The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 29, 2005

The year of the wage earner!
Even as the industry rode on the BPO wave, issues such as job-hopping and shortage of skilled manpower threw up the need for fresh attitudes and perspective. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Lifetime offers may dent ARPUs for operators
THE plethora of lifetime pre-paid mobile card and lower mobile tariffs on offer may be the perfect New Year's gift for subscribers, but for the operators it could mean drastic fall in average revenue per user (ARPU), prompting Airtel to change ... More

HARDWARE

Emerson forays into SOHO segment
EMERSON Network Power (India) Pvt Ltd, pioneers in network uptime solutions and leaders in the enterprise and SME UPS market, has announced its entry into the SOHO (small office home office) segment with the launch of two UPS models, the 600VA ... More

HP launches Pavilion notebook
According to the recent IDC results, HP leads the notebook segment in India with a whopping 42 per cent market share and through the newly launched Pavilion brand it hopes to further expand the market by 10 per cent in the high-end consumer ... More

SOFTWARE

Newgen completes Kenyan project
AFTER successfully installing its Omni product suite - comprising OmniFlow, OmniDocs, OmniReports, OmniCapture and OmniExtract — in the Kenya Airways contract, Newgen Software Technologies is confident of signing up more deals in the ... More

INTERVIEW

`Value-added services to cushion margin pressure on VSNL data biz'
THE Head of Corporate Strategy at VSNL, Mr Srinivasa Addenpalli, says the pressure in their data business will continue but volumes will compensate. He adds that a capex of Rs 1,000 crore is seen in both FY-06 and FY-07. Further, he says volume ... More

EVENTS

Nasscom to host animation event
THE National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), which is hosting the `NASSCOM Animation India 2006' meet here on January 12 and 13, is set to release a study on the animation and gaming industry in the country. The ... More

OUTLOOK

Lenovo eyes consumer PC segment in India
CHINESE PC major, Lenovo, which hitherto focussed on the commercial PC business in India, proposes to tap the consumer segment over the next few quarters. The consumer segment accounts for some 33 per cent of the overall PC market in India. ... More

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