Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovsky is scheduled to visit India shortly, his first since taking over in November 2005. In an email interview with Leslie D'Monte, he explained his company's strategy for India and more.
With organic growth slowing down due to the appreciating rupee and rising wages, Indian information technology companies have taken the acquisition route to add marketing muscle and win clients in Europe and the US.
The reports suggesting that the nearly $13.5 billion Internet giant Google is finally developing a 'GPhone' are growing stronger in the foreign media and cyberspace.
Making a name for themselves as they 'drive innovation' in giants like IBM, Microsoft.
Linux has over 300 variants, of which the offerings from Red Hat and Novell are the most popular because the firms provide support and maintenance -- the OS is free.
Wipro COO A L Rao tells Business Standard how he plans to keep driving innovation at Wipro.
India is becoming an attractive solar market and firms such as Moser Baer and US-based Signet Solar are confident of the growth in this market.
Wipro Technologies has set up a separate group within its Telecom and Product Engineering practice to aggressively tap the opportunities in the telecom service providers' space.
Nothing works better than a price cut in a price sensitive market like India. A GSM Association study says that for every one dollar cut in prices, no fewer than 20 million subscribers could be added.
Indian IT firms are learning to cope with the appreciating rupee, according to Pradeep Udhas, global head (sourcing advisory), KPMG.
Digital learning with personal computers will soon become a mass reality with Intel and HCL Infosystems planning to introduce the Intel-powered Classmate PC in India from August. Wipro and Zenith Computers will soon follow the suit.
The initial focus of the hub will be to formulate marketing strategies and create marketing deliverables for print and online.
More and more domestic companies are setting up business process outsourcing units in district headquarters, tier-III cities and non-IT clusters to save on real estate costs and stem attrition rates.
As the world trembled in anticipation of the Y2K disaster, India awoke to outsourcing.
The companies are expected to announce the deal soon.
Purchasing a desktop or a laptop today is both easy and complex.
Technology has long been shrinking physical distances, but now comes one that can virtually wipe them out.
This is because Apple's iPhone battery replacement programme requires that you send the phone back to Apple in the US -- which you cannot if you have bought it from the grey market.
China is promoting its information technology outsourcing sector as a rival to the market leader, India. The figures, however, paint a different story.
During 2006-07, it made 25 patent applications and was granted three patents.
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