Finland-headquartered Nokia, a leading network equipment, software, and services provider, selected Bangalore, India-based Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, to transform its supply chain and sales order management processes as part of a multi-year business process services deal. Wipro will: Design, digitize, and run Nokia’s...
Will Connected Healthcare Drive 5G in India?
Maryland-based Ciena, a telecom infrastructure company, and London, U.K.-based research firm Analysys Mason posit connected healthcare will be the most important driver for 5G in India. The report also suggests that telecom operators need a strong wireline phone strategy for 5G services to be productive in future. India's Bharti Airtel...
India Gets Ready for 5G Adoption
With plans to implement the 5G ecosystem in 2020, India is focused on the compliance and testing of 5G standards which are likely to be finalized this year. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that India's Department of Telecom will support the 5G test bed at the Institute of Technology in...
Foxconn to Invest $5 Billion in India
Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer for electronics, will invest up to $5 billion in India to make the country a parallel manufacturing hub to China for export to key markets across Europe and the U.S. In India, Foxconn is keen on investing in a display fab unit, Computer...
Bicycle-based charger for cell phones introduced in India
As cell phones have proliferated in India, so have the number of instances where owners forget to charge their devices or where the owner's home has an extended power outage and is unable to charge the device. People have come up with hand cranked chargers, solar devices and more to...
Chennai a viable location for global engineering, product development
Many large foreign companies have chosen Chennai over other locations for their engineering staff. Visteon, Caterpillar, Nissan-Renault, Vestas, Kone, FLSmidth, Nokia, Ericsson, Flextronics, Alcatel, Tessolve, Sanmina-SCI corporation have R&D or product development centers in and around Chennai. For example Visteon India MD, A Viswanathan said that the Visteon technical and...