Synopsis IT (Information Technology) has been at the center stage of the past decade (1995-2005) with E-mail, Internet, Java, Google and the Mobile Phone changing the very lifestyle of millions of people. This decade also saw India emerging-Indians like Infosys Chairman Murthy and Wipro Chairman Premji are hitting global headlines’ of The Economist and Business Week. Indian IT companies TCS, Infosys and Wipro are Billion Dollar Corporations employing 50,000 professionals each. Global products (Apple iPod, Nokia, Phones and I-flex Flexcube) have “India Inside”. The three books IT: Technologies and Products, IT: Perspectives and Trends, and IT: Careers and Companies, capture the different moods and facets of this fascinating journey of Information Technology. This book, IT: Technologies and Products, chronicles some exciting technologies-search engines, touch-based charging, reverse photocopiers that turn printed sheets into plain paper, self destructing DVDs, disposable digital cameras, direct photo printers, predictive text, speech recognition, ink computing, web conferencing, smart phones, ring tones, nanotechnology,bio-informatics, application servers, firewalls, spam control, virus control, cyber threats, RFID, VolP, XML, SOAP, UDDI, WAP, Wi-Fi, and Blue Tooth. It also takes a look at products like Simputer, iPod, Blackberry, Tablet PC, Timex Wrist-computer, Handspring Treo, AMD PIC, Palm Life-Drive, Desknote, Toshiba e-Blue, Google Earth, Windows Starter Edition, Opera Browser, Lindows and iMode; as well as people like the Turing Award (Computing Nobel Prize) winners.