INDIA MARKET

Nokia Provides Life Tools in India
Designed for the emerging markets, Nokia Life Tools is a range of agriculture, education, and entertainment services for consumers. In India, the service will be rolled out first in Maharashtra in association with the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB). | What it offers?

Is Pricing Right for HTC Phone in India?
At a time when even the smartest phones are selling at quite competitive prices, mobile phone company HTC has today (June 10) launched HTC Touch Diamond2 at an exorbitant price of Rs. 29,990 (over $600) in India. Recently, many other mobile brands have also come. | Look at them.

IBM to Build Green Data Centres in India
As part of its IT services agreement with MTS India, IBM will design and build two green data centres – one each in Chennai and Gurgaon. The aim is to support company's pan-India expansion plans for offering telephony services. | Plans.

Lean IT Event for CIOs in India
Offered by United Business Media and software company CA, the event "The Power of Lean IT: Leveraging Technology for Better Business Benefits" under the Smart Enterprise banner will target tech chiefs in India. | When?

Bharti Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent Form Managed Services JV
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom service provider, and Alcatel-Lucent have formed a joint venture (JV) to manage Bharti Airtel’s pan-India broadband and telephone services and help its transition to next generation networks. | Plans.

Indians Prefer Global Social Networks
With 51% visitation increase over the previous year, more than 19 million users in India networked on the social networking sites in December 2008, reveals comScore. Global social networking brands are leading in India, with Orkut, Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn, and MySpace attracting growing number of visitors…More

Nuance Hires Sumit for Mobile Marketing in India
Based in Delhi, Sumit Goswami will join the Nuance Communications’ mobile global marketing group (Europe, Japan, China/APAC, and India) to head the India operations. He’ll oversee marketing of embedded and connected products for the speech and imaging solutions company…More

Satyam Employees can Form Software Cooperatives
It’s not yet declared dead, but you’d agree Satyam Computer Services is certainly on the deathbed. As the troubled company is suffering with multiple fractures, only miracle can bring it back from the cruel hands of death. What should employees do?...More By Rakesh Raman

Microsoft, Infosys: Online Community for Manufacturers
Verizon to Help Polaris Streamline Global Sites
Satyam Board in Sleep Mode
What to Expect from Satyam’s Board...
Are Satyam’s Top Execs Absconding?
Infosys Q3 Revenues up by 8%
No Decision at Satyam Board Meeting
After Satyam, India’s Wipro under World Bank Scanner
India’s Airtel Offers BlackBerry Pearl
New Directors at Satyam Board
Troubled Satyam Appoints DSP Merrill Lynch as Advisor
TCS Acquires Citigroup Global Services

Indian CIOs Will Spend More on IT: Survey
Although IT budgets are shrinking in most parts of the world, Indian CIOs plan to spend 5.52% more in 2009, according to a CIO survey carried out by research firm Gartner. The budget increase in the current year is however lower than the 13% increase reported in 2008…More

TCS Reports Q3 Revenues at $1,483 Million
India’s leading outsourcing and tech firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported its consolidated financial results according to US GAAP for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. Net income is $276 million with 18% year-on-year growth…More

Who’s Good, Who’s Bad after Satyam and Wipro
After Satyam’s and Wipro’s exposures, most investors and global buyer companies will be extra cautious in dealing with Indian tech service providers. Here’s a 5-point checklist of precautions for them that they can consult while investing or buying services from India…More By Rakesh Raman

Who will Wear the Thorny Crown at Satyam?
After its top brass was imprisoned last week, the government-appointed Board of Directors at Satyam Computer Services has begun head hunt to identify people for the posts of CEO and CFO. Deloitte and KPMG are already in to streamline the accounts at the ailing company…More

Solutions for Solutions Providers
Indian software exporters have mostly been selling run-of-the-mill programming services to user enterprises. Their performance in the software products business can only be called lacklustre. And they’ve yet to prove their mettle in the current market, which is focusing on mass market needs using web delivery channels. With this record, they’re trying to get their acts together to face new challenges in the modern tech world. Will they succeed? Ganesh Natarajan, chairman, NASSCOM (a software industry association in India) suggests steps in a mail interview with Rakesh Raman of My Techbox Online...More

Enter the Digital Playground
Late last year, it was an ecstatic moment for tech marketers when Halo 3, a video game developed for Microsoft Xbox 360 console, grossed $300 million worldwide in its first week of launch. Even a big Hollywood movie will struggle to do that kind of business. Computer video gaming is a new-generation craze that has its own blockbusters...More

Keep Your Friends Close and CIOs Closer
When technology is moving in a fast-forward mode, it is extremely difficult for chief information officers (CIOs) to stay in tune with the changing times. So, most CIOs are reduced to performing mere figurehead roles and, gradually, they tend to become what has come to be known as “chief ignorant officers”. In such cases, the onus obviously falls on CEOs to tame their CIOs and give the right direction to corporate tech initiatives so that costs are optimized and tech-business integration achieved. Here are five simple tips that can help CEOs deal with their ignorant CIOs...More

Thomson Reuters Mobile Info Service for Indian Farmers
It has expanded its service for India's agricultural community in the Punjab state. Reuters Market Light, which provides commodity prices, crop and weather data via mobile phone, is adopted by over 3,000 subscribers in Punjab...More