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India's 3G, WiMax rollout may be pushed to 2010
News Disagreements over base price of 3G spectrum among ministries further delays launch of these services in India, which experts say will hurt country's growth.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), WiMax, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, India, Telecommunications, Broadband, Service, Market Growth, e-mail
Hype over mobile app downloads to slow
News Global market growth will hit 153 percent between 2008 and 2011 but drop to 33 percent before 2014, with Asia accounting for 19 percent, new study finds.
Tags: Development/design, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile commerce, Apple Inc., Mobile App, Ovum, Asia, bank, mobile, Asia-Pacific
Asian firms still like their desktops
News Despite rising popularity of notebooks and netbooks, desktops still have a place in region's consumer and commercial markets, say industry watchers.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales strategy, Product marketing, Hewlett-Packard Co., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Graphics, Notebook, Japan, Lenovo Group Ltd.
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
License auctions stifling mobile development
News news analysis India will finally hold its 3G spectrum auction in December, but market analysts say this form of license distribution can negatively impact industry growth.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Local Government, Taxes, License, Operator, India, Money, International Data Corp., Spectrum, Auction
Gartner predicts ray of light for solar tech
News The analyst house has predicted that the photovoltaic market will grow at a 17 percent compound annual growth rate between 2008 and 2013, reaching a US$34 billion revenue in 2013.
Tags: Green IT, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Gartner Inc., Compound Annual Growth Rate, power generation, revenue, industry, analyst
True sees Wi-Fi as key to iPhone sales
News True Move touts strength of nationwide Wi-Fi coverage as main focus in promoting first authorized iPhone 3G handsets when they reach Thai market this month.
Tags: Handhelds, 3G (Third Generation), 802.11/Wi-Fi, Web sites, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Thailand, Sales, True Move, customer experience
India's IT growth to slow down in 2009
News Country's IT and IT-enabled services sector is still expected to expand 10.8 percent this year, but growth will be lowest expansion in five years, IDC predicts.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, E-government, Growth, Conference, India, International Data Corp., Indian Company, Hardware, financial
Samsung Q1 earnings beat expectations
News A strong showing from the mobile-phone unit--whose profit margins beat Nokia's--helped Samsung post a US$349 million operating profit in the first quarter.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Memory Chip, Chip, Sales, Earnings, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LCD panel, Nokia Corp., handset, industry
Voice the 'killer app' for WLAN
Insight Voice is the application most likely to drive the popularity of wireless LANs in the enterprise and beyond, according to new research.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi
India's Q1 server sales hit US$76.4 million
News Driven by a healthy growth in the Standard Intel Architecture Server (SIAS) segment, the Indian server market posted revenues of US$76.4 million in the first quarter of 2001, up 9 per cent, compared with the same period the previous year.
Services market puts squeeze on IT departments
Insight IT departments in the U.K. are increasingly having to compete with external services companies and the rise of "industrialisation", say analysts.
Tags: IT Management
Does Asian IT growth threaten Europe?
Insight The European IT market is seeing fresh challenges from the fast-growing Asian market as Europe recovers from the slump of the early 2000s.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions
Live: Google faces off with analysts
News Co-founder Sergey Brin tells analysts how a censored site helps China, why the feds are wrong and what's up with Google's revenue.
Tags: Search, Financial, Analyst reports
Global mobile subscribers to hit 4B
News By end-2008, the world will be home to 4 billion cellular subscribers, reaching a mobile penetration rate of 61 percent, says ITU.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Cellular phones, Mobile, India, Cell Phone, phone, International Telecommunications Union, Russia, China, industry
