Read in Mint (Oct 11, 2010) an article titled “Play it again, Sam” which is about Tech Czar Sam Pitroda working on taking broadband to every corner of India. Few highlights, Panchayats, schools will be connected to fibre optic Building a vast information network, Public Information Infrastructure (PII), which will make the government a lot […]
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U.S. Home Technology Trends: Nielsen
American households are known to binge on technology toys at home. The young in India too love to have the latest & greatest technology toys, which is seen as an entertainment toy. Few highlights from the NielsenWire’s report on Tech Trends in US households, Sales of 41″ and bigger TVs on the rise. Specifically, HDTV […]
Is the web catching up in rural India?
Read in a few papers today that Rural web users in India will grow 30% in 2010 (compared to 2008). This study was conducted jointly by IAMAI & IMRB (the site hasn’t been updated forever). The report says the number of active internet users in Rural India is set to increase by 30% since 2008 […]
India amongst top countries in terms of Internet users
According to The top 20 countries on the Internet, There are a total of 1.8 billion Internet users in the world. There are 32 countries with more than 10 million Internet users. The top 10 countries on the Internet together have 1.17 billion Internet users. That’s 65% of all Internet users in the world. The […]
PC sales in India up by 18% in 2009, but what about broadband?
I had written a similar article earlier comparing the Oct-Dec 2009 quarter. The performance report for April 2009 – March 10, 8 million PCs (desktops, notebooks, netbooks) were sold during 2009-10, 18% higher than the previous year For April 2010-March 2011, this figure is expected to be 9.4 million (16% growth) The growth rate of […]