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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS
(Updated January 26 2012)
- Total no. of phone subscriptions: 955 million
Mobiles 923 million
Landlines: 32 million
Total no. of PCs: 60 million
Internet accounts: 63 million (fixed); 15 million (on mobile phones)
Broadband: 13.37 million
Active Internet users: 200 million fixed + mobile Internet 40 millionTV owning houses: 116 million ( digital: 30 million)
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Top 10 broadband and internet operators and their market share in India
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Click for Indian Govt new IT, Telecom, Electronics Policy drafts ( full text)
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MUMBAI January 27, 2012: NVIDIA,the company that invented the graphical; processing unit or GPU has decided to evangelise its application and connect with users in India: It has launched India’s first GPU Computing Social Networking Group. “HPC and GPU Computing group” is India's first informal special interest group founded to bring together GPU users from different fields and e .... |
New Delhi, January 26, 2012 : Ethical hacker and Indian Computer Security specialist Ankit Fadia has released his latest book -- on how to unblock websites, blogs, applications and content on the Internet. The book entitled “How to unblock everything on the internet”, was released in Delhi, by Navin Jindal, Member of Parliament, noted industrialist, Chairman and MD, Jindal Steel .... |
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Bangalore, January 25, 2012 – Silicon City’s metro rail system, NammaMetro has adopted t ... |
January 23 2012: In his address at the 99th Annual Session of the Indian Science Congress at Bhubane ... |
New Delhi , January 20, 2012 – Global leader in standards-based unified communications, Polyco ... |
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New Delhi, January 25 2012: Now, a useful PC monitor that needs just one connection – through USB for both signal and power – that’s what the AOC USB Monitor brings to India The 15.6 inch has full HD specs @ 60 Hz; supports Windows XP/Vista/7, MacOSX and Linux; is light weight ( just under 1 kg) ultra thin at a whisker over 1 cm thick and consumes ju .... |
January 23, 2012 Inspan Infotech has launched a spill proof keyboard: the SlimStar 110 from Genius. The silent keycap structure provides great tactile feedback (just like a notebook) and low noise comfort during typing. SlimStar 110 is designed against accidental spills during work.
With 445x168x23 mm(L*W*H) as dimensions and a body weight o .... |
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With its late 2011 launch of the Lumia handset in India, Nokia emphatically restated its reputation ... |
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Here is a unique visual of the Indian Parliament building -- made with nearly 5000 images of video clips on India. This has been designed -- by IndiaVideo.org, the UNESCO supporting portal of Indian cultural videos, -- to celebrate the 63rd Republic Day of India on January 26.
Follow this link and click anywhere to open individual videos:
http://www.indiavideo. .... |
New Delhi, January 25, 2012 Leading Indian IT, Engineering, and Management books publisher, Dreamtech Press, has brought out a full featured Computer Course in Bengali. The Comdex Computer Course Kit - Windows XP and Microsoft Office is authored by writer and publisher, Vikas Gupta and deals with Computer Basics, Windows XP, and Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Word, Micr .... |
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Bangalore January 23, 2012 – Bangalore grocery buyers can now do their shopping online: BigBas ... |
January 19 2012: Two bills before the US Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the S ... |
Bangalore January 18: Leading Indian mobile solutions company TeliBrahma, has launched a first-of-it ... |
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Bangalore, January 26, 2012 – Dr. Gopichand Katragadda (“Gopi”) will lead GE’s India Technology Centre as Managing Director. He takes over from Sanjay Correa who has moved back to the US on a new assignment in GE. Gopi, who will be based in Bangalore, and assume responsibility for GE’s first and largest integrated multidisciplinary Research and Development Centre outs .... |
Jan. 25, 2012 – Jim Merritt is to head Hewlett Packard’s enterprise and networking business in this region. The company has announced his appointment as senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN) Sales in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Merritt has held a number of global and regional senior management posts, most recently at Dell, .... |
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Bangalore, January 20, 2012 : Anita Swan is to be the Regional Marketing Director, Asia Pacific for ... |
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| Sam Pitroda, the advisor to the Indian Prime Minister on public information, infrastructure and innovation, in an interview, says:
"Nobody can control the internet. It is impossible. We cannot go the China way. Even China is not going the 'China way'". ECONOMIC TIMES, JanuARY 24, 2012 | | There is no way we can screen content before it is posted online, argued Internet behemoths Google and Facebook in the Delhi High Court on Monday (16 January), reported NDTV.
Both these Internet companies are among 21 whose executives have been summoned to appear in person in a lower court on March 13 for allegedly hosting obscene and objectionable content. Last week, 12 of the companies involved in this case said they are headquartered internationally. PCWorld India Jan 19 2012 | | | Aakash, the $45 tablet PC promoted by the ministry of human resource development (HRD), is mired in controversy three months after it was launched as a tool that would enable India to bridge the digital divide. Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive of DataWind, spoke about the project in an interview. MINT January 17 2012 |
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