India has managed to convert nearly 20% of its potential for non-solar renewable energy to installed capacity, but is likely to miss its yearly target this year. According to numbers, the total non-solar installed generation capacity at the end of January 2011 was 18,800 megawatt, almost 1,000 megawatt short of the target. The government had […]
The biggest filer of technology patents in India is not an Indian firm, but the US chip-maker Qualcomm, India’s Controller General of Patents and Trademarks, PH Kurian has revealed. Kurian said IT and telecom companies accounted for 5,500 of the 39,500 patent applications filed in 2010-11 in India, but only 150 of these applications came […]
EvoTV, the Android-based streaming TV box from Amkette, has added support for the Times Group’s BoxTV – an online movie and video service. With the addition of the BoxTV app, EvoTV users can now watch scores of movies available BoxTV, such as Aashiqui.in, in their EvoTV. EvoTV is arguably India’s most popular independent Internet TV […]
India is the world number 1 in mobile advertising and gaming on BuzzCity, a Singapore-based mobile ad network. The country has beaten bigger rivals like the US and China in both mobile web advertising as well as in downloads of games. The number reflects BuzzCity’s own focus on the APAC market and may not true […]
Good news for the Indian IT industry as the first three big results have confirmed that attrition — which had reached disturbing levels 3-4 quarters ago, is finally coming under control. Both Infosy and TCS continued to post significant declines in attrition levels in the March quarter. However, HCL Technologies, the country’s fifth largest IT […]
India looked with suspicion at China’s establishment of Naval bases along the African coast in the name of fighting pirates, and felt the US climbdown over the USS ‘Impeccable’ incident of 2008 was unhelpful. The USS Impeccable, an unarmed surveillance ship of the US Navy, was repeatedly harassed by Chinese naval and other ships and […]
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, which makes the blackberry mobile phones, seems to have succeeded in convincing the Indian government that it has been “singled out” in India’s quest for statutory monitoring. Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar said the government does not want to “single out” any one company and that he believes the issue […]
Indian Government had lost all hope of ever seeing the Indo-Iranian gas pipeline come into existence, but kept up the pretense of negotiations to keep Muslims and the Left happy, according to a US assessment. According to a cable sent in early 2007, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas headed by Murli Deora (described […]
Five corporate honchos are going to be the new occupants of Delhi’s Tihar Jail. With the Special Court hearing the cases related to the scam in the allotment of the 2G spectrum rejecting the bail pleas of the corporate bigwigs, the five could be spending their time in the capital’s central jail. The corporate executives […]
Sunita Narain, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, has congratulated Jairam Ramesh for taking Bamboo off the ‘timber list’ and allowing people to cut and transport it more easily. Ramesh has, over the past several days, sent letters to state chief ministers clarifying that bamboo was a grass and not a tree and […]
In an extraordinary move, Sistema Shyam Teleservices, the majority owned Indian subsidiary of Russia’s AFK Sistema and the owner of MTS brand, has said it will reveal its quarterly and full-year financial result on Friday. The company is not listed on any stock exchange and is under no legal obligation to make its financial details […]
Intel led the world semiconductor (or chip) market in 2010, though its share fell from 14.6% to 14% as competition from former cell-phone chip makers intensified. According to Gartner numbers, the chip industry grew by a whopping 30% in 2010 to almost $300 billion — making it not only one of the world’s largest industries, […]
Telenor Group has requested Sanjay Chandra, the MD of the Unitech group, to step down as chairman of its joint venture mobile company, Unitech Wireless, the Norwegian company said in a statement. It had earlier this month sent a letter to Unitech Ltd., requesting Sanjay Chandra to step down as Chairman of the Board of […]
Nearly 10 million (1 crore) cable customers in several cities in India are likely to miss their favorite programs on the Star, NDTV, Fox and MGM channels due to a spat with the Hinduja-owned group. Star DEN, the distribution venture of Star India and DEN Networks, said it is likely to stop services to Incable […]
The Supreme Court decision to quash the order of the Telecom Tribunal which in turn quashed the a pricing order of the TRAI is unlikely to make much difference to the ordinary consumer. In July last year, TRAI, the telecom and broadcast regulator, had stipulated that DTH operators need to pay only 35% of what […]
External Affairs Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna,who reached Kathmandu today on a three day trip to Nepal, reiterated India’s commitment for a democratic and stable Nepal. In a statement he said that “I would like to convey to the leadership of Nepal that India is committed to working with the people of Nepal for a democratic, […]
While the world is focused on the global Outsourcing market (in which India has a 60% share,) the domestic market in India has jumped by a whopping 29% in one year, research firm Gartner said. It further predicts the market will jump another 23% to hit #1.4 billion (Rs 6,400 crore) by the end of […]
The Jharkhand Police is probing the leak of the state budget to the media even before it was announced in the Assembly, Pranab Mukherjee, minister of finance at the Centre, has told a Parliamentary Committee. Responding to a query by the Committee, Mukherjee said the Ranchi Edition of Dainik Jagran newspaper had published details of […]
A quiet digital revolution is on in the countrysides and bylanes of India. Despite having one of the world’s lowest PC penetration (at just 1%), hundreds of millions of Indians are logging on to the Internet through their humble, tiny mobile phone. The latest ‘state of the mobile web’ report from Opera, whose browser accounts […]
The Indian Premier League or IPL, the country’s most successful domestic sports event, has broken its exclusive deal with Google-owned Youtube and decided to partner with Bennet, Coleman & Company’s Indiatimes as well for the current season. Google had managed a unexpectedly successful debut for the first live webcasting of any major sports event in […]
