New markets blossom for IT but traditional strongholds slump.

After enduring a tough couple of years, hardware giant Dell India is set to become both the fastest geography within the company and fastest tech MNC in the country to cross $1 billion in revenues. Can it make the good times last? Rahul Sachitanand tells us how the company re-invented itself in India.

End-user spending in information technology in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.8 per cent and generate $110 billion (Rs 4.73 lakh crore) revenues in 2012.

Like John Kerry four years ago, Barack Obama is another US Democratic presidential candidate who appears to be threatening to put a spanner in IT outsourcing. Is he serious? The Indian industry, however, feels it is a mere political rhetoric as there are not enough skilled resources available for IT in most of the advanced nations. T.V. Mahalingam reports.

Telecom operators, banks and a clutch of service providers are jostling for what is likely to become a massive market in mobile payment. The question is: can it do to banking what mobile phones did to communications? Kushan Mitra finds out.

Keane Inc. rationalises its workforce in India the US way. The $1-billion US company with software development and BPO operations in India was in news, but for the wrong reasons. Its decision— more so the sudden manner in which it chose to do it—to retrench some of its workforce, is creating ripples both within the company and in the industry.

An HP-EDS-MphasiS combine looks formidable but also knotty.

Despite the joint CEO experiment not coming off in several high profile cases globally, Chairman Azim Premji is betting on the model to unify Wipro’s IT businesses and spur growth. He is rather confident that the teams are ready and the timing is right. BT's Rahul Sachitanand finds out whether the new arrangement will work.

Yes, but it won’t be before 2009, says Gartner.

The Indian tech market could touch $24.3 billion by 2011.

Say hello to the ‘pashas’ of Pakistan’s IT sector.

Be it Infosys, Wipro, Satyam or HCL Technologies, the push for growth in geographies other than the US is gathering steam. The Indian IT industry has been reducing its dependence on the US and is likely to continue doing so. Indian IT firms hiring abroad'TCS not hit by US subprime crisis'

The implementation of IT projects leaves a lot to be desired, feels John Roberts, Research Vice President, of Information Technology (IT) and Research firm, Gartner (Asia-Pacific).

Mobile phone sales have sky rocketed. The worldwide sales to end users in the third quarter of 2007 reached 289 million units, a 15 per cent increase over the figures for the corresponding period last year.

Here’s some bad news on the outsourcing front. A Gartner study says companies lured into outsourcing by the promise of cost savings, the primary reason for travelling down this path, are getting into long-term problems that outweigh any short-term gains.

Just when most analysts were speculating about the end of the IT industry’s honeymoon with the stock markets, India’s largest IT services company came out with good numbers for the Septemberended quarter.

An appreciating rupee, rising wage costs, and potential withdrawal of tax breaks (not to mention a slowdown in the US) are coming together to create the worst ever conditions for Indian IT. What is the industry to do?

Tier-I software firms find a way to stay competitive.

Could China and India become the new IT partners? Two Gartner analysts seem to think so.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has spent half his 54 years with finnish mobile telephony major Nokia. Since joining the company as Corporate Counsel in 1980, he has played a critical role in transforming the 150-year-old one-time lumber company into a giant of the digital age.