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Payphones in rly stations: Tata Tele wins contract
Mumbai, Aug 9 Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd has won tenders for operating 405 coin-operated pay phones at 30 stations on Western and Central Railway. TTML will install 220 lines across 21 stations on the suburban sector of Western ...
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SoftSol gets German deal
SoftSol Resources has announced it has secured a contract from Infoscore Software Service, a German software developer, to convert one million lines of code, according to a statement from SoftSol India Ltd, Hyderabad. — Our ...
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OUTSOURCING
Essar plans big foray into engg service offshoring
Shifting functions to tap booming markets in US, Europe
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Nipuna gets eSCM Level 5
Nipuna Services Ltd, the BPO outfit of Satyam, has been certified at Capability Level 5, the highest rating according to the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP). The certification was granted by IT Services Qualification ...
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AWARDS & HONOURS
STPI award for Acropetal
Acropetal Technologies Ltd has been adjudged first among the “Fastest Grown SME Companies in Karnataka” by the Software Technology Parks of India. It won the award for its excellent financial performance, registering almost a six-fold ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Mundu suite for Apple’s iPhone
Mumbai-based Geodesic Information Systems has developed an instant messenger for iPhone. Mundu IM-iPhone Edition has been designed specifically for Apple’s touch screen mobile phone. The iPhone does not have instant messaging ...
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Cell subscriber base up 5.7 m in July
GSM cellular base has increased by 5.7 million in July. While Bharti has added more than 2 million subscribers, state-owned BSNL accounted for 5.5 lakh. This is the best performance for the PSU in the last three months ever since the controversy ...
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No compensation to operators for spectrum delays: DoT
New Delhi, Aug. 9 The Department of Telecom has decided that it was not liable to pay any compensation to operators for delay in allocating spectrum. This comes after Idea Cellular had asked DoT to pay Rs 83 crore as compensation for delay in ...
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Surana set to commission cast rod plant
Hyderabad, Aug. 9 Surana Telecom, a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of telecom products, cables and jointing kits, is all set to commission a continuous cast rod plant and another conductor unit with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes a year. This is ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
‘West Bengal IT cruising towards Vision 2010’
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First SEZ for pvt IT cos coming up in Coimbatore
Coimbatore, Aug. 9 The first SEZ exclusively for private IT/ITES companies in Coimbatore is being established by Coimbatore Hi-tech Infrastructure Private Ltd (CHIL), promoted by KG Information Systems Private Ltd (KGISL).The SEZ, which ...
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Kolkata — the happening city on IT front
“When anybody asks me, I always mention Kolkata as a credible destination,” said Mr Harris Miller, President of the IT Association of America. “The talent of Kolkata will play a major role in attracting investments in ...
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HARDWARE
IBM’s ‘Project Big Green’
IBM will consolidate thousands of computer servers onto mainframes as part of Project Big Green, a broad commitment that the company announced in May to sharply reduce energy consumption for IBM and its clients. It will save an estimated $250 ...
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INTERNET
New search engine for researchers
To unearth hidden patterns in text data
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Worldspace unveils 5 stations on MSN India
Mumbai, Aug. 9 Worldspace Satellite Radio has entered into a tie-up to launch five of its radio stations on MSN India. The five stations — Farishta (Hindi film classics), Sparsha (Kannada), Spandana (Telugu), Gandharv (Hindustani ...
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Huawei puts India plans on hold
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Nurturing socially disadvantaged engineers
Chennai, Aug. 9 In an innovative experience Infosys Technologies has financed the training of 100 qualified engineers from socially disadvantaged classes such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, and facilitated their employment in top ...
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Empowering engineers through training
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
Revive mobile number portability, says TRAI
Warning issued to operators on poor quality of service
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OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Zenta eyes buys in E. Europe, US
New Delhi, Aug. 9 Business Process Outsourcing firm Zenta is scouting for acquisitions in Eastern Europe and the US for multilingual capabilities and new services capabilities in real estate finance.“We are looking at acquisitions ...
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SECURITY
Symantec’s new protection tool launch next month
Bangalore, Aug. 9 Security vendor Symantec’s End Point Protection version 11.0 will be unveiled in September. Codenamed Hamlet, this software was designed using customer feedback and protects servers, laptops, smartphones, and ...
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PEOPLE
Nokia CEO coming
New Delhi, Aug. 9 Mr Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO of Nokia Corporation, will be visiting India from August 22-24. During this three-day visit, he will be meeting with senior government officials, industry leaders, key Indian ...
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