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`ExlService US listing plans reflect maturity of BPO sector'
NASSCOM on Tuesday said that ExlService Holdings' plans for a US listing reflected the maturity of the BPO industry. "It reflects the kind of maturity of Indian business process outsourcing industry. As companies grow and scale up they will ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
BSNL against cut in levy on international calls — `Will benefit only users in other countries'
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has told the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that any move to bring down the access deficit charge (ADC) on international long distance (ILD) calls would be against national interest. The BSNL move ...
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BSNL moves ASCI against Airtel advertisement
AFTER taking on Reliance over the access deficit charge (ADC), State-owned telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has now trained its gun on Airtel over the private operator's claim that it is the only mobile telecom service provider in ...
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1.54 m new mobile users in November
MOBILE subscriber base increased by 1.54 million users in November, taking the total to 46 million, according to data released by Cellular Association of India. Of this 1.14 million subscribers have been added by GSM-based operators while ...
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Motorola mulls plant in India
US-BASED communications technology provider Motorola is exploring the option of setting up a manufacturing facility in India. The company is also planning to foray into new service segments, including automobile electronics, public safety, ...
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Rapid growth seen in telecom
MUMBAI: India will remain the highest growth market for telecommunications with around 35 million new subscribers in 2005, said Gartner on Tuesday. This means an 18 per cent increase from 2004, said Gartner. "This accounts for almost ...
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Avaya plan to hike market share
CHENNAI: Avaya GlobalConnect Ltd (formerly Tata Telecom Ltd), provider of converged communication solutions, hopes to increase its market share in predictive dialling in India to 25 per cent this year from 5 per cent, said the company's ...
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STOCKS
Moser Baer jumps on fresh buying
THE Moser Baer (India) stock on Tuesday was active on emergence of some fresh buying. The stock, before closing at Rs 241.80 (Rs 235.25), touched its intra-day high at Rs 245 on the BSE with around seven times jump in traded volume. On the NSE, ...
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HARDWARE
AP CM invites Dell to expand facilities to Visakhapatnam
THE Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has invited Dell Computers to consider expansion with a new facility in Visakhapatnam. Extending this invitation during the bhoomipuja function for Dell's facility in Hyderabad today, Dr ...
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SOFTWARE
Software sector set to net $16 b in exports: Nasscom
THE Indian software industry is on course to achieving about 30 to 32 per cent growth in exports this fiscal to cross the $16 billion (around Rs 69,920 crore) mark in spite of several concerns including infrastructure bottlenecks in major ...
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Flexcube available on Linux platform
I-FLEX Solutions announced today the availability of its flagship product suite, Flexcube, on Linux. "This qualification on Linux is an important milestone in our ongoing strategy to continuously enrich the Flexcube suite and maintain its ...
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i-flex to set up facility in Moscow
BANKING product and solutions company i-flex Solutions plans to set up a development centre in Moscow in another 18 months. "In the next 12 to 18 months, Moscow should be ready in terms of scale (of operations) and maturity to be on our ...
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Aarohi launches programme for service providers
AAROHI Communications has launched its FabricStream Developer Partner Programme for software service providers in India. The programme would provide Indian service companies the required tools and training to tap the $7-billion storage software ...
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Veritas to invest $50 m in India; to hire more
VERITAS Software has said that it would add 50 people per month to its India operations, while its proposed expenditure for next year would be pegged at over $50 million. ``In 2004, we announced an investment of $51-52 million in the country. ...
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SAT summons DSQ Software chief
THE Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has directed that Mr Dinesh Dalmia must be present for the hearing of appeal filed against SEBI order in the DSQ Software case and must produce a valid power of attorney if their appeal has to be ...
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Laser Soft tool for Corpn Bank
CHENNAI: Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd, a Chennai-based banking software products company, has completed implementation of its Panacea Core Banking system in over 350 branches of Corporation Bank. The system covers all areas of banking, ...
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Polaris to enter biometrics
CHENNAI: Polaris Software Lab Ltd is entering biometrics authentication in banking software. Biometrics authentication is based on optical fingerprint sensing technology, and Polaris will use it in its identity and access management ...
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NEW PROJECTS
Dell plans campus in Hyderabad
DELL Inc, the $47.3 billion IT products and services major, has announced plans to establish a Dell campus that would be developed in a 6.6-acre site in Hitec City near here. The State Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy, unveiled the ...
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ISPS
World Phone setting up customer support centres
WORLD Phone Internet Services has planned to set up 24 x 7 regional support centres to retain its customers in a low-involvement market like Internet telephony. The company will set up customer support centres in each of the States where it is ...
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OUTLOOK
Enterprise spending on ICT to grow over 16%: Gartner
ENTERPRISE spending on information, communications and technology (ICT) in India is expected to grow at 16.6 per cent, to $22.88 billion in 2005, as compared to the Asia Pacific growth of 7.6 per cent in that year, said Gartner, in its ...
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