BT and AT&T on Monday announced that they have jointly made two strategic moves in the 10 billion pound Canadian telecommunications market. The companies reached a final agreement to acquire jointly -- on a 50:50 basis -- an approximate 33 per cent stake in Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications for C$1.4 billion. Rogers Cantel, a publicly-traded subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc, is one of Canada's leading mobile operators with about 2 million customers. It also runs a range of paging interactive messaging and mobile data services and had a turnover of C$1.1 billion in the first financial year. It was also announced that BT will acquire a nine per cent stake in AT&T Canada by acquiring 30 per cent of AT&T's current 31 per cent stake in the company for C$600 million.

SAS Institute seminar on CRM today

SAS Institute India, a datawarehousing and mining solutions company, will hold an open-house on customer relationship management on on Tuesday inMumbai. The focus will be be education of managers on the value of implementing CRM tools for gaining competitive advantage in the coming years.

Aditi Tech sessions

Aditi Technologies will conduct technical sessions on emerging internet technologies at Microsoft's Tech-Ed being held in Mumbai on Tuesday and Wednesday. The sessions will be on building new scalable Web applications with Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL Server in an e-commerce environment, tips and tricks to develop a Successful Site Server 3.0 commerce site and implementing and optimising transactional replication solutions with SQL servers.

Silverline joins Siebel programme

Silverline Technologies has joined the Siebel Systems Alliance programme as a premier consulting partner to offer implementation and configuration services for Siebel Systems' front office solutions. Under the plan, Silverline will implement, rollout Siebel systems enterprise solutions, configuration and customisation services, integration with legacyand third-party applications.

Autodesk unveils desktop

Autodesk India has unveiled its `mechanical desktop release 4' in Bangalore. Developed on the powerful new foundation of AutoCAD 2000, the mechanical design solution addresses the 2000 paradigm - CAD with the power to innovate. The mechanical software offers facilities to create, edit and manage assemblies. Its ACIS 5 provides flexibility and robustness unmatched in previous versions in the areas of blending, terminations, lofts, shells and surfacing. The company would also launch the product in other major cities over the next few days.

ACI to launch lightest net-compatible notebook

ACI India Ltd, a subsidiary of the UK-based computer notebook specialist Allied Computer Industries Plc, will soon launch in India the lightest internet-compatible notebook in the world, to address the high-end market. The advanced notebook - ACI Profile would be showcased at Infotel'99, an IT expo beginning August 26 in the city, ACI (UK) managingdirector Hirji Patel said on Monday. "The notebook, weighing 1.67 kg with 26 mm thickness and having a 12.1 inch screen, will be priced at about Rs 1 lakh, which will be at least 30 per cent less than our competitors," Patel said.