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Saturday, August 24, 2013

(2013) Top 10 mobile phone brands in India

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Top 10 mobile phone brands in India during year 2013


The 18th annual survey V&D 100 said that the Indian mobile handset market posted a revenue (FY12-13) of Rs 35,946 crore (Rs 359.46 billion) in 2012-2013, compared to Rs 31,330 crore (Rs 313.30 billion) in the earlier fiscal year.

Indian mobile handset market has grown by 14.17% year-on-year in 2013, on the back of increasing sale of smartphones.

Below are the top 10 biggest companies of india.....

Samsung
Rank: 1
Market Share:31.5%

Revenue:Rs 11,328 crore

Korean electronics behemoth Samsung has taken the top position in the country replacing Nokia.
The Finnish handset maker had been holding fort in the Indian market for over a decade.

Company's handset prices ranging from Rs 1,500 to Rs 50,000 in varied screen sizes, besides product quality and new features, helped the company grab customers attention, the survey report said.


Nokia
Rank:2
Market Share:27.2%

Revenue:Rs 9,780 crore (Rs97.80 billion)

Nokia has been pushed to number two in the Voice n Data survey with a 27.2 per cent market share following a significant 18 per cent drop in revenue (FY 12-13).




Micromax
Rank:3
Market Share:8.7%

Revenue:Rs 3,138 crore (Rs 31.38 billion)

Homegrown handset company Micromax captured the number three position among V-D100 Top10 mobile handset brands for FY13.



Karbonn Mobiles
Rank:4
Market Share:6.4%

Revenue: Rs 2,297 crore (Rs 22.97 billion)

Closing in was Karbonn Mobiles, the company among the Indian handset players that grew most consistently.

In 2012-2013, Karbonn grew by 73.1 per cent to register revenue (FY12-13) of Rs 2,297 crore.





Apple Inc
Rank: 5
Market Share:3.6%

Revenue: Rs 1,293 crore (Rs 12.93 billion)
The iconic Apple posted a revenue of Rs 1,293 crore in FY 2013 in the country compared to Rs 250 crore in the previous financial year.

Though India was never a focus market for the Cupertino-based smart device maker till Steve Jobsera, in the last two years, Apple has started making inroads, though slowly, says the survey.


HTC
Rank:6
Market Share:3.3%

Revenue: Rs 1,180 crore (Rs 11.80 billion)

With an interesting portfolio of smartphones and tablets poweredby the Android and Windows Phone operating systems, HTC remains one of the preferred brands in India.




Blackberry
Rank:7
Market Share: 3.1%

Revenue:Rs 1,123 crore (Rs 11.23 billion)

From being a dominant player in the smartphones market, Blackberry sales have disbalanced. However, the company plans to launch new phones in the coming months to regain the market share.




Lava
Rank:8
Market Share: 2.8%

Revenue:Rs 1,001 crore (Rs 10.01 billion)

One of the fastest growing mobile brands in India, Lava is placed at 8th position.

In a short span of three years, Lava has grown to become the third best Indian mobile brand.






LG
Rank: 9
Market Share: 2.3%

Revenue: Rs 819 crore (Rs 8.19 billion)

Betting big on smartphones, LG has plans to garner 10 per cent market share in the smartphone sales with a number of new launches by December 2014.








Sony
Rank:10
Market Share:2.2%

Revenue:Rs 797 crore (Rs 7.97 billion)


Company has
 9 per cent of the smartphone market share, plans to increase sales of mobile phones by March 2014.
The company plans to garner revenues to the tune of Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) from Xperia sales during 2013.


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Friday, August 23, 2013

permanent settlement on Mars

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'Mars One project' - permanent settlement on Mars

Around 1,800 Indians apply for the Mars One project to permanently settle on Mars

Many of us may not be alive to see an Indian stepping on the Moon, but there’s a high chance we could see one stepping on Mars. According to a report, nearly 1,800 Indians have applied for the Mars One program, which will send a contingent of humans to the Red Planet in 2022 to settle there permanently.

“This program is proving to be extremely popular among Indians,” Aashima Dogra, spokesperson of the Netherland-based Mars One said. “The number of Indians who’ve applied has increased from 6 in May to 1,800 in the last three months.” She further reveals that off the 1,800, a large part of them are from Bangalore.

For those who aren’t familiar, Mars One is an NGO which plans to settle a group of humans on Mars in 2023. To fund this ambitious project, the program will televise every aspect of the mission, right from launch to landing and living on Mars.

The program is currently open for anyone to apply and only needs the applicant to pay $7 (Rs 432 approximately) as an initial fee. The main criteria for applying are that the applicant should be over the age of 18 and is mentally stable. According to the plans listed on the company website, the training will begin in 2015, followed by the launch of two rovers in 2018 and a cargo mission in 2020. The first human flight will be in 2022. The company is currently looking for the right space ship to take the applicants to the Red Planet.

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300GB discs by 2015

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300GB discs by 2015

Sony, Panasonic promise 300-gigabyte discs by 2015


In Earlier Days there was CD (com),  which held 700 megabytes. Then the DVD, which held 5 gigabytes. And Now the Blu-ray disc, with 50 GBs. What's next? Sony and Panasonic hope it will be a 300-gigabyte disc they're jointly researching that could hit in 2015. But might we have abandoned discs altogether by then?

Sony wrote up the joint-development agreement in a press release, citing the many strengths of optical media as justification for the project.

Optical discs have excellent properties to protect them against the environment, such as dust-resistance and water-resistance, and can also withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored.

However, both Sony and Panasonic recognized that optical discs will need to accommodate much larger volumes of storage in years to come given the expected future growth in the archive market, and responded by formulating this agreement.

For years, the companies that make discs like these have worked to make the lasers, materials, and other components more precise, and have added more recordable layers, improving capacity. Just this last November, TDK announced a 1-terabyte disc based on refined versions of today's technologies.

But reading between the lines and taking current trends into account, the companies' enthusiasm seems a little forced. After all, the most popular new devices in the world, tablets and smartphones, both rely exclusively on flash memory rather than spacious but cumbersome hard drives, let alone optical discs. And that's only when they're not streaming that data or downloading it from cloud storage.

Even full-on computers, desktop and laptop, are far less likely to have a disc drive than they used to. Apple took the lead in 2008 with the drive-less MacBook Air, and since then support for discs has become increasingly rare.

That's why the proposed format is being framed as more of a professional tool: a high-capacity medium for the companies' pro-level video cameras and backup archives. After all, Sony and Panasonic gear is deeply embedded in TV and film, and a big bump in capacity like this will be attractive to the many creatives who rely on those devices to store hours of HD video for shows and films.

Will there be a new format war in 2015 as these mega-discs come to market? Or will we have moved on to flash and cloud storage? Chances are a bit of both — and by making sure that both will actually exist then, Sony and Panasonic are covering their bases.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

India become world’s 3rd largest internet population

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India become world’s 3rd largest internet population

India overtakes Japan to become the world’s third largest internet population at 73.9 million.........



In its latest report—2013 India Digital Future in Focus— ComScore has some interesting findings. According to the report, three- quarters of India’s online population is under 35. Below are a few more findings that give you an idea of the Indian online population demographic.

Riding on a 31 percent year- on-year increase, India’s online population grew to 73.9 million. With an extended online universe in excess of 145 million, the market is at a tipping point for online businesses. Other interesting observations are as follows:-

-Younger males and women aged 35-44 emerge as power users 
-Three-quarters of India’s online population is under 35. 
-Males in the segment and women aged 35-44 are amongst the heaviest users
-60 percent of web users in India visit online retail sites. 
-Social Networks capture the largest percentage of consumers’ time in the region. 
-Facebook continues to be the number one social network with a 28 percent increase in traffic and a reach of 86 percent.
-LinkedIn emerges as number two, while Pinterest and Tumblr are the fastest growing networks. 
-The online video audience in India grew an astounding 27 percent in the past year, YouTube continues to be the top video property with more than 55percent share. 
-International publishers including Facebook, Yahoo and Dailymotion get a majority of the 54 million who watched videos.


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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Rs 8,000 crore to distribute free tablets

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Govt. to invest Rs 8,000 crore to distribute free tablets


The government of India is planning to invest around Rs 8,000 crore in order to distribute over 20 million tablets for free to the senior school students across India before the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. For this project, the government will release an open tender soon, and it is expected that tablet vendors like Micromax, HCL Infosystems, Karbonn, Lenovo and Teracom will be amongst the top contenders for the same..Reportedly, the proposal for the free tablet distribution has already been discussed amongst a set of representatives from the Prime Minister’s office, the department of telecommunications and the department of information technology and electronics. However, the process is still in the initial stages and the government is yet to decide on how to take this forward..The report quotes a government official disclosing that, “We expect price of a tablet to be between Rs 3,000 and Rs 4,000.” And considering the number of the tablets projected in this project, the cumulative price for these tablets will cost close to Rs 8,000 crore to the government..This project could be funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). This is a government organization which gets its share of funds from telecom operators who give a share of their annual revenues to the organization in order to make rural areas more technology equipped. The USOF has about Rs 25,000 crore available with it, which can be utilized for the project..This is not for the first time that the government is planning to distribute gadgets to students, as earlier various state governments have either distributed or planned to distribute tablets or laptops to students. Also, the HRD ministry had been working on the Aakash tablet project that aims to provide $35 Android tablets to the underprivileged and those students belonging to financially weaker section of the society.

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UC browser no.1 in India

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UC browser no.1 in India


UC Browser, an app available for all major mobile platforms including Nokia Symbian and Android phones, has become the top mobile browser in India. According to latest data from Stats Counter, the browser developed by UCWeb, a Chinese firm, powered 29.9% of total internet traffic coming from mobile phones in India in July. The Intelligence Bureau (I officials are reportedly wary of growing use of Chinese IT services and products in India. In June, IB proposed a ban on WeChat, an instant messaging app made by a Chinese firm.Opera browser, which topped the Stat Counter list in June with a traffic share of 30.3%, was second in July with 28.5%.While UCWeb claims it has over 400 million users in 150 countries, majority of them are in China and India. The browser features a modern and easy-to-use interface as well as features like caching of videos for offline view. This helps users who have slower data connection in their phones. It won the 'best browser of the year' from About.com, a popular website, in 2011 and 2012.In March this year, UCWeb announced that it registered a 60 times growth in India in the last three years.

UCWeb also announced that it is designating its office in India as its "second headquarters" after China. Xiapeng He, co- founder & president of UCWeb, said that the decision was taken because the company believed in going local to serve the needs of local consumers.

Kenny Ye, the company's managing director for India, had added, "In the Indian market we have seen a huge demand for watching videos and mobile downloads. Our browser is leading the trend in this case as we are now further optimizing our product to negate the effects of slow and erratic networks and huge data costs." UC Browser is part of Google's Play store as well as other app stores, including iOS app store, and hence there is little chance of a hidden vulnerability or malware in it. But that does not mean that it could be not be privacy or security risk to Indian users.Mohit Kumar, a white-hat hacker and security researcher and who runs TheHackerNews website, said,"Even benign looking apps can be dangerous. On smartphones it is possible for apps for seek permissions and access rights that sound genuine and normal but then use these permissions to spy on users or collect their data without telling users."

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Google goes down for 5 minutes

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Google goes down for 5 minutes, web traffic takes a dive


Google's services, including the popular Google Search, suffered a rare outage on early Saturday morning. The outage was noticed around 4.20am IST and lasted for around 5 minutes. All Google services were disrupted. If a user tried to access Gmail or Google Search, the web browser returned 502 error.

While the outage lasted just minutes, it caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter.

I wonder how many people checked their wifi connection first before realizing it was Google that was down, a Twitter user said.

Around one hour later, GoSquared, a web analytics firm, said that it noticed a 40% dip in the pageviews.

Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared's real-time tracking — around a 40% drop, as this graph of our global pageviews per minute shows," noted GoSquared. That's huge. As internet users, our reliance on google.com being up is huge.

Google's services dashboard that monitors and shows the status of Google services had a pink dot in front of each one, indicating that they were offline for the said duration. Clicking on each dot, revealed a generic message confirming the outage.

For example, the tab for Gmail noted,
We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 8/17/13 6:07 AM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change. The incident lasted 1-5 minutes.

Around ten minutes after the outage was reported, Google engineers added to the dashboard that all problems had been resolved and the services were running fine. 

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Hackers target bank websites, steal crores

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Hackers target bank websites, steal crores



A gang of crooks fraudulently obtained customer data by hacking into bank websites and used it to empty their accounts, police said. While the kingpin of the gang has been arrested, his aides, including a hacker, an accountancy specialist and a bank operations expert, have been identified and teams have gone to several states to nab them. The accused targeted foreign customers to avoid complaints in India. The total amount siphoned by these crooks is suspected to be in the tune of several crores. The possible involvement of bank personnel is also being ascertained and cops are investigating how banks issued card swiping machines without proper verification of the merchant. "The kingpin, Arun Kumar (30), belongs to Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh and was living in Mayur Vihar. He is a graduate from Kanpur University. Seven card swiping machines and 26 cheque books of different banks, fake seals, 10 PAN cards and four debit cards have been found. The others involved in the fraud have been identified as Yasin, Jitender, Vikas and Sanjeev," DCP (southeast) P Karunakaran said. Yasin is the hacker of the group. He came in contact with Arun when the two worked at a leading telecom company.
 They planned to prepare clones of credit and debit cards to earn quick money. The accountancy specialist then formed several fake e-companies and used them to get the card swiping machines allotted . The gang also opened bank accounts using forged documents which were linked to the machines. Yasin first entered the bank's website and transferred customer data to the data readers. These data readers were attached to the cloning machines which copied the data onto blank cards. "The gang swiped the cards on the swiping machines allotted by the banks which transferred money to their accounts . This money was immediately withdrawn at ATMs and through cheque books," Karunakaran added. On August 5, the chief manager of a bank in Nehru Place filed a complaint regarding an incident of cheating by the owner of a company called Blue Waves Technology. Similar incidents had been reported in parts of Delhi and NCR. DCP Karunakaran formed a team comprising the ACP (Kalkaji) and Sub-inspector Sanjeev. Investigations revealed that Arun Kumar owned Blue Waves and that he had recently moved his office from Kalkaji to Govindpuri. On August 7, a trap was laid with help of bank officials and Arun was apprehended.! 

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