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EDS India arm to offer addl services
EDS, the $20.7-billion IT services provider, has said that its application services arm in India would offer additional technology services as well as services to additional industries. Addressing the press on Friday, Mr Iain Blacklaw, ... More

HECL to set up 3,000 DirecWay Fusion centres
SATELLITE service provider Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd (HECL) has announced it has plans to set up at least three thousand DirecWay Fusion centres across the country in the next one year. The company said it is in the process of ... More

OUTSOURCING


Unisys plans expansion; second unit by year-end
UNISYS Corp is firming up plans to set up its second centre in India by the year-end. The choices for locating the facility have been narrowed down to Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. The Managing Director of Unisys Global Services-India, Mr ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


TRAI proposes cut in spectrum charges — No entry fee for 3G services for existing operators
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended that existing operators should be given spectrum to offer third generation (3G) services without any additional entry fee. The telecom regulator has also suggested bringing down the annual ... More

Ratan Tata favours entry fee, revenue share for 3G spectrum
MR Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Ltd, has suggested that the Government could charge a licence fee for 3G (third generation) services and assign spectrum only to the operator who pays the highest revenue share, in addition to the entry ... More

What 3G means
3G services are expected to facilitate higher speed and data throughput, which enable delivery of a wide range of multimedia services, including video telephony and television. 3G, according to the telecom industry, represents true convergence ... More

MTNL's CDMA service to retain limited mobility
IT might seem odd that the limited mobility feature that once restricted CDMA operators to local calling zones is actually going to be retained by MTNL for Garuda, its CDMA service. But in doing so, the company will be allowed to charge ... More

TRAI draws the ire of both camps
THE spectrum policy recommendations announced by the telecom regulator has evoked sharp reactions from the telecom industry with both the GSM and the CDMA operators claiming that the suggested measures favoured the other. The two warring sides ... More

Tata Tele wireless market share at 28 pc
TATA Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) has increased its wireless market share from eight per cent in January this year to 28 per cent this April. Its cumulative market share in the CDMA wireless segment was 24 per cent, said Mr Vinayak Deshpande, ... More

GAILTEL plans to expand network
DESPITE losing a major customer in VSNL, GAILTEL (the telecom services arm of GAIL (India) Ltd) has clocked a turnover of Rs 18.92 crore for the year ended March 2005 and is upbeat about its ongoing expansion plans. The company plans to expand ... More

Correction
The headline "Call US, Canada at 83 paise per minute'' of the news report on BSNL bids that appeared on the front page on Friday is not correct. 83 paise is what Reliance Infocomm would charge BSNL for carrying ILD traffic. International long ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE


Datamatics Q4 net up 28.6 pc
DATAMATICS Technologies, non-voice BPO service provider, has reported a net profit of Rs 8.58 crore for the quarter ended March 2005, compared to Rs 6.67 crore during the corresponding previous period, an increase of 28.64 per cent. Total ... More

HARDWARE


New Sharp printer
BANGALORE: Sharp Business Systems (India) Pvt Ltd has launched a digital laser copier, printer multifunctional system and hopes to target the services and utilities sector with the variable data printer. The AR-M700U/N can print up to ... More

SOFTWARE


7Hills bags FMT deal for cargo management system
7HILLS, a US-based software company with a development centre here, has secured a contract from Federal Marine Terminals Inc (FMT), a subsidiary of Fednav Ltd, to provide an integrated cargo management system to handle operations at all its nine ... More

Scandent arm bags ALL deal
NEW DELHI: MatrixOne India, a Scandent Solutions subsidiary, announced that Ashok Leyland Ltd has chosen its product suite to provide an end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. The value of the contract for both ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


Helios & Matheson completes vMoksha acquisitions
HELIOS & Matheson Information Technology Ltd has completed the acquisition of all the three vMoksha companies — vMoksha Technologies Inc, US, vMoksha Technologies Pte Ltd, Singapore, and vMoksha Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. vMoksha has More

EVENTS


SAP Summit 2005
BANGALORE: Business software vendor SAP India said that SAP Summit '05, a business and technology summit, would be held in Mumbai from June 7 to June 9 this year. SAP Summit '05 will bring together senior executives, business managers, ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL


Connectiva in talks for second round funding
CONNECTIVA Systems Inc, provider of revenue assurance solutions to the telecommunications industry, with its global R&D centre in Kolkata, has initiated talks with investors for a second round of funding that will help the company mop up around . More

PEOPLE


New COO for Huawei India
BANGALORE: Huawei Technologies has appointed Mr George Huang as the new Chief Operating Officer of its Indian subsidiary Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd. Mr George will be responsible for enhancing and promoting HTIPL's product ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES


New version of Citrix server
NEW DELHI: Citrix Systems Inc has launched Presentation Server 4.0 aimed at providing customers with a more powerful tool to reduce application delivery costs and to increase the utility of information system. "The new version of ... More


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