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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
ARPU of cellular firms stabilising
DESPITE falling tariffs and reduced margins, GSM-based cellular operators have something to cheer about. For the first time in four years, cellular operators said that the average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) has remained at Rs 402 during ...
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BPL Mobile offers special prepaid plan for students in Mumbai
BPL Mobile has introduced an aggressively priced prepaid package (the Mots Zone card) targeted at college students that offers a rate of 2 paise per minute for calls to any phone within the city made from within the 15 CampusZones that the ...
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HARDWARE
Pixma range of inkjet printers from Canon India
CANON India Pvt Ltd has launched nine inkjet printers under the new sub-brand Pixma and hopes to capture 27 per cent of the Indian market by 2005. Mr Alok Bharadwaj, Director and General Manager, Consumer Imaging & Information Division, Office .
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Blu-ray Disc may enter market by next year
BLU-RAY Disc, the next generation optical disc format, is expected to enter the commercial markets by early 2006. Blu-ray Disc is currently being standardised by the Blu-ray Disc Founders, a consortium of leading consumer electronics and PC ...
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SOFTWARE
`Bush win will ensure continuity'
THE Indian IT industry has welcomed the re-election of Mr George W. Bush as the US President. The National Association of Software and Services Association (Nasscom) hoped that the policy makers in his administration would take cognizance of the ...
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IPR
Belgium co to offer training in IP rights
THE Belgium, Luxemburg-based Erin SA plans to offer Indian IT and pharma companies training in intellectual property rights and innovation, said Mr Geofrrey Thompson, Managing Director. "We are also looking to collaborate with established ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Patni completes Cymbal buy
PATNI Computer Systems on Thursday announced the completion of its acquisition of US-based Cymbal Corporation for $68 million. With this the company gains entry into the $60 billion telecommunications market vertical for IT services, said a ...
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
To meet administrative expenses — TRAI seeks percentage of licence fee from Govt
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked the Government to give it financial autonomy by allowing it to have certain percentage of annual licence fee paid by the telecom service providers and cable operators to meet its administrative ...
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OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
NCR customer care centre
NCR Corporation, a global technology company, has inaugurated its new customer care centre (CCC) at Powai, Mumbai. The centre will allow NCR to provide remote customer support and IT management services to the company's retail, financial and ...
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E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
S. India tea auctions may go fully electronic by next month
THE Tea Board is expecting the auctions in the South to go 100 per cent electronic by next month-end. "We introduced the electronic sale in Coimbatore first and by now, 25 per cent is sold through e-auctions. Kochi has also started to increase ...
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`NDS gilt trading must be under RBI watch' — Panel seeks screen-based order matching system
THE Reserve Bank of India Working Group on `Screen Based Trading In Government Securities' has called for the immediate introduction of a screen-based anonymous order matching system on the Negotiated Dealing System (NDS). This would ensure ...
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BROADBAND
Reliance Infocomm launches broadband centres in Mangalore
RELIANCE Infocomm launched "Real Broad Band" centres at two of its webworlds in Mangalore on Thursday. Mr Akhilesh Prasad, Circle Head, Reliance Webstore Pvt Ltd, who launched the facility at Bunt's Hostel Road webworld, told presspersons that ...
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EVENTS
`Indian cos must focus on domestic market'
INDIA is the new hotbed for entrepreneurship and its macro trends will change the world, according to Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs, technologists and venture funders. At The TiE event at Bangalore IT.COM 2004 here today, the consensus ...
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IT-ENABLED SERVICES
S&P chooses Hyderabad for back-office operations
STANDARD&POOR'S, a major credit rating agency and part of the $4.8-billion McGraw Hill Group, has zeroed in on Hyderabad to locate its information technology enabled services (ITES) arm. This move is a follow-up of the NYSE-listed company's ...
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