In the quarter ending June 2022, the growth of Internet subscribers was less than one per cent of all of 2021.
Tech giant Microsoft will set up its largest and fourth data centre in India at Hyderabad with an investment outlay of over Rs 15,000 crore over a period of 15 years. "I am very happy to say today that Hyderabad will be the destination for Microsoft's largest Data Centre investment in India with an investment of over Rs 15,000 crore over a period of 15 years. "This will be one of the largest FDIs that Telangana has attracted," Telangana Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao on Monday said at an event marking the announcement of Microsoft's latest data centre region in Hyderabad.
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 fall is unlikely to be offset by burgeoning demand for smart devices in emerging countries like India and China, IDC said.
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.
Demonetisation impacted the smartphone market at almost all levels, including customer demand and stock movement in distribution channels.
The research firm expects global smartphone shipments to surpass a billion units this calendar year and 1.7 billion by 2017 aided by steady decline in average selling prices and emerging markets, including Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa contributing in volumes.
The smartphones are priced Rs 6,399 onwards.
Rising prevalence of work-from-home and e-learning is driving sales of notebooks and tablets for most brands, but Apple's superior performance has more to do with its product quality.
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.
With 19 per cent market share, Samsung rules supreme in India.
In spite of being attacked from all corners, a faltering supply chain and negative sentiments soaring high among the local consumers, top Chinese smartphone brands gained market share during the most critical phase - the April-June quarter of this year.
Apple, which posted its lowest growth in handset sales last year, may release a large-screen version of its iconic iPhone in 2014, research firm IDC said.
Among the top five vendors, Micromax (18 per cent) and Lava (54 per cent) were the only ones to have outstripped the market growth.
India's security software market is expected to have an annual growth rate of 29 per cent till 2009, according to research and analyst firm IDC.
India continues to be the fastest growing smartphone market in the Asia Pacific region.
Worldwide spending on servers will grow 5 per cent year-on-year in 2004 to touch $53 billion helped by replacements, according to a report by tech research firm IDC.
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.
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 market showed signs of revival in the fourth quarter of 2009 with a year-on-year growth of 2.3 per cent to touch 28.36 million units.
The top 5 cities of India made up about 60 per cent of the online smartphone sales in India.
The use of information technology across all hierarchies of an organisation not only increased but also became more sophisticated in the last one year, according to the observations made by a survey.
The security solutions software market in India is expected to touch $130 million by 2009 from $36.3 million in 2004 with the next wave of growth coming from small and medium enterprises, according to research firm IDC.
The market research firm's 2010 report indicated that the IT industry registered its fastest growth rate since 2007 during the year gone by.
The US-based 3Com Corporation on Tuesday opened its India Research and development Centre, (IDC), in Hyderabad through a strategic partnership with Mars Telecom.
Nokia, world's largest mobile handset manufacturer, witnessed a 4.8 per cent decline in its global market share to 29.3 per cent during the first quarter of 2004 mainly due to the absence of mid-range phones, according to IDC.
Smartphone shipments stood at 16.2 million in 2012.
Windows XP -- launched in October 2001 -- is three generations behind the latest operating system Windows 8, that was launched in October 2012.
It has 18.9 per cent share of the market, down from 22.6 per cent for the third quarter of 2018 while Xiaomi has 27.1 per cent share.
Mobile handset shipments to India declined by 3 per cent in the April-June period compared to the previous quarter due to inventory build-up and reworking on product line-up by vendors, says research firm IDC.
Software giant Microsoft's move to end technical support for its longest running operating system (OS) Windows XP has marginally helped global PC sales which are declining, research firms IDC and Gartner said.
Chinese smartphone market, world's largest, shrinks in Q1
Without Google's Android operating system, Huawei may have to put off new launches.
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.
HP, which regained the number one position from Lenovo in the December quarter, enjoyed 22.5 per cent share in the India's overall PC sales in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest data released by market intelligence and research firm IDC.
Of the top five vendors, only Apple lost market share, while LG Electronics Inc, Huawei and ZTE Corp making incremental gains.
A growing variety of smaller and cheaper Android tablets from Google to Amazon.com Inc will catch on this year with more consumers and chip away at Apple's dominance since the first iPad launched in 2010.
IT services market in the country grew at a slower pace of 7.4 per cent to Rs 22,826.2 crore ($ 3.76 billion) in the January-June 2014 period, mainly due to political and economic uncertainty amid Lok Sabha polls, research firm IDC said.
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