The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 14, 2003

Patni bags $35-m outsourcing order from Guardian Life
PATNI Computer Systems (P) Ltd has bagged a $35-million software services outsourcing deal from the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the fourth largest mutual life insurance company in the US. Under the terms of the initial ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Talks over limited mobility draw blank
TALKS between the cellular and basic phone operators over the contentious limited mobility issue, which took place here on Thursday at the initiative of the Government, failed with both sides sticking to their guns. The matter is to be taken up ... More

BPL Mobile scores in Kerala: Survey
BPL Mobile, Kerala, has emerged winner in seven of the nine service categories of TRAI survey published on March 10. In customer satisfaction scores, BPL Mobile leads in four out of the five parameters such as service provision, ... More

ITI pact with Chinese co for CDMA tech
SHENZEHN-Zhongxing Telecom Ltd (ZTE), a China Government-owned company, will supply technology to the Indian telecom equipment behemoth, ITI for manufacturing CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) range of wireless in local loop (WLL) equipment ... More

Tata Tele voice mail facility
TATA TeleServices Ltd (TTSL), the private basic telecom services operator, has launched its voice mail service (VMS). This service would enable its customers across all its six circles to access voice messages left by a caller. The company said ... More

BPL Comm seeks LI extension
BANGALORE: BPL Communications Ltd has asked the Department of Telecommunications to extend the validity for letter of intent (LI) for the rollout of international long distance services. "Due to the fast changing telecom scenario, we ... More

SOFTWARE

TCS bullish on healthcare
TECHNOLOGY adoption in the domestic healthcare sector is about 10 to 15 years behind other sectors such as banking and finance. With corporate houses and various players, including the Government, looking at ways to bring in efficiencies, ... More

Hughes sees flat trend in pricing
TELECOM software services and products company Hughes Software Services Ltd does not expect a rise in pricing in the next financial year. "I do not see much uptick in rates", its President and Managing Director, Mr Arun Kumar, says. However, ... More

Ramco flies high with Aloha Airlines now
The software is designed to help airlines optimise major support functions such as maintenance planning and scheduling, engineering operations, logistics management and document management and configuration control. More

ActionAid chooses Planetasia
BANGALORE: Planetasia, a solutions and services company focussing on Enterprise Middleware and Internet technologies, announced that it had been selected by the international NGO - ActionAid for developing their global shared learning ... More

IT TRAINING

Aptech, No1 trainer in China: Study
APTECH Worldwide, the IT training major, which started operations in China in 2000, has been adjudged the leading IT training organisation in China, according to a study by the Ministry of Information Industry, People's Republic of ... More

MANPOWER

Nuisance case started it all
WHILE there has been growing concern expressed about the safety of Indian software consultants who were subject to harsh treatment by the police authorities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, some of these professionals are also to blame , according to ... More

BSNL search for oldest ex-staffer

HUMAN RESOURCES

Malaysian Minister says sorry
THE Malaysian Minister for Entrepreneurial Development, Mr Dato Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, met the Human Resource Development Minister, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, and expressed his regret about the recent incidents involving a large number of ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Aftek Infosys buys stake in German co
AFTEK Infosys has acquired a 49 per cent stake in the Munich-based Arexera Information Technologies GmbH. It was purchased for 8.86 million Euro. Aftek retains the right to acquire the entire 100 per cent equity in Arexera based on certain ... More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

SAP dominates ERP, CRM markets: Report
INTERNATIONAL Data Corporation's (IDC) latest study on enterprise applications has reaffirmed SAP's dominance of the Indian ERP and CRM markets. According to the IDC report, SAP posted an impressive performance with a market share of 59.6 per ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

AP Govt gears up with IT to meet VAT regime
THE Andhra Pradesh Commercial Taxes Department has developed a slew of information technology initiatives to drift to the proposed VAT (value added tax) regime and is awaiting the finalisation of VAT law and related procedures. The design, ... More

229 more e-Seva centres proposed in AP
AS many as 63.35 lakh transactions worth Rs 1,906 crore have taken place at the e-Seva counters in Andhra Pradesh from August 25, 2001, to February this year, according to Mr B. Gopalakrishna Reddy, Minister for Employment Generation and ... More

PEOPLE

Appointed MD of LogicaCMG
BANGALORE: Mr Louwke van der Steen has been appointed as the Managing Director of LogicaCMG for India and SAARC countries (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh). He will be responsible for building LogicaCMG's telecom and ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Ampersand launches `Chorus'
BANGALORE: The Bangalore-based Internet solutions provider, Ampersand, has launched `Chorus', a high traffic groupware server with integrated services for e-mail, calendaring, contact management and conferencing. Chorus was a ... More

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