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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS
(Updated July 5, 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! 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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New Delhi, July 6, 2022: More than 85% percent of intermediaries, surveyed during a recent study, feel that compliance mandates envisaged in Part II of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in February last year, would lead to overwhelming economic repercussions and negatively impact their ease-of-doing-business. .... |
We had reported the bare announcement of the new IEEE standard on June 28. Here is a broader analysis with an expert's comment and news of another standard being helmed in India. This material appeared earlier today in Swarajyamag
By Anand Parthasarathy
Bangalore, July 5 2022: Broadband networks, Wi-Fi hotspots, mobile phone generations: 3G, 4G, 5G, audio jacks on hand phones, those ubiquitous USB connector, the reason your voice or data network works no matter what device you use -- wherever in the world you are -- is because of global standards adhered to by all manufacturers. .... |
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July 5 2022: The results of the third edition of Ranking of States on Support to Startup Ecosystems have been released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. ... |
Arguably the first book on the subject, structured as a classroom tool
Introduction to Indian Knowledge System: Concepts and Applications: B. ... |
New Delhi, July 3 2022: India’s first nonprofit Food & Agri Tech platform, ThinkAg along with the leading voice of the plant science industry in India-- CropLife India – has organized an Industry round table: “AgLab” - Connecting Innovators with Corporates - Drone Applications in Agriculture & Crop Protection”, bringing together all stakeholders of the Agriculture Drone ecosystem together. ... |
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May 4 2022: A STEM learning CSR workshop was conducted by the Play Learn Foundation in association with AI School of India and Robotix India | USA for the underprivileged children of Chennai Higher Secondary School. Chennai, Tamilnadu, India The 3-day workshop was held between 25th to 27th April 2022 at Alwarpet Circle Library, Chennai. .... |
Bangalore, April 22, 2022: SAP Labs India has collaborated with Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to launch an ‘AI for Managers’ programme.
The initiative aims to make the knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its components such as Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning accessible to a pool of interested managers who aspire to become competent Decision Makers. .... |
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July 6 2022: The Tata Group which recently acquired Air India has selected Amadeus to power its passenger service platform.
Air India is implementing the full Amadeus Altéa PSS suite, including components ranging from revenue management, revenue accounting, retailing, and merchandising, website, mobile and frequent flyer program management. .... |
July 4 2022: SITA’s 2022 Passenger IT Insights research, highlights pent-up demand for both business and leisure travel emerging from the pandemic, with passengers further embracing mobile and touchless technologies to make the journey as convenient and seamless as possible. .... |
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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. .... |
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. Most of the doctors’ usual working hours increased more than 2x during this time.
The results of the Practo insights survey shows how doctors made extraordinary contributions to meet the urgent health needs of patients and adapted to the growing needs of the patients. .... |
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April 20 2022: The catastrophic Covid-19 second wave in India last year brought the country’s healthcare sector to its knees. ... |
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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. .... |
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+.
The new Flextrainer connects wirelessly to Android and iOS tablets and phones, and provides trainers from India and Dubai to help you along your fitness journey. .... |
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New Delhi, May 29 2022: Sony India has just brought a new 16-35mm zoom lens to India – the world’s lightest wide angle power zoom lens. ... |
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June 7 2022: Role of corporate treasury is becoming increasingly strategic and aligned to the organizational objectives - helping business continuity, funding long-term growth, innovations while managing financial risk. Treasurers are exploring new ways of performing the operations keeping cost, efficiency, and better risk management their priority. .... |
May 31 2022: Web design is an appealing field where one gets to hold the attention of a user purely through great design, content, and interface. On World Web Designer Day, here are a few tips and tricks to add some spark to websites and keep people coming back to visit:
New Age technologies: The New Protagonist
Consider Using AR and VR filters in addition to traditional tools to make your website stand out from the rest. .... |
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May 26 2022: Indian scientists have developed a smart material which responds to light stimulus easily by converting light into thermal energy. ... |
Bangalore, May 5, 2022: India’s technological evolution has been amongst the fastest in the world, with certain key moments defining this phenomenal growth story. ... |
April 25, 2022: India-head-quartered security and telecom solutions leader, Matrix, has bagged the Time2Leap Awards for Research & Development for designing and manufacturing its Face Recognition device. ... |
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July 4,2022: Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies has been conferred the CII Quality Ratna Award 2021 during the 21st CII IQ Anniversary Programme, last week.
The Annual CII Quality Ratna Award constituted in the year 2019 is in recognition of outstanding leadership, contribution, and distinguished service to the Quality Movement in India. .... |
June 14 2022: Ozonetel, India’s leading provider of full-stack call centre solutions, has announced the appointment of Keshav Goel as its Chief Financial Officer. Goel comes with over two decades of leadership experience across various finance verticals and will lead the corporate finance function at Ozonetel. .... |
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Chennai, June 14 2022: Leading Canada-headquartered cloud transformation specialists of OTT and in-home experiences for pay-TV and telcos – Firstlight Media – has announced the appointment of Mrinal Ankit to lead sales engineering efforts in India and APAC. ... |
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| | 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
| | | When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a customised email service and other workplace apps for free, it felt like a broken promise....They’re basically strong-arming us to switch to something paid after they got us hooked on this free service....Indian Express, from a New York Times feed. June 21 2022
| | | The Government’s plan to set up a panel that can overturn content moderation decisions made by social media platforms is problematic in many ways....With billions of users, social media is well and truly an influencing machine, and filled with influencers of all hues and shades. It is, therefore, important for democracy’s sake that it is not taken over by any one influential player, even if it is the Government, with an agenda. Editorial in The Hindu,June 4 2022
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