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November 28-30

We told you so!
In February, Rediff warned that VSNL's sneaking up the Web phone path. Now they're almost there.

1=2
Bad math is good history. WMINet, not SatyamOnline, was the first private ISP.

November 27

Killing the idiot in the box
Pentafour veers AS/400 network for interactive television. And BPL readies Net TVs for December launch!

November 26

Karnataka police trains for a mouse hunt

Windows NT Services for Unix will be done entirely in India

Magic Software of Israel raises stake in India unit

IBM plans development centre in Madras

November 25

Cable TV Networks Act may be redone

Vajpayee inaugurates Satyamonline, first private ISP

Quark Inc to open R&D centre at Chandigarh

The Fourth R opens centre in Madras

November 22-24

TRAI is likely to enforce uniform Net access rates

Infosys ADR postponed

Globsyn-Webel may enter ISP business

Mastech Corporation acquires IMIS

November 21

Powergrid Corp is readies for backbone work

Government sets up 'telecom services board'

Iridium World Page opens in India

SGI to tap ISP boom

November 20

Knuckles please

MTNL staffers cease being government employees

DoE moots consortium to make international bids

SAP to wire ICICI

Database meet Comad 98 to be held in Hyderabad

UMB Marketing aims at cellular handset market

November 19

Peep show

TRAI to review Iridium's tariff deals

Hewlett-Packard prepares for ISP rush

Uplinking policy is big business for VSNL

Factories-excise department link likely

Oracle opens school at IIIT, Hyderabad

November 18

Mastech boss Ashok Trivedi shooting the breeze with A K Diwanji.

January-March timeframe set for VSNL issue

SAP sinks $25 million in new India lab

China is ill prepared for the millennium bug

November 15-17

Halloween was half a moon ago!
Now it is privatisation that's set the old guard scurrying. VSNL seeks permission to slash Net access rates and MTNL puts tech jazz into telephone services.

November 14

Wipro forms EnThink Inc's in US to make and sell intellectual property

Infosys plans fresh rupee ESOP

CMC plans VSAT, Internet services

Effect of telecom strike is patchy

November 13

ITTF stands divided on who is to head policy sub-group

Parametric announces demand surge

NIIT wins $10 million software job

Oracle India unveils Comtrak Enterprise Solution

November 12

DoT backtracked on bank guarantee promise, charge ISPs

ISP aspirants allow a peek at their hand

ISRO prepares for comet threat to satellites

Grim prospects for cellular handset makers

November 11

Ink stinks

K K Birla Group to buy software companies in US

TRAI releases response to telecom tariff proposal

RBI proposes seven-point strategy for Y2K compliance

November 10

MTNL packs a double-barrel
Phone muscle will help offer cheap Net access. And the Net carrot will reel in more telephone customers!

November 8-9

Staff cashes in on Blue Star's 'Employee Referral Scheme'

TRAI to work out Internet tariff

VSNL attempts answer to the private ISPs poser

Net policy delights NASSCOM

November 7

We have run out of headlines!
Finally. After several announcements, reports and headlines, the Net business has been thrown open to the private sector.

November 6

Indigenous war games developed

Telecom tariff rework soon, says TRAI

Tata Elxsi to set up two SDCs

JBS Cybertech piggybacks on technology parks

November 5

Tata Cellular keeps usage profile. Squeals on fraud

Iridium India may win incentive worth $14.25 million

IT Task Force submits report on hardware sector

Smart cards for everyone, says Seshagiri

November 4

Hughes Ispat dodges nukes

Siemens to enter low-end cell phone market

Seagate expands regional reach

Hofinsoft will spread equity more widely

November 3

Between the cup and the lip
The PM has promised that private ISPs can throw the switch by Saturday. But will that be just another launch date?

November 1-2

Can't grow food on the Net!

HCL Infosystems' net profit rockets by 520 per cent

Hardware firms may be allowed duty-free imports

MTNL revenue is Rs 26.04 billion

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