Airtel has entered the online phone retailing business, entering a market already boiling over with competition. The shop primarily sells handsets. Going by the rates, however, only some handsets are priced below the rates offered by competitors like Flipkart and Letsbuy. For example, the Nokia Lumia 800 is available for 23,338 on Airtel’s shop, compared […]
Only about 6% of the families registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MG-NREGA) got the full 100 days of work during last financial year, according to numbers from the Rural Development ministry. The numbers also revealed a sharp increase in complaints from Uttar Pradesh. While the ministry did not reveal how […]
Infosys and Wipro got left behind in the growth scene in 2011, while Cognizant blasted the others with its explosive growth. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), the biggest Indian IT services provider, was the second-fastest growing among the top 5 – these are the results of the 2011 IT services market survey by Gartner. Overall, […]
Giving some respite to the government and the oil companies, the effective price of crude oil for India fell by about 1.9% in the second half of April, according to numbers released by the Government of India. Effective price paid by Indian companies for crude oil fell to Rs 6174.90 per barrel in the second […]
The government of India does not have any information on complaints regarding the issue of ‘below poverty line’ or BPL ‘ration’ cards, according to a reply by the Rural Development ministry to BJP MP Varun Gandhi. Varun Gandhi, MP from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, had sought details about the complaints that it may have received […]
India’s fourth largest IT services firm Wipro Ltd may have to redraw its plans to open a 8000-person IT centre in Kolkata due to delays from the state government. Wipro had applied for setting up a special economic zone (SEZ) on January 20. However, the state government, headed by Mamata Bannerjee is against the policy […]
You would be forgiven for thinking phone companies have just forgotten about people who enjoy typing on real buttons, not just on the ‘virtual keypads’ on phone displays. Over the last one year, smartphone buyers have spoilt for choice, with company after company launching bigger, faster and smarter phones almost on a weekly basis. Since […]
India and Russia will be the first two markets to get Nokia’s next generation imaginging-oriented phones — the Nokia 808 PureView. Nokia said Nokia 808 PureView will start rolling out in May, starting with the two countries — now Nokia’s biggest markets. The Nokia 808 PureView has a 41 megapixel camera with high-performance Carl Zeiss […]
iBall has launched a new version of its ‘Slide’ tablet, but with very few changes, making it less attractive than the Micromax Funbook or the Datawind Ubislate — which cost about half or less than the iBall Slide. Basic specs remain the same: 1 GHz single-core ARM Cortex A8 processor Multitouch 800 x 480 pixel […]
Idea has managed to convert only 2.6 million out of its 113 million customers to its 3G platform, more than six months after the services were launched, according to the March-end numbers released by the company today. That translates to a conversion of just about 2.3%, highlighting the difficulties operators in India are facing in […]
China has finally overtaken the United States as the world’s top smartphone market. According to numbers released by research firm Canalys, shipments in China doubled and overtook those in the US for the first time in the first quarter of 2012. In Q1, China represented 22% of global smartphone shipments, while the US accounted for […]
The Datawind Ubislate tablet, a more powerful version of the Aakash tablet, was launched by the Canadian company today. Thanks to its cheaper price — a difference of Rs 2500 — the Ubislate 7C, which has a capacitive display, is now the most value-for-money tablet in India. It is also the cheapest tablet in India […]
Broadcasters and their associations have questioned the right of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to frame rules restricting the number and duration of advertisements on television. In multiple responses, channels and associations have pointed out that the telecom regulator derives its mandate to regulate the media sector only from a notification by the […]
Digital research agency comscore today said Amazon’s Kindle Fire now accounts for more than half of all the Android tablets sold in the United States. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has seen its share tumble over the last three months, numbers revealed. Within the Android tablet market, Kindle Fire has almost doubled its share in the past […]
The numbers are in, and contrary to many expectations, India’s number portability has actually ended up helping the big three incumbent operators — Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Airtel. As of March end, a total 4.2 crore subscribers have used India’s mobile number portability — 15 months after they were introduced in January 2011. The sheer […]
Days after Gartner predicted a 17 percent growth for the Indian PC market this year, CyberMedia Research has pegged the expansion at a more realistic 8%. The number of PCs sold in India had grown 6% in 2011, the Gurgaon-based firm said. The prediction is likely to disappoint some in the industry who were looking […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved Jairam Ramesh’s Rs 46,000 crore project to increase India’s forest cover. The plan, called ‘Green India’ Mission, aims to add 10 million hectares of “high quality” forest cover to the existing 40-45 million hectares, the ministry of environment and forests said. “The mission aims to achieve annual CO2 sequestration […]
With its latest Precise Pangolin release, Ubuntu — the most popular open source operating system — has become the first Linux-based operating system to support the latest desktop version from the Gnome community. The Gnome community project makes the look-and-feel software used by majority of operating systems based on open source software, such as Ubuntu, […]
You may soon get your Bisleri water through a pipeline. After telephones and power supply, it looks to be the turn of water supply and sewerage services to be privatized. Responding to a question in the Parliament, the Water Resources ministry has said that the draft new water policy recommends handing over of the water […]
It was the result of much effort and pain by the mobile operators in India, but going by the latest signs, the uptick in average call rates in the industry may not have lasted more than a quarter. According to the latest industry numbers, everything went up in the December quarter of 2011- right from […]
