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Software, services set to drive Vietnam IT
News Country has won over global IT players for its domestic demand and low-cost labor, but its software and services looks set to power its next wave of growth.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Alcatel, Vietnam, Telecommunications, Southeast Asia, 3G, IT outsourcing, software service
India's logistics sector to up IT spend
News Overall growth of India's logistics players is set to boost IT spending by a 20 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to study.
Tags: Supply chain, Supply chain management (SCM), India, IT-spending, RFID, logistics industry, Supply chain, Indian Logistics Industry, CIO, information technology
PC spend by Indian SMBs to pick up
News Nearly a third of small and midsize firms in India hold hope for an economic revival within three months and 23 percent plan to buy basic IT goods, finds new study.
Tags: Hardware, Personal Computers, Utility computing, India, Small And Medium Business, Software, compliance, research company, VoIP, information technology
Look what sentiments can do to an economy!
Blogs Sentiments undoubtedly play an important role in an economy. In recent times, we have seen how sentiments can swing cons...
European R&D investment levels 'stagnating'
News A report into the European Union's research and development investment as a proportion of GDP has noted 'stagnation', particularly when compared with the U.S., Japan and Korea.
Tags: Patents, Innovation, Investments, Investment, European Union, Europe, Japan, researcher, European Commission, China
Malaysia: Growth in IT spending to be negative?
News For first time in decade, IDC expects IT spend in country to shrink between 1.8 percent and 3 percent this year, but adds a recovery is likely as early as 2010.
Tags: Investments, Business Strategies & Functions, Business, IT-spending, International Data Corp., Small And Medium Business, Broadband, Malaysia, Government, Hardware
APAC security growth 'remarkable'
News Security market in Asia-Pacific region enjoyed double-digit expansion in 2008 despite downturn, Gartner says.
Tags: Security, SMB, Growth, IT Security, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Australia, Gartner Inc.
Nokia targets 300M services users by 2011
News Finnish phone maker looking beyond selling devices and wants 300 million users on its devices pulling cloud data within two years, says its corporate strategy chief.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data services, Mobile platforms, Facebook, Nokia Corp., London Business School, mobile, Broadband, chief development officer, device manufacturer
One Laptop Per Child lands in India
News The Indian government was not interested, so OLPC partners with Reliance ADA Group to bring computers to the country's school kids.
Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, India, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebook, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agent, Laptop Computer, Mumbai, China
IT will lead Asia's economic recovery
News Region's tech spending in 2009 will outpace gross domestic product, growing by 4.8 percent to reach US$300 billion in 2009, finds new IDC study.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Business, Microsoft Corp., software, Information Technology, revenue, Asia, International Data Corp.
Windows 7: An economic savior?
News Economic researcher reportedly bases chunk of his GDP expectations for the United States in the second half of 2009, on the new Microsoft operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sales/revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, financial, Microsoft Windows, U.S., analyst, gross domestic product
Indian small firms to buy first PC in 2009
News Some 500,000 of India's small businesses will buy their first PC and boost spending on software, services and security, says AMI-Partners study.
Tags: Personal Computers, Hardware, Budgeting/cost control, India, Small And Medium Business, Small Business, Computer, Microsoft Access, industry, analyst
Mixed reactions to Malaysia's ICT stimulus
News Government's US$16.2 billion "mini-budget" won't be sufficient to shield vendors from effects of recession, says country's national IT association Pikom.
Tags: Government, IT budgeting, Stimulus, Stimulus Plan, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, Malaysia, Procurement, Wong, ePerolehan System
Downturn makes telepresence popular
News The technology enables companies in India that adopt it to reduce costs, enhance collaboration and speed up decision-making efforts.
Tags: Communications, Corporate communications, India, Cisco Systems Inc., Polycom Inc., Asia-Pacific, Telepresence, Apollo, Sanish, Frost & Sullivan
China is India's 'only possible threat'
Insight newsmaker Nasscom Chairman Ganesh Natarajan calls for India to improve its infrastructure, and urges local companies to innovate and reinvent themselves.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Security, India, Information Security, software, job, China, revenue
