Posted on February 21st, 2009 by dhirender
A strong growth in the Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite television, which almost doubled to about 9 million subscribers at the end of 2008, helped the worldwide market to notch up an estimated rise of 18% in subscriptions says In-Stat.
India now has five pay DTH satellite providers with a sixth expected to enter the market early [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by dhirender
A total of 15.41 million wireless subscribers have been added during the month of January 2009 as against 10.81 million wireless subscribers added during the month of December 2008 says TRAI. This takes the total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL(F)) base to 362.30 million at the end of January 2009.
With the decrease of 0.15 [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by dhirender
In the first-ever quarterly decline year over year since 1999, retail electronic-commerce sales in the US declined by more than 5% in the fourth quarter.
The Census Bureau’s preliminary estimate puts retail e-commerce sales at $31.9 billion for the quarter, down 5.5% from $33.8 billion in 2007’s fourth quarter when adjusted for seasonal variations, trading-day differences, [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by dhirender
As part of its plan to expand in the Indian internet service retail business, Sify is planning to venture into single-PC internet kiosk business, besides opening 2,000 additional outlets of its iWay internet cafe chain.
These would be low-investment manned outlets, providing 45 services including internet, VOIP, travel booking and online bill payment, Mehra added.
All the [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by dhirender
The Internet added 24 million new domain names in 2008, according to the fourth quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign taking the total base across all of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) to 177 million domain name registrations.
This represents a 16% growth over the previous year and a two percent growth over [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2009 by dhirender
comScore seems to think so. According to this release, Indian visits to social networking websites crossed 19 million visitors in December 2008 – a 51% increase from the previous year, with the lions share going to global social networking brands.
According to comScore, Orkut reigns as the most visited social networking site in December 2008 with [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2009 by dhirender
Banks across the country have lost Rs 6.57 crore to internet frauds in 233 incidents of cyber crime in last fiscal year. Tamil Nadu topped the list, having lost Rs 2.09 crore have been lost in seven cases reported between April and December 2008 by various banks.
Lending institutions in Maharashtra, which reported the highest number [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2009 by dhirender
There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs and multi-media spaces like ActiveWorlds(R), Second Life(R), World of Warcraft (R) to support educational goals in primary, secondary, higher [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by dhirender
If anybody needed any more substantiation for mobile computing, the Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013 will put their doubts to rest.
The highlight in the study is that global mobile traffic will increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013 – an indication of the arrival of 4G mobile Internet connections, the key to increased [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by dhirender
India’s media and entertainment industry which grew 12.4% to 584 billion rupees in 2008, is expected to grow 12.5% a year over the next five, to touch 1.05 trillion rupees by 2013 driven by increasing media penetration among the country’s huge population.
In the last three years advertising spends grew 17.1% annually, but it could slow [...]
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