Sales of tablets doubled in the July-September quarter in India, compared to the previous three months, as shipments of Samsung’s tablets almost quadrupled, research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR) said in its quarterly report. According to CyberMedia Research estimates, total shipments for the India Tablet PC market are expected to close at 3 million units in […]
India’s biggest cloud computing company, Ramco Systems, has inked a deal with Dubai-based Emirates aviation group for supplying cloud-based services to its engineering group. The revenue size of the deal, involving Ramco’s ‘Aviation Suite’ of software, was not disclosed. The suite of cloud-based software offers complete ERP functionality including HR, Finance, and Materials. “We have […]
A big bone of contention between several BSNL employees unions and the government — the repatriation of ‘unabsorbed’ ITS officers — may be nearing a resolution with the government setting up a “committee of secretaries” after a final court deadline lapsed three weeks ago. The dispute revolves the repatriation of more than 1,000 ITS (Indian […]
S Jayaraman, a 1977 IPS officer, has become arguably the second most powerful officer in India’s security and intelligence circles with his appointment as the “special secretary” in charge of internal security in the ministry of home affairs. He succeeds Ajay Chadha, who recently moved to head the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Chadha was also […]
The transition of public vehicles from diesel to CNG, achieved after a struggle of several years and after much pain by commuters and vehicle owners, is now being undone by an unexpected force — the government’s higher tax rate on petrol. In a significant move that may have big implications for India’s car industry, particularly […]
The Jammu & Kashmir Panthers Party has joined Janatha Party’s Subramanian Swamy and others in questioning the dependability of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in India. Delivering a speech on “National Voters’ Day” at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Bhim Singh, noted activist, lawyer and the leader of the party, said EVMs were being […]
CRISIL Research has predicted a GDP growth rate of 6.7 percent in the coming financial year, compared to its estimate of 5.5 percent in the current year, based on more stable global economic trends, crude price at $100 per barrel and normal monsoon. The rupee will rise to 51-52 per dollar in the next 14-15 […]
Will the Reserve Bank of India cut policy interest rates for the first time in almost a year even as price inflation remains above its comfort zone? Hit by slowing growth and declining demand, the industry sure hopes so. The RBI has been raising interest rates steadily for the last four years. Its official lending […]
The average amount spent by an Indian has gone up by 66% in rural areas 70% in urban areas — with Keralites being the “richest” among the big states, according to the results of the last year’s expenditure survey the Government of India’s National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The average (per head) expenditure figures are […]
Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendor revenue totaled $5.3 billion in the third quarter of 2012, a 3.6 percent increase from revenue of $5.1 billion in the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The third quarter of 2012 was the 12th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. “Reflecting the weak global macro […]
BSNL, the former telecom monopoly of India, has lost nearly 8 lakh mobile subscribers, or about 1.5 percent of its active mobile base, due to number portability as of the end of October, government of India’s numbers revealed. There was also a sudden spike in October this year in the number of telecom subscribers using […]
India’s mobile subscriber base, which has grown consistently for the last two decades, has fallen by 30 million in just four months, primarily due to pressure on the operators to ensure full documentation of their subscribers and deactivate zombie accounts. Starting from June, India’s mobile operators, including Tata DoCoMo, Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, […]
At last, China-powered Indian branded tablets can compete with those of Samsung and Apple, thanks to the launch of several new cheap tablets in the dual-core, IPS 10-inch display category over the past few days. Coming less than a week after Mediatek, which supplies the chips for a large number of Chinese manufacturers, announced plans […]
Bharti Airtel leads in the number of mobile base stations in India, while Vodafone comes second and BSNL is placed third, according to official numbers. In all, India had a total of 736,654 mobile base stations as of the end of October, 2012. The highest number of mobile base stations are in Maharashtra, followed by […]
The IT sector will grow in the final quarter of 2012, but at a slightly lowered pace, according to indications from the market leader Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS.) In an ‘analyst meeting’ in Mumbai, the company said it was not worried about missing its targets for this year. However, it guided for a sequential […]
The ‘3G roaming’ controversy, which continues to cast a shadow over services to lakhs of 3G customers in India, may be nearing an end soon. The controversy, involving the sharing of 3G infrastructure between operators, has the potential to disrupt the Indian 3G market in the coming weeks as the government decides to either crack […]
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 […]
The Indian government has ordered a massive culling and containment operation to prevent a bird flu epidemic at a farm in its Eastern state of Tripura from spreading. The health department of the government said bird samples from the State Poultry Farm, Gandhigram, Agartala have tested positive for the H5 virus, commonly known as the […]
Get ready to spend this monday. Online shopping companies are bringing the online discount shopping festival ‘Cyber Monday’ to India. About 50 online shopping companies have set up the Great Online Shopping Festival website www.gosf.in promising steep discounts this monday. “Buyers can look forward to exciting deals across a variety of product range,” said Google, […]
Cognizant said it is buying six companies of C1 Group, an independent consulting and IT services firm based in Hamburg, Germany. The terms, including the value and nature of payment, of the transaction were not disclosed. “The companies focus on three industry segments: manufacturing and logistics, energy and utilities, and financial services. Known for their […]
