A downturn augurs well for start-ups, and a number of engineering and B-school graduates are grabbing this opportunity.

Just past the 17 rows of machines that build the printed circuit boards and affix microphones, speakers and cameras into a steady stream of mobile handsets, a crude cardboard instrument resembling a clock catches your eye. It’s the most low-tech thing at Nokia’s manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai.  Nokia’s success in India is not restricted to the market—it has set up a world-class production facility, too.

Though voice still remains the money spinner, telecom operators and handset makers are betting big on services to acquire the next 400 million customers. Kushan Mitra goes into the details.Broadband betGlobal downturn?The handsets pieThe new boys of telecomIndia epicentreBroadband for 99% IndiansThe crown jewel

The slowdown is fuelling the explosive growth of malware or malicious software and both India Inc. and Indian consumers are in the firing line.

Cloud Computing is impacting your life and changing the dynamics of the software and hardware industries. But what on earth is the ‘cloud’?

This is Business Today’s Third Annual Listing of hottest start-ups and, pretty much like the two previous lists in 2007 and 2008, this listing is also completely subjective.

The crash of the stock markets, coupled with the liquidity crisis, may have put paid to the plans of many entrepreneurs. But venture capitalists believe that the present times of adversity will lead to opportunities as also a brutal Darwinian selection of the most robust new businesses. Kushan Mitra and Shalini S. Dagar report.

An enterprise phone is much, much more than a phone.

Big Blue is now driving innovation and breakthrough research from India.

Indian IT firms have largely given products the miss. But now, a host of start-ups are aggressively launching innovative products that are finding a ready market. Can an Indian company one day launch an MS Word? Suman Layak finds out.

reQall is a memory aid application developed by QTech, a Hyderabad-based company. reQall captures speech and converts it into to-do lists and diary entries on a mobile phone.

If you catch a flight from India and head east for five or six hours, you will find yourself in countries where people do very strange things with their mobile devices.

Good things come in small packages—HP has gone and proven that. HP Mininote 2133 slots in comfortably between a high-end mobile phone and a full-fledged computer.

What is it? It is a free SMS service that Peekamo has launched in India. It works on any mobile phone capable of text messaging or on any data-enabled PC or Mac anywhere in the world.

Mobile banking is fast catching up as an alternative channel for banking services. Here’s what you should know about it.

The Internet and the mobile phone have opened up new ways for marketers to reach out to consumers. Several large companies, selling everything from manufactured goods to consumer products and services, are crafting innovative strategies around these. BT's Kushan Mitra reports. Internet advertising is all set to explode in IndiaMobile ads are coming of age

Nokia is making sure that it gets its N-Gage gaming platform right the second time around.

Big is Anil Ambani’s media brand and the name seems to define his ambitions in the sector. The world’s sixth-richest man, with a networth of $45 billion (Rs 1.93 lakh crore), will now be pumping in a billion dollars into razzmatazz’s ultimate pilgrimage, Hollywood—producing 10 movies over a period of 18 months.

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.

Can information technology be transformational? Without doubt, yes. And here are 20 examples to prove it. Our annual listing of the most IT-savvy outfits in the country.