Wipro, Satyam join TCS, Infosys in beating rupee blues.
Paris-based IT major Capgemini is scouting for three more acquisitions amounting to over $1 billion (around Rs 4,300 crore or Rs 43 billion). It is looking at the business process outsourcing (BPO), product engineering and local consulting space.
The salaries of hardware engineers in the Indian information technology industry have nearly doubled over the last two years and yet the exodus to software continues, according to an Elixir Web Solutions survey.
The new semiconductor plants will be up against India's age-old Achilles' heel, inadequate infrastructure
India may not have got the timing right about nurturing two or three semiconductor plants even as the government finally has a policy that it hopes could put the country on the world map of semiconductor (wafer fab) manufacturing.
Both Indian and MNC IT majors are hiring big time, expressing their confidence in the Indian economy and outsourcing/offshoring growth story.
The US slowdown, service tax on leased and rented premises and imposition of minimum alternate tax are expected to take a toll on the revenue and earnings growth rates of all frontline IT companies in 2007-08.
The appreciation of the rupee, the dividend distribution tax and the hangover of the minimum alternate tax on information technology companies under the Software Technology Parks of India scheme have pulled the prices of IT stocks down.
The move will induce more transparency and simultaneously rearticulate the company's brand strategy with an estimated Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) annual campaign.
Motorola, the world's second largest mobile manufacturer in the world, plans to continue to offer cheaper phones in the emerging markets even as there are reports that it may register losses in its first-quarter results and cut its sales forecast.
Cellphone users are unaware that there are almost 200 viruses that can get into their phones, and wipe out the entire address book, data and music files while they perform an everyday tasks.
If you want a new, high-end configuration machine -- even though your tasks generally hover around typing letters, there's a solution. Instead of buying a branded computer, you can opt for an assembled machine.
The current level of automation available in the Indian call centre industry is very rudimentary with only the language assistance interface or the first level of the call being automated.
The government has also proposed to raise the excise exemption limit for small scale industry from Rs 1 crore to Rs1.5 crore.
Union Communications Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, wants India to accept market-driven technologies.
The pound 29,350 billion Vodafone, the largest company in terms of revenue in the mobile space, is planning to move in a big way in rural areas of emerging markets such as India.
The initiative comes in the wake of allegations in the US and the UK that the country's call centre workers have stolen and sold data processed by local outsourcing/BPO firms.
Companies that invest heavily in firewalls and other protection measures forget that over 15 per cent of their employees are talking to headhunters and prospective new employers at that very moment, say experts.
A professor feels the use of chips among patients can do wonders but he also believes the usage should not be restricted to therapeutic use only.
It is too late to devote resources to chip manufacturing. India, instead, should explore opportunities in solar energy, where entry barriers are low and end-products are sold like commodity, states a JP Morgan report.
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