Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s pet project Arasu Cable is likely to get into trouble as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out strongly against allowing any government agency or company to enter the broadcasting space. In its clarification to the government given today, the TRAI said any government company or […]
No security violations or snooping by telecom equipment from Chinese vendors like Huawei and ZTE has ever been noticed, but India will start conducting its own tests from April, the government of India told the Parliament. In response to a question on whether Indian security agencies have “expressed concern” over the market dominance of a […]
A day after launching India’s cheapest 4-inch 3G Android phone, Videocon again blasted away the competition launching India’s only Rs 10,000-range 10-inch HD tablet. Not only is the Videocon VT10 the only 10-inch HD tablet, it also the only large-screen tablet available in India for under Rs 11,000 that can boast of an IPS display. […]
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 […]
People of Philadelphia turned out to be the most generous tippers, while those in Houston tend to eat out the most, acccording to the results of this year’s Google “America’s Top Restaurants Survey.” The survey, covering 1,822 restaurants in 46 U.S. cities and regions, also found the top-rated restaurants across the country. “Winners include perennial […]
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (C) No. 348 OF 2010 Centre for PIL & Anr. … Petitioner(s) versus Union of India & Anr. … Respondent(s) with Writ Petition (C) No. 355 of 2010 JUDGMENT S. H. KAPADIA, CJI Introduction 1. The two writ petitions filed in this […]
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is forecast to total $2.679 trillion in 2013, a 2.5 percent increase of projected 2012 spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Banking, communications, media and services (CMS) and manufacturing are expected to offer the largest volume of growth opportunities through 2016. However, given the overall economic uncertainty, the projection may have to […]
Idea, which was one of the four telecom operators to take advantage of the recent 2G spectrum auction to augment its holdings, said it would not have bought spectrum at such prices if it had not already sunk some money in. It said that it decided to shell out the high price for spectrum only […]
After delaying the move by five months on operator requests, the government of India has moved to cut down mobile tower radiation by 90%. According to a statement given in the Parliament, the government issued an order with effect from September that reduced the maximum power permitted for cellphone towers in the country by 90%. […]
Prashant Bhushan, noted lawyer and close associate of anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, today said the government had mistakenly appointed a person like Vinod Rai as the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India, and would not make such a mistake next time. Bhushan, who was answering questions about the new political party from Bangaloreans on […]
Even as the rest of IT spending remains more or less flat, cloud computing continues to maintain its scorching pace of growth, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. Revenue from platform as a service (PaaS) — where companies offer cloud platforms for others to develop and deploy their cloud applications — is set to […]
Gartner has cut by a third its forecast for the growth of PC industry this year due to competition from tablets. The growing popularity of devices like the iPad, which saw its second iteration on Tuesday, will bring down growth of the PC industry from 15.9% to 10.5% in 2011, the agency said. The impact […]
