The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 18, 2005

Cost advantage worked in Kochi's favour: OPI
THE US-based BPO firm Outsource Partners International has selected Kochi for its new service centre because of the cost advantage compared to other Indian cities, said Mr Clarence T. Schmitz, OPI's Chairman and CEO. Addressing presspersons ... More

Pangea3 to expand operations
PANGEA3, provider of outsourced legal and related services for law firms and in-house counsels, is planning to expand its operations in India and hire 600-700 lawyers and engineers in the next four years to serve domains including patent research ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

BPL Mobile ties up with cos in Oman, Saudi Arabia
BPL Mobile has announced its tie-up with Nawras in Oman and Mobily in Saudi Arabia to offer bilateral international roaming facility between the three destinations. With this tie up, BPL Mobile will become the first operator in Kerala to have ... More

Motorola team visits Chennai; looking at investing up to $300 m
The team, according to reliable sources, visited sites in Sriperumbudur and Oragadam. More

Net4 mulls foray into ILD business
WITH the Government recently announcing easier entry norms for long distance services, Internet company Net4 (formerly Net4India) said it is considering getting into the International Long Distance (ILD) business. "We are considering getting ... More

CDMA players to invest Rs 17,000 cr more
TELECOM operators using the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology will invest an additional Rs 17,000 crore to spread their network to more than 6,000 cities and 4 lakh villages over the next two years. Reliance Infocomm, Tata ... More

Spice to manufacture GSM handsets
CELLULAR service provider Spice plans to manufacture GSM handsets at its Baddi plant in Himachal Pradesh. Speaking to Business Line, Mr Prakash Nanani, Chief Executive Officer of Spice, said, "We hope to offer a handset for Rs 1,000 in ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Pvt sector should lead in building IT infrastructure: Kerala CM
FOR the accelerated IT development in the State, the Kerala Government has invited private developers to set up infrastructure facilities in a big way, the Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy, has said. Since it requires huge investment for ... More

Maharashtra plans IT hub at Hinjawadi
WITH big guns of the IT industry in India looking beyond Bangalore and Karnataka for their new projects, the Maharashtra Government is gearing up to make most of this windfall. It wants Pune city and the surrounding areas to be the next IT ... More

STOCKS

Jerry Rao sells 2.6 pc stake in MphasiS BFL
MUMBAI: The Chairman of MphasiS BFL Software, Mr Jerry Rao, has sold 20.82 lakh shares (around 2.6 per cent of equity) of the company in the open market. Mr Rao sold these shares on Wednesday at around Rs 127.50 on the NSE. Templeton ... More

HARDWARE

New Sun Micro processor
BANGALORE: Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the energy efficient processor UltraSPARC T1. The processor, - codenamed `Niagara', uses eight cores, each with four threads - so a total of 32 threads work simultaneously. This ... More

SOFTWARE

Ittiam developing digital IFE systems
THE DSP(digital signal processing) IP licensing company, Ittiam, which has designed i-Pod-like portable media players for OEM customers, is now developing digital on-demand inflight entertainment (IFE) systems for a new generation of aircraft. ... More

BigFix plans to make Bangalore its Asia hub
BIGFIX, which is eyeing India for its potential in the systems and security management space, plans to make Bangalore its hub for Asia. The region, witnessing a rapid growth in induction of IT infrastructure, was emerging as a major market. ... More

WiCoRe Labs ties up with Australian co for `look-alike' software
WOULD you like to know which of Bollywood's actor or actress you resemble most? Or if you are a sports aficionado, do you resemble Sachin Tendulkar or Sania Mirza? To find out, all that you have to do is take a picture with your camera phone ... More

RTG, EscrowTech in pact
CHENNAI: ReadyTestGo (RTG), an offshore software testing services, has signed a two-year software testing agreement with EscrowTech India, which is a joint venture between Chennai-based Global Business Solutions and the US-based EscrowTech ... More

SumTotal tool for UK bank
HYDERABAD: SumTotal Systems has announced that the UK bank, Lloyds TSB, has deployed the SumTotal Enterprise Suite that aligns learning and performance goals with the company's business goals. Lloyds TSB is using the SumTotal Enterprise ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Now IT's the battle of headcount
AS competition in IT offshore space intensifies, foreign players including IBM, Accenture and CSC appear unwilling to be left behind in the number game and are scaling-up their India headcount on a war-footing to challenge the proven offshore ... More

LabVantage to double headcount
LABVANTAGE Solutions, an affiliate of The Chatterjee Group, expects to expand its operations in India, on the back of the growing demand for Laboratory Information Management Solutions (LIMS). Mr James Aurelio, Chief Executive Officer-Worldwide ... More

EVENTS

India calls for mechanism to promote IT adoption
INDIA has called for an institutional mechanism to help local development and manufacturing of information and communication technologies. The Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, told the World ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

MeritTrac gets Rs 16-cr funding
MERITTRAC Services, a Bangalore-based assessment and recruitment process outsourcing company, has received Rs 16.5-crore funding from HAV2 (Mauritius) Ltd. The funding, the first such in the Indian services space by a fund advised by HSBC Pvt ... More

OUTLOOK

India figures high in IBM's growth plans
THE offshore story is no different for the Big Blue. The world's largest IT company, IBM employed close to 6,000 people in India in December 2002, and subsequently grew its base to 9,000 employees by December 2003 and to 23,000 by December ... More

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