The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 07, 2006

GSM subscriber base grows by 3.5 m in Jan
LIFETIME pre-paid offers seems to be paying off with GSM base operators adding another 3.5 million new mobile users in January. This is the highest ever additions on a monthly basis overtaking the previous best of 3.2 million new subscribers in ... More

Fixed wireless telephony — SC asks Reliance Info to pay ADC
IN ANOTHER blow to Reliance Infocomm, the Supreme Court has asked the company to pay access deficit charge (ADC) to state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for calls from its fixed wireless telephone (FWT) users. The apex court said that fixed ... More

SOFTWARE

`AP poised to garner 15 pc of software export pie'
THE Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has said that Andhra Pradesh is on course to garner about 15 per cent of the country's overall software export pie this fiscal. The projected exports of about $2.7 billion (Rs 12,500 crore), would ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Wipro to expand Kochi facility
SOFTWARE major Wipro Ltd expects its Kochi unit to generate $500-$600 million in exports by 2010 when the facility will have around 8,000 people. "Kochi will be one of the four main centres for Wipro's product engineering," said Mr Rajesh Ram ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Telekom Malaysia in talks for stake in Spice Telecom
B K Modi's Spicecorp (India) holds 51-per cent stake in Spice Tele. More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Nandaki ties up with Archents
NANDAKI Systems and Archents, companies with distinct domain capabilities, have joined together to provide integrated solutions and services to their customers under the flagship `Case Consulting Group Inc'. They have swapped shares into each ... More

Mastek to set up centre for Areva arm
MASTEK has signed a strategic partnership with Euriware, a subsidiary of energy group Areva, to create a dedicated software development centre for the latter in India. Euriware is a consulting and IT services group . Its expertise is based on ... More

EVENTS

Replicate Taiwan model, say experts
WITH an emphasis on innovation, technology experts at a Nasscom event on captive units have called for new approaches to take on global competition. The Managing Director of e4e Labs India, Dr. Sridhar Mitta, said mere replication of successful ... More

PEOPLE

Ashish Sinha quits Polaris
MR Ashish Sinha, Head, North America, Polaris Software Lab, has quit the company to join Citi Bank in the US. He came from Orbitech Solutions following a merger with Polaris. Post-merger, Mr Sinha became Polaris' Senior Vice-President, Business ... More

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