AWARDS & HONOURS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DoT says Tatas delaying demerger of VSNL land
THE Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has accused the Tata management of not taking any measures towards hiving off the surplus land belonging to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) into a separate entity. DoT said the Tatas were violating ... More

TRAI allows differential call charges
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday barred operators from offering their infrastructure to other operators at a different price to what they are offering to themselves. The decision will bring immediate relief to ... More

Idea Cellular office in Tirupati
HYDERABAD: Idea Cellular, private mobile services provider, has opened its zonal office at Tirupati for the convenience of its subscribers in the Rayalaseema zone. With the launch of their office in Tirupati, Idea Cellular now has four ... More

HARDWARE
IBM's Pondicherry facility to come under new entity
As part of the deal with Lenova, IBM's manufacturing facility in Pondicherry will become a unit of the new entity. According to an IBM spokesperson, the marketing team of IBM India will also be moved over to Lenova. IBM has nearly 200 ... More

LG Electronics plans to boost exports
LG Electronics Inc (LGE) is looking to scale up its digital appliance sale in India to $1.5 billion by 2007,with nearly one-third of it coming from exports. Talking to the visiting Indian media here, Mr Moon B. Shin, Vice-President, Digital ... More

SOFTWARE
TCS may get Rs 318-cr e-governance project
THE ambitious e-governance project of the Ministry of Company Affairs is poised for take-off. The Committee on non-Plan Expenditure, under the Ministry of Finance, is understood to have cleared the over Rs 300-crore computerisation project ... More

Red Hat to unveil Linux in 13 Indian languages by March 2006
BULLISH on the market potential of Linux in India, Red Hat has said it plans to localise its offerings in 13 Indian languages by March 2006 and ramp-up its localisation headcount in the country to 100 professionals. "Getting the local language ... More

Amazon zeroes in on NextLinx solution for price determination
THE e-tailing giant Amazon.com Inc is using Indian expertise to develop a system that will help its customers identify products and their prices, and help the company comply with varied Customs regulations and smoothly ship the products to ... More

Satyam to set up shop in Kolkata
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd will soon extend its operations to West Bengal by opening a branch in Kolkata during 2005, Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, its Chairman, said. He was addressing a press meet at the Raghu Engineering College in Visakhapatnam ... More

Collabnet eyes domestic market
COLLABNET Software, the research and development centre of the US-based Collabnet Inc, plans to expand its Indian operations based out of Chennai and consolidate its product and tools that help outsourcing companies. The Chief Technology ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL
Ittiam bags $6.5-m funding from Bank of America arm
Ittiam, which began operations in 2001, had raised $5 million in the first round. More

TRENDS
`Developing nations must become localisers'
MOOTING a `local-to-global' approach for localisation, IT secretary, Mr Brijesh Kumar on Wednesday urged developing nations and communities not to remain mere recipients of content localised by others but to become localisers themselves and make ... More