Uninor has launched India’s cheapest talk plan — all calls at 25 paise per minute — in its Mumbai circle. Customers will have to pay Rs 49 per month as monthly rental for the plan through an easy recharge. Earlier Videocon used to have a similar plan. Uninor’s offer is without any monthly limit on […]
WishTel has launched the second version of its tablet, called IRA THING 2. The main upgrades are in the operating system — which is now Android Ice Cream Sandwich, processor (1.5 GHz) and RAM (512 MB). IRA THING 2 also plays full HD (1080p) videos through its HDMI port. Display remains at 7 inches. Resolution […]
In keeping with recent trends, India’s exports dipped again in June, this time by 5.5%. June exports were US $25.07 billion. Thankfully, imports too dipped, faster than exports. Imports were US $ 35.37 billion with a negative growth of (-) 13.46%. Balance of Trade was comfortable at US $ 10.3 billion, compared to $13-14 billion […]
Anna Hazare has made it clear that he will not break his next fast on the basis of assurances, written or otherwise, from the Prime Minister or anyone else. His fast starting next month will end only with the passing of a strong Lokpal bill, or his death, he said. “So many people are dying […]
Inflation continued to remain above 10% in June, led by high food inflation, latest government numbers show. Overall, on an all-India basis, consumer prices were up 10.02% in June, compared to prices in June 2011. Double-digit consumer price inflation is bad news for people with fixed income, such as those on salaries and pensions. Even […]
If 2010-11 was the year of the Indian mobilephone brands, 2011-12 has been the year when they’ve crash landed to reality, according to the latest Voice & Data survey. Barring Karbonn and Lava, all the Indian mobile phone brands such as Micromax and Spice saw drops in their revenues in 2011-12, according to the survey. […]
Smartphones will make up about 25% of the total Indian mobile phone market by 2015, ‘Research and Markets’ has predicted. The research firm said sales of smartphones in India will grow at 60% every year on average till 2015, while overall mobile handset sales will grow at about 13% per year. It estimated smartphone volumes […]
The Indian domestic IT market, including hardware, software and services, was worth $30.4 billion, according to the latest study by advisory firm Zinnov. In the enterprise sector, 53 per cent of the money spent was for hardware, followed by IT services (32%) and software (15%). The study, which focused on the Banking, Financial Services and […]
Asian Americans are the American minority most unimpressed with how they are portrayed in mainstream TV, according to a survey about 1,500 households in the United States. 27% of the Asian respondents felt the portrayal of their community in mainstream media was inaccurate, while only 22% felt it was accurate. The rest were neutral. Similarly, […]
Subash Chandra-owned Zee Groups’ DTH platform Dish TV has bowled a googly in the ongoing scamper for snapping up subscribers during the cable digitization wave. While the whole battle was seen as DTH operators fighting with cable operators to lure away the latter’s customers at the time of digitization, Dish TV has unveiled a new […]
The following are the highlights of the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today: Salaried taxpayers, whose tax is deducted at source by employer, will soon not be required to file a return of income (IT return) Direct Taxes Code (DTC) to be effective from April 1, 2012. Bill to be introduced in […]
Crisil Research has blamed high food prices and lower rupee value for consistent high inflation. It noted that even though growth seems to have moderated, inflation, which should also have come down, has not. “This reflects the higher-than-anticipated increase in food inflation, and the impact of the weak currency on imported component of inflation. Although […]
Bharti Airtel, which has operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, said it will offer a customized and co-branded version of Opera Mini internet browser for Airtel across its operations. “With this, over 253 million Airtel customers across countries including India, South Asia and Africa will now be able to leverage Opera Mini’s unique […]
Finally, the numbers from the crucial Neyyatinkara bypoll are in and both the Congress and BJP have reason to smile, while the Left parties are reeling from the shock. Neyyattinkara bypoll was crucial as a Left win there would have reduced the Congress-led UDF government’s majority in the state assembly to just 1 member and […]
Nokia has launched three new good-looking, mid-range ‘almost smart’ phones priced in the Rs 4,200-6,300 range. The phones — Asha 305, 306 and 311 — are, unfortunately, no great leap forward, either for Nokia or for consumers who are in the market for an affordable, mid-range smartphone. The new phones are essentially an upgrade to […]
Pranab Mukherjee may have just been chosen as UPA’s candidate for the Indian Presidency, but his ambition and rise was noted very early on by American diplomats in India. A cable, released by Wikileaks, from the American Ambassador to India David Mulford in June 2005 to the then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has an […]
Two students from Bangalore and one from Lucknow are among the 15 finalists in the 2012 Google Science Fair. Including two from the United States, five out of the 15 finalists are of Indian/South Asian-origin. The finalists will be taken to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, to present their projects to our international panel […]
India’s commerce minister Anand Sharma has called the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s decision not to cut interest rates as ‘disappointing’. Trade bodies have been urging the banking regulator to ease the flow of money into the economy by lowering credit rates and-or lowering cash-reserve-ratio or CRR. On Monday, RBI kept both the CRR and […]
Google will introduce offline Google Maps for Android phones in the “next few weeks”, convert entire towns and cities into 3D using software, and start capturing ‘street views’ using cameras mounted on a person. The biggest announcement is the introduction of offline Google Maps, which will take direct aim at navigation software makers. So far, […]
Vodafone India has roughly halved its 3G tariffs, making them cheaper than those offered by competitors such as Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular in many cases. In most cases, however, they are now the same as the rates offered by Airtel and Idea. Under the new plans, Vodafone is offering 2 GB for […]
