The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 09, 2008

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
C-DAC to set up centres for ubiquitous computing
Hyderabad, Jan. 8 The Centre for Advanced Computing, a Scientific Society of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, is set to establish National Ubiquitous Computing Research Centres in Hyderabad, Chennai and ... More

OVERSEAS BORROWINGS
Bartronics raises $50 m thru FCCBs
Hyderabad, Jan. 8 Bartronics India Ltd, a Hyderabad-based solutions provider for Automatic Identification and Data Capture and Radio Frequency Identification, has announced it has completed the issue of $50-million zero-coupon unsecured ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DoT set to issue letters of intent to new players
New Delhi, Jan. 8 The stalemate in the telecom sector could soon end with the Department of Telecom set to issue letters of intent to new players. Unitech, STel, Shyam Telelink, HFCL and Sterlite are among those which are likely to get ... More

Western Union-Bharti mobile money transfer service by year-end
New Delhi, Jan.8 Western Union, a global money transfer major, has said that its tie-up with Bharti Airtel for mobile money transfer could be operational by the end of the year.“We had decided to jointly develop and pilot a ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
ELCOT seeks more land for IT park in Tiruchi
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SOFTWARE
Xilinx co-designs to focus on aerospace, defence verticals
Hyderabad, Jan. 8 With a thrust on verticals of aerospace and defence, telecom and automotive, fabless semiconductor company Xilinx is poised to offer system software and hardware platform co-designs, according to the Vice-President and Chief ... More

Oracle top database vendor in India, Asia Pacific
Coimbatore, Jan. 8 IDC’s ‘Asia/Pacific Semi-Annual Software Tracker, September 2007’ report has spotted Oracle as the leading Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) vendor in India and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Satyam Computer bags major Irish contract
Will offer business process management solutions for FETAC More

M-COMMERCE
Mobile P2P money transfer service
US-based Obopay, a player in mobile payment services, has announced its entry into the Indian market. Obobay India will be headquartered in Bangalore and headed by Mr Aditya Menon as Executive Director. The company is involved in mobile person to ... More

PEOPLE
Jeya Kumar, new MphasiS CEO, Coomer is Chairman
Bangalore, Jan. 8 MphasiS, a majority owned subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), has named Mr Jeya Kumar as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board. The company also announced that Mr Michael Coomer, Executive ... More

Hajela is ExlService new global head
Nasdaq-listed BPO company ExlService Holdings Inc on Tuesday announced the appointment of Mr Amitabh Hajela as Vice-President and Global Head of Human Resources. Mr Hajela joins EXL from Celanese Corporation, a Dallas-based Fortune 300 chemical ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Low-cost diary-sized laptop to enter market
Allied Computers unveils prototype More