BG Mahesh | Mahesh | mahesh.com http://www.mahesh.com Internet in India Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:57:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 India amongst top countries in terms of Internet users http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/Ew5dtp9Hfgo/india-amongst-top-countries-in-terms-of-internet-users http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/30/india-amongst-top-countries-in-terms-of-internet-users#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:54 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1410 According to The top 20 countries on the Internet,

  • There are a total of 1.8 billion Internet users in the world.
  • There are 32 countries with more than 10 million Internet users.

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  • 8 million PCs (desktops, notebooks, netbooks) were sold during 2009-10, 18% higher than the previous year

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  • Cost of hosting games in Delhi: Rs 30,000 crore ($1m = approx Rs 5 crore)

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/27/commonwealth-games-uncommon-expenditure/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/27/commonwealth-games-uncommon-expenditure Paul Octopus retires, Indian political parties could use him http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/82msXroBoYg/paul-octopus-retires-indian-political-parties-could-use-him http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/14/paul-octopus-retires-indian-political-parties-could-use-him#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:30:00 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1398 Paul Octopus FIFA’s real hero Paul Octopus has been in the news across the world in all media (TV, internet, print, radio). I guess it got tired and has decided to hang up its boots (4 pairs of them!)

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/14/paul-octopus-retires-indian-political-parties-could-use-him/feed 2 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/14/paul-octopus-retires-indian-political-parties-could-use-him Social Media dominates internet usage in India http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/jK5ooP-UFvs/social-media-dominates-internet-usage-in-india http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/10/social-media-dominates-internet-usage-in-india#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:06:41 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1395 The latest “Social Media Dominates Asia Pacific Internet Usage” shows the rise in social media (facebook, orkut, twitter, blogging) usage in Asia Pacific countries.

  • The survey found that three of the seven biggest global online brands are social media sites – Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube.

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Over 50% of the browser traffic for most portals in India is from Internet Explorer, which is fine. The sad news is approx 40% of IE users are still with version 6.0. Nobody pays attention to the disadvantages of using IE 6 until God warns you.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/01/domain-registration-scam-from-china/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/07/01/domain-registration-scam-from-china Obama to free up 500 Mhz spectrum for wireless internet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/aSceifaSWjA/obama-to-free-up-500-mhz-spectrum-for-wireless-internet http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/30/obama-to-free-up-500-mhz-spectrum-for-wireless-internet#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:49:07 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1388 According to the press release from White House, Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution, President Obama has signed a memorandum in support of freeing up 500 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband services.

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  • After the excellent TV commercial of Safina/Airtel DTH [video], which talked about recording a program from the mobile, TataSky released a PR which said their subscriber could now start the recording from their mobile and internet. I called TataSky immediately and they said very soon the feature would be launched in April 2010.  So far it is yet to be launched. A kind of misleading PR.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/27/tatasky-needs-to-communicate-better/feed 1 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/27/tatasky-needs-to-communicate-better Market share of Mobile Handsets in India http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/csv5KUYumLw/market-share-of-mobile-handsets-in-india http://www.mahesh.com/2010/06/26/market-share-of-mobile-handsets-in-india#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:06:38 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1378 According to the article “Local Brands and Samsung grow at Nokia’s expense in India” the market share of mobile handsets in India is,

Indian brands (Micromax, Spice, Karbonn, Lava, Lemon, Max) gained a cumulative 10 percentage points of market share in the very competitive Indian market.

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