Dell launches new notebooks and tablets in India

Dell today launched its new range of notebooks and tablets in India. The new range includes the Inspiron 5000 Series, XPS 13, Alienware 15 and 17 notebooks and the Venue 8 7000 Series tablet. At a press conference in New Delhi,…

Net Neutrality: Of The People, By The People, For The People!

By the time of writing this article, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)’s inbox might have already got choked with over 1.5 lakh emails as internet users from all sections of the society asking the regulator to save their…

Net Neutrality: What Industry Leaders Are Saying

Call it Net neutrality, free Internet or open Internet. They all mean the same: Free access to the Internet, irrespective of company, service or content. That is what is in practice in India currently, but now, The Telecom Regulatory Authority…

Net Neutrality concerns scupper mobileapp deal

Flipkart, India's largest online retailer, has shelved controversial plans to offer free access to its mobile app under a deal with Bharti Airtel. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief executive officer of Greyhound Research, an information technology analysis company, differential…

Net Neutrality Differential Pricing Will Hit India’s Digital Economy

The pending TRAI decision on establishing a regulatory framework for Web-based OTTs , if passed will have serious implications on millions of Indian lives. While there is a lot of debate going on about the ramification of Net Neutrality and…

Differential pricing will hit India’s digital economy

The pending TRAI decision on establishing a regulatory framework for Web-based OTTs if gets passed will have serious implications on millions of Indian’s lives. While the there is a lot of debate going on about the ramification of Net Neutrality…

Product e-Commerce Sector To Grow Ten-fold By 2020

Moderating the second panel session, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Knowledge Group pointed out that while the cost of creating a website has declined considerably in the last few years, the key to survival of E-commerce model is customer…

Hacking of SIM Card By Spy Agencies Raises Fears Of Sensitive Documents Being Leaked

The hacking of SIM-card and digital security services provider Gemalto by American and British spy agencies has raised fears that sensitive communications, by the Indian government and hundreds of domestic companies, may have been at the risk of being spied…

Next Level Is Banking By Video-Conferencing

Visiting your neighbourhood bank branch may soon be a thing of the past. With technology advancement taking place in leaps and bounds, banks are now following customers away from the 9 to 5 shift. Though video banking is making life…

Ola’s Buy Signals Early Shakeout In The Taxi Segment

The country’s organised taxi industry has shown first signs of consolidation at a time when a majority of companies in the segment are losing money. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, this clearly points to…

Why Do E-Commerce Firms Need The Billions?

Months after e-commerce major Flipkart raised $1.9 billion (about Rs 11,800 crore) in three rounds of funding in 2014, the Bengaluru-based company is again understood to be in talks to raise at least $500 million. “I believe the profit margins…

Entrust Datacard Wins 2015 Technoviti Award for Most Innovative Financial Card Printer

Entrust Datacard has announced that the Datacard CE870TM instant issuance system has been named the ‘Most Innovative Printer/Multi-Functional Device’ award winner in the 2015 Technoviti Awards. Selected by an independent jury of CIOs and CTOs from the Banking, Financial Services…

Entrust Datacard Wins 2015 Technoviti Award for Most Innovative Financial Card Printer

Entrust Datacard has announced that the Datacard CE870TM instant issuance system has been named the ‘Most Innovative Printer/Multi-Functional Device’ award winner in the 2015 Technoviti Awards. Selected by an independent jury of CIOs and CTOs from the Banking, Financial Services…

Entrust Datacard Wins 2015 Technoviti Award for Most Innovative Financial Card Printer

Entrust Datacard has announced that the Datacard CE870TM instant issuance system has been named the ‘Most Innovative Printer/Multi-Functional Device’ award winner in the 2015 Technoviti Awards. Selected by an independent jury of CIOs and CTOs from the Banking, Financial Services…

Entrust Datacard Wins 2015 Technoviti Award for Most Innovative Financial Card Printer

Entrust Datacard has announced that the Datacard CE870TM instant issuance system has been named the ‘Most Innovative Printer/Multi-Functional Device’ award winner in the 2015 Technoviti Awards. Selected by an independent jury of CIOs and CTOs from the Banking, Financial Services…

Micromax YU Vs Everyone Else

On the afternoon of January 13, YU Televentures began selling its first smartphone - Yureka - on online retailer Amazon's India site. The phone was showcased almost three weeks earlier, and the Micromax unit had been heavily advertising the device.…

Google Glass in suspended animation: but will it see new life at the workplace?

If Google Glass could sing, it would be singing Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly today. Google has announced that it's time for Glass to grow out of its baby steps and put on their big kid shoes. In other words,…

Mobile payments: Trends in 2015

Experts are predicting that more and more consumers will take to mobile banking as the under-banked look for a better online shopping experience Apple Pay uses NFC to enable payments. However, apart from the US, NFC has failed to gain…

Directi launches voice app Ringo, allows to make overseas calls without internet

Directi has launched an app, Ringo, which allows users to make overseas calls without the Internet, Wi-Fi or carrier minutes at rates that it claims are about 70% lower than those offered by mobile phone companies and credit based calls…

How Mobile Marketing ​In India Is Going To Evolve In 2015

As the wise men in the Indian business space would say – “India lost out in the web revolution but it is not missing out in the mobile space.” Today India is the fastest growing smartphone country in Asia. With…

Lack of logistics hindering Indian e-tailers from selling overseas

Home-grown e-commerce companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal, which have reached out to Indian artisans and small cottage industries, are unable to sell their products in the international market, while their global rivals such as Amazon and eBay are able…

Spotlight on ‘Smart Cities’ on CeBIT India day 3

CeBIT India,  a leading Business IT and ICT trade fair, organized by Hannover Milano Fairs India in partnership with Bangalore ITE.biz concluded today. The central theme for the day 3 discussions was ‘Smart Cities’ – how India and Indians can…

SanDisk in talks with Indian phone-makers to enhance memory of devices

Indian phone brands such as Micromax and Lava could soon offer devices with four times more memory. However, industry watchers feel flash memory cards are still too costly for entry-level phones. The price difference could be upwards of 10 per…

Why Amazon runs Junglee as a separate website

It's been 16 months since Amazon, the $75 billion American e-tailer, launched a full-fledged online marketplace in India. It's been three months since its founder Jeff Bezos committed $2 billion of investments to its Indian operations. Even as those operations…

Mobile-commerce comes of age in India

Just two seconds can make a difference of hundreds of crores of rupees in some businesses. That's the premise on which HDFC Securities is re-inventing its stock trading app for mobile phones. The new app will feed real time stock…

Companies devise new strategies to keep pace with rapid rise of mobile commerce

From e-commerce to m-commerce Exactly a year after it launched a mobile app, Amazon India gets half its traffic from smartphones. "The significance of mobiles is much higher in India than anywhere else as most of first time internet users…

Shoppers log on to comparison portals for picking up best deals

At a time when all online retail biggies such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazonrun big discount sales, how do you make sure you're getting the best price for a product you plan to buy? A growing number of internet shoppers…

Celkon Eyes 50 Percent Growth in Revenues This Fiscal

Fuelled by an increasing demand for smartphones, Celkon Mobiles is eyeing revenues of Rs 1,400 crore, a 50 per cent growth in the 2015 fiscal year. The company, despite growing revenues at a fast clip, has ambitions to be the…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Back From The Brink #Press #Media #BusinessWorld

BlackBerry is attempting to regain lost ground. And, it is looking beyond devices to do so In 2013, almost everything that could go wrong was going wrong for BlackBerry. The Waterloo, Canada-based company was seeing a steady slide in its…

Rs 1,999 smartphones could help bring the internet to millions in India

But because key retailers are selling only online, the great unwired will be hard to reach at first. On Tuesday last week, Google launched the low-price Android One smartphone, attempting to target the ever-shrinking price gap between smartphones and phones without…