Idea has launched a new dual-SIM smartphone called ‘Aurus’, with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS, 800 Mhz processor and a 3.5 inch multi-touch screen display. The phone is priced at Rs. 7,190, but also carries about Rs 2,100 worth of talktime and other goodies from Idea Cellular. “With its large, bright screen, it is the perfect […]
Bharti Walmart, the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart, has extended its training efforts to South India from its core market, Punjab. It established its first “Skill Centre” at the Peenya ITI in Bangalore, indicating the joint venture between Bharti and the World’s largest corporation is serious about its expansion plans in India. Bharti […]
Dell has launched four new models of LED-LCD monitors in India, starting from 21.5 inch to 27 inch. Dell did not mention the prices, but said the ‘S’ series monitors will soon be available on its India website for order. All four models have full HD resolution. In addition, at least three of the four […]
In a coup of sorts to Chennai-based cloud-solutions provider Ramco Systems, Dell has agreed to offer Ramco’s ERP cloud solution to its mid-market clients. ERP or enterprise resource planning helps big organizations and companies manage their resources and assets by tabulating and generally keeping track of assets, people and inventories. It helps companies figure out […]
India’s largest telecom company, Bharti Airtel, has introduced several cheaper broadband plans in cities like Bangalore and Delhi, as well as high-speed fiber optic schemes in the national capital. The National Capital Region is the only place that Airtel is offering fiber optic plans. On first look, the plans are slightly cheaper than similar high-speed […]
The biggest industry association in India, the Confederation of Indian Industry, has called for urgent announcements to boost ‘sentiment’ in the Indian economy and reverse the downward slide in the indices. The CII’s statement came after the latest numbers showed that industrial production growth rate slowed to just 0.1% cent in July due to poor […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority has extended the deadline to have separate phone numbers for tele-marketers by three weeks. It extended the deadline to March 21 due to delays by the Department of Telecom in alloting a new number series to landline companies. “The number series for fixed network are still not allocated by DoT. The […]
It is the final frontier in India’s ongoing e-commerce revolution – delivering the daily bread. E-commerce in India, as elsewhere, started with easily ‘digitizable’ goods such as plane tickets, about six years ago. Over the last two years, it has expanded to involve nearly every category of branded goods such as watches, electronics, books, clothes […]
The iBall Andi 5c is a curious mixture of affordability and high-end technology, and comes in as the latest addition to the category of cheap 5-inch Android models launched by Indian brands in the last two months. It competes with the Spice Stellar Horizon, the Micromax A100 and the Mercury magiQ. The Spice Stellar Horizon […]
‘Paintball’ was the most searched recreational word searched on Google Maps this summer in the U.S., while Death Valley National Park, located in California & Nevada, was the most popular holiday destination. The numbers also indicate that Americans and Canadians seem to prefer to go to national parks and other ‘nature’ spots during the summer, […]
Research agency CRISIL warned that Indian banks may be forced to restructure a larger proportion of their outstanding corporate debt than initially expected, due to the drying up of short-term credit. It issued the warning as it hiked its estimate for the amount of loans likely to be restructured in the remainder of this year […]
Industry has expressed its disappointment at the Reserve Bank of India’s decision to keep key interest rates unchanged, calling the move “deeply disappointing.” The Assocham, which represents several big basic industries and manufacturers, said RBI should have made more money available for companies so that they could produce more, and bring down prices. “The only […]
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), India’s biggest IT and BPO industry body, has identified ‘marketing analytics’ as a core growth area for the industry. According to a report released by the association today, the industry is expected to grow at an average of 25% every year till 2020 to reach $1.2 […]
Bharti Airtel has launched a freely downloadable mobile application called ‘my airtel’ to allow users to keep a tab on all their airtel accounts easily. It was not clear which platforms the mobile application is available on. “Customers can download the application by simply logging into airtel.in/myairtel or visiting their device app store. Alternatively, they […]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee extended a hand of partnership to the opposition Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to push through financial reforms. Mukherjee, who was addressing industry concerns over flailing pace of economic reforms, after the budget, said he is willing to meet other parties and governments “halfway.” “It is not that we have back-tracked on […]
Apple showed the biggest increase in phone market share in the United States during the second quarter of 2012 while LG showed the biggest fall among top brands, according to the latest numbers from digital tracking firm comScore. Samsung, which has been hit by legal issues due to a patent lawsuit by Apple, was able […]
The National Housing Bank (NHB) will soon come out with guidelines for non-banking housing finance companies to give impetus to funding for housing sector and create an asset-backed securitisation thereby further expanding the securitisation domain, R.V. Verma, chairman, NHB said at an event held in New Delhi today. Non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) are riskier than […]
Nokia today announced the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820, the first Nokia devices to feature Windows Phone 8 operating system. The Nokia Lumia 920 is the first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, including the latest advances in Nokia PureView imaging innovation. Using advanced floating lens technology, the camera in the Nokia Lumia 920 […]
There were two features that helped navigation device makers withstand the competition from cellular map software makers like Google — turn-by-turn voice directions and the device’s ability to work even where there is no cellphone signal. While the second factor — offline function — was addressed by Google for its Android map application few weeks […]
Is it better to invest through a mutual fund or simply invest directly in popular stocks such as Infosys and Reliance? According to the latest S&P Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) scorecard, the ‘professional’ fund managers may not be any better at guessing which stocks will go up and which will go down compared to […]
