL Karnataka to double mobile connections
THE Karnataka Telecom Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to double the capacity of mobile connections in the next six months. The existing capacity of the circle is 7.2 lakh connections, and it has 6.42 lakh mobile customers. ...
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Tata Indicom to extend services in TN
MADURAI: Tata Indicom has plans to extend its services to 145 towns in Tamil Nadu by the end of the current financial year, according to Mr Madhusudanan, Chief Operating Officer, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Tata Tele-Services Ltd. Launching ...
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POLICY
Govt tight-lipped on changes in IT Act
THE Information Technology Department on Thursday remained tight-lipped on the issue of amendment of IT Act, a subject being hotly debated in the industry following the recent arrest of Baazee.com CEO in the high profile MMS case. "The matter ...
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STOCKS
Cognizant in Nasdaq 100 Index from Dec 29
THE Class A common stock of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation will become a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index (R) effective at the beginning of trading December 29. It will replace the US-based PeopleSoft Inc's common stock, which is ...
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HARDWARE
Acer opens mall
SOFTWARE
Hughes Soft to be renamed Flextronics
HUGHES Software Systems Ltd (HSS) said on Thursday its board of directors has approved the change of name of the company to `Flextronics Software Systems Ltd.' HSS informed the BSE that "the board of Directors of the Company, by way of ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
iSoft R&D has 1,100 in Chennai
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
HCL Tech buys out Apollo Contact
HCL Technologies on Thursday announced the acquisition of balance 10 per cent equity in Apollo Contact Centre, Belfast of HCL Technologies BPO Services (NI) Ltd, from BT plc. With this, HCL Technologies now has 100 per cent stake in Apollo ...
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NEW PROJECTS
Virtusa plans new campus
E-MAIL
60 pc of e-mails are junk: Study
HAVE you noticed a rise in the number of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam in recent days? Most Net users would have, particularly after a holiday or when the system had remained shut for a couple of days. Trend Micro's study reveals an ...
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PEOPLE
New CMD for Macromedia
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