The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 09, 2006

OUTSOURCING
India has only 3 pc of Japan's outsourced market share
India has only a three per cent market share of Japan's outsourced IT market, according to Mr M. Madhavan Nambiar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India. Speaking at a session on enhancing cooperation ... More

Second HP facility for Fortune clients
Hewlett Packard (HP), the $90 billion IT major, launched its second facility in Chennai for its global delivery operations. The 300,000 lakh sq ft facility at the Olympia Technology Park can accommodate about 3,000 people, said Mr Som Mittal, ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
VSNL files writ against court order on FLAG access
VSNL has appealed an international court's order to allow its competitor, FLAG Telecom, access to an international cable landing system in Mumbai. In May this year, the International Chamber of Commerce's Arbitration Tribunal had ruled that ... More

60 pc operators not meeting quality standards: TRAI
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday said that nearly 60 per cent of the service providers across the country are not meeting the benchmark criteria set for providing basic quality of services to their customers. In a survey ... More

Record 4.2-m GSM subscribers added in Aug
Despite the strict norms introduced for subscriber verification, the GSM industry has witnessed the highest-ever subscriber additions in August. It set a new record by adding 4.2 million subscribers during the month beating the previous best ... More

Reliance Comm to invest Rs 500 cr to expand network in TN
The company at present covers 650 towns in the State More

`Mobile subscriber base can grow by 7 m every month'
BSNL aims to provide services to 66,872 villages by Nov 07 More

HARDWARE
`TN needs to improve infrastructure'
Rail links to Sriperumbudur needed: IDC official More

NVIDIA's products now in India
NVIDIA announced the availability of its latest seven series products in Indian markets. The GeForce 7900 GS graphic card is now available for Rs 15,000. Available from September 14, 2006, the GeForce 7950 GT processor offers ... More

SOFTWARE
OMIA goes live on FLEXCUBE investor services
i-flex Solutions announced that South Africa's Old Mutual Investment Administrators (OMIA), a fully-owned subsidiary of Old Mutual Group, has gone live on FLEXCUBE Investor Services for fund administration and transfer agency operations. Old ... More

Nortel to procure more from India, China
Aims to hike product procurement, R&D outsourcing More

iGate scales up Canada bank account
iGate Global Solutions Ltd has seen a considerable ramp-up in the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) account even as both firms completed the first year of their strategic business relationship. RBC is Canada's largest. RBC had signed up ... More

INTERNET
Online help for aggrieved investors
MCA-funded Web site launched; to help narrow gap with cos, SEs More

Business Line e-paper from Sunday
Business Line will be launched in digital form, that is, as an e-paper on the Internet, on Sunday, September 10, 2006. The web address is http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com. The ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
ADAG stake in Reliance Comm goes up to 66.6 pc
Follows reorganisation, which merges Reliance Infocomm with RCOM More

Oracle takes over EnterpriseOne apps
Oracle India has taken over development of the India-specific features in its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications and has extended customer support for the applications. Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a suite of ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Satyam, MS to open BI facilities
Satyam Computer Services and Microsoft Corp announced on Friday the opening of business intelligence (BI) facilities in Singapore and Shanghai. The two sites will be centres of excellence where researchers will use real-life ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
Domestic cos test online auction for carbon credits
Asia Carbon Exchange in talks with cos for forthcoming auctions More

EVENTS
SPVs for satellite towns suggested
Proposed model inadequate: PwC official More

Netherlands keen to strengthen trade ties
The Netherlands is eager to strengthen trade and technological operations with India. "We are looking at Indo-Dutch cooperation in areas like infrastructure, bio-technology, medical applications and information technology (IT)," said Ms Karien ... More

Handy PCs for note-taking
The importance of note taking could not be emphasised better. While reporters at Connect 2006 - a conference and exhibition on the information technology and communication sectors organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry - were ... More

OUTLOOK
e4e plans $4-m centre
Business services provider e4e Inc announced today that it would open a new centre in Chennai at an investment of $4 million (Rs 18.4 crore) at the special economic zone near Pallikaranai. Mr K.B. Chandrasekhar, Chairman, said ... More

TN needs $5.5 b for IT, ITeS, hardware by 2011
TCS, Wipro Tech given land papers for Coimbatore centres More

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