The starting price for a quad-core smartphone has just fallen from about Rs 30,000 to Rs 11,000 – thanks to the new Karbonn Smart Titanium 1. Karbonn Mobiles has become the first Indian vendor to offer a phone with a quad-core processor – something that was restricted to the likes of Samsung (with its Galaxy […]
State-owned BSNL has about 32% more subscribers on its GSM service than its capacity, according to numbers given by the ministry of communications and information technology to the Parliament. Asked whether a capacity crunch in BSNL has impacted its growth, junior telecom and IT minister Milind Deora said BSNL’s total GSM subscriber capacity was 7.55 […]
Perhaps it is a sign that Indian industry is starting to get out of the cautious mood, perhaps it is just a blip, but the Naukri hiring index is showing a 7% rise in activity in December 2012. The rise is in contrast to the traditional dip that accompanies the October-December festival season in India. […]
Aircel has become the second operator in India to offer a “free roaming” plan, after BSNL, but what is not clear is: Is it really as good as it sounds? Going by the example of BSNL, which announced such a plan several months ago, for most users, it may be cheaper to stick to existing […]
In a high stakes political fight between the opposing fronts in Kerala, it is a BSNL employee who seems to be the one getting the stick. According to a statement by the government in Parliament, BSNL will punish a Junior Account Officer for leaking call data details of a police officer to the media. “BSNL […]
Indian railways has slightly relaxed its new rule that all reserved passengers must carry original IDs. Under the new, relaxed rule, they can now carry an attested copy of their ration card (if it contains their photo), or an attested copy of their passbook at a government-owned Bank, such as the State Bank of India. […]
It had to happen sooner or later – the MBA education bubble – fueled by tales of multi-crore fresher salary packages – is bursting. According to the latest numbers from a study by business association Assocham, about 340 business schools are in the process of either winding down or have already shut shop since 2012. […]
The government of India on Tuesday gave the industry a glimpse of what is in store under its ‘New Telecom Policy’ of 2011. According to people who were present in a round table conference organized on Tuesday, telecom minister Sibal reiterated that he will indeed carry out all the reforms he had promised when he […]
Crisil Research expects average wholesale price inflation to fall slightly to 7% in the coming financial year from the 7.7% estimated for the current year, and sees the RBI cutting interest rates by a quarter of a percent in its monetary policy review on January 29. The agency, part of the ratings group CRISIL, made […]
At any given time, around 25,000 to 40,000 phones in the country are being tapped by the government, according to numbers given by the home ministry today. Replying to a question on phone-tapping, junior home minister Gurudas Kamat said 7,500 to 9,000 orders for starting of new phone-tapping are issued every month. The maximum duration […]
Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, has the highest number of 3G-enabled towers in India, while Delhi has the highest 3G penetration in India, according to official numbers. In fact, at present, Delhi has more 3G towers than Maharashtra (which, in telecom license area, excludes Mumbai, but is still 206 times bigger than the national capital.) The […]
Growth of the Indian retail industry, which includes biggies like the Future Value Retail (Big Bazaar), Reliance, Aditya Birla Retail, Landmark Group (Max) and Tata’s Infiniti Retail, is likely to slow down in 2013 due to the reduced purchasing power of consumers, the India Ratings unit of Fitch said. It warned that consumers in India […]
Close on the heels of the quad-core Karbonn S1 Titanium, competitor Spice has launched a dual-core phone with a 5.3 inch display with qHD (quarter HD) resolution. Priced at Rs 14,000, the device is remarkable only in that it has a larger than usual display, though the Karbonn A30 has an even bigger 5.9 inch […]
Falling commodity prices will slightly improve profit margins, while overall revenue in Indian corporate sector is likely to have increased 11-13% in the last three months of 2012, Crisil Research said. Crisil’s forecast is neither too gloomy, nor too rosy, as it points to strong volume growth only in 11 out of 28 key sectors […]
After being postponed seven times over two months, one of the strongest Linux operating systems – Fedora – has released its latest version — Fedora 18, or the Spherical Cow. The biggest attraction about the release probably that it’s finally out. Unlike the six months that it usually takes, the release has taken about eight, […]
Google has launched its third annual science fair for children and the deadline for submissions is April 30. As always, the Google Science Fair 2013 will also have two rounds. The first round will be in June when 90 regional finalists will be selected – 30 from the Americas, 30 from Asia Pacific and 30 […]
If you felt your recent flight landing at Tirupathi was a bit shaky, you may not have been totally wrong. According to the list of disciplinary actions taken by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), firefighting personnel were found handling air traffic control at the Tirupathi airport during a checking earlier this year. According to […]
After close to two years, Acer, the world’s fourth largest PC brand, has introduced a tablet to the Indian market – the Iconia B1. The tablet is only likely to appeal to those who want to use it indoors (or where Wifi is available), and want a portable tablet of 7 inches, and fails to […]
PJ Kurien, deputy Rajya Sabha chairman and a prominent Congress leader from Kerala has found himself in the middle of a raging media storm in Kerala, with a TV channel running an interview with the victim of the infamous Suryanelli gang rape case. The victim, who was 16 years old at the time of the […]
Export growth to the European Union dipped sharply in the financial year ended March 2012, even as imports continued grow fast, according to data for the financial year. Interestingly, the biggest buyer of Indian goods in Europe last year was not the United Kingdom or Germany, but the relatively small Netherlands. Out of a total […]
