The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 20, 2006

MS to encourage budding researchers
Efforts are on at Microsoft Research India to encourage budding researchers in the country. With the start of Research Summer School, the company will bring in experts and professors from top universities such as Yale, Stanford and Cambridge ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Siemens in pact with Huawei-3Com
Siemens Ltd has tied up with Huawei-3Com to offer Internet protocol-based voice, data, and video network solutions to enterprise customers in India. Huawei-3Com is a joint venture between Huawei Technologies of China and the US-based 3Com Corp, ... More

TVSICS bags Reliance order
TVS Interconnected Systems Ltd's (TVSICS) proposed Madurai manufacturing base for cellular base station antennas has bagged an order from the Reliance group worth about Rs 200 crore, according to Mr Biswajit Patnaik, General ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Tata Tele Maharashtra Q4 net loss narrows
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra has reported its first-time quarterly cash profit as well as reduced net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2006. Net loss for the fourth quarter amounted to Rs 151.76 crore against Rs 177.96 crore during ... More

HARDWARE

HP unveils new Pavilion
Hewlett-Packard India unveiled the Pavilion dv8216TX. It comes with dual hard drives (2 x 80GB). It also features nVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 Discrete video processing frees the PC to run multiple applications simultaneously, 1GB of ... More

Xilinx unveils energy efficient chips
Targets entertainment, consumer goods sectors More

BROADBAND

Air Force may soon vacate spectrum for mobile users
Rs 1,000-cr OFC connectivity project to be completed in 6-7 months More

TRENDS

European cos plan to increase offshoring assets: IDC
In a bid to thwart the looming threat from offshore-based and global IT service companies, European service providers plan to increase offshore assets in locations including India, Eastern Europe, and South America, by 65 per cent during 2006, ... More