The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 08, 2005

G4S commences Indian operations
G4S, the new company formed by the merger of UK security services providers, Group 4 Falck, and Securicor, has announced the beginning of its operations in India. Besides making India a base for providing skilled management workforce for its ... More

OUTSOURCING

HealthScribe opens unit in Coimbatore
THE Bangalore-based healthcare BPO - HealthScribe, which is today a fully owned subsidiary of the Spheris, a US-based medical transcription company, has opened its facility at the STPI IT Park in the Kumaraguru College of Technology campus in ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

High-end mobile subscribers get faster customer service!
AS a customer of some telecom or banking service provider, imagine having to pay more to ensure that you get to speak to a customer care executive faster than others when you call them up for some problem. Interestingly, that has already ... More

GSM subscriber base crosses 50 m in Sept
THE number of subscribers using mobiles based on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology crossed the 50 million-mark in September, with the addition of two million new users during the month. The Cellular Operators ... More

ITS(AP) officers express concern over DoT contingency plan
THE Indian Telecom Service Association of Andhra Pradesh has described the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) initiative of absorbing Group A officers and its contingency plan, as an effort to cripple the State owned public sector ... More

AP: Tata Indicom ties up with ICFAI
HYDERABAD: Tata Indicom has announced a tie-up with the Hyderabad-based ICFAI University to offer professional excellence programme (PEP) to the qualified and ambitious personnel employed by Tata Indicom business associates across the ... More

SOFTWARE

Educomp plans IPO
EDUCOMP Solutions Ltd is set to become the first school-segment education solutions company to be listed on the bourses. Educomp, which was incorporated in 1994 and has been aggressive in the K-12 (Kindergarten to Class 12) segment, is planning a ... More

Delhi realtor buys 32% in Online Media
IN a bid to derive benefits of a listed company in the bullish stock market, a New Delhi-based realtor, Savera Construction Pvt Ltd (SCPL), has acquired 32.37 per cent equity holding in the Hyderabad-based loss-making Internet services and ... More

Repair of computer software to attract service tax
THE Government has said that maintenance, repair or servicing of computer software would attract service tax. A circular to this effect has been issued on Friday, a senior Finance Ministry official said. With the issuance of this circular, the ... More

To enable auto upgrade of waitlists — CRIS working on changes to Railways software
The concept of waitlisted passengers, as well as upgradation facility would also be introduced for passengers booking tickets under Tatkal scheme. More

Accenture helps BPCL build TRM capability
ACCENTURE, a global management consulting, technology and outsourcing company, has helped Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) build a trading and risk management (TRM) capability, said Mr Sandeep Biswas, Partner, Accenture India, here today ... More

IT TRAINING

CII to launch CNC training programme for women at Coimbatore
THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Tamilnadu Corporation for Development of Women (TNCDW) are to launch a programme here for training the women in the operation of CNC (computer numerically controlled) machines. The tie-up is to ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

`India lacks skill sets in products space'
Microsoft CTO says changes needed in engg curricula
THE Microsoft Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Mr Craig Mundie, has said India should expand its engineering curriculum to train people in the business of software to make progress in the products space. "India has done a ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

MS research focussed on emerging markets — Opens new facility in Bangalore, in tie-up with C-DAC, IITs
MICROSOFT Research India (MSRI), which opened its new facility in Bangalore on Friday, said that it has tied up with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to carry out research on multi-lingual Web search, browsing and ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Progress Software opens India centre
PROGRESS Software Corporation, the Nasdaq-listed company, has opened its India development centre here with an investment of about $2 million. The company plans to recruit more professionals and invest up to $6 million by next year. Mr ... More

SECURITY

New Citrix suite to address network security concerns
IN an increasingly connected and mobile world where anywhere anytime access is becoming a reality, security is emerging as one of the biggest concerns for corporate networks and the threat arises from the growing complexity of the network itself, ... More

BROADBAND

`Broadband via power lines soon'
ELECTRICITY lines might soon bring broadband into your premise. At the Intel Developer Forum, a two-day event held at Bangalore, Intel announced that trials were being held to test this concept in India. Power lines can be used to transfer data ... More

OUTLOOK

Intel unveils ultra mobile computer prototype
ULTRA mobile computers, with a mobile-like appearance, are set to hit the markets next year. A prototype of the `ultra' mobile computer was showcased by Intel at the two-day Developer Forum that opened here on Thursday. The computer has a ... More

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