The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 22, 2008

INFO-TECH

HUMAN RESOURCES: Wait gets longer for IT hires as slowdown bites
Mumbai, Aug. 21 Passing out of college with a letter of offer from a well known IT company in these uncertain times could entail a wait of up to one year to join the rolls, as 21-year-old BSc graduate Poornima (name changed) from SIES College ...

CONVERGENCE: Cabinet gives nod for IPTV guidelines
Telecom players stand to benefit. New Delhi, Aug. 21 Paving the way for consumers to access television content over broadband, the Cabinet today approved the guidelines for allowing broadcasters to share their content with Internet Protocol ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT rejects TRAI’s call for 3G policy review
Spurns regulator’s offer to spell out terms for foreign players. New Delhi, Aug. 21 In a move that would keep the roll out of third generation services on track, the Department of Telecom has rejected telecom regulator’s call to ...

M-COMMERCE: YES Bank, Cisco tie up for voice-enabled phone banking
Mumbai, Aug. 21 Private sector YES Bank today launched speech-enabled phone banking services for its customers, jointly with Cisco. The facility allows customers to perform routine enquiries or transactions just by speaking out pre-defined ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Airtel rolls out iPhone across 65 cities
High pricing could restrict handset uptake: Analysts. New Delhi, Aug. 21 Even as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar are gearing up to launch the much-talked about iPhone in the early hours of Friday, analysts said that the high pricing could ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Managing software assets key to regulating effectiveness, losses’
Bangalore, Aug. 21 Software Asset Management (SAM) might be the answer to unauthorised software deployment, which creates a dent in a software maker’s revenue, but the concept still has a limited mind space in ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Indicom targets 10% share in Kerala
Tata Teleservices, one of the telecom service providers in the State, has set a target of achieving 10 per cent market share in Kerala this ...

OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS: Infotech begins operations in Japan
Hyderabad, Aug. 21 Engineering and geographical information systems provider Infotech Enterprises today announced the launch of its operations in ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GSM operators agree to provide links to RCom
New Delhi, Aug. 21 The interconnection row between Reliance Communications and GSM players has been settled amicably with all the existing operators agreeing to offer links. ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: HCL Tech opens development centre in Sydney
New Delhi, Aug. 21 HCL Technologies Ltd today announced its expansion in Australia and New Zealand with the opening of a new global development centre in Sydney, which would help to accommodate over 500 employees across the ...