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Indian IT runs home, new geographies for growth
News Hit by global recession, India's local tech firms target projects on home soil and venture into new regions including Middle East and Latin America.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Growth strategies and tools, Business, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Banking, Growth, Market, Information Technology, revenue
Ultra-mobile devices to reach 200M by 2013
News Shipments of machines such as Netbooks and mobile Internet devices, will jump 20-fold over five years to generate US$27 billion in revenues, new report shows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Mobile, Market, ABI Research, Notebook, research analyst, handset, principal analyst, notebook computer
Microsoft gears up for victory in the virtual battle
Insight newsmaker Redmond's senior director for virtualization product management Zane Adam says the company will use its tried and tested methods to grab a bigger share of the virtualization market.
Tags: Virtualization, Strategy, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Market, Virtual Machine, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Server, XenSource Inc.
1H09: Asia-Pacific and ITO the bright spots
Blogs With the 2009 first half results for the sourcing market now out, it's worth digging into them a bit to see what they te...
Nokia exec talks Ovi platform
News Niklas Savander, Nokia's top services guy, shares his thoughts on everything from lessons learned from Apple to why the Ovi store still isn't available on AT&T's network.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Phone, cell phone company, Ovi Storefront, Ovi Store, Mobile Client, Market Category
Nokia sees bottom to mobile market malaise
News Despite taking a beating, both Nokia and Sony Ericsson see glimmers of hope in their latest results.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Market, Smart Phone, Device, Cell Phone, phone, Smartphone
Low-cost sub-notebooks to hit 18M in 2009
News Global Netbook shipments next year will register a 128-percent growth over the estimated 8 million units in 2008, says Taiwan-based research body.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Positioning and segmentation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Market, Acer Inc., Notebook, ASUS, mini-notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Taiwan
Asia must localize for global gamers
News Asian countries keen to be game hubs still need to work at localization and content issues for a larger market, say market experts.
Tags: Games, Gamer, Game players, Market, India, China, revenue, barrier, talent, incentive
Philippine software firm eyes China, Middle East
News Local software company, Guarango Software, is seeking to expand its global presence by acquiring local partners in developing markets.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Investments, Market, Philippines, software company, Stock, intellectual property, software, software product, Middle East
Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share
News Microsoft's mobile operating system lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share over the past year, according to analysts at Gartner.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Google Android, Market Share, Symbian Inc., Operating System, mobile, Google Android, Smart Phone
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
News Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
Booming gray market threatens cell phone industry
News Apple iPhone's official carrier in China is enduring meager sales, just one result of the expansion of global market for copycat handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., MediaTek, Phone, cell phone, handset, China Unicom, Sales, handset company, China
Worldwide server sales continue to fall
News IBM and Dell manage to gain a hold in market share, amid a carnage in declining sales revenues, leaving Sun as the weakest link.
Tags: Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Unix, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix server, Server, Servers
Intel, NEC team up to flex supercomputing might
News Both companies will jointly develop high-performance computing systems based on Intel processor to extend products to wider audience, say executives.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Processors, NEC Corp., Richard Dracott, Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, Chip Company, processor, Supercomputing, supercomputer
China SaaS growth to exceed 'traditional IT'
News Country's software-as-a-service market will grow 56 percent next year, exceeding IT sector that includes on-premise software, says report.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Security, software, Information Technology, CRM, Asia-Pacific, On-demand, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), security application, China
