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Can Nokia Lumia take on Apple iPhone – MWC 2012 – Nokia’s budget Lumia 610 for India ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 16 February, 2012, 7:14 pm
Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 event @ Spain is just round the corners and handset manufacturers across the globe are expected to showcase their next generation smartphone devices. Here are some facts on smartphones sales for the year 2011 (source: Gartner) – 1. 472+ million Smartphones sold for the year 2011 2. 149+ million Smartphpones [...]
Read More >>Apple lost its visionary head – R.I.P Steve Jobs
By Shivani at 7 October, 2011, 6:10 am
THE Creative man is no more. The soul behind some of the best designs, computers, gadgets, appliances, etc., of the era has passed away on Wednesday at the age of 56. Under his vision, Apple saw some of the most successful products in the decade like the iMac in 1998, Mac OS X in [...]
Read More >>India’s fame Infosys to invest $150 million at China Campus
By Robinsh Kumar at 21 May, 2011, 5:22 pm
Infosys Technologies plans to invest between $125-150 million at its new campus in Shanghai, China. “Infosys plans to invest between $125-150 million in the new campus, one of the largest investments in China by a software company,” the country’s second largest software exporter said in a statement today. Example campus of infosys Infosys today laid [...]
Read More >>Cleartrip sells minority stake to Concur for $40 million – inching for IPO / NASDAQ listing ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 19 April, 2011, 1:08 pm
Online Travel Agents (OTA) segment is buzzing again in the country. Just months after MakeMyTrip.com’s stellar NASDAQ listing, yet another local player is eyeing for a US entry… Cleartrip.com has sold a minority stake in the company to NASDAQ listed travel and expense management solution company Concur for $40 million..
Read More >>No iPad 2 buyers in India ? eBay sales chart says so …
By Manoj Govindassamy at 2 April, 2011, 11:49 pm
iPad 2 ‘s reception has been extremely good and running out of stocks in many of …how did iPad 2 craze fared in India ? eBay’s first 2 weeks iPad 2 sales chart doesn’t show any imports happened in India. Either gadget lovers aren’t much in India or they have chosen to give a miss. Earlier, Apple’s iPhone didn’t do any better in India when its was hauled over across the globe..
Read More >>Cricket Worldcup 2011, India won it’s second worldcup – a historic achievement of MS.Dhoni and team
By Robinsh Kumar at 2 April, 2011, 11:37 pm
MS Dhoni played a Captain’s knock just when all of India needed one from him. India’s arguably most successful Captain ever has brought in another prize. MS Dhoni has completed 6000 runs in one day internationals. Indubitably, he would count the runs he has scored today as some of the most important of those. He [...]
Read More >>World famous OREO biscuits now in India – Cadbury set to enter local biscuits market – OREO vs DarkFantasy vs Treat-O
By Manoj Govindassamy at 7 March, 2011, 11:40 am
pKraft Food’s Oreo brand in the largest (by value) and the most popular biscuits/cookies worldwide .. ITC Sunfeast created “Dark Fantasy” brand and Britannia created “Pure Magic” and “Treat-O” brands ..Kraft Foods now entering India market via Cadbury India … is trying to sue Britannia and ITC for trademark and copyright violations of Oreo cookies. ..now with a local manufacturing units, Kraft Foods has slashed OREO biscuits price tag to ..Can Cadbury India with its elite branding repeat its chocolate success in the biscuits/cookies section ? Can OREO – which was once ‘America’s favourite cookies’nbsp;nbsp;become ‘India’s favourite cookies’ ?../p
Read More >>Adam Tablet rocks – impressive show by Notion Ink at CES 2011 – tech spec & gadget demo
By Manoj Govindassamy at 18 January, 2011, 3:37 pm
Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) was an interesting show and had top notch companies all over the world demonstrating their their latest and next generation technologies in tablets … CES 2011 is special to us because, one Indian company staged an impressive show taking everyone by surprise…all in praise for Notion Ink in coming up with a feature rich and cheaper tablet device and having itself added to the serious contender list for Apple iPad…Adam tablet tech spec, features, price, demos and ..
Read More >>Tata Communications acquires US based Content Delivery Network BitGravity
By Manoj Govindassamy at 12 January, 2011, 1:49 pm
Tata Communications has announced that it has acquired BitGravity, a California based CDN ..though the acquisition details have not been published, its definitely an interesting story as this is an US based startup being taken over by an Indian company. … Publishers (like video streaming companies and other rich media content sites) use Content Delivery Networks to provide a consistent speed and faster speeds of access to consumers… Reliance Communication’s GlobalCom .. Bharti Airtel is already in partnership with Limelight CDN networks..
Read More >>Starbucks ‘spills’ coffee – gets ready for India launch
By Manoj Govindassamy at 9 January, 2011, 11:50 am
Starbucks has dropped its company name and “coffee” from its logo and the rest all is same as old logo except for few colour changes and the coffee cups with the newer designs would be available in shops from March 8th…Also, its been rumoured that the company is in talks with some Indian retail and real estate majors like Bharti, Jubilant Group (India’s Domino’s Pizza franchise retailer), DLF, DB Realty etc., The company is actively considering franchise route in the Indian market, where by, high profile retailers like Jubilant or Jaipuria can buy Starbucks franchise rights and open its coffee shops…
Read More >>Who wants to be India’s Huawei ? Its time to encourage India Inc., to manufacture Telecom Equipments
By Manoj Govindassamy at 30 December, 2010, 11:33 am
Network equipments and handset manufacturers — DoT estimates telecom equipments worth more than 3,50,000 Crore will be required by 2015. — Currently, telecom hardware manufacturing is dominated by foreign players like Nokia, Huawei, Cisco, ZTE, Juniper and many others. — Globally, countries are active in setting up policies and frameworks to encourage their local R&D, manufacturing in telecom..India Inc., is sure to lose a multi billion dollar opportunity in telecom equipments market to Chinese counterparts. Lets hope TRAI’s initiatives for creating a local telecom equipment manufacturer would be fruitful in the coming years. So, who is going to be India’s Huawei ? …
Read More >>What do ‘aam aadmis’ buy & sell online – India eCommerce insights – Ebay India Census 2010 – LifeStyle and Technology items dominate
By Manoj Govindassamy at 12 December, 2010, 11:08 am
eBay India Census 2010 has been designed to throw light on online buying and selling behaviour in India as … eBay India analysed eBay transactions over a year within the individual Indian States & Union Territories as well as the Top 100 Indian cities….all online buying and selling transactions between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.Indians bought most rings from USA. And Americans bough most ethnic wears from India..UK buyers prefer Indian bats and have imported maximum number from India…Australians bought most herbal medicines/remedies from India..
Read More >>Salesforce.com Introduces Force.com 2 – the Cloud 2 Platform – AppForce, SiteForce, VMForce, Heroku, ISVForce
By Manoj Govindassamy at 9 December, 2010, 2:16 pm
With new Force.com 2 enterprise cloud platform services, including Appforce, Siteforce, VMforce, Heroku and ISVforce, there are solutions to accelerate every application development project on the IT backlog: · Appforce – quickly and easily deliver collaborative departmental apps Appforce helps companies deliver powerful and scalable departmental apps. … The success of our CA Agile Vision application on the AppExchange shows us the benefit of participating in the salesforce.com community, and we continue to build solutions on and for the Force.com platform,” said Dave Hansen, general manager, Management Products and Solutions, CA Technologies. · “There is no comparison to the speed and time to market we’ve achieved with Force.com,” said Jason Fung, CIO of Pro-Bel.
Read More >>Google to set up $1 billion data center in India
By Manoj Govindassamy at 3 November, 2010, 1:41 pm
..Google doing talks with the Indian government – Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) about a massive investment of $1 Billion for setting up a data center in the country. … They require high speed communication infrastructure – connecting the servers to the internet backbones, uninterruptible power supplies, massive power backups and are usually set up in Special Economic Zones to get tax waivers in exchange of new job creations…
Read More >>Link your Facebook profile with Orkut – the last nail in the coffin – Facebook Vs Orkut!
By Manoj Govindassamy at 23 October, 2010, 12:44 pm
Link your Facebook profile with Orkut App … Since 2004, Google has been trying hard to retain its top position by launching Facebook like App stores, new design & layouts, themes, games, etc., But, the latest move by Facebook is sure to topple Orkut’s empire in India for sure…Seems, this Facebook app to export Orkut’s friends and profile to Facebook shot to fame already and been aggressively tried by the Indian crowd which is believed to bringing down Facebook platform today.
Read More >>Toys ‘R’ Us now in India – via Reliance Retail – who’s next in Indian Toy market ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 10 October, 2010, 12:00 pm
Having understood the huge tapped market, few retail players like Reliance Retail (which runs Reliance Fresh, Reliance Digital, Reliance Footprint, Reliance iStore, dozen others …) and Future Group (which runs popular ones like Panataloons, Big Bazaar, eZone ..) are in expansion spree – opening more of its retail units and getting more foreign brands to country. …The retail group clocked in over Rs. 4500 crore as revenues in the last financial year and Mukesh in his recent annual general meeting hinted on massive retail investments and making it a value creator for the Reliance Group…
Read More >>IBM is the second largest IT company in INDIA!!
By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 18 August, 2010, 7:57 pm
It is known to all that TCS is the largest IT employer and also largest private sector employer with more than 1.6 lakh employees on board and still counting as is the season now. But whats surprising is the second slot in this list. While all were expecting Infosys, the second largest company to be [...]
Read More >>MakeMyTrip.com’s stellar IPO opening in US – shares rise 89% in NASDAQ debut
By Manoj Govindassamy at 15 August, 2010, 2:08 pm
At times when US Senators are tormenting and defaming our country’s major IT companies like Infosys and TCS, one Indian company is enjoying the proud moment in the very same US land. … When the whole US markets were showing down run, odd ones like MakeMyTrip.com continued climbing and ended at $26.45 price on the opening day, a 89% rise and thus showing an eye popping performance…we do have other quality travel portals in India. Lets wait and watch for more fireworks by Indian companies in NASDAQ…
Read More >>UK Govt. budget cut spoils the IT party
By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 24 July, 2010, 9:11 am
There have been talks about UK govt. cutting on the budget and ever since IT cos which have projects from UK have been troubled. At least 35 big UK government IT outsourcing contracts are potentially at risk of renegotiation, including the Tata Constancy Services’ £600 million pension administration contract, as a result of the cuts [...]
Read More >>Campus recruitment 2010-2011 begins: Accenture violates Nasscom rule
By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 24 July, 2010, 9:07 am
IT firms TCS, Infosys and Wipro are accusing have accused Accenture of violating campus recruitment norms. They accuse that Accenture has begun campus recruitment a full one semester year ahead and violated the Nasscom norms. Even a couple of years back, IT companies used to hire engineering graduates a year before they passed out. However, [...]
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