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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs to manage FLAG Tele IPO
Initial valuation estimated at $2 b
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Hutch opens new teleshop at Konni in Kerala
Hutch has announced the strengthening of its operation in the State by opening a new teleshop at Konni in Pathanamthitta district. With this, it has 20 Hutch shops and over 80 teleshops in Kerala. Teleshops form an integral ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
`IT sector takes big pie of new office space'
IT and ITES companies accounted for the largest consumption of new commercial space in the last quarter of 2006 in the major cities in the country, according to real estate consultancy DTZ Debenham Tie Leung. The sector took up 75 per cent of ...
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TECHNOLOGY
SAP unveils process for tagging
SAP on Thursday unveiled Product Tracking and Authentication (PTA), a business process for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. PTA enables companies to track and authenticate the serialised products that they ...
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Megasoft sales, net up
Megasoft Ltd has announced sales of Rs 178.33 crore with a net profit of Rs 32.97 crore for the year ended December 31, 2006, against sales of Rs 115.43 crore and a net profit of Rs 20.11 crore for the fiscal year 2005. This reflects a growth ...
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HARDWARE
New line of Intel chips
Intel announced on Thursday that it would begin producing its next-generation Penryn family of processors in the second half of this year. The Penryn family consists of six processors: dual and quad-core desktop ...
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SOFTWARE
Hindi version of Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 is now available in Hindi. The editions of Office Professional 2007 and Office Standard 2007 being made available in Hindi are part of Microsoft's Project Bhasha, a programme launched in September 2003 to promote local ...
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Vitage sets up remote centre
Vitage Technologies has set up a centre for remote delivery of its Business Services Management (BSM) operations in Bangalore. Entailing an initial cumulative investment of close to Rs 15 crore, the centre is capable of remote managing large ...
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SAP India adds over 433 mid-size cos
SAP India has announced the addition of over 433 new mid-size enterprise customers over 2006, translating to the addition of more than one new customer per workday in 2006. SAP All-in-One, SAP's solution for the mid market ...
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INTERNET
Te@cher's day out
`Innovative' teachers gathered to share and bask in their success stories from different parts of the world.
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IPR
US patents for Websense technologies
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded two patents to Websense for Internet Intelligence. These technologies are expected to help organisations protect themselves from threats to information security and employee productivity ...
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Computer Patent country head
Computer Patent Annuities Ltd (CPA), an intellectual property service provider, appointed Mr Bhaskar Bagchi, as the country head for its Indian operation. Prior to this, he worked with XL Capital and IBM Daksh. "We've had a ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
DESTINATION TIRUCHI
IT quality talent pool, an advantage
With metros facing space scarcity and escalating real estate prices, information technology companies have been looking at setting up offices in tier-II and tier-III cities. However, one of the concerns for companies is the quality of manpower in ...
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Fractal Analytics devises `staff retainer' tool
If only management knew when and why each employee might quit, managing attrition would be a piece of cake. Business analytics firm Fractal Analytics has come out with a software, which it claims can answer these questions and many others ...
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US outsourcers feel talent crunch in India
Ability to scale up rapidly is beginning to erode, says Forrester
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IT/ITeS temp jobs are highest paying
The number of temp jobs offered in sectors like BFSI, manufacturing and consumer durables has increased by more than 20 per cent.
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
FIPB defers decision on Vodafone deal
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has once again deferred a decision on the proposed acquisition of Hutchison Telecom International Ltd's stake in Hutchison Essar by Vodafone. FIPB has sought more information about the deal from the ...
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M-COMMERCE
Expert advice for farmers on mobile
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SECURITY
10 m cell users still unverified
With just two days left for the Government-set deadline to expire, cellular operators are still to complete verification of at least 10 million mobile subscribers across the country. After March 31, most of these subscribers whose verification ...
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