INFO-TECH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Optra Systems launches Centre of Excellence
To ramp up headcount to 75 in the calendar year
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BSNL lowers international roaming tariffs
DECLINING CALL RATES
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STORAGE
VSNL unveils storage services
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) announced the launch of its global Managed Hosting and Storage services for enterprises. These fully managed services offer streamlined, scalable and secure management of IT infrastructure, network ...
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OUTSOURCING
US corporates outsource legal work to India
It's not just law firms or individual attorneys that are outsourcing their legal processes to hundreds of lawyers engaged in LPO in the country. In fact, when large US corporates are fighting a case in the US, the company's legal department at ...
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Compact Disc arm to list on London SE
Compact Disc India (CDI), the animation film outsourcing company, will list its new subsidiary — MediaOne — at the Alternative Investment Market in London. The company hopes to raise $50 million (Rs 613 crore) for MediaOne, its ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Hutch slashes monthly recharge rate
Mobile services operator Hutch today announced a 50 per cent cut in the minimum monthly recharge required for a prepaid customer. Hutch prepaid customers can now talk for a month at a cost of Rs 99 instead of the earlier minimum recharge of Rs ...
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Airtel in pact with HTC for touch screen mobile
Bharti Airtel on Friday announced an exclusive arrangement with Taiwan-based High Tech Computers to offer mobile services on its Microsoft Windows Mobile platform-based handheld device. Priced at Rs 19,900, the HTC Touch device would be ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Maharashtra charts IT roadmap
To focus on promotion of secondary cities, finishing schools
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EDUCATION
PG course in software tech
St Aloysius College, Mangalore, will start MSc (Software Technology) from the current academic year. A press release by the college said here on Friday that this course is affiliated to Mangalore University. The Karnataka ...
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SOFTWARE
Teradata's second global consulting centre in Pune
Teradata, a division of the NCR corporation and a player in the enterprise data warehousing sector, , is all set to open its second global consulting centre in the country. The second centre would be in Pune, the first being in Mumbai. Mr ...
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ThinkSoft mulling public offer
ThinkSoft Global, a Chennai-based financial software testing company, plans an IPO (initial public issue) in the next few months. A company official confirmed that the company was planning an IPO, but said it was "too premature" to talk about ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
TCS hires 789 VIT students on campus
Software major TCS has recruited 789 students of VIT University, Vellore, at the campus selection held earlier this month. This, according to a press release, was far higher than the 525 students that TCS recruited last year. The release says ...
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Watson Wyatt unveils job grading system
"It is a global methodology for job levelling which helps in determining career structure across industries and cultures."
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
TRAI sets up consumer education fund
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has set up a Telecommunication Consumers Education and Protection Fund to create awareness among telecom consumers and for protecting their interests. The fund will initially have a corpus of around Rs 10 ...
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SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT
Cognizant Foundation extends aid to five NGOs
Cognizant Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Cognizant Technology Solutions, has extended financial aid to five Maharashtra-based non-Government organisations. The aid is to the tune of Rs 40 lakh. The NGOs, which have ...
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PEOPLE
Vodafone recasts Hutch Essar board
Ravi Ruia is Chairman, Arun Sarin Vice-Chairman
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