The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, October 05, 2004

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
BSNL issues notice to Reliance on ILD traffic — `Pay up or face disconnection in 30 cities'
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd has served disconnection notices to Reliance Infocomm in at least 30 cities - including Chennai, Mumbai and Pune - for routing international long distance (ILD) calls illegally. The State-owned company has asked ... More

VoData Card from Tata Indicom
TATA Indicom has launched `VoData Cards', which the company described as a network card for enterprise customers which provides up to 153 kbps speeds, enables voice calls without cable or phone lines and also helps in accessing business ... More

MTNL plans to hike GSM lines to 18 lakh in Mumbai
"We are also thinking of going into 3G technology, possibly wide-band CDMA." More

Airtel launches wi-fi services in Mumbai `hot-spots'
AIRTEL has launched wireless fidelity services in eight `hot spots' in Mumbai that include the Bombay Gymkhana, Café Mocha (coffee shop) outlets, Cha Bar at Oxford Bookstores and some other well-known city restaurants. The company is planning ... More

SOFTWARE
Two Oman dailies to use BodhTree ePaper solution
BODHTREE Consulting, an IT consulting and product development company, today signed a licence agreement to provide its latest ePaper publishing solution to Times of Oman and Al Shabiba, two leading newspapers in Oman, to enable the ... More

GM's plan to bid out IT deals may benefit Wipro
AUTOMOTIVE major General Motors' proposed move to put its information technology contracts, worth $3 billion a year, up for bids for the first time in 20 years is likely to benefit Indian vendors, especially Wipro Technologies. By virtue of ... More

India, Korea ink pact on IT
INDIA and Korea on Monday agreed to promote co-operation in the field of Information Technology. In a joint statement signed by the IT and Communication ministers of the two countries, it was agreed to provide a fillip to the investment flows ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
Nasscom opens Chennai office
CHENNAI is emerging as a major information technology destination in the country and it requires a mass transportation system to carry thousands of IT employees, said Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom (National Association of Software and ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Venture Tech buys majority stake in Intelligroup
VENTURE Tech Assets Ltd, an investor in technology and an iLabs group vehicle, has acquired major equity investment in Intelligroup Inc, provider of information technology services, together with Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF). A ... More

Subex completes buys
BANGALORE: Subex Systems on Monday announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of fraud management activity of Alcatel and certain assets of the Fraud Centurion product from Lightbridge Inc. "With these ... More

BROADBAND
MTNL plans broadband at Rs 500 a month
MTNL is hoping to be able to provide broadband services at an affordable rate of roughly Rs 500 for unlimited access. The company is aiming at getting 1.4 lakh broadband customers in Mumbai by March, 2005 and a million customers by December ... More

EVENTS
BEA developer meet
HYDERBAD: BEA Systems, an enterprise infrastructure software provider, has announced that it would be holding its annual developer conference, dev2dev, on October 14 here aimed at consolidating its developer network. BEA dev2dev is a ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Bloopers just a blip, say medical transcription cos
A patient's `phlebitis (vein inflammation) left leg' was typed out as `flea bite his left leg' while a `below knee amputation' was transcribed as `baloney amputation'. Hilarious as these may sound, these errors or transcription bloopers have ... More