The world’s biggest mobile phone maker Nokia is likely to cut prices of its Windows phone or Lumia devices in the coming months as it tries to survive an army of cheap Android phones, most industry analysts believe. According to them, even the average selling price of Nokia Lumia devices of 220 euros (Rs 15,000) […]
The Lava Xolo X900 marks the entry of the chip-giant Intel into the phone world and promises to shake up the mobile-phone world. On Thursday, Intel and Lava will launch the Xolo X900, the first phone Intel-based phone to enter India, possibly in tie-up with Aircel and Airtel. However, since Lava has a strong distribution […]
Google’s surprisingly good results yesterday was partly the result of the tighter focus brought in by founder Larry Page after he took over as CEO. But the sharper focus also makes it tougher for Google to maintain its glamorous reputation in the tech world, analysts warned. Page had took over from long-time CEO Eric Schmidt […]
Reliance Communications, one of the top three mobile operators in India, has struck a partnership with Google to jointly promote Google’s Android operating system in the country. Reliance has become the first operator in India to enter into the special and exclusive marketing tie-up with Google, and the agreement will follow the patterns of such […]
Technology market research firm Gartner has cut its forecast for IT spending this year from 3.7% to 2.5% due to a weaker dollar. Worldwide IT spending this year will be $3.7 trillion. It said the lower growth rate has more to do with the U.S. currency than an actual decline in spending and forecast a […]
Bharti Airtel, which launched India’s first LTE-based 4G network in Kolkata today, said it will soon launch similar networks in Karnataka, Punjab and Maharashtra. It will launch such ultra-highspeed 4G services in Bangalore in the next 30 days. Airtel’s launch prices for the 4G services, however, are on the higher side. While most operators are […]
The promise of 4G networks in India was to bridge the digital divide by making cheap, high-speed broadband available across the country. In other words, wireless broadband was to be to landline broadband what the mobile phone was to the land phone. However, going by the first such launch in India, very little of the […]
The goods trade between India and Pakistan could zoom to $8 billion a year from the current $2.6 billion in two years, thanks to the opening of a check post at Attari-Wagah border, trade body Assocham said. With the opening up of the check post at Attari-Wagah border, the number of trucks crossing the border […]
Micromax has entered the Indian tablet market with a 7-inch ‘Funbook’ priced at Rs 6,500, making it the cheapest Android tablet in India from a prominent brand. That credit earlier belonged to HCL’s ME U1 tablet, priced at Rs 8,000. The Funbook is a good 19% cheaper than the HCL ME U1. Micromax has partnered […]
The GSM Association, which represents GSM operators and equipment companies worldwide, predicted that India will have 367 million (36.7 crore) mobile broadband connections by 2016. India currently has a total of around 20-30 million broadband connections, including about 13 million DSL connections. The exact number of broadband connections in India is not known, as 3G […]
Apple may be grabbing all the media headlines, but according to the results of a survey of 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers by comScore, it is Samsung which has the lead in mobile handset market share. Even in the smartphone market, Google’s Android beat Apple’s iOS hollow, according to the numbers for February. The survey found […]
India’s total mobile penetration is only 51%, international technology market research agency Gartner said, well below the official estimate of a teledensity of around 75% by the TRAI. The number of mobile users in India increased by just 9% in 2011, hitting 638 million (63.8 crore) at the end of last year, the agency said. […]
If the traditional, big Indian mobile operators were dreaming of increasing tariffs in what is often called the world’s most competitive market, they have got another thing coming. It was in July last year that big operators, such as Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance, proclaimed the end of the cheap-tariff era and hiked call rates by […]
Uninor, the joint venture between the Unitech group and Norway’s Telenor has emerged as the fastest growing Indian telecom operator over the last several months. In the six months ended February, the company’s average subscriber addition per month is 2.23 million, higher than any other company in India. Uninor’s closest competitor is Idea Cellular, which […]
The growing prevalence of the Internet will push the beloved personal computer to the sidelines, new prediction from technology market research firm Gartner says. “The reign of the personal computer as the sole corporate access device is coming to a close, and by 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer at the center […]
Reliance Communications has introduced the ‘Reliance CDMA Tab’ — the CDMA high-speed version of its Reliance 3g tab. The CDMA Tab has very similar, almost the same, features as the Reliance 3g tab. Like the 3g version, it has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with Android 2.3 OS. Loaded with 512 MB RAM and a […]
People standing in a queue in front of a liquor shop in Kerala beat up a man and his wife, objecting to the presence of a woman in the queue. The incident, which happened in Parappanangadi in the Muslim-dominated Malappuram district, has led to alarm among liberals and women’s rights activists in the state. It […]
A special report by an expert group appointed by the Government of India has asked for more caution in dealing with electromagnetic communication devices such as cell-phones. While the eight-member committee did not blame cell phones for causing cancer, it pointed to some other studies as cause for concern. “The committee notes that most of […]
Telecom operator Vodafone India has asked the telecom regulator not to prevent it, and other big operators, from bidding in the upcoming auctions for spectrum freed up by the recent cancellation of licenses by the Supreme Court. Vodafone, in its statement to the telecom regulator, the TRAI, said any move to restrict the auction to […]
Even as companies launch newer and newer models of Android phones, Indian IT brand Intex has chosen to come out with an almost smartphone, targeted at budget conscious customers. The Sense has a 3.2 inch touchscreen display and a 3 megapixel camera at the back and is priced at a reasonable Rs 3690. The phone […]
