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Licence fee for second category bandwidth providers cut by 60 pc
THE Government on Thursday announced a 60 per cent reduction in licence fee for Infrastructure Provider Category-II (IP-II) operators from 15 per cent to six per cent of the annual revenue. The decision will cost the Government only about Rs 3-4 ... More

Nokia initiates campaign on mobile imaging
NOKIA has initiated a mobile imaging campaign in India to promote the benefits of imaging amongst cellular subscribers. As part of this initiative, road shows are to be held across the country to demonstrate the imaging capabilities of ... More

Cellphone battery down? Recharge for free at Hutch centres
DRIVING around the city or countryside and faced with the problem of cellphone battery going down? There's help at hand, thanks to a new initiative by Hutch. Hutch has set up recharge centres where one can walk in and get mobile phones ... More

BSNL plans Rs 250-cr investment to expand mobile services in Karnataka
BSNL plans to invest around Rs 250 crore towards expanding and consolidating its mobile services in Karnataka during the current fiscal. The general manager for mobile services, Mr M.C. Kalkura, told Business Line that the cell cities ... More

Missed call alert from Idea
HYDERABAD: Idea Cellular has announced the launch of missed call alerts facility for its subscribers. This new feature sends both the pre-paid as well as the post-paid customers an SMS alert on the number of missed calls with the ... More

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    HARDWARE
    D-Link India launches networking products
    D-LINK India Ltd has launched its locally-designed and developed networking and communications products. The routers and firewalls launched are based on Intel's Xscale technology and are part of the company's focus on products catering to ... More

    SOFTWARE
    Ubinetics lines up Rs 125-cr investment for India
    UBINETICS, a provider of 3G wireless technology announced on Thursday its plans to invest close to Rs 125 crore in ramping up its India operations over the next three years. The company plans to add about 150 highly skilled software developers to ... More

    Wyse Technology eyes 25 pc market share
    WYSE Technology, the worldwide market leader in thin clients, expects to garner a 25-per cent market share in India by the year-end, said the company's Vice-President for sales, Mr Dave Yewell. Wyse estimates the Indian market for thin clients ... More

    CSC plans to invest $10 m in Hyderabad
    COMPUTER Sciences Corporation (CSC), the third-largest global IT services corporation with revenues of $15 billion, has announced plans to invest $10 million in its Hyderabad centre and induct about 1,000-1,200 techies over the next 12 months, ... More

    LogicaCMG bags Rs 25-cr deal
    BANGALORE: LogicaCMG announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a Rs 25-crore contract by Tata Teleservices Ltd to implement a CDMA-based next generation SMS Centre (SMSC) solution. Tata Teleservices will implement the SMSC to ... More

    ReadyTestGo in pact with US co
    CHENNAI: ReadyTestGo (RTG) has tied up with the US-based Gomez to target Internet monitoring services in the Asia Pacific region. RTG, a Chennai-based software testing firm, will offer Internet performance-monitoring services of Gomez to ... More

    Marlabs to set up centre for BHI
    BANGALORE: Marlabs India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marlabs Inc, is setting up a captive centre for Builders Homesite Inc (BHI), a leading marketing and technology solutions provider for the home building industry founded by a ... More

    SSI shareholders okay co's plan
    CHENNAI: Shareholders of SSI Ltd have approved the company's plan to utilise the Securities Premium Account not exceeding Rs 143.64 crore to adjust the deficit arising due to transfer of the company's IT services division to Scandent ... More

    MAQ launches marketing solution
    HYDERABAD: MAQ Software has introduced `MarketingQ', a comprehensive cost cutting and management software suite, specially designed for the marketing departments of corporates. The solution, aimed at cost cutting, saves 15-30 per cent on ... More

    INTERNET
    Major portals form body
    THE Internet & Online Association, a body formed by key Indian portals was officially launched here on Thursday. Set up by HT.com, indiatimes.com, MSN.co.in, Rediff.com, Sify.com, Yahoo.co.in and the online media agency, Mediturf in January ... More

    HUMAN RESOURCES
    MPACT plans to hire 100 more at Chennai centre
    THE US-based mPower Software Services will recruit over 100 professionals by the year-end for its Chennai development centre, MPACT Technology Services, and 300 more during 2005, according to its Chairman and CEO, Mr Naru Narayanan. MPACT, ... More

    Adobe India looks to add 100 jobs by December
    ADOBE India, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US-based publishing software major Adobe Inc., plans to hire an additional 100 professionals at its Noida development centre near here by December 2004, taking the overall headcount to 400. "In the ... More

    E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
    Is taxing e-commerce feasible?
    THE Common Minimum Programme adopted by the United Progressive Alliance attempts to reconcile economic reform with the concerns of the Left. It includes such goals as giving a boost to investment in technology and ... More

    E-MAIL
    MSN hots up Hotmail storage
    MSN has announced that it will provide 250-megabyte storage space to all its 170 million Hotmail customers, free of charge, starting "later this summer." While the storage space being offered is less than the 1,000 MB or 1 GB space to be ... More

    IT-ENABLED SERVICES
    Datalexicon's new services
    HYDERABAD: Datalexicon Infoservices Pvt. Ltd, a Hyderabad-based firm, has announced the launch of Dataline that helps people access information on business, residential areas, general information such as Railways, road transport, airlines ... More




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