India

A blog post by John Larson details a startup who shipped their initial programming to India, paying $14 per hour. Can you get quality programming at bargain rates?

Neither U.S. nor foreign workers is going to win the fight over H-1B visas. Employers have already won,depressing salaries on both sides and cheating on a law designed to be hard to enforce.

Competitive costs, robust government support, the largest labor market in the world. It's no wonder that for the past decade China has been deemed the biggest--and only--threat to India's dominance in the IT offshore outsourcing industry. In recent years, all the big names in IT outsourcing--from IBM, HP and Accenture to Wipro, TCS, and Infosys--have set up shop there. (See "Inside HP's $1 Billion Outsourcing Plan".) Gartner research vice president Frances Karamouzis calls China "one of the most analyzed alternatives to India." Ovum principal analyst Jens Butler describes it as "a two horse race to the finish."

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai a little while back have caused some concern that the Indian IT outsourcing industry may feel some repercussions. India remains the primary outsourcer for US companies, and this business has dramatically changed the entire Indian landscape.

India has postponed to Jan. 30, 2009, the auction of 3G spectrum to give potential bidders more time to study bid documents and rules for the auction, a government agency said Tuesday.

India's PC market saw almost no growth in the third quarter and is likely to stay that way through next year, according to research firm IDC India.

The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.