The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, August 13, 2005

`BPOs offer mainstream career opportunities'
PROGEON, the business process outsourcing outfit of Infosys, has said that careers in BPOs were not casual job opportunities but mainstream options to youth with visible growth and development. In a recently organised conclave of 49 college ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS

IIT alumnus wins Wiredgurus award
THE co-founder and Member of the Board of Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mr K. Dinesh, today presented a cheque of Rs 40,000 to Mr Sumit Kumar, a 2005 alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, for winning Infosys' Wiredgurus challenge competition. Infosys received ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

DoT may restrict fixed telephone to wireline technology
THE Department of Telecom (DoT) is considering a proposal to restrict fixed telephone services to only wire line, the way it was before the CDMA-based fixed wireless technology (FWT) came into the picture. The move comes after basic telephone ... More

Subscriber base — Private operators pip BSNL, MTNL
THE subscriber base of private telecom operators is now more than the user base of public sector companies - - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. Private operators owned 50.24 per cent of the total 107 million ... More

Tata Tele opens True Value hubs in AP
HYDERABAD: Tata Teleservices Ltd, (TTSL) has announced the opening up of two more True Value Hubs, their integrated sales and service centres of Tata Indicom, here. True Value Hubs are the exclusively designed 360 degrees sales and ... More

HARDWARE

C-DAC working on next gen supercomputers
THE Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is working on the next generation of supercomputers, which work on a speed of up to 10 Teraflops as aginst one Teraflop now. With such processing speed, the supercomputers will enable ... More

Xerox has much more to offer than photo copiers
XEROX has become synonymous with photocopying, However, Xerox wants to change the perception; it is not just a photocopying company but also an information technology-savvy firm. The company has started a series of initiatives to create a ... More

SOFTWARE

Infosys, 25, raises bar to global scale
FROM a $250 worth start-up with seven youngsters in a 100-sq.ft-office space in Mumbai 25 years ago to a $2-billion company today, Infosys Technologies has come a long way. With about 40,000 people on board, it is now time to ponder over and ... More

INTERNET

Use, transfer of disputed domain names in .IN space frozen
CYBER-SQUATTERS eyeing quick bucks in .IN domain on Internet may soon be caught in their own web. Stung by a spate of complaints of cyber-squatting in India's ambitious .IN domain name registration process, the designated registry— ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Nasscom keen to hone skill-sets for jobs — Industry-academia meet focusses on employability
EVEN as India has set a target of $22.3 billion from export of IT and ITES in the current fiscal, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has focused on the imperative of bridging the gap between the demand and the ... More

TRENDS

`Management of database getting commoditised'
THE global database management has become extremely commoditised and is seen to be gradually drifting away from just simple databases to information management systems, throwing up technological challenges. Dr C. Mohan, an IBM Fellow, who has ... More

Content management market hotting up in India: IDC
THE content management software market in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) is expected to grow at a five-year compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6 per cent to cross the $200-million-mark by 2010, with India poised to post the highest ... More