Posted on January 15th, 2009 by dhirender
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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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on November 12th, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by dhirender
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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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by dhirender
In a system similar to that prevalent in Mexico, Indian electronic payment enabler companies like Oxigen, Obopay, Atom, Indipay, Easy Bill and Suvidha have tied up with mom-and-pop (read kirana) stores to facilitate cashless payments (electronic wallet) for a host of services. The electronic wallet allows transactions for recharging of prepaid mobiles, telephone bills, electricity [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2008 by dhirender
In a much-awaited move, number portability services are expected to be rolled out by the end of next year across India, with the service available by June 2009. [Via]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by dhirender
Visit a book shop these days, and you can’t help noticing one rather fascinating trend – the increasing number of Indian language books from Premchand classics to … Harry Potter. So much so, that can expect to see atleast a Hindi version of any successful english book, including the Chicken Soup series.
Look at it in [...]
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