The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Licence violation claims baseless: Reliance Info
RELIANCE Infocomm on Tuesday said that the Government's security concerns arising out of improper caller line identification (CLI) was a `bogey" since more than 40 per cent of international long distance calls do not have the correct CLI. ... More

TRAI will intervene to cut leased line costs: Baijal
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India can intervene to bring down domestic and international leased circuit prices in the country, said Mr Pradip Baijal, Chairman, TRAI. "We are in the process of intervening and will bring out an order in ... More

DoT plans to impose penalty on operators for routing illegal calls
THE Department of Telecom (DoT) is mulling imposition of a penalty on service providers, including Bharti Tele-Ventures, whose network was found to be used for carrying traffic through illegal channels. The vigilance department is examining the ... More

Bharti moves tribunal over licence fee refund
THE Bharti group has filed a suit against the Government with the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal, seeking refund of the entry fee paid by the company for acquiring basic licences. The company had paid Rs 135 crore for acquiring ... More

1.8 m new mobile subscribers in Jan
THE mobile subscriber base went up by 1.8 million in January, taking the total subscriber base to 49 million. Of this, 1.27 million users were added by cellular operators with the Global System for Mobile (GSM) technology. Bharti Cellular, ... More

SOFTWARE

`Time for small cos to make their mark'
SMALL companies, collectively, should start making their presence felt in the IT growth story. Making this point, Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies, said: "A significant chunk of India's IT revenues ... More

HCL Tech to develop software for Boeing
announced that it has been selected by The Boeing Company as a software development partner for the 787 Dreamliner (formerly known as the 7E7) program. "A multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement has been signed with Boeing," an HCL release ... More

Wipro in IDC ranking
BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has said it has been ranked in the "fast followers" category in a recent research report from IDC, titled `European Managed Services - 2004 Competitive Landscape'. Wipro has been profiled extensively and is ... More

Configuration tool
HYDERABAD: Cendura Software, an application configuration management solutions provider for enterprises, has announced that its services-focussed configuration management database (CMDB) is available to Global 2,000 companies. This helps ... More

Qualcomm clarifies

HUMAN RESOURCES

`Salaried Indians get up to 14.3 pc hike'
INDIANS working in multinational companies, joint ventures and locally-owned companies have received salary hikes of up to 14.3 per cent between July 2004 and January this year. As usual, employees working for IT companies were the biggest ... More

Convergys plans to double BPO headcount
CONVERGYS Corporation today said it plans to double its Business Process Outsourcing headcount in India to about 20,000 within the next one or two years, even as the company expands its software capacity in Hyderabad. "We have a software ... More

Xansa plans to expand Chennai operations
XANSA, the UK-based company, plans to expand operations in Chennai with the setting up of a new building in the next six months at a cost of Rs 22 crore. The facility, to come up near its existing facility at Siruseri, will add 700 seats and ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT

Virinchi plans overseas arms
HYDERABAD: Virinchi Technologies Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the board of directors would meet on February 12, to consider the possibility of opening a branch in the US, as a fully owned subsidiary of the company. To ... More

SECURITY

Fortinet mail, spam services
HYDERABAD: Fortinet, a unified threat management services provider for networks, has announced two additions to its network security solutions and services portfolio — FortiMail, a secure messaging system, and FortiGuard-Antispam, a ... More

ISPS

Tribunal seeks DoT reply on entry fee for ISPs
THE Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today asked the Department of Telecom to reply within two days on the petition filed by Internet Service Providers challenging its decision to impose an entry fee for offering Virtual ... More

EVENTS

Nasscom 2005: Of punches and promises
NASSCOM 2005, the annual get-together of the software industry's apex body, threw up a surprise for the audience in the very first event: the inaugural. Outlining the industry wish-list, Mr Jerry Rao, President, National Association of Software ... More

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