The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 21, 2008

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRAI to seek views on access deficit charges
Kolkata, Jan. 20The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will float a consultation paper on Monday (January 21), inviting opinion on whether the “sunset clause” on the Access Deficit Charge (ADC) should be invoked by March 31 and ... More

Money idling in USO kitty rises to Rs 15,000 cr
Operators want reduction in levy to 3% from the current 5% More

IBM wins $150-m Bharti Airtel contract
New Delhi, Jan. 20 In a bid to boost its triple play platform, Bharti Airtel has awarded a $150-million contract to IBM to provide IT solutions and services to support broadcasting services such as DTH and IPTV. Bharti had already ... More

Kyocera to push CDMA handset sales in India
Bangalore, Jan. 20 Kyocera Wireless India (KWI), the Bangalore-based engineering development facility of the Japanese multinational Kyocera Wireless Corporation, is assessing the market for increasing sales of CDMA (Code Division Multiple ... More

INSIGHT
Icing takes the cake
Tech players are getting more than what they bid for in deals — call it compromise or value-addition. Looks like the ‘era’ of ‘vanilla responses’ from clients is over. More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Sasken Q3 profit down 68%
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has reported lower third-quarter earnings, although its revenue increased 8 per cent during the quarter. Earnings dropped 68.3 per cent to Rs 3.8 crore on revenues of Rs 141.3 crore. Revenues from the ... More

Everonn net up at Rs 4.04 cr
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HARDWARE
No dumb machine
Machine Intelligence and the promise it holds. More

HP-based electronics firm unveils LCD TVs, laptops
New Delhi, Jan. 20 Newly launched Himachal Pradesh-based consumer electronics firm, Markson, has unveiled a product range including LCD televisions, DVD players and laptops, which it claims will offer “quality electrical products at ... More

India inside?
Indian software designers now have a chance to deliver complete software products to semiconductor users, instead of the parts they are so famous for globally. Or do they? eWorld moderates a debate. More

SOFTWARE
Second that
IBM works, and parties, in the virtual universe. More

Photon Infotech plans to go public in April-June
Targets wider presence in other countries More

INTERNET
Concern over poor awareness of Internet usage policy
Coimbatore, Jan. 20 While the life in an organisation has become dependent on IT, the awareness about the Internet usage policy is poor and not well communicated; and the IT spend and security budgets still low, Mr Surinder Singh, Director ... More

IT TRAINING
New Horizons on expansion mode
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HUMAN RESOURCES
IT biggies snap up 33,000 professionals in Dec quarter
‘The hiring outlook is stable for the industry’ More

IT cos go cautious on B-school hiring
Chennai, Jan. 20 IT companies may be gearing up for lower business in the coming fiscal, if their B-school hiring is any indication. Most companies have reduced the number of offers they have made to B-school candidates.“Last ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Dhanus buys Turkish telecom co
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