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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS 

(Updated  May  15  2012)
- Total no. of phone subscriptions: 960 million
Mobiles  928  million 
Landlines: 32 million  

Total no. of PCs: 70 million  
Internet accounts:  63 million  (fixed);  15  million (on mobile phones) 
Broadband: 13.65 million

Active Internet users:  200 million fixed + mobile Internet 40 millionTV owning houses: 116 million ( digital: 30 million)

New! Quarterly PC sales numbers from IDC

Indian Media & Entertainment Industry 2012 FICCI-KPMG report 

India''s Rs 3.2 trillion economy: BCG study 

CENSUS of INDIA on connectivity: We carry the government''''s published numbers ( March 13 2012)

NASSCOM numbers for Indian IT-BPO industry 2011-12

 Indian SMBs outpace  ICT biggies

 

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Newgen unveils mobile data capture tool, ZapIn
 
 
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IDS unveils restaurant tablet app at Dubai hotel show
 
 
Companies  
Gramin sets up India office; targets mass satnav market with affordable devices
 
 
People  
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  Gramin sets up India office; targets mass satnav market with affordable devices
New Delhi, May 17, 2012- Global leader in satellite navigation Garmin Corporation has launched two mass-market devices in India for customers seeking limited use of GPS features – the nüvi 40LM and 50LM, devices, priced at Rs. 8450 and Rs. 9990 respectively, The company has simultaneously opened its India office in Jasola, New Delhi. The devices will come with free maps of Singapore and ....
IDS unveils restaurant tablet app at Dubai hotel show
Bangalore, May 16, 2012: India-headquartered, hospitality and leisure industries solutions leader IDS NEXT, will launch a tablet application for restaurants at the The Hotel Show, Dubai, this week. It will be the first offering under the Envy brand -- Envy Dine, a rich application, packed with features to recommend the available food and beverage options at the restaurant to guests. It intuitively ....
Logica announces innovation partner programme
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Philips unveils healthcare products, made in India, for India -- and the world
Bangalore, May 14, 2012:The Indian engineers and professionals based in the Philips Innovation Campu ...
CapGemini to challenge Indian techies in reality TV show
Mumbai, May 11, 2012 - France-headquartered, IT consulting and outsourcing services leader, Capgemin ...
 


 
Product Pulse
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Bladeless fan: an elegant option for computer-tethered professionals
An elegant new table top fan that is available in India, mostly through online buy sites and shops selling "imported" gadgets will make for a --literally--cool new accessory on the desks of professionals . For that matter it will be a silent and nice looking bedroom gadget as well -- providing a uniform curtain of air, without the noise and jerky operation of conventional balde-based tab ....
HTC One X: More camera than phone
New Delhi April 9, 2012 – Taiwan-headquartered global maker of smartphones HTC, has launched a high end model in India that is more camera than phone.  The HTC One X , is fuelled by the NVIDIA® Tegra 3 1.5 GHz quad core graphics processor together with a 12-Core NVIDIA GPU and comes with a jumbo 4.7-inch, 720p HD Corning Gorilla Glass screen. ( In some 4G areas, the phone comes wit ....
Milagrow's 'ladies special' tablet MGPT02-8
March 25, 2012 : Gurgaon based Tablet PC maker MilagrowHumanTech,  has created a model aimed at ...
 


 
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  HP's pricey Pavilion-G launch in India
New Delhi, April 24, 2012 – HP has launched in India, the Pavilion-G series of notebooks with a distinct design: curved, beveled edges, a bowl-shaped keyboard deck and textured touchpad with bowl-set curvature. Feature -wise the 3 variants of G6 launched here share Intel Ivy Bridge chips (second gen Core i-3 and i-5), 4 GB DDR, 500 GB SATA drives, 1 or 2GB ATI graphics and Windows 7 Basic. ....
Shiv Nadar University ties up to bring world's top entrepreneurship course to India
New Delhi, May 13, 2012 : Shiv Nadar University, an initiative of the non-profit Shiv Nadar Foundation created by the founder of the $ 6.2 billion infotech enterprise,  HCL, has  joined hands with the Wellesley, Massachusetts (US)-based Babson College, to bring interdisciplinary entrepreneurship to the the Indian academic curriculum. The two institutions have joined hands to offer global ....
Sub-Rs 4000 tablet from Kobian
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iValue to bring ArrayShield's 2-factor authentification to Indian market
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Zippy, affordable 'n' wireless router from Buffalo
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  Charlie Foo to head Brocade in Asia-Pac
New Delhi, May 14, 2012: Charlie Foo is to be the new vice president for Asia Pacific (APAC) at networking solutions leader, Brocade. He succeeds Deb Dutta will be based in Singapore. An industry veteran with more than 20 years of sales management and leadership experience, Foo was most recently senior director of the Brocade Partner Business Group for APAC where he drove the company’s reg ....
Subhodeep Bhattacharya to head Netgear in India & SAARC
New Delhi, May 14 2012: Subhodeep Bhattacharya is to be the new Regional Director, India & SAARC for global networking company NETGEAR.He has significant expertise in management and has gained leadership experience in IT industry, last serving as the director of HP Networking. Says Richard Jonker, Vice President, Emerging Markets, NETGEAR: “India and SAARC represents a growth area for ....
Jeff Wilmot to be PTC's India Country Manager
Bangalore, May 9, 2012: Jeffrey W. Wilmot is to be the new Country Manager for India and Senior Vice ...
 

 
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India Driving Away Telecom Operators Amid Probe
India’s mobile-phone industry, once a symbol of rapid growth, is turning into something else: a demonstration of the difficulty of doing business there. Some telecom companies have left and others said they may follow. India has rewritten tax rules, scrapped 122 licenses tainted by graft allegations and recommended charging 11 times more for airwaves in a bid to wrest more money from operators to help plug the widest budget deficit among the biggest emerging markets. BLOOMBERG May 9 2012
ePravesh : Android app to simplify pre-admission process
Splashgain Technologies (ST), a software firm has introduced an Android application, called ePravesh to help institutions and students to facilitate the admission process better. Free for those who've registered themselves with www.epravesh.com , the application provides students with admission details, like relevant information on brochures, course details and access to the respective school or college website among others. The application is available across all Android-enabled smartphones. TECH2.in

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The Blackberry is Corporate India's new blackboard. Since it is difficult to pin down busy employees and bring them to training sessions, companies are guiding them through their mobile phones -the only device accessed round the clock.
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