The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Is outsourcing the cause of job loss in the US?
The fear that outsourcing to India will eat into wages and result in huge lay-offs in the US is unwarranted. Stopping outsourcing is not the solution for job losses in the US. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TRAI unveils package to boost rural teledensity
IN order to boost rural tele-density, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested a slew of measures including sharing of infrastructure, discount in license fee and spectrum charges to mobile operators, development of local ... More

SC notice to BSNL on Walky row
THE Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on an appeal filed by Tata Teleservices Ltd seeking a stay on a demand of Rs 250 crore by the state-owned company on account of Access Deficit Charge (ADC). The Court ... More

Johnnie Walker series on mobiles
MORE than 30 million subscribers of leading telecom operators such as Reliance, BSNL, Idea, Aircel, Tata Indicom, BPL, Spice, MTNL, will now be able to watch live cricket action from the Johnnie Walker Super Series on their cell ... More

BSNL network in Ernakulam to be expanded
BSNL Ernakulam has chalked out an ambitious plan of providing 80,000 new telephone connections in the secondary switching area (SSA) during this financial year, said Mr S.R. Pillai, Principal General Manager. Of this, 65,000 connections are ... More

SOFTWARE

Weather, software & power of predictions
TODAY'S competitive landscape requires organisations to operate more efficiently and plan for the future. Estimates and educated guesses alone will not suffice. Software is one sector where the power of prediction could influence the speed and ... More

IBS opens software centre in Info Park
THE Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy, on Monday formally inaugurated IBS' software development centre at Info Park, Kochi. This is IBS' sixth centre in the world and second in the Sate. The Chief Minister said on the occasion that the State ... More

`Kerala can make significant progress in IT'
THE impervious attitude of the people towards developmental projects has left the State far behind in industrialisation, according to the Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy. Of the Rs 78,000 crore IT exports in the country, Kerala's share is only ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Virtusa to expand team
VIRTUSA Corporation, a US-based IT services provider with development centres in India, on Monday announced it would expand its global delivery teams by 20 per cent next quarter. The company currently has about 1,200 people working in Hyderabad ... More

Recruitment aid to IT cos in Tier-II cities
IN an effort to facilitate companies to locate centres in Tier-II cities in the State, the Andhra Pradesh Government now plans to provide recruitment assistance apart from other incentives including single window clearance. According to Mrs K. ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

Satyam, JBoss in pact
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd becomes the first Indian system integrator of Jboss, Inc, a US technology company, following an agreement between the two. Satyam will offer application development and subscription support services to enterprises ... More

Cranes ties up with MapuSoft
BANGALORE: Cranes Software International Ltd has partnered with MapuSoft Technologies to bring the OSChanger and OS Abstractor software tools to the Indian embedded industry. OSChanger provides developers with a familiar application ... More

EVENTS

GITEX expo in Jan
HYDERABAD: The State Government and organisers of GITEX (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct the next edition of Gitex India here in January next. The fifth consecutive expo of IT ... More

IT quiz for schools in Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: TCS, which has a corporate training centre in Technopark, will be conducting TCS IT Wiz, the school IT quiz. Formerly called the TCS IT Quiz, the competition will be held on Sunday (October 16) at the AKG Centre ... More

PEOPLE

TCS executive to join Polaris as COO — Govind Singhal quitting Optimus Outsourcing for `personal reasons'
MR Arup Gupta, President, North America, Tata Consultancy Services, has joined the Chennai-based Polaris Software Lab as President and Chief Operating Officer. He will be responsible for Polaris' global operations, delivery and sales ... More

Arun Maheshwari quitting CSC India
CSC India on Monday announced that its Managing Director, President and CEO, Dr Arun K. Maheshwari is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. "Mr Tom Kenyon has been appointed to lead CSC India, ensuring continuity of operations. Mr ... More

Intel India gets new chief
BANGALORE: Intel Technology India has got a new President, Mr Frank B. Jones, in place of Mr Ketan Sampat. Mr Jones, apart from overseeing the research activities at the India Development Centre would also interact with the governments ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

ATTEST Hindi version
NEW DELHI: ATTEST, the testing and certification arm of education and training company Aptech Ltd, has launched a Hindi version of its test service. "These assessments and testing systems are delivered either Web online or Web offline ... More

Latest StarOffice suite
BANGALORE: Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of StarOffice 8 software, the latest version of its desktop productivity suite. Sun claimed that StarOffice 8 is the first commercial office suite using the Open Document Format ... More