The Hindu Business Line : Friday, February 08, 2002

Bharti aims to be one-stop shop
THINK of the Bharti group and the image that comes to mind is that of a mega telecom company with a big footprint in the cellular sector and aspirations in the basic, national long-distance and international long-distance services. There is ... More

Bharti plea on licence extension rejected
THE Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has dismissed a petition by Bharti Telenet Ltd seeking an extension in the effective date of its licence term for basic operations in Madhya Pradesh. In the final hearing on the petition ... More

SOFTWARE

Satyam bags Subros' order
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd has bagged Subros Ltd order to implement SAP R3 at its manufacturing locations at Noida and its corporate office in New Delhi in order to streamline manufacturing and business processes. Subros Ltd, a joint venture ... More

CommWorks to invest $12 m in R&D centre
COMMWORKS, a 3Com company is "open to picking up equity'' in Mascon Global Ltd, the President of CommWorks, Mr Irfan Ali, has said. However, there was no such proposal in the near future, he added. CommWorks said that it would invest $12 ... More

Nasscom signs MoU with Italian association
NATIONAL Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Italy's association for information and communication technologies - Ente Gestione Mostre Comufficio (SMAU) - to promote ... More

Eonour bags LTM order
CHENNAI: The city-based Eonour Technologies Ltd, has bagged an order from the LTM Business Unit of L&T, Chennai, for a Web based "Vendor Development System". According to a stock exchange release, the solution will involve ... More

Strand licenses product to Syrrx
BANGALORE: Bioinformatics start-up Strand Genomics has licensed its Sphatika software on an exclusive basis to Syrrx, US. The software enables image classification. The San-Diego based Syrrx is a leader in high throughput X-ray ... More

Hughes Software may miss revenue targets
THE earnings target of Hughes Software Systems, the software arm of the Hughes Group, may suffer a setback with the technology spend in telecom sector declining. The President and Managing Director, Mr Arun Kumar, told newspersons that the ... More

Zigma Soft pact with Whirlpool
BANGALORE: Zigma Software has tied up with white goods manufacturer Whirlpool to provide design consultancy services. This tie-up had a service revenue potential of Rs 50 crore, said a company press release. Zigma would get a share of ... More

INTERNET

24/7Customer.com bags COPC-2000
24/7 Customer.com, a provider of outsourced customer support services and solutions, on Wednesday announced that its Bangalore-based customer contact centre had bagged the COPC-2000 certification for its inbound e-mail services. It had also got ... More

Caltiger.com turns paid service
CALTIGER.COM on Thursday announced suspension of free Internet services and "officially'' introduced Caltiger Gold, a paid "premium Internet service''. Mr Raja Mitra, Senior Vice-President of Patriot Automation Projects Ltd, the promoter of ... More

IT TRAINING

Call Centre Academy launched
CHENNAI: Enhancement Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Customer Solutions Inc, announced its foray into the training market. A call centre solutions provider, Enhancement proposes to train personnel on different skills ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Medical education online
HYDERABAD: Medvarsity Online Ltd of Apollo Hospitals and NIIT and Adhichunchungiri Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Bangalore, have signed an MoU to provide medical education in the country online. As part of the agreement, a ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

Nasscom steps outlined for IT-enabled sector
NATIONAL Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) on Thursday released a plan outlining the key imperatives that both the industry and Government to follow in order to achieve growth in the IT Enabled Services (ITES) sector. The ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

Consolidated Cybernetics gets ISO
COIMBATORE: Consolidated Cybernetics Co Pvt Ltd has bagged the ISO 9001 certification for its quality management system. The company is into software development for healthcare and manufacturing industries. It also develops Web-based ... More

OUTLOOK

SMEs: `Tough days ahead'
THE Indian IT Industry may have grown at 30 per cent during 2001-02, but the small and tier-two players in the Indian software industry have been recording negative growth rates. This is according to the estimates of McKinsey, the global ... More

PEOPLE

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TRENDS

Good prospects for R&D outsourcing, Web services
FOR Indian firms looking for emerging opportunities to sustain growth in software exports, targeting R&D outsourcing spends, Web services and enterprise application integration were highlighted as promising areas in a presentation on the subject ... More

`Time to tap European market'
MUMBAI: It is the right time for Indian companies to explore opportunities in Europe, as many European companies are now in the process of determining their offshore strategy, according to Ms Alexandra Cook-Schaapveld, Senior Executive ... More

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