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Market

India electronics import bill could surpass oil

From chip plants to research parks, India must invest in an electronics manufacturing base to sate the swelling demand for smartphones, laptops and other gear or risk an import bill larger than for oil, a top adviser to the prime minister said. [Read more...]

Govt to launch campaign for ‘Made in India’ electronics items

Govt to launch campaign for ‘Made in India’ electronics items

The government has decided to launch a brand building initiative to promote India as a preferred destination for investment in the electronics industry and has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) for appointing agencies for the same. “The purpose of this Expression of Interest is to finally shortlist a reputed agency to conduct Communications Need Assessment [Read more...]

Sony expects to gain in India after buying out Ericsson AB

Sony expects to gain in India after buying out Ericsson AB

With Japan’s Sony buying out 50 per cent stake of Swedish wireless equipment firm LM Ericsson AB in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, the Indian operations of the Sony Ericsson expect stronger market advantage with this deal. Sony Ericsson came to India in 1993 and at present has less than 30 employees here. According to [Read more...]

Industry

Tablet market set to heat up in coming months

Tablet market set to heat up in coming months

Competition in the low-cost tablet computer space is set to intensify in the next few months, as Lenovo Group Ltd?, Amazon.com Inc. and HCL Infosystems? Ltd are set to introduce inexpensive models [Read more...]

The origin and evolution of India’s Silicon Valley

The origin and evolution of India’s Silicon Valley

By the early 1990s, Bangalore had became a hot destination with about 1,500 multinational IT companies establishing a presence in the city—all of them lured by the highly educated pool of human [Read more...]

New electronics policy aims to create 2.8 crore jobs

New electronics policy aims to create 2.8 crore jobs

Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday unveiled the draft National Policy on Electronics, 2011, aimed at achieving a turnover of $400 billion for the sector by 2020, which involved [Read more...]

Electronics, IT sector to need 3.2 million workforce by 2022: NSDC

Electronics, IT sector to need 3.2 million workforce by 2022: NSDC

The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has estimated that the electronics and IT hardware industry will require an additional 3-3.2 million skilled employees till 2022 and 70% of them will [Read more...]

Finance

Intel Capital Invests in India’s Happiest Minds Technologies

Intel Capital said Tuesday it has invested in Indian software company Happiest Minds TechnologiesPvt. Ltd. The investment fund of chip maker Intel [Read more...]

India to Attract $100 Billion Investment in Electronics Manufacturing

India to Attract $100 Billion Investment in Electronics Manufacturing
The Indian government is looking at a slew of initiatives to attract $100 billion of investment by 2020 to boost local manufacturing of electronic [Read more...]

India’s draft electronics policy sets $400 billion annual turnover by 2020 news

India’s draft electronics policy sets $400 billion annual turnover by 2020 news
India’s draft National Policy on Electronics, 2011, aims at achieving a turnover of about $400 billion by 2020, involving investment of about [Read more...]

Philips set to double India business in next five years

Philips set to double India business in next five years
Aggressive marketing plans backed by increased advertising spends and new product launches, the Amsterdam-based Royal Philips Electronics is set to [Read more...]

Dell India Revenue Nears $2 Billion

Dell India Revenue Nears $2 Billion
Dell Inc. will focus on three areas to grow its India operations, which are close to fetching $2 billion in revenue, the Texas-based company’s [Read more...]

Intel logs into Indian market; targets 20% revenue jump in FY12

Intel logs into Indian market; targets 20% revenue jump in FY12
With a host of new products lined up, Intel is betting on India to drive its global growth. The company is aiming at a 20% jump in revenues in FY12. [Read more...]

Casio India aims 40 pc sales growth, to launch e-dictionary

Casio India aims 40 pc sales growth, to launch e-dictionary
Japanese electronics firm Casio today said it is looking to launch electronic dictionary in India, besides ramping up its camera and watch businesses [Read more...]

Semiconductor

World semiconductor industry under a slowdown: Gartner Inc

Semiconductor sales have dropped in the world, and are expected to drop further in the fourth quarter of this year, as per research firm Gartner Inc. Gartner expects that a inventory correction process in the industry will continue to dampen sales prospects for at least the [Read more...]

Consumer Electronics

Handset sale in India expected to reach 35 crore by 2020

Handset sale in India expected to reach 35 crore by 2020

Sale of mobile handsets in India is expected to reach 35 crore units per annum by 2020 and the average selling price (ASP) of handsets in the country is estimated to rise to Rs. 2,950 by that year from Rs. 2,300 in 2010, according to a joint study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of [Read more...]

Manufacturing

Huawei launches ‘Made in India’ phone, service

Huawei Devices has launched its first customised 3G feature phone U5510 for the Indian audience aged 20–mid thirties. Developed by the Huawei India’s R&D centre in Bangalore, the phone features 3G video calling with dual camera. [Read more...]

Government/Policy

India semiconductor fab is key, as per Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011

India semiconductor fab is key, as per Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011

$35 tablet computer, draft National Policy on Electronics, and is followed by more important Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011 points out that [Read more...]

New policy to earmark purchases from domestic electronics firms

New policy to earmark purchases from domestic electronics firms

India is considering a move that would make it mandatory for all government departments to make at least one-third of the annual purchases of [Read more...]

Draft IT policy: Sops coming to draw investments to small cities

Draft IT policy: Sops coming to draw investments to small cities

Fiscal policies to attract IT investments in smaller cities, and incentives for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to drive technology adoption are [Read more...]

Corporate

Sony expects to gain in India after buying out Ericsson AB

With Japan’s Sony buying out 50 per cent stake of Swedish wireless equipment firm LM Ericsson AB in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, the Indian [Read more...]

Samsung to have smart phones across OSs

Samsung to have smart phones across OSs

Samsung India has set its sights on capturing around 40 per cent market share in the smartphone and tablet PC markets in India in 2011. As part of [Read more...]

Acer eyes 20% growth in India revenues this year

Acer eyes 20% growth in India revenues this year

Acer India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the $20-billion electronics major Acer Computer International Limited, is targeting to achieve a 20 per cent [Read more...]

New Launches

Cheapest tablet: How sky can be the limit for Aakash, plan for commercial success

Cheapest tablet: How sky can be the limit for Aakash, plan for commercial success

First, a quick look at the specifications of the $35 tablet. Aakash is a 7th Android (Ver. 2.2) tablet with 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of storage, [Read more...]

Aakash tablet production cost less than $35

Aakash tablet production cost less than $35

A dream project of the government, the ‘world’s cheapest tablet PC’, Aakash, is being produced at less than $ 35 (approximately Rs 1,750) per [Read more...]

India launches “world’s cheapest” tablet computer

India launches “world’s cheapest” tablet computer

India launched what it dubbed the world’s cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later [Read more...]

News and Events

The PC is not dead, it’s growing

Having spent 27 years with the company, Jean-Philippe Courtois has seen the $70 billion Microsoft Corp?. evolve from a software developer to one [Read more...]

Handset sale in India expected to reach 35 crore by 2020

Sale of mobile handsets in India is expected to reach 35 crore units per annum by 2020 and the average selling price (ASP) of handsets in the country [Read more...]

Cyber security under threat of foreign devices

Securing network devices from foreign countries could prove to be a threat on the country’s cyber security, Rear Admiral Rahul Sharawat, Director [Read more...]

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