The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 14, 2005

TRAI pegs unified licence fee at Rs 180 cr — Three categories of licensing introduced
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made no significant changes to the proposals made in its draft recommendations on unified licence regime despite various representations from the industry and has reiterated an across the board ... More

TRAI withdraws directive on Tata Tele ad
THE Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on Thursday allowed Tata Teleservices to continue with the advertisement for its fixed wireless service `Walky'. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had earlier asked the operator ... More

`Rural telecom consortiums can help get around ADC'
SEGREGATING telecom service provision and network operation and entrusting rural telecom networks to a consortium of licensed service providers can help do away with the Access Deficit Charge (ADC) regime altogether. The idea is to ... More

Tata Tele services in 3 more circles
TATA Teleservices Ltd , the private telecom services provider, is on a major expansion drive that would see it roll out services in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Kolkata shortly. This would give it a truly pan-India presence covering 20 ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

TCS posts Rs 643-cr net in Q3
BETTER prices, better realisations, more offshoring and robust other income of Rs 141 crore (consolidated, under Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - GAAP), largely from foreign exchange hedging gains, has led to Tata Consultancy ... More

Rising rupee stunts iGate growth in Q3
THE appreciating rupee against the dollar has resulted in flat growth rates for software services firm iGate Global Solutions Ltd. The company recorded a 0.4 per cent increase in revenues at Rs 143.4 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, ... More

Aztec net soars
SOFTWARE product engineering company Aztec Software and Technology Services reported a 2,210 per cent jump in year-on-year net profits, clocking Rs 4.65 crore during the third quarter of the fiscal over revenues of Rs 25.59 crore on a ... More

HARDWARE

AP to focus on hardware sector
THE State Government has decided to create electronic manufacturing clusters (EMCs) and set up a Nanotech Park in efforts to attract leading hardware manufacturers. Announcing this at the ETSA 2005, the IEEE Conference on Smart Appliances, ... More

Xenitis Info in manufacturing tie-up with Chinese co
XENITIS Infotech Pvt Ltd, which manufactures and markets personal computers under the `Aamar PC' and `Aamchi PC' brand names, has forged a joint venture with Unitek Computer Company of Shenzhen, China, to manufacture computer hardware, DVDs and ... More

SOFTWARE

Modular Info tool
PUNE: Modular Infotech Pvt. Ltd has launched a point of sale (POS) solution for billing, inventory, business information and customer relationship management. This software Smart-Bazaar can be utilised by small, medium or large shops, ... More

Pervasive open source software
BANGALORE: Pervasive Software Inc, a global value leader in data infrastructure software, has introduced Pervasive Postgres, the first integrated set of open source software and services. It has been designed to remove significant barriers ... More

Satyam results on Jan 20

E-MAIL

`Spams form 60 pc of e-mail messages'
SPAM volume has swelled to comprise 60 per cent of all e-mail messages in 2004. This is marginally higher when compared to the volumes in 2003. Spam statistics from Symantec reveal that the volumes had gradually shot up in the last 12 months ... More

BROADBAND

BSNL, MTNL to launch broadband services today
CONSUMERS will get access to high-speed Internet services from Friday onwards for as low Rs 500 a month, with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd launching its broadband services across the country. The services will be ... More

Hathway launches Freeway broadband in Hyderabad
HATHWAY Cable Internet, a broadband cable Internet service provider , has launched its Freeway broadband package providing high speed Internet up to 128 Kbps through cable for Rs 995 per month. The user will be able to access unlimited ... More

EVENTS

`Entertainment industry yet to gear up for digital era'
INDIAN entertainment industry, estimated at about $4 billion (around Rs 17,200 crore), is set to double in about four years, given the current rate of growth of about 20 per cent per annum, and is likely to witness a wave of consolidation. The ... More

MS Research begins work on projects
MICROSOFT Research India has officially commenced its operations and inaugurated its TechVista 2005: Computing for Tomorrow, the first in a series of annual symposiums. The event aims to bring researchers from around the world providing them a ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

Megasoft to issue shares to I-Labs
MEGASOFT Ltd plans to issue eight lakh shares on a preferential basis to I-Labs Venture Capital Fund. These shares can be converted into 16 lakh equity shares. On conversion, I-Labs' stake in Megasoft will go up from 8.84 per cent to 13.78 per ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

Environment Ministry clears GE's Jaipur call centre proposal
This is the first project to be cleared by an expert committee set up to do the environment impact assessment of new construction projects and industrial estates. More

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