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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS
(Updated August 9, 2022)
Total no. of phone subscriptions: 1.165 billion (1165 million)
Mobiles: 1140 million Landlines: 25 million
Broadband Internet users: 800 million including mobile Internet 775 million
and wired broadband 20 million.
TV owning houses: 210 million
DTH operators: 6; Private TV channel 900
NEW! Internet in India the 2021 numbers, from the July 2022 IAMAI study
GOI Guidelines for intermediaries and Digital media ethics code 2021
Smart Homes in India study July 2022
India Media and Entertainment report 2022- PwC
India Media and Entertainment report 2021 - EY-FICCI
Vision Document for the electronics sector January 2022
India semiconductor notified (December 2021)
Indian Drone Rules notified August 25 2021
KPMG Media and Entertainment Report 2020. Read full report
Ericsson Mobility Report Dec 2020
25 years of Internet in India. The numbers
Feb 28 2019: TRAI White paper on 5G in India
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August 9 2022: According to preliminary results from Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 35 million smartphones were shipped to India in 2Q22 (April-June), a 3% year-over-year (YoY) growth, while the first half of 2022 declined by 1% YoY to 71 million units. .... |
Focus on 5G -- 2
With spectrum auctioned, 5G is here – almost: What next for the rest of us?
By Anand Parthasarathy
This story first appeared in SwarjyaMag on August 5
August 8 2022:With the conclusion of the auction of fresh wireless spectrum on August 1, the launch of 5G mobile services in India is imminent. .... |
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August 6 2022 ( updated August 7): A day after the withdrawal of the Personal Data Protection Bill, media has commented on its implications. ... |
August 5 2022: Global leader in Customer Relations Management, Salesforce, has announced a collaboration with Monster. ... |
August 4 2022: On August 3, the Indian Government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 from the Lok Sabha after the joint parliamentary committee suggested 81 changes to it. ... |
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August 4, 2022: The incubation space of the Technology Innovation Foundation of IIT Palakkad (TECHIN) was inaugurated by Prof. Ramesh Venkateswaran, Chairman, IIT Palakkad along with Prof. Ligy Philip, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Madras on July 29, 2022. .... |
August 3, 2022: Larsen & Toubro Infotech has announced the expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft to focus on developing high-value cloud solutions for enterprises. As a part of this multi-year collaboration, LTI has launched a dedicated Microsoft business unit that develops and offers end-to-end digital transformation solutions. .... |
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Thiruvananthapuram, August 7 2022: The Jalan-Kalrock Consortium which now runs the revived Jet Airways has selected IBS Software to power its relaunch. Jet Airways is set to relaunch commercial operations next month.
This selection will provide a range of technology platforms to support Jet Airways’ relaunch as a people-focused airline for the digital age. .... |
July 31 2022: Kerala Tourism has launched a QR-code-based virtual travel guide aiming to spread information on tourist locations in the state easily and quickly.
Minister for Tourism P. A. Mohammed Riyas expects that it would provide information on the distance to the nearest bus stand, railway station and airport, working hours of tourism spots, and their contact numbers. .... |
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Bangalore, July 24 2022: Connected beds in non-ICU hospital wards can save over Rs 2150 crore( Rs 21.5 billion) per year for the public healthcare ecosystem in India finds a study by Sattva Consulting for Dozee, India's first contactless Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Company. .... |
Bangalore, July 5 2022: HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG), the specialty healthcare services focused on oncology has deployed Sigtuple’s AI100, making HCG the first hospital chain to equip the Hematopathology labs across its network with AI-powered screening solutions for cancer detection and disease management. .... |
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July 4, 2022: In the last two years coronavirus brought the world to its knees, and the largest impact was seen on the medical and healthcare community. ... |
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July 17, 2022: French audio technology specialist, Devialet has announces the arrival of its new product -- Devialet Dione soundbar – in the India market.
Featuring two new patented technologies, combined with a host of existing proprietary technologies, Devialet Dione has been carefully crafted to provide a truly immersive sound experience in an all-in-one compact device. .... |
New Delhi, July 4 2022: Garmin has launched the world’s first dedicated GPS running smartwatch with solar charging, Forerunner 955 Solar in India.
It has also launched the GPS running smartwatch Forerunner 255 series.
The Forerunner 955 Solar, features the Power Glass solar charging lens and gives athletes up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 49 hours in GPS mode. .... |
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New Delhi, June 13, 2022: Flexnest, a leading D2C fitness startup has announced the launch of India’s 1st Smart, Connect Elliptical Cross Trainer, Flextrainer+. ... |
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August 9 2022: Global cybersecurity solutions leader, Fortinet has unveiled the world’s fastest compact firewalls for Hyperscale data centres and 5G networks -- the FortiGate 4800F series.
Says Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC & Southeast Asia at Fortinet:“No other firewall is better suited to support hyperscale and 5G. .... |
Bangalore, August 6 2022: Appknox, a leading mobile security testing platform, has announced two new solutions– Root Detection Bypass and Jailbreak Detection Bypass.
Through these features, Appknox users can identify if Root Detection has been implemented correctly in the Android applications and bypass it while running Appknox’s Dynamic & API Scans. .... |
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August 6 2022: The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act came into force yesterday. It received presidential assent on April 18. ... |
July 22 2022: Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Piyush Goyal will be the Chief Guest at the “Recommerce: Sustainable Clothing and Textile Recycling conference” next month
It is organised by Urdhva management Pvt Ltd in association with Kianna Media Ventures. ... |
WORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY 2022 SPECIAL - 2
July 15 2022::Across the country, the technology sector has been growing at an unprecedented rate. ... |
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August 9 2022: Kalaiselvi Nallathamby has been appointed director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the first woman to hold that post.
CSIR is network of 38 government research institutes in India.
Dr Kalaiselvi has been director of the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute at Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu since February 2019, where she was known for her work in lithium-ion batteries. .... |
Mumbai August 6 2022: Ed-tech start-up xQ has appointed Pawan Kumar Vadlamani as Vice President of the company’s global sales segment.
With a rich experience in market expansion, brand building, category creation, handling multi-cultural cross-functional teams, sales value, and sustainable growth strategies Vadlamani has joined to help expand xQ across the country and globally. .... |
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Hyderabad, August 2, 2022: Global experience technology platform, Eventbrite, has announced that Sapna Nair is to be the company’s Managing Director and VP of Engineering in India. ... |
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| | Neither the government nor the telcos win. The high reserve price has resulted in a huge amount of spectrum remaining unsold. Hindu Businessline August 1 2022
| | | By moving the Karnataka High Court challenging several blocking orders from the Union government on content posted on its website, Twitter, Inc. has finally decided to take the bull by the horns on the issue of freedom of expression on the online platform. A substantive look at the challenge in the court by the company , suggests that Twitter is right to take up the gauntlet. Editorial in The Hindu, July 13 2022
| | | Twitter has sued the Indian government to challenge some of the block orders on tweets and accounts, further escalating the tension in the key overseas market. In its lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru, Twitter alleges that New Delhi had abused its power by ordering it to arbitrarily and disproportionately remove several tweets from its platform. Additionally, some block orders “pertain to political content that is posted by official handles of political parties,” Twitter said in the lawsuit. TechCrunch July 5 2022
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