HP retook the lead in the worldwide client PC market in Q1 2012, according to the latest figures published by analyst firm Canalys. Apple had ousted the long-time PC market leader in Q4 2011, thanks largely to record iPad shipments (in excess of 15 million units). In Q1, however, Apple shipped 11.8 million iPads, bringing […]
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 […]
India’s crude oil import bill zoomed 40% in the last financial year, due to the rising crude oil prices, numbers revealed. According to government data, India imported crude worth Rs 3.58 lakh crore in the first ten months of the last financial year, 2011-12. The number excludes the crude oil imported for processing and re-export. […]
It looks like Japanese companies cannot have enough of India. Even as the Indo-Japanese mega industrial corridor between Delhi and Mumbai remains in early stages, the Japanese are pushing for a similar ‘corridor’ between India’s IT hub Bangalore and its export-manufacturing hub Chennai. Industrial corridors are comprised of newly constructed mini and mega cities that […]
With the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee moving a motion to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in the Parliament today the deck is now clear for the formation of a parliamentary committee to look into the telecom policy pursued from 1998 to 2009. The period of reference includes the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI has revamped the entire regulatory structure of the broadcasting, cable TV and DTH industry in India, dealing with issues such as carriage fee, channel prices and channel availability. Once digitized, all channels (pay and free-to air) have to be offered on a-la-carte, or individual, basis to subscribers, […]
Market analyst firm Canalys reported today that global pad shipments more than tripled year-on-year in Q1 2012. Vendors shipped 20.3 million pads, representing 19% of all client PC shipments in the quarter. A year ago pads accounted for just 7% of PC shipments. Adoption rates, however, vary significantly across regions, shaped by differing economic conditions […]
In keeping with an overall slowing trend, India’s goods exports fell in March — for the first time since they started recovering from the recession in 2009. Exports fell 6% to $28.7 billion. However, the government can heave a sigh of relief as the overall target for exports for the full year, $300 billion, has […]
