The government has refused to exempt the digital news content of mainstream television channels and print media from the ambit of the the IT Rules, 2021 and asked them to take 'urgent steps' to comply with the provisions of the digital media rules immediately.
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.
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.
Tech major Lenovo on Thursday said it is significantly ramping up its local manufacturing capabilities in India across product categories like PCs, notebooks and smartphones to meet the increasing customer demand. While the company did not disclose the investment being made, Lenovo said it is expanding in India across all business lines, including PC and smart devices, smart phones, infrastructure solutions, and especially in the newly established services and solutions group. Lenovo has expanded its in-house PC manufacturing plant in Puducherry to include a third manufacturing line, while it has started local manufacturing of its tablet computers in partnership with Wingtech Technology in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
The top 5 cities of India made up about 60 per cent of the online smartphone sales in India.
Without Google's Android operating system, Huawei may have to put off new launches.
The smartphones are priced Rs 6,399 onwards.
In a first, the India's smartphone market fell by 4%.
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.
India continues to be the fastest growing smartphone market in the Asia Pacific region.
In terms of vendor share, Chinese PC maker Lenovo sustained its lead with a 16.9 per cent while HP recorded a 15.6 per cent and Acer 15.5 per cent share during the quarter.
While the record shipments reflects the prevailing mood at the time, the exponential rise in Covid cases in the country has turned the tide since.
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.
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.
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.
HCL Infosystems has emerged as the best employer in the information technology industry in India, according to a survey conducted by Dataquest-IDC (International Data Corporation).
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.
Apple's online launch is a symbol of success for FDI in single-brand retail, though there's no indication of how much the Silicon Valley major would invest in the country.
As competition for the smartphones market hots up, new players are making waves.
Chinese smartphone market, world's largest, shrinks in Q1
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.
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.
Sixty-six per cent of 467 chief information officers surveyed by IDC India revealed that they expect the economic slowdown to end by October-December 2009.
Domestic IT and ITeS market is likely to reach Rs 1,10,000 crore mark in 2008, as revealed in a study.
Though leading brands like Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OnePlus, and Oppo managed to absorb the initial lockdown shock and resumed their local production back to 60 per cent, they would likely suffer a 20-25 per cent loss of sales in the October-December quarter.
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.
Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has begun covering its retail store branding with white 'Made in India' logo amid fears of vandalism at outlets against the backdrop of Sino-India border tension, the All India Mobile Retailers Association said. The association had written to Chinese mobile brands to highlight the threat of vandalism at offline stores by people amid calls for boycotting Chinese products in certain sections.
To beat its rivals, Nokia has done what most Chinese brands did soon after they entered the Indian market. Tied up with a well-known Bollywood actor as endorser, associated with cricket and established fan engagement initiatives, reports T E Narasimhan.
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.
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.
The Indian PC market crossed yet another milestone, with sales touching 10.5 lakh units in the April-June quarter.
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.
The US-based 3Com Corporation on Tuesday opened its India Research and development Centre, (IDC), in Hyderabad through a strategic partnership with Mars Telecom.
The delay of the SE 2, billed as the cheapest iPhone and tentatively priced below Rs 40,000 in India, puts the brakes on the tech major's plans for a revival. With the supply chain at its largest manufacturer Foxconn in disarray, as it is struggling to operate in China because of the COVID-19 crisis, the postponement was inevitable.
Worldwide personal computer shipments in 2004 rose 14.7 per cent year-on-year to touch 177.5 million units but in 2005, the growth is expected to slow down to 10 per cent, according to analyst firm IDC.
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.
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