Apple follows the October to September calendar for its financial results.
The ban in India would hit Chinese internet companies that were making headway in the world's fastest-growing mobile market.
The Ola Money and Uber tie-ups demonstrate how insurance companies, including even government-run ones, are forging partnerships with every possible service company to offer products.
The IT budgets will essentially be flat this year across the globe compared to last year when it declined by 8.1 per cent, says an industry survey.
To begin with, there would be the immediate integration of various technology stacks. This would create more business for global consulting and IT services entities such as KPMG, PwC, EY, Accenture and IBM, among others. Indian service providers - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro, for instance - would also cash in.
While overall IT budgets were expected to decline by 3.1 per cent on an average.
As information technology firms prepare to declare their fourth quarter and year-end results, there is more sombre news for the sector. Global IT spending is expected to decline over 3 per cent, say analyst firms.
Gregory Wade, vice-president (customer accounts), RIM, spoke to Business Standard about how the company is planning to fight the challenges as rivals offer similar devices across price segments.
The mobile subscriber base in India is set to exceed 771 million connections by 2013, growing at a CAGR of 14.3 per cent in the same period from 452 million in 2009, a study by research firm Gartner said.
Infosys Technologies Ltd announced on Friday it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the leaders quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for North American offshore applications services 2007' report.
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The Indian information technology services industry is poised to touch $10.73 billion by 2011, predicts research firm Gartner
Indian testing companies, however, are facing a host of challenges including lack of adequate talent and specialised certification programmes in testing to get youngsters into the profession. The estimated number of testers required in India is projected to be around 18,000 in the coming year, according to a Gartner report.
According to research firm Gartner, the budget tablet category is expected to reach 182 million end-user devices by end of 2013, it said.
The domestic market for business process outsourcing - which is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 50 per cent - is catching the attention of BPO companies that have traditionally catered to the international market.
Apple, Research In Motion and ZTE Corp joined the ranks of the world's 10 largest mobile phone makers in 2007, underlining how technology advances and emerging markets are producing a new cast of winners and losers in the industry.
Using its global delivery model for implementation of its many relationships within the financial services market, Infosys was now the fastest growing TSP to the industry.
The low-cost machine can be plugged into a TV and comes with educational software, reports the BBC.
According to a Gartner study, Indian IT services market is likely to grow to USD10 bn by 2011.
While domestic IT companies post revenue growth of 38%, their counterparts register faster rise: Gartner.
Almost every IT, ITES, banking and financial company pays someone to read employees' outbound e-mails and attachments.
The Indian market is driven by prepaid connections, which accounted for over 84 per cent in 2006. It is expected to reach 93 per cent by 2011.
Microsoft Corp announced its 'Windows 10' operating system on Tuesday to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.
Nareshchandra Singh, an IT analyst with global research and analyst firm Gartner, takes only a few seconds to reach his office from home.
Captive centres set up by multinational corporations in India are posing a serious threat to the domestic outsourcing companies.
With intense competition in telecom sector, the two companies are rushing to diversify into other revenue streams, prominent among which are cloud services.
Israel has already lost 3,500 jobs to India in the hi-tech sector and stands to lose more with local companies preferring to outsource part of their work, the Gartner group, a leading technology research company, said.
With the insistence on data centres to be onshore, entities in real estate believe there is going to be a rise in demand for specialised Grade-A commercial spaces to set these up.
Apple Pay also faces competition from Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) - a consortium of retailers including Wal-Mart and Best Buy - which is developing its own mobile payment platform.
The budget of Indian IT companies is expected to rise by seven per cent in 2005, significantly higher than the global average of 2.5 per cent, IT research firm Gartner said.
Last year, there was almost 16 per cent increase in hiring by the Global Capability Centres in India.
Spurred by the introduction of full mobility cellular services and competitive response from the GSM camp, the Indian cellular market is estimated to register a 96 per cent growth to reach 56 million connections by 2004-end.
India's prominence as an outsourcing hub is eroding with new locations including the Philippines and eastern Europe making their presence felt, a media report said.
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