But the second quarter should be better, according to analysts, as the rupee has appreciated by only 1.5 per cent against the dollar sequentially (over the previous quarter) as compared with nearly seven per cent in the first quarter.
Typically used by businesses or users as email devices, smartphones are more data-centric and have a suite of productivity tools like Word, PDF viewer, voice to text converter and a PC-like web browser.
Tata Teleservices along with Samsung recently launched a dual phone called Samsung Duo that supports a CDMA and a GSM SIM connection. Spice, too, has introduced its own rendition with the Spice D88 model that supports both GSM & CDMA connections.
Scouting for talent in metros and larger towns is expensive. The cost of acquiring candidates at the entry level jobs for most IT, ITeS companies is estimated to be 15-17 per cent less than those in the metros and tier 1 cities.
While Nokia remains the clear number one, the number two and three positions are seeing the real strategising.
PC brands are innovating furiously to come up with machines that appeal to the young.
Sony Ericsson users in India will now be able to dial for entertainment services, watch recorded TV clips, and download a range of rich content on their handsets.
Laptops have obvious advantages, but the market for new-age desktops has never looked better.
Travel portals are looking to encash the rising mobile user base for their value-added services.
During a recent pilot test with 15,000 Airtel subscribers in Delhi and the NCR region, Affle claims to have boosted Airtel's average revenue per user by almost 8 per cent.
Online desktops could be the next big step in the IT revolution -- bandwidth permitting.
Mary McDowell, executive vice-president and general manager (enterprise solutions), Nokia, is not ready to rest on her laurels, yet. In the second quarter of 2007, Nokia's enterprise solutions unit recorded an operating profit of Euro99 million.
Asia-Pacific has been the only region to show growth in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market in the first half of 2007.
With its Black Label series, LG has gone to town on design and construction.
Competition with online international networks hots up in cyberspace.
Most home projectors promise to take home cinema to its ultimate limits.
If a majority of the countries vote in favour of Microsoft, the world will have to contend with two open-source formats -- ODF and OOXML -- and 'multiple standards are always bad,' according to ODF supporters.
The country's leading music companies are grappling with a new problem: how to sell their music. Sale of cassettes and CDs are on the decline, while online sales have been severely undercut by free downloads.
In 2006, Dell recalled 4.1 million notebook computer batteries made by Sony because of overheating and fire risks. It was the largest recall in the company's history.
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