The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 19, 2005

MTNL, BSNL may be synergised under one holding co
THE Department of Telecom (DoT) is looking at the option of setting up a holding company under which the operations of the two state-owned companies - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) - will be ... More

Sasken Comm sets up arm to tap domestic market
SASKEN Communication Technologies has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Sasken Network Engineering Ltd (SNEL), to tap the domestic telecom infrastructure market. SNEL will provide network planning, deployment, commissioning, integration and ... More

Qualcomm for tech neutral spectrum policy
US-based Qualcomm on Friday said India should adopt a technology neutral strategy for spectrum allocation. This is in line with the views expressed by the Communication Minister, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, during the GSM Congress at Cannes, France. ... More

The `iron lady' of BSNL
AT Port Blair airport, the BSNL board welcoming visitors to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands read "Connecting India." But it was impossible to even buy a BSNL mobile phone starter pack, and Andaman and Nicobar has only one cellular service ... More

It's show time on Reliance mobiles
RELIANCE India Mobile has launched `RIM Showtime', a 360-degree digital entertainment platform where video, mobile and Web technologies converge, in the State. The RIM Showtime Kerala experience will bring in the rich and fascinating world of ... More

Talk exchange
Cellular operators are a happy lot with the number of mobile phone subscribers touching nearly two million in Kerala. According to the Cellular Operators' Association, the average mobile phone connection per day in the State is 2,450. This is a ... More

SOFTWARE

Geodesic Info scouting for buys to widen product range
GEODESIC Information Systems has said that it is keenly looking at acquisitions to add to its product range and functionality. Mr Kiran Kulkarni, Managing Director, Geodesic, told Business Line that, "We have identified two companies to ... More

Kwick launches suite of simulation, VR services
KWICK Soft Solutions, a Chennai-based software firm, has launched Kwick ViSiM, a suite of simulation and virtual reality services developed on 3-D graphics rendering engine. The engine facilitates prototyping and development of visualisation, ... More

First Indian Corp opens development centre
FIRST Indian Corporation, a subsidiary of the $6.72-billion First American Group, a Fortune 500 company, having operations in Hyderabad and Bangalore, has opened its software development centre in the country. Addressing a press conference ... More

INTERNET

.in domain registrations cross 50,000
THE `.in' country code domain name registrations have crossed the 50,000 mark within the first two days of opening of real-time registrations for the general public. "By today afternoon, over 50,000 domain names had been registered in the ... More

IT TRAINING

Microsoft plans 3 IT academies in Maharashtra
MICROSOFT has chosen Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad to kick-start its Partners-in-Learning programme in Maharashtra. Pune and Nagpur would have one centre each and Aurangabad is also tentatively scheduled to have one centre, said Mr Ravi ... More

SECURITY

Canon makes its devices more secure
CANON India, a digital imaging company, has made security an integral part of its imaging and printing devices. It hopes this would give a big share in the Rs 235-crore peripheral security market. Mr Laksmi Narayan Rao, Assistant Director ... More

OUTLOOK

Fusion Tech plans $2-m expansion
FUSION Technologies Inc, an Edison-based technology services provider, has lined up plans to expand its India development centres located in Hyderabad and Bangalore with investments of about $2 million. The Chief Executive Officer, Mr Richard ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

NextGen's gateway tool
MUMBAI: NextGen Automation, an Australian technology company with its research laboratory in India, is launching Gateman, an integrated gateway device. Gateman incorporates surveillance, security, e-mail, automation, firewall and proxy ... More

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