Telecom is a booming industry. GSM alone (which is about 85% of world-wide wireless market) contributes about $ 3 Billion revenue every day. While all sectors of economy are getting badly impacted by the economic recession and liquidity crunch, impact on telecom is a little less severe, at least in countries like India & China. Some people even argue that as the organizations...

  Greater focus on data services and fewer tariff wars as focus shifts to managing EBIDTA margins Both the handset manufacturers and operators would focus on the handset OS platform Smart Phones likely to be the fastest growing category amongst handsets Handset vendors to aggressively push GPS Mobile RSS Feeds and Widgets to emerge stronger Social Networking (esp. IM+eMail)...

In the last few years, many industries have been impacted by mobile phones. Nokia is now the largest producer of digital cameras since the time cameras have been embedded into mobile phones. Another industry that is facing the heat is the Personal Navigation Devices (PND) industry. Now many new handset models are GPS enabled and maps are available from a host of companies...

When Rick Featherstone, 49, was laid off from DHL in August after nearly five years with the company, he dived into his Rolodex to call old network of colleagues and business associates. He figured it would be easy to reconnect. But it turned out that many of his former coworkers had moved on and finding them was a challenge. Mr. Featherstone, who had worked at just three...

    There’s an interesting read on Ovum.com, analysing the strengths and positioning of PA Consulting Group. The article compares PA Consulting with Mckinsey and Bain. PA Consulting finishes a strong 2005 We recently met with two of PA Consulting Group’s most senior IT services folk – Ian Murray, global head of systems integration and solutions,...

Introduction  A paradigm is broadly defined as: a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind.  A paradox on the other hand, is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition.  A paradox, while seemingly self-contradictory or absurd in reality expresses a possible truth. At the time...