The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 21, 2002

TRAI's green signal for Net telephony from April
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has favoured the introduction of Internet telephony from April 1. In its recommendations presented to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday, the authority suggested that the ... More

Reliance, Bharti among 5 to get letters of intent for ILD
THE Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued letters of intent (LI) to five companies - Reliance, Bharti, Data Access, Connecting Networks and Pacific Net Invest - for starting international long-distance services, which are being ... More

PCOs to reinvent themselves -- With a little help from IT giants
BELIEVE it or not. The who's who of the international and Indian IT companies have rushed to the rescue of the 12 lakh STD/PCO operators across the country who have suffered a sharp fall in their revenues following the sharp downward revision in ... More

HARDWARE

Electra lowers stake in Moser Baer
PRIVATE equity fund, Electra Partners, has sold a part of its stake in Moser Baer India Ltd (MBIL), the world's fifth largest optical storage media maker, to a number of foreign institutional investors. After the sale, Electra Partners' stake ... More

Moser Baer debt assigned `P1+'

SOFTWARE

MphasiS hopeful of attaining targets
SOFTWARE services and e-solutions firm MphasiS BFL Ltd expects to maintain the momentum in client acquisition as well as in volume growth in the current quarter, even as pricing pressure chokes scope to hike billing rates, the Chief Financial ... More

Satyam in alliance with Hummingbird
SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, has announced a global strategic alliance with Hummingbird Ltd, an enterprise software US company, to jointly offer software and consulting services. The alliance is expected to cover software and consulting ... More

Aditi shifts focus to enterprise clients
ADITI Technologies, a Bangalore-based software products and services company, is getting more aggressive in its marketing with a fresh focus on enterprise clients and renewed focus on SMEs. The company hitherto sold to product companies and had ... More

Kale Consultants-IATA pact for `CEO Cockpit'
THE aviation and banking software company, Kale Consultants Ltd (KCL), on Wednesday announced a "development and commercialisation'' agreement with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create a new product for the airline ... More

Compaq to develop new solution
BANGALORE: Compaq is working with Intel to develop a `thin server fat client' solution to cater to the educational institution market and would launch the solution in a couple of months, according to Mr Sai Chandrashekar, Head-Product ... More

EVENTS

Improve broadband connectivity: Pant
Mr Pant said that with the passage of time, the necessity of broadband connectivity was bound to increase, leading to widening of digital divide. More

Tata Info holds e-learning conference
BANGALORE: Tata Infotech Education, in partnership with Smart Force, an e-learning company, organised an e-learning users conference here on Wednesday. ``E-learning marks a paradigm shift from instructor-based to learner-centric ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

NFSIT to invest in 17 ventures
THE National Venture Fund for Software and IT Industry (NFSIT), promoted by the IT Ministry, SIDBI and IDBI, has committed an investment of Rs 37 crore in 17 ventures, even as the fund has deferred plans to increase its corpus. According to Mr ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

IRL granted five patents
BANGALORE: IBM India Research Labs (IRL) has announced that it has been granted five patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office for the year 2001. The India operations is a major contributor to IBM's global innovation leadership ... More

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Feb. 10-Feb. 16
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Cellular subscriber base touches 5.72 m

Softwares cos see downtrend in staff costs

VSNL enters Tata family

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