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GST Will Not Impact Smartphone Demand In India: Report
25Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
ANALYSIS

GST Will Not Impact Smartphone Demand In India: Report

The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will have no impact on the smartphone demand in India, according to a latest telecom research. A German research firm GfK found that smartphone demand in India remained resilient in 2017, having levelled out slightly to 14 per cent year-on-year. "GfK expects the recently announced Goods and Services Tax (GST) will have no impact on smartphone demand in the country. GfK forecasts overall smartphone demand in the region will total 234 million units in 2017, an increase of 11 per cent year-on-year," the research said. Global smartphone demand totaled 347 million units in 2017, up 4 per cent year-on-year. This makes it the strongest second quarter on record, the research found. Arndt Polifke, global director of telecom research at GfK, said: "T...
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Xiaomi Wants to Increase Offline Sales to 50 Percent By Year End
27Mar By AdityaNo Comments
Tech

Xiaomi Wants to Increase Offline Sales to 50 Percent By Year End

Chinese handset maker Xiaomi today said it plans to ramp up its offline distribution channel in the country and is targeting around 50 per cent of its turnover from this segment. “Till now, our focus was on online sales. Now, we will focus both on online and offline distribution. We expect our share from offline to grow from current 10 per cent to 50 per cent by the end of this year. This is our aspiration,” Xiaomi India Head Manu Kumar Jain said. Jain said the company has strong plans for offline distribution. “In five or six cities, we are ramping up and having extensive offline distribution and Chandigarh is one of them as it is a key market for us. In the next 3-4 months, we will start a very extensive offline distribution business in Chandigarh through multi-brand outlets. “W...
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Biggest Shake for SAMSUNG In 47 Years..
30Nov By Ankita SinghNo Comments
News

Biggest Shake for SAMSUNG In 47 Years..

REUTERS- India has the highest level of collaboration globally between sales and marketing departments to strengthen their relationship to drive business success and achieve revenue growth, showed a research by network tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, under pressure from shareholders to improve investor returns, said on Tuesday it will consider creating a holding company in what would be the biggest shake-up in its 47-year history. The move and a plan to raise dividends come after U.S. hedge fund, Elliott Management in October called for the South Korean firm to split itself into a holding vehicle and an operating company. However, the world's top maker of smartphones, memory chips and televisions, said it was "absolutely neutral" about whether to proceed and provided little de...
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Sundar Pichai Led Google Spends $3.2 Million on Television Ads of “Pixel Smartphone”
8Oct By PriyankaNo Comments
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Sundar Pichai Led Google Spends $3.2 Million on Television Ads of “Pixel Smartphone”

Search Engine giants Google's spends $3.2 Million in television ads in two days since it announced the upcoming launch of "Pixel" smartphone. The strategy of Google is to put Pixel in direct competition with the two dominant smartphone makers Apple & Samsung. One of Google ad executives expect Google will spend hundreds of millions more to keep up with rivals. While Google's brand is known around the world, and its Android operating system powers most of the world's smartphones, including Samsung's, it is not known as a consumer goods maker. It has made forays, such as the Chromecast streaming player, but not of this size. Many experts are saying that "This is the first time they are in the position of selling themselves to people, as opposed to selling themselves to brands". ...
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Yes Bank Launches Digital Wallet ‘Yes Pay’ Across Android, iOS Platforms
30Aug By AdityaNo Comments
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Yes Bank Launches Digital Wallet ‘Yes Pay’ Across Android, iOS Platforms

India's fifth largest private sector bank Yes Bank has announced the launch of 'Yes Pay', a digital wallet across Android and iOS mobile platforms. As a new development in the realm of digital payments, Yes Pay is also built as a Facebook app. The fact that the wallet can be accessed through Facebook without any additional registration, Yes Pay has now empowered all social media and Smartphone users to be money-wise. Apart from mobile recharge and bill payment which are the key offerings for most digital wallets in India, Yes Pay also features functionalities that allow both 'users' and 'non users' to send and receive money. "Our wallet does not require that both the transacting parties be registered on the wallet. That brings to fore immense possibilities. Think of a businessman wh...
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Myshake – A New Smartphone App That Can Detect Earthquakes
22May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
Tech

Myshake – A New Smartphone App That Can Detect Earthquakes

Scientists have developed an app that crowdsources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect earthquakes and eventually warns users of impending jolts from nearby quakes. The app called MyShake, developed by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, runs in the background and draws little power, so that a phones onboard accelerometers can record local shaking any time of the day or night. For now, the app only collects information from the accelerometers, analyses it and, if it fits the vibrational profile of a quake, relays it and the phones Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory in California for analysis. Since it was first released in English in February this year, more than 170,000 people have downloaded the app f...
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India Has Tools To Tackle iPhone Encryption: Ravi Shankar Prasad
13May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INDIA

India Has Tools To Tackle iPhone Encryption: Ravi Shankar Prasad

As Apple slugs it out with FBI on privacy issues, Indian govt has said strong encryption technology to secure data and communications in smartphones, including those made by the US-based firm, is a challenge for law enforcement agencies. It said however that a tool for mobile forensics has been developed to handle smartphones including Apple. "Smartphones including phones by Apple employ strong encryption to secure the data stored and to protect the communication. Such Encryption technologies pose challenges to Law Enforcement Agencies throughout the world including India,"telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a reply to the Rajya Sabha. He said the government has taken note of media reports about the dispute between the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and App...
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India to cross 500 million Internet users this year: Ravi Shankar Prasad
5May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INDIA

India to cross 500 million Internet users this year: Ravi Shankar Prasad

The number of Internet users in the country is likely to reach 500 million this year, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. "India has grown to around 400 million Internet users. If we take Trai numbers then it is somewhere close to 332 million. As per service providers, they were telling me that up to date it is 402 million. We were to have 500 million users by 2017, I feel it will happen this year itself," Prasad said while launching Digital Desh Drive 2. India has now over 100 crore mobile subscribers, he added. As per the official data shared by him in Lok Sabha today, the total mobile subscriber base at the end of February has 98.2 crore GSM mobile users and 4.45 crore subscribers on CDMA network. ALSO WATCH: Live Coverage of Digital Desh 2.0 – An Introducti...
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Beijing Based LeEco Launches Driverless Electric Concept Supercar
21Apr By AnkitaNo Comments
CHINA

Beijing Based LeEco Launches Driverless Electric Concept Supercar

Chinese technology company LeEco today unveiled what it claimed to be the world's first driverless electric concept supercar. The company, which has an aggressive strategy for Indian smartphone space, also launched three smartphones, Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2, and two premium televisions Le Super 4X50 and Pro/X50. The LeSEE supercar encompasses a unique internet design, with a large and flamboyant LED screen. The car works on the idea of "inter-connection" and offers fully-automatic driving functions. It can also learn on its own with facial recognition, emotion recognition, system recognition and path recognition. The company did not share details of the car with regard to commercial launch, time and money invested in developing and price tag, among others. All it said was it w...
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Karbonn Mobiles Launched First Virtual Reality Based Smartphones
12Apr By AdityaNo Comments
Tech

Karbonn Mobiles Launched First Virtual Reality Based Smartphones

Karbonn Mobiles, India's low cost smartphone brand launched it's first virtual reality (VR) enabled smartphones with free VR headsets. This the first VR set from the company which looks to be getting back in the competition with the new launches in India. The two VR headsets are Karbonn Quattro L52 and Karbonn Titanium Mach 6, priced at Rs 8,790 and Rs 7,490, bundled with VR headsets free of cost. "VR is the next big growth area in consumer technology. As per a recent report, the global Virtual Reality market is expected to touch an estimated USD 120 billion by 2020," Karbonn Mobiles Executive Director Shashin Devsare said. "Karbonn's VR glasses are an effort to bring VR technology at disruptive price-points in the under Rs 10,000 bracket. We are optimistic about the consumer ...
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