The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 25, 2005

The buzz is back
The telecom sector, silent for quite a long spell on the merger and acquisition front, is showing signs of crackling back to life. eWorld takes a look at factors that have been slowing down deals. Will the latest one keep the sector happily en gaged? More

Tata Indicom installs 325 wireless terminals in Karnataka villages
TATA Indicom has completed the first phase of its Universal Service Obligation (USO) commitment in Karnataka by installing 325 fixed wireless terminals (FWTs) in 15 villages and towns. Tata Indicom won the bid in 42 short supply areas (SSAs), ... More

INSIGHT

Balancing act
Telecom policy makers have a difficult task on their hands - balancing pulls and counter-pulls from the various stakeholders of the sector. More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Allsec Tech Q1 net at Rs 4 cr
CHENNAI: Allsec Technologies Ltd, the Chennai-based contact centre and business process outsourcing company, has reported a net profit of Rs 3.95 crore on sales of Rs 18.28 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 compared to a net profit ... More

SOFTWARE

Zensar shortlists Hyderabad for centre
PUNE-based Zensar Technologies has signed a three-year $4.5-million contract with the Shenzhen Government in China to set up a centre of excellence to provide project management training to Chinese software professionals. Talking to ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Freshers' salary stagnant; but training costs go up for cos
RISE in employee salaries, or wage inflation as the IT industry fondly calls it, is one factor that worries every Indian IT services company. But even though experienced hands in IT software services companies see annual salary jumps between 15 ... More

Bioinformatics: `Market large for India'
THE country's bioinformatics market can acquire 5 per cent of the global pie, from the present 2.5 per cent, provided the Government ushers in necessary changes, according to a report `Building blocks of bioinformatics: Human resource ... More

Virtusa course to hone skills of employees
VIRTUSA Corporation has found a new way of battling skill redundancy among its employees. According to the Chief Software Architect of Virtusa's India Development Centre at Hyderabad, Mr Arjun Mukherjee, the company has used multiskilling to ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

Technical snags continue to haunt tea e-auctions
Traders are now upset about the system not registering the auto bids and in being unable to knock down sold lots. More

INTERVIEW

`We see new services growing faster'
`The model that is emerging is that clients will have more than one vendor. We have to have a very conscious mix of long-term, annuity, volume-based as well as very strategic wins, which have an impact on the business of our customers.' More

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