Tier-II and Tier-III cities to emerge as new BPO hubs to offer services in Indian languages for telecom, aviation sectors.
The way video is being watched and monetised is changing. This is the first thing that stands out as the penetration of smart TVs continues to rise.
According to IDC report 'India Domestic IT/ITeS Market Top 10 Predictions for 2009', the country's IT/ITeS market growth rate is expected to fall to 16.4 per cent in the coming five years till 2013 from an average of 24.3 per cent during 2003-08. This slower rate of growth will see enhanced competition leading to a rapidly changing strategy and continuous market re-alignment on the part of players, IDC said in a statement.
For Q4CY20, PC shipments grew by 27 per cent year-on-year, said data from the IDC.
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India has shipped close to 85 million mobile handsets between April 2007 and March 2008, compared to under 66 million units shipped in the previous fiscal, registering an year-on-year growth of around 29 per cent.
The first half of the year (H1-2020) was marked by sluggish growth with demand down 26 per cent YoY, while the second half saw recovery. H2-2020 recovered with 19 per cent YoY growth, reports Shivani Shinde.
Desktops, on the other hand, grew by 11 per cent year-on-year and, surprisingly, registered a 3.6 per cent increase in their average selling value.
The personal computer market grew 30 per cent to cross the 4.6 million units in 2005-06, according to IDC's India quarterly PC market tracker.
Indian PC shipments for the third quarter of CY21 touched a total of 4.5 million, making it India's biggest-ever single quarter. To put this in perspective, it is bigger than the total yearly consumer shipments in 2019, a year before the pandemic hit. As a result, many brands also reported their biggest quarter of PC shipments.
According to research firm IDC, a slowdown in smartphone shipments began showing up as early as late February, though companies insist that the March quarter was fine, albeit on a low base.
The overall India PC market grew by 8 per cent year-on-year in terms of unit shipments to a record 2.08 million during the quarter. But it was down compared with 10 per cent in the first quarter (Jan-March).
Among the top five vendors, Micromax (18 per cent) and Lava (54 per cent) were the only ones to have outstripped the market growth.
The new iMac, two iPads and iPhone 12 and 12 Mini will be open for ordering starting April 30, just like in the US, the UK, China and Japan.
The Indian PC market crossed yet another milestone, with sales touching 10.5 lakh units in the April-June quarter.
Without Google's Android operating system, Huawei may have to put off new launches.
Even as most manufacturers are still assessing the overall impact on their businesses, early projections suggest the market may grow at its lowest ever rate, in 2020.
Amid the protests against leading e-commerce firms, Flipkart and Amazon, shipments through the online route in fact witnessed a double-digit growth every quarter.
In the quarter ending June 2022, the growth of Internet subscribers was less than one per cent of all of 2021.
The scales started tilting in favour of smartphones in 2014, when a slew of new, yet vibrant, brands entered the market, with their competitively priced offerings helping smartphones become the indispensable device that it has turned into today.
Computer hardware majors like Dell, HP and HCL launch products to woo companies.
'IIT-ians want to contribute to nation building and the Pan IIT meet provides a channel to do that. We want to move beyond words and set up an action plan for this,' says Pradeep Gupta.
The business process outsourcing segment was expected to register an annual growth of about 60 per cent for the next three years.
The India PC market performance in 2Q CY2009 has shown what may be termed as early signs of a revival.
The Indian IT and IT-enabled services industry is expected to grow at 10.8 per cent in 2009, the lowest in the last five years, due to the global economic meltdown, a report said.
From market leader HP and premium player Apple to China's Lenovo and Asus, all major brands in the market are witnessing rapid surge in the demand for notebooks.
During the third quarter of 2007, the overall Indian personal computer (notebooks and desktop combined) market grew 25.1 per cent year-on-year, in terms of unit shipments, to 1.8 million. For the same period last year, desktop PC shipments showed growth of 10.9 per cent.
The average Rs 6,20,000 per annum salary was significant, considering the 30-40 per cent annual incrase in the talent pool of the top 50 companies, a nation wide survey by IDC India for Cybermedia's flagship publication Dataquest said.
The Indian PC market grew 24 per cent over the third quarter figures of 2005 to exceed the 1.4 million shipment mark
The security software market in India is likely to grow to Rs 481 crore (Rs 4.81 billion) by 2008 from Rs 105 crore (Rs 1.05 billion) in 2003, higher than the industry growth rate of 36 per cent, according to IDC India.
After six weeks into the second half, the faltering offline channel, which traditionally rakes in 60 per cent of sales for the market, has become the biggest hurdle towards the path of revival.
India's personal computer market grew 24 per cent in the July-September quarter touching 700,000 units over the same quarter a year ago with HP replacing HCL in the overall desktop market to achieve a 10 per cent market share.
Google's premium smartphone series Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will be around 15-21 per cent costlier in India compared to other countries, according to the prices revealed by the company. The company has started pre-booking the Pixel 7 at Rs 59,999 ($729.36) and Pixel 7 Pro at Rs 84,999 ($1033.27) on the e-commerce portal Flipkart. The devices would be available from October 13.
The Indian PC market grew by an impressive 32 per cent in the first half of fiscal 2004-05 as compared to 18 per cent during the corresponding period last year with HP topping the list with 15 per cent market share, according to IT research firm IDC
India's personal computer market, in the second quarter (April-June, 2003), grew by 11.8 per cent on a year-on-year basis with HCL regaining the top spot in the commercial desktop space with 36,075 units and a marketshare of 9.6 per cent.
Network security has emerged as a major technology concern amongst corporates in India besides other factors like costs, network management and lack of technical knowledge.\n\n
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