Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
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Smartphone rates likely to rise
Budget impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of cell phones by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that…
Dissecting Jaitley’s first Budget: Does it satisfy the appetite of the IT industry?
Moving in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stated agenda of giving technology a high priority, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced several initiatives to boost the technology space in his maiden Union Budget. In reactions, Jaitley's Budget has managed to…
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Budget Impact: Mobile Phone Prices May Go Up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Telecom Budget: Will smartphone price go up?
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Budget 2014 impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are mostly imported,…
Abolition of duty on PC components welcomed
Analysts say it will level the playing field with finished products, boost domestic manufacturing. While scrapping of the Special Additional Duty (SAD) on imported personal computer (PC) components is expected to provide a level playing field by encouraging domestic manufacturing, industry…
Budget impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Budget impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Budget impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Budget impact: Mobile phone prices may go up
Consumers may have to shell out more money for buying mobile phones as the government has proposed education cess on imported electronic products. The move may push up costs of handsets by up to 8 per cent, especially smartphones that are…
Union Budget 2014: Pay more for your smartphones
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced an increase in basic customs duty by up to 10 per cent for all telecommunications products that are outside the purview of the information technology agreement. As a result, the prices of smartphones,…
#GreyhoundInMedia: 2 in 1s – Made For Niche #Press #Media #ITVAR
The tablet demand in the Asia Pacific region is expected to witness a surge of 32 percent in the current according to the technology major Intel. The technology giant also points out that India alone will witness a rise of 18…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: Smart phones-‘Yearning for Power Backup’ #Press #Media
The adoption of smart-phones in India is now on an inevitable growth track with the numbers bound to rise in near future. The ‘supersonic’ surge in the smart-phone usage is evident with the fact that the sales of these power…
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BlackBerry’s new plan to get back in the game
When Sunil Lalvani took over as the Managing Director of BlackBerry’s India operations in May last year, the situation was very bleak. On the one hand, the company’s market share had plummeted to a new low in the smartphone segment…
Nokia makes a calculated gamble with Android
The worst-kept secret of the mobile world - Nokia's adaptation of the Android operating system for mobile phones - finally came out last month: the Finnish handset maker said that its X series of smartphones would run on Android. Before…
Android may rejuvenate Nokia
While analysts are not calling the Nokia X Series smartphones a game changer, they are upbeat about Microsoft’s strategy to tap into the sub-Rs.10,000 phone segment. In the age of smartphones powered by Google’s Android operating system, Microsoft seems to have…
Internet user base touches 200 m in Oct
Fuelled by an increased adoption of mobile Internet due to falling smartphone prices, the Indian Internet user base has reached 200 million in October. According to latest data from IMRB and Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), this rise in…
Internet user base touches 200 m in Oct
Fuelled by an increased adoption of mobile Internet due to falling smartphone prices, the Indian Internet user base has reached 200 million in October. According to latest data from IMRB and Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), this rise in…
Big Data: Hadoop
For the past couple of years, Android and iOS fans have been at loggerheads as to which operating system—and therefore, smartphone—is better over the other. And these wars have spilled on to the comments sections of smartphone manufacturer forums for…
Internet user base touches 200 m in Oct
Fuelled by an increased adoption of mobile Internet due to falling smartphone prices, the Indian Internet user base has reached 200 million in October. According to latest data from IMRB and Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), this rise in…
Will HP Get Lucky With Smartphones This Time?
The ever-developing and already crowded smartphone sphere will witness the re-entry of global IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HP). Realizing the business potential in the smartphone industry, Yam Su Yin, the company’s Senior Director, Consumer PC and Media Tablets Asia Pacific told…
Experts Slam BlackBerry For Overpriced Q10
BlackBerry's new Q10 Smartphone has failed to generate any significant interest amongst the tech enthusiasts and users, who termed the phone as overpriced. The Canadian manufacturer has unveiled its QWERTY Smartphone, Q10 in India at a whopping price tag of…