The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 22, 2007

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Vodafone vs the taxman
Once a while, a marquee case lands in the Income-Tax department which invariably stares at a huge tax claim. The Vodafone case appears to be one such in 2007. Taking over Hutchison Essar for $11.1 billion after a tense wait at the door of the ... More

Mobile subscriber base breaches 200-m mark
Bharti Airtel is top gainer; 8.3 million new users in August More

HFCL rings in Punjab service
Himachal Futuristic Communication Ltd on Friday launched its new mobile services in Punjab which offers subscribers tariffs on a per second basis. This is the first of its kind offer in India as most of the operators in the country charge on a ... More

UniverCell in talks with pvt equity players
Hyderabad, Sept. 21 Mobile retailing company UniverCell Telecommunications (India) is in parleys with private equity players to partly offload the company’s equity to help propel its next phase of growth.The Founder, Mr Sathish ... More

Mobile Store plans expansion
The Mobile Store (TMS), promoted by Essar Telecom Retail Ltd, plans to increase the number of stores to 2,500 over the next three years across 500 cities from the current 270 stores in 25 cities, according to Mr Rajiv Agarwal, Chief Executive ... More

Gemini Comm bags BSNL order
The Chennai-based Gemini Communication Ltd has bagged a contract from the State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for installation and commissioning of telecom equipment and their connected accessories across 11 telecom circles in the country for ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
DLF emerges highest bidder for Tidel-II
13 firms were in the fray for Chennai IT project More

SOFTWARE
VSoft launches wealth management solution
Pune, Sept 21 Pune-based V Soft Solutions and Consultancy P Ltd (VSoft) today launched Vault, a wealth management tool. Mr Vijay Athavale, Founder Director, told presspersons that Vault would help monitor and control one’s ... More

FirstApex unveils insurance products
Bangalore, Sept. 21 FirstApex Group has launched two new IT solutions for the insurance sector at the ongoing third Insurance Executive Summit on Technology Conference in Beijing on Friday.The products — FirstGen Neo 5j, a ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Vodafone not liable to pay capital gains tax: Sarin
Deal with Hutchison Telecom More

VENTURE CAPITAL
Novatium gets venture capital from US co
Bangalore, Sept. 21 The Chennai-based Novatium Solutions has received funding from US-based venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Novatium is working on a $100 thin client computer that it expects will be present in 50 ... More

OUTLOOK
Microsoft bid to deploy HPC in media, engineering space
Coimbatore, Sept. 21 Having brought High Performance Computing (HPC) to the mainstream environment, Microsoft is in the process of enabling organisations across the board leverage its benefit. The company is trying to find the right set of ... More

Symantec eyes risk mitigation services
Telecom, eGov cos taking to more proactive approach More

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