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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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