The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 10, 2005

No to the mobile?
Virus attacks on mobile phones. No happy thought to begin the new year on, but the menace could well become very real in the near future. More

Telecom subscriber base up 31.42 pc in 2004
AROUND 19.5 million users signed up for mobile telephony services in 2004, with the cellular user base registering a 68 per cent growth to touch the 48-million mark by the end of last year, according to a data released by the telecom regulator ... More

Spectrum allocation policy unfair: COAI
PRIVATE cellular operators have said that the Government's policy for spectrum allocation to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators has created an imbalance in the industry since the Global System for Mobile (GSM) operators do not have ... More

TRAI disputes BSNL claims on revenue loss
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has dismissed concerns of revenue loss expressed by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd because of the revision in the access deficit charges. It said that there would not be any impact on BSNL as the ... More

INSIGHT

Thumbs-up
The burgeoning mobile subscriber base is sending the country's telecom industry into a tizzy. What's in store for 2005? A look at the shape of things to come... More

More heads are better...
Get the better of competition by pooling expertise... the consortium way. That's the route IT firms are taking. More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Whose fault is it anyway?
If your tenant committed a crime on your premises, and the cops knocked on your door, you wouldn't like it. Does the logic hold good in cyberspace too? eWorld tracks the controversy trails in the wake of the baazee episode... More

HARDWARE

Industry sees 10 pc fall in PC prices from April — Opinion divided on VAT impact on domestic units
THERE is good news ahead for those planning to buy PCs. With zero duty regime under the IT agreement scheduled to come into effect from March 2005 onwards, the prices of computers - both imported and locally manufactured systems - are ... More

SOFTWARE

Virinchi Tech to expand operations
VIRINCHI Technologies Ltd, a software products and services provider, has announced plans to expand its operations here, which includes developing its own technology campus that would have facility to host about 1,000 techies and doubling its ... More

Laser Soft tool for banks
MANGALORE: Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd has launched `e-circular,' a software product for the banking industry. A company release said that the product facilitates the instant delivery of circulars in an electronic form from the head ... More

IT TRAINING

Kerala launches Mobile computer lab
AS part of its IT@School project, the State Government has introduced a mobile computer laboratory to provide support to schools that do not have full-fledged computer laboratories of their own. This facility is ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Infomedia scouting for BPO acquisition
INFOMEDIA India, an information services firm, has identified the BPO and the B2B publications segment as potential growth generators and charted out aggressive plans in both the segments. The company is currently scouting for acquisitions in ... More

EVENTS

Looking back

OUTLOOK

`Programmable logic tools market to expand fast'
IN an era where technological changes are impacting every aspect of human life and computing getting increasingly pervasive, can `programmable logic' solutions bringing greater flexibility, faster adaptability, be far behind? In fact, that is ... More

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