The national ID card project (popularly called UID project) is expected to provide an impetus to the domestic demand for IT products and solutions. A billion smart cards for a billion population means a multi-billion dollar business opportunity for domestic IT companies. Continue reading »
One of India’s most successful technology entrepreneurs was tapped by the government on Thursday to lead an ambitious project to give every citizen an identification card within three years.
The entrepreneur, Nandan M. Nilekani, a founder and former chief executive of Infosys Technologies, will leave his post as a co-chairman of the board to take on the ID card project. Source
Bharat Goenka, managing director of the Bangalore-based Tally Solutions, is fond of repeating his late father’s vision for the organization. In that vision, S.S. Goenka acknowledged only two types of businesses in India: Continue reading »
The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) clause may be extended; this would be positive for Indian IT. This would also provide relief to tier-II players, who are cash-strapped and not prepared for SEZs. Continue reading »
The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) on Tuesday sought extension of tax incentives provided under Sec. 10/10 B of the Income-tax Act to the information technology industry. Continue reading »
Reliance Communications Ltd. plans to outsource the management of its wired services network in a deal likely to be worth more than $750 million, a company executive said Wednesday. Continue reading »
Virtusa Corporation, a global information technology (IT) services company, has announced its foray into the Indian market. Continue reading »
John Higgs, Vice President Asia Pacific of Riverbed Technology , took the stage at this year’s NetEvents APAC Press Summit, Singapore, and promised to optimize the WAN infrastructure and boost application performance across a network by five to 50 times, in some cases up to 100 times, and reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. Continue reading »
The domestic Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market, with a growth rate of 50 per cent over five years, grew faster than the exports market to reach nearly $1.6 billion revenues in the financial year 2008. Continue reading »
Outsourcing to India, long dominated by software engineering and back-office work, is expanding in new terrain: special effects for movies. Continue reading »