The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 02, 2005

BPO revenues to touch $134 b in 2005: Gartner
WORLDWIDE revenue in business process outsourcing (BPO) is projected to reach $133.7 billion in 2005, an 8 per cent increase from the 2004 revenue of $123.8 billion, according to a Gartner study. "A year ago, BPO providers and prospective ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Shorter calls to cost less as BSNL rejigs PCO biz
NOW you can pay less for short duration calls made from a Public Call Office (PCO) even as calls longer than two minutes become dearer. In a bid to revamp its PCO business strategy, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has decreased the tariffs for local ... More

DoT relaxes penalty for delayed licence fee payment
THE Department of Telecom has reduced the penalty for delayed licence fee payment by telecom service providers. It has also relaxed the penalty for paying licence fee lower than what is payable. As per the new guidelines any delay in payment ... More

SOFTWARE

MindTree revenues rise 80 per cent
SOFTWARE services firm MindTree Consulting has reported a revenue of Rs 245.3 crore for year-ended March 2005, a growth of 80 per cent over previous year's Rs 136 crore. However, the privately held company did not disclose its profit figures. ... More

Mauritius — paving the way to become a cyber island
THE stalks of sugarcane swaying in the fields across the road are a reminder of what this piece of land was a few years ago. Then part of a sugar estate at Ebene, a suburb of the capital, this land fell victim to the downturn in the sugar ... More

Caritor has faith in in-house HR team
ALTHOUGH it's outsourcing that makes the IT industry tick, here's one Bangalore-based IT company that relies more on its internal talent than outside expertise. At Caritor India, it's a no entry for headhunters and trainers because the ... More

Maars Soft debenture issue
CHENNAI: Maars Software International Ltd will issue fully/partly convertible debentures (less than 18 months period) to maximum of Rs 12 crore each to Forsee Financial and Consultancy Pvt Ltd and Sri Aurobindo Finance & Hire Purchase Pvt ... More

IntraNet partners FSS
CHENNAI: IntraNet Worldwide, the US-based provider of payment processing solutions for financial institutions, has announced a distributorship agreement with the Chennai-based Financial Software & Systems Ltd (FSS). The partnership ... More

Oracle tools in Gartner Quadrant
NEW DELHI: Oracle on Friday announced that Oracle iStore and Oracle Partner Management, part of the its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite of applications, have been positioned in the `Leaders Quadrant' in the 2005 Gartner B2B ... More

INTERNET

Gmail space: One, two,... Infinity?
We are talking about Google's e-mail service Gmail's announcement for its first birthday: Google would like to offer infinite storage to Gmail users! Now hold on, they would only like to. But what they are going to do is to increase the e-mail ... More

SCR Web site on claims

SECURITY

Juniper targets Wi-Fi, security applications
JUNIPER Networks, a networking and security solutions provider, has forayed into wireless security, targeting the growing market for Wi-Fi and wireless LAN (local area network) applications. The Country Manager of Juniper Networks, India, ... More

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