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ECONOMIC SURVEY


Welcome growth in hardware: Survey
LAUDING India's IT and BPO sectors for having built valuable brand equity globally, the Economic Survey today took note of the "welcome acceleration" in the hardware sector. "The share of hardware and non-software services in the IT sector has ... More

Bullish on telecom sector
THE Economic Survey has hinted that Indian consumers could be enjoying a tariff structure like that in developed world where there is a single tariff for local and long distance calls. "In the US, mobile telephony subscription packages bundle ... More

STORAGE


EMC to invest $150 m more
Information storage and management company EMC Corporation today announced an additional investment of $150 million in India, taking its total commitment to $250 million by 2007. "The increased investment will fortify EMC's market leadership ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


Cell operators divided over entry fee for unified licence
CELLULAR operators today presented divergent views on the issue of paying entry fee for migrating to the unified licence regime, as proposed by the telecom regulator. At a meeting between the operators and the Department of Telecom, at Sanchar ... More

Amending Bill proposes adjudicating officer — Telecom licence violations may attract Rs 50-cr penalty
A penalty of Rs 50 crore is proposed on every mobile operator whose network is being used for illegal routing of calls. More

HARDWARE


Telecom, banking sectors boost PC sales 14 pc in Q3
BUOYED by increased consumption by traditional industry verticals, including telecom, banking and financial services, India's computer sales clocked over 9.21 lakh units in the third quarter ended December 2004, posting a 14-per cent year-on-year ... More

SOFTWARE


Premji's commission to be linked to incremental profits
IN what could be considered a trendsetter for Corporate India, soap-to-software maker Wipro Ltd has decided to link its Chairman's commission to the incremental net profits and not on the overall net profits as has been the practice so far. The ... More

Datacraft to offer `Insite' service to private insurer
DATACRAFT, an IT services company, has been selected to design and deploy an enterprise wide area network, which will connect 44 branch offices of one of the country's largest private insurance companies to its Bangalore headquarters. Under the ... More

Surgical infosystems to consolidate Indian operations
SURGICAL Information Systems (SIS) to consolidate its Indian operations based at Hyderabad and signs up with new clients globally to be supported from its India development cum support centre. The SIS India Head, Mr Himanshu Ubale, in a ... More

Servion tool for call centres
CHENNAI: Servion Global Solutions, a Chennai-based provider of contact optimisation solutions, has announced the availability of CallBack Manager. Customers who reach a contact centre using Servion CallBack Manager may choose to wait in ... More

INTERNET


Domain name registrar
CHENNAI: Silicon House, a Chennai-based domain registration and Web hosting firm, has said that it is one of the 17 companies selected by the National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) as an accredited registrar to register domain `.in' ... More

IT TRAINING


NIIT special plans for engineering, IT students
RECOGNISING the growing demand for skilled IT manpower, NIIT on Friday announced a range of specialised education programmes to provide a cutting-edge career start to engineering and IT students. "The new offerings comes at a time when the ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


VSNL gains Rs 500 cr from Intelsat stake sale
VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd has made around Rs 500 crore in capital gains from the sale of its 5.42 per cent shareholding in Intelsat, an international satellite company that was recently sold to a consortium of funds. VSNL on Friday sent a ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT


Tech firms eyeing expansion in Canada
TECHNOLOGY companies from India are looking beyond near-shore centres and exploring other options of research and development centres and opening up of offices in Western Canada. The High Commissioner of Canada, Ms Lucie Edwards, said: "Little ... More

SECURITY


PRSI to hold lecture on `IT and cyber crime'
MANGALORE: The Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), Mangalore-Manipal chapter, will hold a lecture on `Information technology and cyber crime' in Mangalore on March 2. A PRSI press release said here on Friday that Mr B. Suresh ... More

MS India workshop
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corporation India on Friday announced that it would host a security workshop along with Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on March 2. "Targeted at Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology ... More

BROADBAND


Ikanos keen on tie-ups with telecom carriers
IKANOS Communications, which has successfully deployed its fibre fast chipset device in Japan, Korea and Belgium for broadband services, is assessing the Indian market's potential. Its fibre fast Fx100100 is a programmable silicon solution to ... More

E-GOVERNANCE


Wipro develops e-filing platform for NYSE cos
SENIOR officials of Wipro Technologies visited the New York Stock Exchange on Friday to showcase the launch of eGovDirect.com, an electronic filing platform to assist NYSE-listed companies with the submission and management of their corporate ... More

EVENTS


  • Intel Technology workshop in Coimbatore

    NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES


    HCL launches low-cost PC
    HYDERABAD: HCL Infosystems Ltd has announced the launch of a branded personal computer targeting home users and the growing small office market segment powered by the Linux operating system. It is priced attractively at Rs 12,990. This ... More


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