According to a recent comScore study, traffic to online news sites from India reached a record 15.8 million visitors age 15 and older in October, up 37% from the previous year (more than double the rate of growth of the total online audience in India), and representing 44% of the online population in India.
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Eight months after Telenor Group finalized the transaction with Unitech Group, Uninor (the name for the company in India) services were launched simultaneously in the circles Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh East, Uttar Pradesh West and Bihar (including Jharkhand).
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I-Cube which traditionally mapped internet users in urban India has for the first time covered rural India in a survey jointly undertaken by IMRB International and IAMAI. The results – 15.1 million claimed to be computer literate, while 5.5 million people claimed that they used internet at some point in time, with active users numbering [...]
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So says the fifth study by IDC India to assess the performance of e-governance projects across 21 Indian states. The results are based on a two level survey that assesses every state’s IT vision, implementation plan and ease of use of the various services. It also factors in IT allocation for new projects in 2007-08, [...]
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The number of people with Internet access has been growing rapidly. At the end of 1997, only 1.7% of the world’s population –70 million people– had access to the Internet. Asia has the highest number of internet users, with an estimated 568.7 million people, followed by the Americas, with 377.9 million. Europe is third with [...]
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No doubt helped by the festive-season sales, GSM telecom companies added 7.7 million subscribers (excluding Reliance Communications) in October according to figures released by the Cellular Association of India – their highest-ever addition in any month.
This takes the GSM subscriber base in India to 241.4 million – at this rate, the GSM segment should cross [...]
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Even as talks of a slowdown in the economy are doing the rounds, the wireless telecom subscribers surged by a staggering 10.07 million in September 2008 to reach 315.31 million. Of this GSM operators added about 7.69 million new subscribers.
The wireline subscriber base however decreased to 38.35 million in September – down by 0.30 million [...]
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At a time when newspapers are struggling with soaring newsprint prices and contracting budgets of advertisers, Indore-based Nai Duniya Media Ltd launched its flagship newspaper, Nai Duniya, in New Delhi on October 2. That’s not all. The Rs 100-crore company will shortly launch a new weekly magazine across nine locations including Mumbai.
Nai Duniya is a [...]
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After receiving feedback from various traders across the country, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) has estimated that e-shopping will surge 180% in the metros during this festive season due to security reasons.
The chamber said that e-shopping in October-November 2007 had impacted shopkeepers’ sales in major hubs of economic activities to the extent [...]
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In a soft launch of its service across Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, Bangalore and Chennai, RCom has issuing test SIM cards to employees on Sunday. The actual launch is slated in the next 8 to 10 weeks in Mumbai and Delhi says Business Standard.
With a projected investment of Rs 6,000 crores for its GSM operations, [...]
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