Maran wants IT cos to operate from tier-II cities as well — Lays stone for STPI facility in Chennai.
ESC Council wants STP scheme extended beyond 2009.
Feb 11
Iomega bets big on India.
STD calls for Re 1 from March 1.
Communications Ministry to focus on rural connectivity.
Growth in digital imaging — Canon set to phase out analog printers by June.
AP woos hardware, electronics cos.
Free Standards Group plans Linux testing centre.
Anti-money laundering software market set for bigger growth.
Clause 49 compliance: Crisil, MS develop tool.
Mastek bags 10-year deal.
TCS gets Moody's Baa1 rating — `Downgrade pressure unlikely to emerge in next 12-18 months'.
Irish co MobileAware teams up with InFact.
Red Hat to leverage India venture to tap West Asia.
BSNL expects to have net addition of 15 lakh fixed lines the next year as compared to 4 lakh this year.
Feb 10
Mobile companies get six months more to complete rural rollouts.
LG plans more GSM launches.
Tensilica plans chip research centre in Pune.
Talks with Intel on Feb 15: Maran.
Motherboard manufacture — Gigabyte to make India hub for Asia-Pacific ops.
$3-billion project to manufacture semiconductors — SemIndia zeroes in on Hyderabad.
MosChip poised for turnaround — Launches bridge chips.
SumTotal wins key client.
IT-ITES revenues seen to grow 28 pc — On track to meet $60-b export target.
IBM India operations `grew by 55 pc in 2005'
Cognizant Tech revenue up 51 pc.
Feb 9
TRAI clearing the decks for cheaper long distance calls — Plans 4 per cent revenue share for ADC.
Govt issues guidelines for operators on phone tapping.
Airtel to set up telecom hub in Kolkata.
`India needs flexible chip unit'.
Induslogic to host centre for Mantas.
UK's Aurona to expand gaming operations.
Genpact to recruit 6,000 more by year-end — Ties up with Osmania University.
Symphony to hire 2000, eyes acquisitions in China.
Four Soft to hire 250 more.
Lionbridge has facility for Aveva in Chennai.
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra — `Cash profit in Q3 flows from new biz strategy.'
Softbank Asia to invest $22.5 m in CSS.
`Foreign funding in IT, telecom set to double'.
MTNL awards Rs 750 cr GSM order to ITI.
Feb 8
MTNL to get huge tax refund — `Licence fee is biz expense'.
CDMA operators add 1.4 m subscribers in Jan.
Intel charts new branding strategy to promote Viiv technology.
SanDisk Corp sets up R&D centre.
Nasscom ropes in Booz Allen to study engg services space.
Pilgrim management system from Bartronics.
Fortune Info bags E. Africa order.
3i Infotech bags Kazakh order.
Ness Technologies signs pact to acquire Innova Solutions.
Google sets up sales, marketing offices in Delhi, Mumbai.
Maxis Comm plans fresh investment of $1 b in India.
Scandent Solutions rejigs top brass — Pawar Kumar to head IT strategic business unit.
Virtusa inducts marketing head.
Ericsson to invest $ 100m in India every year.
Tax sops may be on to increase broadband penetration; Budget may give 100 pc depreciation for PCs.
Feb 7
GSM subscriber base grows by 3.5 m in Jan.
Fixed wireless telephony — SC asks Reliance Info to pay ADC.
`AP poised to garner 15 pc of software export pie'.
Wipro to expand Kochi facility.
Telekom Malaysia in talks for stake in Spice Telecom.
Nandaki ties up with Archents.
Mastek to set up centre for Areva arm.
Replicate Taiwan model, say hardware experts.
Ashish Sinha quits Polaris.
Telekom Malaysia arm in talks for Spice Tele stake.
Fidelity to pick up 9 pc stake in MCX for $ 49m.
SC asks Reliance to pay Rs 40 crore to BSNL.
BSNSE.IT plans overseas binge.
Avinash Vashistha quits NeoIT.
KKR makes a lunge for FSS.
Feb 6
Exensys revamping operations.
EDS gets big chunk of GM deal.
BSNL asks TCIL to speed up Net project.
Levelling out: Regional differences in the relative daily rates that IT consulting service vendors charge to clients have started to diminish — with some exceptions.
Telecos ready to tread last mile for IPTV rollout.
Lifetime validity not for `life'.
Chip making fortunes hang on Rs 6,750 cr govt fund.
