As of September 2009 India had 471 million mobile users. The December 2009 report from IAMAI on Mobile Internet in India says, Mobile is emerging as the potential point of access for low PC and high mobile penetrated Indian market, although the present usage is restricted to 4% of total Active Internet user base. 2 million users access … [Read more] about Mobile Internet in India: How big is it really?
Long weekend in Bangalore: Good for our roads, bad for language traffic
Long weekends are always good & bad news for me. Bangalore roads are wonderful to drive during long weekends. It is safe to assume a huge percentage of population goes out of Bangalore during holidays - mainly to Tamil Nadu, Andhra (united Andhra!), Kerala. The language channels of Oneindia.in get good amount of traffic from Bangalore (and … [Read more] about Long weekend in Bangalore: Good for our roads, bad for language traffic
Oneindia.in close to completing 4 years, ranked 4th in India
I had seen the comScore October 2009 report for Oneindia.in just 10 days ago but I never bothered to get into the rankings. The official PR from comScore ranks 4th Oneindia.in in the news category in India. Oneindia.in will be completing 4 years of operation on Dec 31, 2009. Hopefully, our ranking has nothing to do with the number of years of … [Read more] about Oneindia.in close to completing 4 years, ranked 4th in India
Tier-II cities in India overtake cities in net usage
Today's DNA (Nov 22, 2009) carried an interesting article "Towns overtake cities in net usage". Few interesting findings, Students from Mysore and Mangalore are more net savvy their counter parts from Bangalore The results show that 90% students in tier-II cities used computers daily as opposed to 77% in tier-I cities. Nearly 100% of … [Read more] about Tier-II cities in India overtake cities in net usage
What does India really need – broadband penetration or speed?
Yesterday I read an interesting article in Mint (Nov 3, 2009) titled "Dialling up India's growth" - Cellphone, Internet aur growth should be the development slogan for India this century. The article had few interesting statistics, Internet and mobile penetration contributes to the gross domestic product (GDP)India's mobile user base: 1999 - 1 … [Read more] about What does India really need – broadband penetration or speed?