The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 14, 2005

Aptech order book at Rs 140 cr
CHENNAI: Aptech Ltd has shown a closing order book of Rs 140 crore for the quarter ended March 2005. Institutional business income showed a growth of 21 per cent in 2004 over the previous year, according to a press release. Mr Pramod ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Cell operators may roll out rural networks — Telegraph Act likely to be amended, says Dayanidhi Maran
THE Government is considering amending the Telegraph Act to facilitate mobile operators roll out networks in rural areas by sharing infrastructure that is funded by the Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund. "We have discussed the matter with ... More

India targets 250 million phone connections by 2007
INDIA has crossed the 100-million telephone mark to become the fifth largest telecom network in the world after China, the US, Japan and Germany. "We have visualised that by 2007, the country will have 250 million telephones and the teledensity ... More

Bharti ready for 3G services
TEN years after making the first call on Airtel from Delhi, Mr Sunil Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises, is hungry for more. For starters, the company which has completed roll out of its global system for mobile (GSM) ... More

RailTel OFC roll-out
CHENNAI: Railtel will be rolling out an optical fibre cable covering 42,000 km and covering 4,000 cities by 2008, according to Mr K.K. Bajpeyee, Managing Director, RailTel Corporation of India. Till March 2005, RailTel has completed laying ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Tanla Solutions net at Rs 6.84 cr
TANLA Solutions Ltd has recorded a total revenue (consolidated) of Rs 22.73 crore and a net profit of Rs 6.84 crore for the financial year ended March 31, 2005. The Chairman and Managing Director of Tanla Solutions, Mr D. Uday Kumar Reddy, in ... More

HARDWARE

Encore sees pick-up in Simputer sales
ENCORE Software has said that its hand-held device Simputer has graduated from the "pilot phase" and the company sees its sales taking off this fiscal with orders pouring in. Mr Vinay Deshpande, CEO, said the company recently signed a major ... More

SOFTWARE

Sabeer Bhatia offers instant info-sharing
HOTMAIL co-founder Mr Sabeer Bhatia has launched InstaColl, an Indian independent software vendor (ISV) with an instant messaging solution of the same name. The company has released a beta version of the product and is also running pilot tests ... More

iSoft R&D expands into Hyderabad
iSoft R&D, the Indian subsidiary of the Manchester-based iSoft Group plc, has announced its second development centre in India at Hyderabad which is expected to also serve as business continuity and disaster recovery centre. Addressing a press .. More

Zolon Tech plans centre, offers direct-hire services
ZOLON Tech Inc, the US-based $10-million IT solutions and consulting services company, proposes to set up an offshore development centre (ODC) in India in the areas of development, maintenance and production support. It also plans to set up a ... More

Teradata to provide data warehousing solutions to LIC
TERADATA, a division of NCR Corporation, will be providing data warehousing solutions to Life Insurance Corporation. The Corporate Active Data Warehouse will cater to the 160 million policies held by 130 million policyholders and the large ... More

Thatavarthi to raise $1 m
HYDERABAD: Thatavarthi Technologies, a Hyderabad-based start-up engaged in software testing services, has drawn up plans to expand operations and is in the process of raising about $1 million to fuel its overseas centres. The Chief ... More

EmbWiSe's new software
CHENNAI: EmbWiSe Technologies, a Chennai-based start-up company, has released SDIOWorkx, a Linux-based software that enables device and card designers to develop and integrate secure digital/SDIO support in products. The SD/SDIO ... More

INTERNET

Not an April Fool day joke this!
IT all began as a Fool's day joke. And it is still on. Slashdot, the IT enthusiast cyber hangout, carried a story titled "Yahoo and Google to Merge?" on April 1 with a link to http://yagoohoogle.com. As usual, most slashdotters were convinced ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

IT People unveils career portal
IT People India Ltd, a staffing solutions company, announced the launch of the world's first IT-focused vertical career portal exclusively for industry's IT requirements. IT-People.com, the portal, is the first step towards providing complete ... More

BROADBAND

Dishnet broadband plans
HYDERABAD: Dishnet Wireless Ltd., part of Mr C. Sivasankaran Sterling Infotec group, has announced its plans to invest about Rs 250 crore in its pan-India wireless broadband project and expects to commence operations with the roll-out of ... More

OUTLOOK

IT share in GDP may touch 4.1 pc
THE share of the information technology (IT) sector in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to touch 4.1 per cent during 2004-05. "The success achieved by this sector can be gauged by the fact that its share of national ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Satyam, Sun launch new centre
HYDERABAD: Satyam Computer Services Ltd and Sun Microsystems India on Wednesday announced the launch of the Satyam Customer Solution Centre on Sun Technologies. The Senior Vice-President of Sun Microsystems Inc, Mr. Peter Cunningham, ... More

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