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 figure is expected to rise to 25-30 per cent, adding around 100 million new cellular subscribers by 2009, according to a recent study by LIRNEasia and AC Nielson.
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.
India needs to develop mass production companies which can cater to requirements of 100,000's units as opposed to the available capacities of a few thousand pieces on an average said David Bradley, director of commodity management,Asia,Jabil Circuit.
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.
But despite the growth, the base of really 'active' online buyers (those who buy online at least once a month) is almost stagnant at 2.2 million, same as 2006.
Indian Internet Service Providers are upbeat about Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) as a solution for the country's last-mile connectivity problems.
With the first Dell personal computers going on sale in Wal-Mart Stores in the US and Puerto Rico, the $56 billion company is reportedly planning to sell its PCs through retail stores in Asia (including India) and Australia.
Indian IT firms still have a way to go before they can stand up and be counted among the global giants.
A Frost & Sullivan report to be released later this month states the number of seats in pure IP will grow from 10 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2013.
MSIDC has a strong team of 1,300 people, and Koppolu said the team would be further strenghtened. The team's success stories include Microsoft Dynamics Snap that was fully developed at MSIDC within a period of six months.
The report, however, cautions that weak English-speaking skills and lack of international experience among Brazilian workers make many of them unsuitable for employment.
The report, however, cautions that weak English-speaking skills and lack of international experience among Brazilian workers make many of them unsuitable for employment.
Despite rising salaries, the country can sustain the cost advantage for another 10-15 years.
WNS, for instance, has 1,200 people in Nashik, a tier II city. It is looking at expanding its presence in tier II cities.
The total revenues and net profit of the top six Indian telecom players, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, BSNL, Hutchison Essar, MTNL and Idea Cellular, more than doubled during the last two years.
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