The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 05, 2006

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
SanDisk to up R&D headcount
US based data storage cards manufacturer SanDisk plans to strengthen its flash memory design centre in Bangalore by increasing its headcount. "We plan to have 60 engineers by the end of the next year from 22 engineers currently. The design ... More

Xilinx sets up R&D centre; to develop IP cores
Association with CMC to continue More

Satyam sets up global R&D hub in Singapore
Plans 2 centres to focus on telecom, BI technologies More

FOREIGN RELATIONS
Qualcomm Chair at IIT-Madras
Qualcomm, a US-based provider of wireless technologies, has established a Qualcomm Chair at IIT, Madras. This is the first academic donation by the company in India and is endowed with a grant of $175,000 (around Rs 80 lakh). Announced at ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bharti surrenders CDMA spectrum
Claims entry fee has not yet been refunded More

Cell phones: BSNL aims to catch up with Airtel in AP
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), though a late starter, has made considerable inroads into the mobile phone market in Andhra Pradesh and currently has 14 lakh connections and four lakh connections more will be added by the end of the financial ... More

HARDWARE
Aspocomp to make PCBs for Nokia
Construction of manufacturing facility on; production in 2007 More

Moser Baer part of Blu-ray disc effort
Moser Baer's in-house developed and patented technology in manufacturing of optical media has been considered as one of the four standard media to be included in the Blu-ray disc specifications by the Blu-ray Disc Association in ... More

SOFTWARE
NIIT partners Singapore co, bags Govt deal
DSTA to outsource devt and maintenance support of the e-procurement portal, GeBiz More

TMT developing customised solutions
Company transforming itself into solutions provider More

SunTec tool for Cable One
SunTec announced that the US-based Cable One has successfully deployed its billing management solution for voice service. SunTec's evolutionary TBMS VoIP along with Cable One's existing billing platform provided Cable One with a ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
VSNL, East African Cable may merge links
Merged entity to be the second largest joint cable system More

NEW PROJECTS
HP unit in Uttaranchal
Hewlett-Packard India on Wednesday announced that it would invest Rs 100 crore for its second manufacturing facility in the country at Pantnagar, Uttaranchal. The plant will have an initial capacity of 3,00,000 computers per ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
Australian biz school's online courses
Australian college Chifley Business School has launched its post-graduate online programmes in India. The two-year MBA in Technology Management and six-month Diploma in Business will focus on the workplace application of ... More

EVENTS
`MNCs flock to India for quality, speed, innovation'
"If one were to think that MNCs come to India because Indian labour is cheap, it does not hold good any longer. They come now for our quality, risk-taking ability, speed, flexibility, innovation and productivity. You, as customers, are demanding ... More

IPOS
iServiceGlobal plans IPO
iServiceGlobal, a Palo Alto (US)-based enterprise business solutions provider, has announced plans to expand its Hyderabad operations. The President and Chief Executive Officer of iServiceGlobal, Mr Srini Katta, met the Chief ... More

TRENDS
Karnataka shuts down; loss pegged at Rs 2,000 cr
IT, BPO companies join near-total bandh More

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