In a novel move, country’s biggest phone brand, Nokia has started taking pre-orders or bookings for the upcoming Qwerty candybar phone, the E6. The phone is notable because it is the first model to sport a revamped Symbian operating system that looks much ‘funkier’ than the usual interfaces found on Nokia phones. The Anna may […]
Verizon, one of the largest corporate connectivity provider in the world to enterprises, and Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), the India-based connectivity provider have decided to let their video conferencing customers talk to each other. Verizon said this is just the first step towards a world where subscribers of different high-definition video conferencing providers can call […]
Worldwide mobile advertising revenue will reach $3.3 billion in 2011, more than double the $1.6 billion generated in 2010, said technology market research firm Gartner. It will reach $20.6 billion by 2015, with search and maps leading from the front, it added. In comparison, global (PC) Internet advertising is estimated to be worth around $50 […]
NMDC, the country’s largest iron ore producer and Russian steel maker OJSC Severstal to float a 50:50 joint-venture company that would set up a five million tonne steel plant in Bellary, Karnataka, at a total cost of Rs 9,000 crore. Initially the plant will have a capacity of two million tonnes per year and will […]
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) — the body of GSM telcos — has promised to come out with a clear roadmap for moving its members off diesel-powered towers, a day after environmental organization Greenpeace accused its leader Airtel of dodging its environmental obligations. Late last month, Greenpeace activists had made an attempt to […]
The Government has given its preliminary nod for the setting up of India’s biggest security and monitoring network — the National Grid or NATGRID. The network, a brainchild of home minister P Chidambaram, will link most of India’s separate data stores with different agencies such as the banking regulator, national crime bureau etc.. The network […]
The ministry of environment and forests has notified the new E-waste management and handling rules, extending the responsibility of electronics producers to disposing off their products after use. Like many other countries, India has now made it mandatory for producers to put in place facilities and infrastructure to collect the items back when it is […]
Logitech, one of the World’s biggest computer peripherals brand, has introduced a USB-powered speaker priced at Rs 625. The speaker is one of the, if not the, first speaker to not require a separate power source and to work purely from the power derived from a computer’s USB port. All USB ports give off a […]
Airtel, India’s biggest operator, has announced that it too will launch the next edition of the apple iPhone tomorrow, along with the new operator Aircel. Aircel had stolen the thunder from big competitors by announcing that it will launch the iPhone 4 on Friday. Aircel’s version will be priced at around Rs 35,000 for the […]
World’s biggest software company, Microsoft, should be praying for the victory of Google’s Android operating system against its own ‘Windows Mobile’ OS, if numbers revealed by Citi ground analyst Walter Pritchard are anything to go by. Against the $2 or so that companies like Microsoft charge for letting manufacturers put their product (Windows) on their […]
In one of the most daring and audacious moves in Indian telecom sector in the last two years, the Russian operator MTS has cut down all STD and local charges to half a paisa per second. The offer is around 20-50% cheaper than the lowest tariffs offered by competitors in the country. Most operators are […]
China has become home to the World’s highest number of Internet video consumers, according to the latest ‘Virtual Network Index’ report by the biggest networking firm, CISCO. According to it 284 million Chinese, around a quarter of its population, watch video on the Internet while only 9.6 million Indians — less than 1% of India’s […]
After the see-saw of the Indian PC crown between the World number 1 HP and its bette noire Dell, the latter seems to have given a decisive trouncing to its bigger rival in India. With consumers shifting more and more to the notebook segment, away from the boxy desktops, Dell took the top spot with […]
The body carrying out the development of the ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) — an Indo-Japanese attempt to take on the manufacturing might of China — has finalized initial details of the project. According to the blue-print prepared by the DMIC Development Corporation (DMICDC), there will be seven mega cities (called nodes) built over the […]
World’s most influential activist group, Greenpeace has accused India’s telecom industry of unfairly helping itself to Rs 2,600 crore worth of fuel subsidy meant for essential services and the poor. The allegation, made in its latest report on the telecom sector, is based on estimates by the telecom regulator on how much diesel is consumed […]
Nokia’s global mobile phone marketshare slipped by 5.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, IT market research firm Gartner Inc has reported. It fell from 30.6% a year ago to 25.1% during the three months ended March 2011. Apple, HTC and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE were the only big brands that saw […]
Google’s Android operating system became the World’s top smart-phone operating system during the first quarter of the year, overtaking Nokia’s Symbian, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. The confirmation from Gartner has come after a tight fight between the two OSes during the last quarter of 2010, when another agency, Canalys, said Android had […]
After remaining absent from the telecom scene for seven years, Mukesh Ambani too has now jumped into the ongoing ‘telecom war’ over the abolition of termination charges. In doing so, Ambani’s Infotel Broadband — the holder of the only pan-India wireless broadband license — has lodged itself of the opposite side of big incumbents like […]
State-owned mobile and fixed line telecom operator BSNL has accused the telecom regulator of “over-reaching” the judgments of the Supreme Court and the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) by questioning the need for inclusion of capital expenditure in call costs. It said it is “shocked and surprised” at the move by the Telecom […]
DMK leader Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi will spend another week in Tihar jail as the Delhi High Court has adjourned her bail plea to May 30. The development is mixed news for Kanimozhi as the order setting aside the application for May 30 has come just one day after similar pleas by 5 co-accused were rejected […]
