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Articles in May, 2005 issue of Business Today

• iPod vs HD3 Both are good, but one is clearly better.
  by SN
• Flutter On The Farm Leave the bulls and bears aside for now, Dalal Street appears to be swarming with the chickens and pigs.
  by Narendra Nathan
• Headed For Tamil Nadu Nokia has just announced its decision to invest in a manufacturing facility in the state. Intel, the buzz goes, is seriously considering one. And Rs 34,000 crore is being invested across seven, non- traditional destinations for busin
  by Nitya Varadarajan
• Caught In The Slow Lane After a spectacular start, Hyundai Motor is beginning to drag. Sure, there were production snafus last year. But is the Korean car maker losing its touch?
  by Kushan Mitra
• The Future Of Indian IT Services: Good, Bad, Or Ugly? Actually, there is no one answer. A company's future, it emerges, is only as good as its business model.
  by Priya Srinivasan additional reporting by Venkatesha Babu, E. Kumar Sharma and Manpreet Singh
• "The PC Will remain The Core Of The Company"
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Time To Open Up
• IPR Lawyers, Spotlight, Help, Tarun!, Critical Path Security, Commodity Savvy
  by Sahad P.V., Payal Sethi, Tarun Sheth, Indrani Rajkhowa, Kumarkaushalam
• Samsung's India Designs A laggard to LG in India, Samsung has the size, the scale and brave new products. It is now polishing its brand halo before it goes in for the kill.
  by Shailesh Dobhal
• Turning Point
  by M. Chandrasekaran
• D-street Director
  by Priya Srinivasan, R. Sridharan, Rahul Sachitanand, Priyanka Sangani and Venkatesha Babu
• Execution Is Key
  by Shankar Annaswamy
• Mr India
  by R. Sridharan, Sahad P.V., Rahul Sachitanand, Priyanka Sangani, Kushan Mitra and Arnab Mitra
• BPO: The Security Angle Will offshoring work to India be hit by the recent case where some former employees of Mphasis stole money from the accounts of some Citibank customers? Not really, says Anil Padmanabhan in New York.
  by Anil Padmanabhan
• "Price Is Not The Issue, Value Is" An expert panel delves into reasons behind India's poor domestic IT penetration.
• Lifestyle Inflation What it is, what causes it, and what you can do about it.
  by Priyanka Sangani
• Business News
  by Kumarkaushalam, Supriya Shrinate, Roshni Jayakar, E. Kumar Sharma, Sahad P.V. and Kushan Mitra, E. Kumar Sharma, Narendra Nathan, Shailesh Dobhal, Priyanka Sangani, Rahul Sachitanand, Roshni Jayakar, R. Sridharan
• Locked In Combat With mutual funds and ULIP becoming tax neutral, they are locked in a battle for the investor's wallet. Who do you go with?
  by Priyanka Sangani
• The Real TCS Story Tata Consultancy Services posts a 34 per cent decline in net profit in the last quarter. CEO s. Ramadorai says all is well. Analysts say the company is in for a rough ride. The real story.
  by Priya Srinivasan
• Can We Trust China? China offers huge opportunities for Indian trade and industry. But India needs to go in with its eyes wide open.
  by Ashish Gupta and Kumarkaushalam
• The Mood Alters The expected consolidation in the domestic pharma industry could have well started last year. Prices held better, there was a flurry of new launches and the big players got bigger. Or so reveals ORG IMS' pharma review of 2004.
  by Reported by E. Kumar Sharma
• With-It, Trademill, Managing Anger
  by Hemu Ramaiah, Muscles Mani, Payal Sethi
• The Straight Bat Victory secrets from the Welches, T-shirt tales for trade and tips for accounts analysts.
  by Arnab Mitra, R. Sridharan, Narendra Nathan
• Tata Tele Time? The eternal bridesmaid of the Indian telecom sector, Tata Teleservices is scripting a leading role for itself. With the sector's 800-pound gorilla Reliance Infocomm on a low, its timing couldn't be better.
  by Sahad P.V.
• "Reputation Is All We've Got"
  by Brian Carvalho
• An Expert View Gartner India's Vice President (Research), Partha Iyengar speaks to BT's Priya Srinivasan on the future of the Indian IT services industry.
  by Priya Srinivasan
• Readying For July Filing tax returns can be harrowing if you don't know how to go about it. Here's a quick guide to the most hated annual ritual.
  by Priyanka Sangani
• Tour Industry Jobs, Spotlight, Help, Tarun!~, Entertainers Uninterrupted, Action In Aquaculture
  by Supriya Shrinate, Payal Sethi, Tarun Sheth, Indrani Rajkhowa
• Treadmill, All About Implants
  by Muscles Mani, Indrani Rajkhowa
• India's Best Equity Analysts They are the guys who look at their crystal balls and pick winners out of thin air. Presenting the second Business Today survey of India's Best Equity Analysts.
  by Priyanka Sangani, Narendra Nathan, Priya Srinivasan
• Blog Inc.
• Smugglers Of The Sand Dunes Despite 1,035 kilometres of fencing along the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan, illegal trade is booming. Ashish Gupta spent four days in the hotspots Barmer and Jaisalmer for a first-hand experience. A BT exclusive.
  by Ashish Gupta
• Shrinking Returns The bourses took a knocking in March, bringing down the returns for mutual funds in the last quarter of 2004-05.
  by BT-Mutualfundsindia.com
• The Ventures That Tom Saw Here Thomas Friedman on globalisation, Mark Twain and Claude Levi-Strauss on India, and A.G. Krishnamurthy on being invisible.
  by Anil Padmanabhan, Aresh Shirali
• A Global Tech Slowdown? Well, US tech stocks are at a five-month low.
• Order Book Congestion With industry ramping up capacities, order books of capital goods manufacturers are overflowing. A look at six such stocks for your portfolio.
  by Amanpreet Singh
• Tata's African Safari The Tata Group is expanding aggressively in South Africa. But it's not just business opportunity that's driving Ratan Tata, it's emotional connect.
  by Roshni Jayakar
• Crowded Planet Over 30 years after the first Lonely Planet guidebook was published, the offbeat and quirky guides have become a standard resource in the traveller's lexicon. What makes the guides so popular?
  by Kushan Mitra
• Business News
  by Shailesh Dobhal, Kumarkaushalam, Ashish Gupta, Priyanka Sangani, Kushan Mitra, Narendra Nathan, Ashish Gupta, Priya Srinivasan, Priyanka Sangani, Nitya Varadarajan, Rahul Sachitanand, Venkatesha Babu, E. Kumar Sharma, Supriya Shrinate
• It's Almost Over Bar (Plenty Of) The Shouting The six-month battle for ownership of the Reliance Group assets may finally end with younger brother Anil swapping his personal holding in flagship Reliance Industries for control of three other group companie
  by Brian Carvalho
• The Middle Game There's a new Great Game being played out across Asia. The prize: military and economic leadership of the continent. Does India have what it takes to win?
  by Arnab Mitra additional reporting by Shailesh Dobhal, Kushan Mitra, Kumarkaushalam and Sahad P.V. and Rahul Sachitanand
• India's Best Fund Manager A BT-Mutualfundsindia.com study
  by Shilpa Nayak, Narendra Nathan, Shilpa Nayak, Priyanka Sangani, Ashish Kumar
• Realty Refuge Investing in property, residential or commercial, is the best means of saving for your retirement.
  by Ashish Gupta additional reporting by Rahul Sachitanand and E. Kumar Sharma
• The Foreign Retailer With foreign investment in retail looking imminent, global giants are drawing up their India plans and the home-grown majors, their defences.
  by Priya Srinivasan