Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd. (SSTL), which operates its telecom services under the MTS brand in India, said its data card subscriber base for the quarter increased by 11% to 1.34 million subscribers. Non-voice revenues contribute 34.5% of total quarterly revenues, the highest in the industry, the company said. SSTL rolled out its 3GPLUS Telecom Network […]
February’s love-themed malicious spam was dominated by Trojans, as the cybercriminals’ mass mailings targeted credulous users with a Trojan-Dropper, a report by Kaspersky Lab said. The Trojan installs two malicious programs on the system – one is spyware that steals all document files from the computer and sends them to a specific mailbox; another is […]
Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) that provides telecom services under the brand MTS today announced the roll out of the most aggressive data plans in the country. The prepaid and postpaid SUPER UNLIMITED data plans have been specially designed to target high usage customers across India. Challenging the existing paradigm in data tariffs; MTS’ Super […]
A preliminary enquiry by the Kerala Forest Department has found that widespread forest fires in Kerala’s ecologically sensitive Wayanad region were likely to be man-made rather than natural. Fires were detected across the district on Sunday at the almost the same time. The area has been the hotbed of anti-environmentalist protests over the last three […]
Digital advertising has reached about 10% of the total advertising market in India, according to numbers from the annual FICCI KPMG media and entertainment industry report. Digital advertising, including mobile advertising and online advertising, was the fastest growing segment in 2013 at 39%, followed by radio, which grew by 15%. Among the laggards were TV […]
In an unprecedented act, the entire staff of Kerala’s oldest TV channel have struck work, stopping the transmission of Indiavision TV. The staff put up a statement on the website of the television channel, which has since been pulled down, accusing the management of violating several codes, to the detriment of the channel. The statement […]
Facebook has unveiled a new newsfeed feature dedicated exclusively to Facebook pages. The new feature, that can be accessed at www.facebook.com/pages/feed, shows ‘stories’ only from Facebook Pages that the user has subscribed to. The idea seems to be to allow users to track news more effectively, while keeping out personal updates from Facebook friends out […]
The soaring popularity of big size phones, or phablets, is affecting sales of tablets in India, according to market tracker 6Wresearch. Phablets, or phones with displays of 5 to 6 inches, have increasingly gained consumer affection due to three factors. First, they come with built-in cellular and 3G connectivity, unlike low-cost tablets that typically offer […]
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd said it will use the towers of Bharti Infratel for its pan-India LTE rollout, and gave more details of its plans. The company said it will offer connectivity, communication and various digital services on pan India basis in key domains such as education, healthcare, security, financial services, government citizen interfaces and […]
It’s the battle for the mid segment of India’s booming smartphone market, and it looks like Nokia X series may be the first to hit the market by a whisker, beating Samsung’s Tizen operating system. According to sources, Samsung has exhibited its upcoming Tizen based smartphone to developers in India and the first of Samsung […]
HP, arguably the World’s largest IT company, has opened two out of the four new IT outsourcing facilities it plans to add in India this year. The two facilities, part of its plan to make India one of its six global hubs for services, will provide Infrastructure (technology) Outsourcing services for HP’s global clientbase, it […]
A year into its African Safari, India’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel has won a license to operate 2G and 3G services in Rwanda. Together with the 16 countries inherited from Zain, Airtel will not be present in 17 countries in Africa. Rwanda, located in in central and eastern Africa, has a population of approximately […]
Motorola, on a comeback trail, has launched the Motorola Fire, a 3G Android touch-cum-qwerty phone that can only be described as disruptive technology at an irrestible price. There are, of course cheap Android phones etc., but usually they come from a new or unheard of brand and extract a price in terms of quality, design […]
After Idea slashed its 3G rates, it is the turn of Reliance Communications. The firm has tripled its allowance for 3G data plans of upto Rs 408. However, unlike Idea’s offer, RCom’s 3G offer is only valid till end of October (next month.) Also, unlike Idea, Reliance Communications is not offering cheap rates across all […]
The Tata group purged millions of connections from its telecom networks in July, according to the latest telecom subscription numbers provided by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Also, according to the TRAI, monthly addition of wireless subscribers in India fell to just 6.67 million in July this year, the latest month for which […]
China-based Lenovo, the company that bought IBM’s PC business, today announced that, based on current trends, it is likely to overtake US-based Dell as the World’s second largest PC manufacturer by the end of 2011. Lenovo had broken into the top 3 after a long struggle in in the first quarter of this year, as […]
BSNL’s threat to block calls from private operator networks from reaching its subscribers for their alleged failure to pay dues may lead to a tit-for-tat response from the private operators as well. Reacting to the threat by BSNL to block calls from several leading cellular operators to its network, the Cellular Operators Association of India […]
The global digital music market is expected to grow $9 billion worldwide in 2014, a report by Mahindra Comviva and Ovum Consulting said today. Across the nine markets surveyed (both emerging and developed), the share of devices used for listening, purchasing or downloading music has changed dramatically in 2013, as compared to 2010. Computer share […]
While the outlook for global automotive manufacturers remains stable, demand in some emerging markets is expected to ease in 2014, says Moody’s Investors Service in an update to its Industry Outlook report published today. However, Moody’s expects that growth in China and the continued, slow recovery in Western Europe will offset some of this drop […]
Tech Mahindra said it has signed an agreement with BASF Business Services Holding, a unit of German chemical giant BASF, to acquire its business with third party customers. “This includes the 100%-owned subsidiary BASF Business Services Consult GmbH, based in Hamburg. BASF Business Services Holding GmbH will in future focus on providing information services, supply chain […]
