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Since the latest "in" thing is to make low-cost, budget phones for India and other emerging-market countries, Vodafone (officially the world's largest mobile phone service provider) is jumping on the bandwagon with two new phones: the Vodafone 125 and 225 models.
Semtech Corp. has introduced a series of inductor-capacitor (L-C) protection devices that feature greater attenuation, steeper amplitude roll-off and lower clamping voltage needed for high-performance colour LCD interfaces in GSM and CDMA-based 3G handsets. Expanding the company's EMIClamp protection family, the EClamp239xP series includes the four-line EClamp2394P, the six-line EClamp2396P and the eight-line EClamp2398P.
India is one of the fastest-growing mobile phone markets in the world, adding 6 million new subscribers a month. In a market where 135 million cell phones are already in place and 450 million users are expected by 2010, handset makers are turning their attention to rural markets:
Telsima Corporation, a provider of WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and Mobility solutions, has secured $50 million in new funding. It includes commitments from the initial investor syndicate: NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia, and other strategic investors. Telsima is rapidly growing its customer base with commercial deployments in emerging markets such as India, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). “With several multi-million dollar contracts from Tier 1 operators, Telsima has proven it understands the challenges and opportunities carriers face when deploying WiMAX networks,” said Telsima CEO, Dr. Alok Sharma. “This capital infusion allows continued innovation and deployment of our systems on a global scale � taking Telsima to the next level: a flagship telecom equipment company.”
Largest Java Developer Basein India. But Smallest Presence at JavaOne?
Ragahn Gosh
| Link to this blogA well known fact that India probably has the largest Java developer community. But quite contrary to this, India has a disproportionately small presence at JavaOne. We know first hand as we (Pramati) have been there at JavaOne since 1999. Every year. And we see very few companies each year. And much less of those present every year. Fiarano is probably the only other regular (Yes! for those that do not know, Fiarano has a very strong product dev org in India- driven primarily from here).
James McGovern writes a very interesting blog entry titled “Outsourcing and the Emancipation of the Enterprise Architect” He begins with an anecdotal straw-poll of six enterprise architects about outsourcing stating “I asked each of these individuals whether their employer was currently outsourcing work to India.... My last question to these individuals was once outsourcing to India fails, would you within your own mind, smile?” for rest of the discussion, I read with the assumption that James uses offshoring interchangeably with outsourcing. In the blog, he goes on to add:
Reliance, which made heavy investments in 2003 in technology to tightly monitor and control the supply, delivery and dispensation of fuel products throgh its network of petrol pumps, is looking at extending the good experience to its retail venture. Reliance is considering an investment of at least Rs. 1,000 crore in technology, reports LiveMint. Apart from suitable hardware including networking and communication equioment, the company is likely to deploy SAP to run the business and Retalix to manage ‘point of sale’ terminals. Reliance, according to the report, has lined up a battery of consultants, technology providers and systems integrators like IBM, TCS, Satyam, Cap Gemini, Ernst and Young, Technopak.
