The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, May 19, 2005

The million-dollar brains
The winners of the `Ingres Million Dollar Challenge' - (from left)Ashutosh Upadhyay, Rohit Gaddi, Geetanjali Bahuguna, Achal Rastogi and Harsh Azad - with the prize cheque of $4,00,000 at a function in the Capital on Wednesday. The winning ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Zero-rental plans from Reliance Info
RELIANCE Infocomm has introduced what it called zero-rental plans for its wireless services. Although a minimum commitment of Rs 299 and Rs 649 are payable under these plans, free intra-circle calls worth the monthly rental makes them ... More

Protests growing against telecom towers
THE NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) movement is creeping into the country and threatens to write a bad chapter or two in the happy Indian telecommunications growth story. Protest by local communities against telecommunication base stations as ... More

World Telecom Day awards
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Governor, Mr R.L. Bhatia, gave away the Vishisht Sanchar Seva Padak and Sanchar Shree awards to select employees of the Kerala Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) at a function here on Tuesday on the ... More

INSIGHT

Spectrum allocation — Disturbing the CDMA-GSM wavelength?
To realise the mobile subscriber base target of 200 million by 2007, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has suggested a sharp increase in the allocation of additional spectrum on a need-based basis for both CDMA and GSM operators, especially i n the metros. The objections to TRAI's recommendations lie in the manner in which it has proposed allocation of additional spectrum in the existing frequency bands. Krishnan Thiagarajan looks at the problem areas. More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Allsec Q4 net at Rs 3.81 cr
ALLSEC Technologies Ltd, the Chennai-based provider of call centre support services, has reported a net profit of Rs 3.81 crore on revenues of Rs 15.98 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, according to a statement of the consolidated ... More

HARDWARE

4 more Acer malls in Delhi, NCR announced
ACER India on Wednesday announced the opening of four Acer Malls across Delhi and the National Capital Region. The new malls have been opened in partnership with some of the leading names in the IT hardware channel like Trifin Technologies, ... More

LG projects desktop sales at over 2 lakh
LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd expects desktop sales to exceed two lakh during the current year, and this business to contribute about 11 per cent of its expected revenues of Rs 9,000 crore during the year. The company launched a high-end range ... More

SOFTWARE

AppLabs opens 1,000-seat centre
APPLABS Technologies, a software testing and development services provider, has announced the opening up of AppLabs Global Engineering Centre in Hyderabad. The new centre has capacity to host about 1,000 engineers. The company currently has ... More

Sierra expands Siebel practice
HYDERABAD: Sierra Atlantic, an enterprise applications services provider, has announced that it has expanded its Siebel systems practice to include Universal Customer Master (UCM) and analytics implementation services. Sierra Atlantic's ... More

INTERNET

GPRS portal from MTNL
Film actress Rukhsar at a press conference to launch the FunStation — MTNL's exclusive GPRS portal — in Mumbai on Wednesday. According to Mr Kuldeep Goyal, Executive Director, the portal will allow MTNL mobile subscribers to download ... More

IT TRAINING

Teledata, DNV to offer e-learning course for ship superintendents
TARGETING the huge demand for qualified shipping superintendents, Teledata Informatics and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) have tied up to launch an e-learning course and certification programme for ship superintendents. "The market scope is immense ... More

BIM course on software testing
THINKSOFT Global Services, a Chennai-based independent software testing provider, has signed an agreement with the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchi, to offer a course on application software testing — a process used to ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

IBM headcount close to 25,000 here
Some of the jobs IBM has planned to cut in Europe may land up in India as the company is expected to move them to lower-cost regions. More

E-GOVERNANCE

'E-commerce offers great opportunity'
WITH increasing telecom penetration in India, online commerce presents a great opportunity for economic growth, generation of jobs and international commerce. The Chief Executive Officer of Sify Ltd., Mr Ramaraj, said as per IDC data, India ... More

PIRACY

`53 pc of PC software in Asia-Pacific pirated'
FIFTY-three per cent of the software installed on personal computers in the Asia-Pacific region was pirated in 2004. While this was the same level as witnessed in 2003, the losses due to software piracy increased from $7.5 billion to $8 ... More

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