The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 24, 2006

Airtel outlets offer music downloads
Airtel today launched Airtel Easy Music, which would enable its mobile subscribers to access their favourite music at the over one lakh retail outlets of the company. An Airtel mobile customer can choose a song, which would be ... More

Telecom FDI norms deadline extended
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the extension by four months, of the deadline for telecom companies to comply with guidelines on foreign direct investment. The Cabinet gave its ex-post-facto approval to the July 2 deadline given to ... More

Dhoni to endorse Reliance Communications products
Reliance Communications Ventures has signed up Mahendra Singh Dhoni as brand ambassador to endorse the company's products and services in advertising campaigns and other promotional programmes. Dhoni's contract provides for his utilisation for ... More

SOFTWARE

Satyam bags Nissan NA order
To provide maintenance support for application management system More

Subex brand signature
Subex unveiled a new brand signature with an ellipsis followed by the three italicised words, 'Powering the ROC'. The brand signature illustrates Subex's solution focus in helping telecom operators establish the Revenue ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Infinite buys Datagrid
Infinite Computer Solutions, a technology solutions provider, has acquired Datagrid Services, a Hyderabad-based BPO company. It plans to set up a campus in Hyderabad with an investment of $10 million. Infinite with revenues of about $110 ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Essel, Intel tie up to offer digital content
Essel Group today announced that it has set up a company, Digital Media Convergence Ltd (DMCL), in collaboration with Intel Corp to offer digital content in India. However, it is not clear if there is equity participation from Intel. Mr ... More

Kanbay, Pegasystems sign pact
Kanbay Incorporated, IT services firm, and Pegasystems Inc, player in unified process and rules technology, have announced an alliance to develop and deliver business process management (BPM) expertise to financial services organisations. ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

Nipuna CATI centre in Bangalore
Nipuna Services Ltd, the BPO subsidiary of Satyam Computer, has launched a 50-seater Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI) service centre at Bangalore. CATI interviews are designed to suit highly structured questionnaires or where ... More

OUTLOOK

CBay to raise $20 million
CBay Systems, a healthcare BPO company, plans to raise about $20 million in debt from Indian financial institutions to fund its proposed acquisitions of two US-based firms. Mr Raman Kumar, Chairman and CEO, said the company ... More

Outsourcing industry faces consolidation
Driven by low-cost global competition, broken biz models, says Forrester More

PEOPLE

Symantec Vice-President
Symantec Corporation has announced the appointment of Mr Anil Chakravarthy as Vice-President of India Technical Operations, based in Pune. Mr Chakravarthy will succeed Mr Sharad Sharma, who has put in his papers to pursue other ... More

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