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Hindustan Cables staff plea for merger with BSNL
THE employees of the state-owned ailing Hindustan Cables Ltd have made out a case for merger of the company with telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. In a memorandum to the State Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Hindustan ... More

LLA rating for Bharti Tele NCD
ICRA, an associate of Moody's Investors Service, has assigned an LAA rating to the Rs 100-crore non-convertible debenture programme of Bharti-Televentures Ltd indicating high safety. This rating takes into account the company's position as the ... More

Ringing sales pitch
Two passengers take a nap at a mobile phone company's stall at Thrissur Railway Station. Mobile phone sales are soaring in Kerala as companies take to aggressive marketing. It is estimated that over 90 per cent of handsets are sold in the grey ... More

Tata Indicom certification
MUMBAI: Tata Indicom has announced that its domestic Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) service has received the Cisco Powered Network designation. The Cisco Powered Network designation is granted to a telecom service ... More

HARDWARE
Alliance Semi to invest $50 m more
ALLIANCE Semiconductor Corporation, a provider of analog and mixed signal products, memory products and systems solutions, announced on Monday that it would invest up to $50 million to expand its India design centres at Bangalore and Hyderabad ... More

SOFTWARE
Autosoft tool for banks
PUNE: To cater to the small and medium-sized co-operative banks that want to embrace technology, the Pune-based Autosoft Systems Ltd has launched a low-cost high-end architecture structure providing centralised banking solution. ... More

Award for Flexcube
BANGALORE: i-flex Solutions said on Monday that its core banking solution Flexcube had won The Banker `Core Banking Solution of the Year" and "Application of the Year'' awards. The award was part of the `The banker technology awards' ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
TRAI for sops to promote better use of spectrum
WITH the rapid growth in mobile telephony making spectrum a scarce resource, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has started an exercise to ensure its optimal allocation and efficient usage. TRAI released a consultation paper on ... More

E-GOVERNANCE
The grey digital divide
MANY readers will recall, perhaps some sense of pride, the news and photographs that appeared not long ago in local dailies of senior citizens - many of them functionally illiterate - in Malappuram district staring at computer monitors to ... More

DIVERSIFICATION
Ma Foi revamps board; plans to diversify into IT, BPO training
MA Foi Management Consultants Ltd, a recruitment services company, plans to expand its network in the overseas and domestic market and diversify into training in information technology, business process outsourcing and healthcare ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Infosys gets ISO 14001
BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies announced on Monday that it had been certified ISO 14001 compliant by Det Norske Veritas (DNV). The certification had been received by its development centres in Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, ... More




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