Massive Mobile Boom in India, Over 10 Million New Customers in September Alone

April 3rd, 2005 Indian Outsourcing industry is increasingly turning towards software testing. In fact we have started providing software testing services to customers from 2005.

March 17th, 2005 A seismologist in India says that the country has moved closer to Indonesia due to the massive earthquake which triggered the tsunami in December. The findings of Dr Gahlaut's survey reveal that the geographical distance between India and Indonesia - the epicentre of the deadly earthquake - has reduced from distances of five meters to 15 millimetres.

May 28th, 2007 BCCI (Board of Chaos for Cricket in India) cricket team lead by an w%$^ (only words I can think of are non-parliamentary) won over cricket minions Bangladesh and are back to thumping their pathetic little chests. What is interesting is that these ant-killers wimped out when playing a man's game in West Indies.

February 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Google India Tuesday unveiled an Internet bus, a mobile vehicle designed to provide information on Internet and computer to people in cities across Tamil Nadu. Dubbed as 'Google Bus', the vehicle which was flagged off from Chennai will cover 15 towns including Erode, Dindigul, Pudukkottai, Trippur and Nagercoil in 45 days.

September 5th, 2008 Apple launched iPhone in India, a country with only 1.2 billion people and overall not considered rich like their counterparts in USA. In USA Apple launched iPhone for $199 only.

February 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An estimated 500,000 jobs were lost in India from September to December last year in areas like textiles, automobiles and information technology, and the actual numbers across the country could be higher, parliament was informed Friday. Quoting a study by the labour ministry, Corporate Affairs Minister told the Lok Sabha, the lower house, that total employment in the areas covered fell from 16.2 million in September to 15.7 million in December.

September 14th, 2005 According to NCAER survey Delhi and Mumbai continue to be the major centres of wealth in India, accounting for half of the roughly 20,000 crorepati (owner of 10 million Rs. or more) households in India.

January 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - The massive financial fraud by IT bellwether Satyam Computer Services has goaded the software industry's representative body into issuing a wake-up call to its members across India and abroad. In a directive to its 1,200-odd members, the executive council of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) asked them, especially those listed and accountable to investors, to be transparent and disclose much more than they have.

January 12th, 2006 U.S. continues to lead with nearly 200 million Internet users at the end of 2005, China and India are now in second and fourth place among Internet users. India boasts 50.6 million internet users.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

April 2nd, 2009 Suppose you are a family of three. What will you take home? 3 Apple iphones for you, your wife and your child or a car for your family (because now, Tata Nano is priced at $2,000 where as each Apple iPhone costs $700)? Like any other educated and rational country, Indians decided for the second.

September 20th, 2006 I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves.

January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 2.5 crore owners of cheap handsets, that stood to be banned in India as these did not have the regulatory unique 15-digit identity code, can breathe a sigh of relief -- help is on the way. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the organisation representing GSM service operators, Monday said it has developed a software that can embed the code - known as International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) - in these handsets.

June 26th, 2006 Ever rising salaries and poor quality of manpower are prompting foreign firms to shut their outsourcing operations in India. U.S. based Apple Computer and software maker Pervasive have been joined by Powergen, a British subsidiary of German energy supplier E.ON, in announcing their exit from Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of Indian IT industry.