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...software product in India is about $2 million, or just 40% of the cost in the U.S., according to India's IT industry group Nasscom. "We're likely to see an explosion in R&D outsourcing in 2005 and 2006," says Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the research firm Gartner who is based in Pune. If that happens, India's tech sector could enter a new, more mature phase of growth. U.S. and European firms would have a fresh way to nurture innovation. But they will also face the risks of laying the building blocks of their technological future...
...Expanding into new businesses is a matter of survival for traditional phone companies. "Voice revenue is coming to an end," says Andrew Chatham, Gartner Group's Asia telco analyst. "So phone companies need to look at other areas while they still have money." Paul Berriman, PCCW's head of strategic market development, says such concerns were precisely what prompted it to relaunch NOW as a pay-TV service: "There was the danger that if we didn't act, we could have been made redundant...
...caveat: desktop search might make it "marginally" easier for hackers to steal your private data, Gartner research director Allen Weiner says. But Weiner and most analysts agree that the rewards greatly outweigh the risks. If you've got a firewall--and anybody with Windows XP has one by default--you should be fine...
...honing a standard they hope will assure that all UWB devices communicate in the same way. Wisair is part of a large contingent backing one proposed standard, while Freescale, the chip company carved out of Motorola, backs another. The existence of competing standards means that market forecasts vary. Gartner analyst Stan Bruederle says the UWB market will hit a modest $400 million in 2008; San Diego research firm ON World predicts a $1 billion market by then. Yaish subscribes to the more bullish estimate. "UWB technology signals a new era for communication between electronic devices,'' he says. "Millions of people...
...time runs out." Indicators For Sale by Owner Twenty-three years after releasing the first commercial personal computer, IBM is reportedly discussing the sale of its PC business. China's Lenovo Group is said to be a likely buyer at a cost of $1-$2 billion. IT research group Gartner predicts that low growth and profits will force three of the world's top 10 PC vendors out of the market by 2007. Glowing Review The U.S. Motion Picture Association hailed the suspended one-year jail term meted out in Japan to Yoshihiro Inoue for illegally sharing...