India’s electronic chip market — an indicator of overall electronics consumption — grew by a whopping 28% in 2010 — according to research conducted by the Indian Semiconductor Association and Frost & Sullivan. The consumption of electronic chips — almost none of which is produced in India — rose from $5.1 billion in 2009 to […]
Spurred by intense competition, India’s DTH or direct-to-home market grew by a whopping 22.4% in just the last three months of 2010, numbers from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India have revealed. The growth is the fastest rate of growth for the industry in several quarters and seems to indicate that the DTH industry — […]
Responding to calls to relook at negotiations with Pakistan after the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Congress Party has said that it too favored negotiations only after Pakistan comes clean on support to anti-India terror groups. “Support for negotiations is predicated on the fact that Pakistan stops support to terrorists and terror […]
Even as the government prepares an ambitious broadband program, Internet penetration in India is slowing down, according to TRAI numbers. Rate of growth of Internet connections (including slow connections) fell to just 4.4% during the December quarter, or 23% compared to the last three months of 2009. According to the latest data, India – which […]
Google’s Android operating system, which overtook Symbian to become the number one smartphone platform in December quarter, increased its lead over others in the March quarter, London-based Canalys Research said. India, along with China and South Korea were the best performing markets in terms of growth for smartphones, registering 100% or higher growth. Android, which […]
Offence is the best way to defence. This is what Pakistan has decided to do after coming under heavy international criticism for its failure to track the Al Qaeda Chief,Osama Bil Laden,who was hiding very close to the capital Islamabad. The Abbatabad mansion, where Osama has been living for the last five years, is just […]
Fruit prices continued to trend uncomfortably upwards during the third week of April, according to the wholesale price data released by the government. While overall primary article (food and fuel) prices remained higher by around 12% compared to a year ago, fruit prices were up nearly 33%. Primary article price rise has remained in the […]
All the major enterprise software vendors increased their revenues in 2010, but Oracle grew substantially faster than others like IBM, Microsoft and SAP, according to Gartner. The overall enterprise market itself grew by $20 billion — a healthy 8.5% — to hit $245 billion, thanks in part the $6 billion jump in Microsoft’s revenue in […]
Coming down heavily on the Income Tax Department for not being fast and on time for submitting the papers related to the investigation into the 2G scam in the Apex Court, it said no matter how big and wealthy the accused are no body should be spared. “The IT department must be quicker. This is […]
Reacting strongly to the Indian Army Chief Gen VK Singh’s comment that India is “competent” to carry out the Abootabad kind of operation as America did, Pakistan Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir said that if any country in South Asia tries to indulge into unilaterlism it will face severe consequences. Without naming India but hinting clearly […]
Sectarian violence continues to claim innocent lives in the Sunni dominated Pakistan. News reports emanating from the South western city of Quetta in Pakistan say that the Shia minority suffered a casualty in a blast in the city. There are conflicting reports about how the killing took place- one say that a gun man started […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has again opened the subject of interconnection charges, much to the consternation of big operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar etc.. Interconnect charges are paid by the mobile operator from whose network a call originates to the mobile operator on whose network it ends, i.e., on whose network […]
The French Asset Management firm Natixis Global Asset Management has sought the government of India’s approval to enter the Pension Funds management business in India. The Government’s foreign investment promotion board (FIPB) on Tuesday deferred the proposal to its next meeting. The investment by Natixis will be done ‘indirectly’ through another company, the FIPB said. […]
India’s top Patent officer, the Controller General of Patents PH Kurian has announced that India will join the Madrid System of Trademarks within one year, setting off a warning to Indian companies to ‘register it, or lose it’ as far as their brand names are concerned. India had been negotiating with the World Intellectual Property […]
Indian IT outsourcing firms, including TCS and Infosys, grew faster than their global peer to increase their share from 4.8% of the global outsourcing market in 2009 to 5.5% in 2010. As a unit, Indian outsourcing firms grew 18.9% in 2010 while globally, IT services industry grew by just 3.1%. Indian firms, however, continued to […]
According to a press release from the United States embassy in New Delhi the US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer, has decided to resign from his post due to “personal, professional and family considerations”. He took the responsibility in India two years ago. “When I accepted this job two years ago, I told President Obama […]
World’s top ‘track 2 diplomacy’ institution and New York-based think-tank, the East West Institute has warned of a ‘9/11 type’ of attack on the undersea cables that connect India to the rest of the world. Addressing telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar and officials of the home ministry, the founder of the 30-year-old think-tank, John Edwin Mroz, […]
After waiting in vain for state governments to get their act together on bringing government services to the Internet, the Central government has cracked the whip and brought out a draft bill to force state governments to implement e-governance programs in five years. While the original plan was to have nearly all government services available […]
India is heading towards an unprecedented oil-shock, with under-recovering quadrupling over last year — according to early numbers from the ministry of petroleum and natural gas. With crude oil prices almost regaining their all time high of 3 years ago, India’s state-owned oil companies are heading towards a record breaking ‘oil shock’ year. “The Oil […]
Indian mobile operators continued to see average bill sizes shrink in the last quarter of 2010, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revealed in its latest ‘performance report.’ Year-on-year, GSM saw higher falls than CDMA. According to the report, the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) — a measure of how big a bill […]
