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IBM expands its clout in developing markets

News IBM will try to extend its roots in key emerging markets through a new education programme and greater co-operation with select venture capitalists. In 2004, more than 400 developers in emerging markets joined one of IBM's partner programmes.

Tags: brazil, developing, big blue, russia

[22 Aug 2005]

Large Foreign Markets and Export-Led Growth in Developing Countries

whitepaper These goods were not always demanded much in the domestic markets of the newly industrializing East Asian countries, because of lower aggregate income and smaller share of those goods in domestic demand.

Tags: performance budgeting and management, demand, goods, trade

[29 Jun 2005]

Developing economies need sexy phones: Motorola

News Developing countries are not the low-cost, low-functionality markets they are often painted as, according to Motorola's head honcho - they want sexy phones too. Motorola already has a keen interest in the under-penetrated markets.

Tags: ed zander, ahuja, motorola, orange

[04 Dec 2006]

China tops new Microsoft president's hit-list

China tops new Microsoft president's hit-list

News In an interview with silicon.com Courtois said building trusting relationships will be key to breaking into emerging markets, especially when governments in some developing countries have started to make moves towards open source.

Tags: china, microsoft

[21 Jun 2005]

Cheap Windows comes to Russia

Cheap Windows comes to Russia

News Windows XP Starter Edition is Microsoft's attempt to gain more customers in the developing nations, the fastest growing markets in the world. One Intel executive said Russia and China will likely be two of the company's fastest-growing markets over...

Tags: russia, windows xp starter edition, microsoft

[28 Sep 2004]

Boardroom Despatches: Two groups to sanity check tech

Comment One, teenagers, have been spoken about at length but the other, developing markets around the world, isn't on the radar screen of many of those supplying what's new in tech. People in developing markets and younger generations can often teach the...

Tags: youth market, developing markets, tech trends, rene carayol

[17 Aug 2005]

Sprint Nextel unveils WiMax blueprint

News It also named which of its named infrastructure partners would be developing which markets. Sprint Nextel is pushing forward with its plan to build a high-speed mobile WiMax network with the announcement of new device vendors, as well as additional...

Tags: sprint nextel, wimax

[27 Mar 2007]

Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world

Comment The many schemes pioneered by Western tech powers to spread hardware and software into emerging markets appear to be well-meaning. Earlier this year Microsoft launched a scheme to sell a Windows bundle for $3 in emerging markets.

Tags: intel, microsoft, developing countries, olpc

[17 Jul 2007]

Radioactive: The next billion mobile users

Comment Voice tariffs and SMS costs have proved to be prohibitive to all but the wealthiest in developing markets such as sub-Sahara Africa, rural India and sub-prime southeast Asia. For vendors this offers a huge alternative to the saturated western markets.

Tags: mobile phones

[03 Aug 2005]

Intel's Classmate registering in Europe and US

News Though the Classmate is already available on the retail markets of India, Indonesia and Mexico this will be the first time the device has been for sale to consumers in the developed world. Local manufacturers build them with customised software...

Tags: olpc, asus, intel, retail

[20 Mar 2008]

'Emerging markets will split mobile'

News The head of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has predicted there will be more than five billion mobile phone subscriptions by 2015, with the majority coming from emerging markets - and the uptake will fragment the world of mobility.

Tags: india, china), russia, bric (brazil

[15 Feb 2007]

Q&A: Ashwin Goyall, Oracle VP of industry strategy for financial services

Comment One of the common variations between the developed and developing markets is that developing countries are much more advanced in technology for core banking. Geographically, what would you say were the biggest differences in financial services...

Tags: banking, q&a, financial services, oracle

[23 Jul 2007]

One billion PCs worldwide by end of 2008

News More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. There is also still room for some growth in mature PC markets.

Tags: $100 laptop, olpc, bric, forrester

[11 Jun 2007]

Developing world demands high-tech handsets

News Randy Giusto, group vice president for IDC's Mobility, Computing and Consumer Markets research, said brands such as Nokia dominate the Indian and Chinese markets and are much sought after because of the image that they project.

Tags: developing world, developing markets, developing, handsets

[08 Dec 2006]

India calls for Asian "united front" on outsourcing

News They can not expect us to go on opening our markets to their goods, while protecting their own markets and services," he said. India is using the occasion to showcase its prowess in information technology such as IT products for developing countries.

[14 Jan 2004]

AMD has the PC for <strong>developing</strong> nations

AMD has the PC for developing nations

News Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a stripped-down, low-cost computing device as part of a plan to move into developing markets. Other features AMD hopes will appeal to users in developing countries include its ability to work with inconsistent...

Tags: developing nations, low-cost pc, amd

[29 Oct 2004]

Towards Optical Service-Aware Networks in Asia-Pacific

whitepaper APAC is an incredibly diverse region, with extremely sophisticated and fast-developing markets for both fixed and mobile services, for residential and corporate users. Meanwhile, operators in mature markets, with fixed voice revenue erosion, are...

Tags: markets, region, lines, optical

[11 Oct 2005]

Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME) Technology for Creating Mobile Devices

whitepaper To meet the demand for information appliances in the rapidly developing consumer and embedded markets, Sun has extended the scope of Java technology with the introduction of Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) technology.

Tags: cellular equipment, demand, java, manufacturers

[10 Nov 2004]

Educational Loan and Human Capital Accumulation in a Small Open Economy

whitepaper Cartiglia shows that trade increases human capital investment in developing countries unless there are credit markets for individuals. In this paper, when households can borrow the education cost from a market, a trade-induced decrease in the...

Tags: human capital management, countries, investment, human

[25 May 2005]

Case Study: Design and Development of Silhouette 1.0

whitepaper NCI) develops and markets hosted VoIP software solutions. NCI is developing a voice over IP framework that enables service providers to deliver IP voice services to small and medium sized businesses. Natural Convergence Inc.

Tags: industry standard protocols, voice, voip, medium

[22 Dec 2004]

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