The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Nipuna bags $8-m animation deal
NIPUNA Services Ltd, the business process outsourcing arm of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, has signed an estimated $8-million animation deal with 4K Animation GmbH, a German animation company. This covers development and production of digital ... More

INSIGHT

Do grids hold answers to grand challenges?
BASED on ``1,466 interviews with senior IT influencers and decision makers'', Oracle has found that India leads the world in the big jump of 52 per cent on the `Grid Index'. While China has moved from 4.7 to 4.9, ... More

Role of India and China — Route to three billion mobile subscribers
IN THE mobile industry, the road to three billion subscribers in 2010 is paved with a global strategy that must capitalise on seemingly contradictory objectives — winning in the most lucrative markets, where ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Cognizant, Patni Computer among IT firms to set up campuses in SEZs
COGNIZANT Technology Solutions Ltd (CTS), Patni Computer, and Sonata Software are among the 12 companies that would sign up with the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Government to set up their respective campuses in the Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam special ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Aztec Q3 net doubles
AZTEC Software Ltd, provider of offshore product development services, said today that its revenues and net profits for the third quarter ended December 31, 2005 more than doubled over the corresponding quarter last year. Net profits for was ... More

HARDWARE

SMEs driving HP storage sales here
HEWLETT-Packard (HP) said on Tuesday that the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) accounted for close to 60 per cent of the company's storage business in the country. "India is one of the fastest growing storage markets in the Asia-Pacific ... More

Chip maker launches India-designed Centrino product — We'll go the extra mile, Govt tells Intel
THE Government will go the extra mile if Intel Corp is ready to set up a semi-conductor manufacturing facility in India, according to the Union Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran. Throughout the ... More

Fab City decision by this month
THE "chosen destination" for Fab City, the country's first semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be known within the month. "We are at a stage where we have to select one of the three short-listed locations for the Fab City. We are working ... More

SOFTWARE

Brand Portrait bags iSoft account
iSoft is the Indian subsidiary of iSoft Group, which provides software solutions to healthcare providers. Mr Arunav Sinha, Manager, Corporate Communications, iSoft, said, "iSoft India is committed to creating a brand image in India that ... More

SoftJin's new facility
BANGALORE: THE Bangalore-based SoftJin Technologies, an electronic design automation software development company, is setting up a facility for tool development and contract R&D services divisions. The facility can seat over 180 ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

MTNL to acquire stake in Chinese telecom co
Officials said the Chinese company was planning to offer services using the home-grown 3G technology, and has full-fledged telephony operations in four provinces. More

EVENTS

ISA summit next month
BANGALORE: The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) is organising an annual two-day Vision Summit on February 8-9. The principle theme is Triple Play of Design, Software and Manufacturing: a New Paradigm for Semiconductors. The sessions ... More

Looking back

OUTLOOK

Oracle `relies on India team for innovation'
BULLISH on the growth prospects of the Indian market, Oracle Corporation plans to scale up its headcount in the country to 10,000 professionals from the current 8,600, while establishing direct presence in nine non-metro cities during the next ... More

PEOPLE

Progeon's Bhargava puts in papers
MR Akshaya Bhargava, the Head of Progeon, the business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Ltd, has put in his papers . Reasons for Mr Bhargava's exit were not known immediately. Infosys did not comment on the ... More

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