BG Mahesh | Mahesh | mahesh.com http://www.mahesh.com Internet in India Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:30:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Top mobile sites in India for Jan 2010: Opera http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/RTpok3T23JY/top-mobile-sites-in-india-for-jan-2010-opera http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/26/top-mobile-sites-in-india-for-jan-2010-opera#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:27:55 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/26/top-mobile-sites-in-india-for-jan-2010-opera Opera has released the mobile Internet usage for Jan 2010 report recently. Of the 10 countries covered by them, India too has been covered. Clearly shows mobile internet in India is on the rise.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/26/top-mobile-sites-in-india-for-jan-2010-opera/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/26/top-mobile-sites-in-india-for-jan-2010-opera PC sales in India up by 26% in Q3, but what about broadband? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/sY9JseVXARI/pc-sales-in-india-up-by-26-in-q3-but-what-about-broadband http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/22/pc-sales-in-india-up-by-26-in-q3-but-what-about-broadband#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:48:19 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1276 Some encouraging numbers of PC sales in India for Oct-Dec 2009 quarter,

  • 25.7% yearly growth in PC sales (compared to Oct-Dec 2008)
  • HP (16.2%) leads the race, followed by Dell (13.6%) and Acer (10.4%)

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/22/pc-sales-in-india-up-by-26-in-q3-but-what-about-broadband/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/22/pc-sales-in-india-up-by-26-in-q3-but-what-about-broadband TV in India recognizes regional language as the future http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/wuNj_m5kBPs/tv-in-india-recognizes-regional-language-as-the-future http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/11/tv-in-india-recognizes-regional-language-as-the-future#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:14:55 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1272 The TV fraternity in India sees a huge opportunity in regional languages. They agree it is the future. While explicitly the names of the languages haven’t been mentioned I am assuming the non-Hindi space in the language pie is mainly occupied by the four South Indian languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil & Telugu. Other than these I think Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali are big.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/11/tv-in-india-recognizes-regional-language-as-the-future/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/11/tv-in-india-recognizes-regional-language-as-the-future Has ‘project go online’ for Indian newspapers failed? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/ocFBm_hcnmM/has-project-go-online-for-indian-newspapers-failed http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/01/has-project-go-online-for-indian-newspapers-failed#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:24:14 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1267 Afaq’s article “Have Indian print publishers lost their way online?” is very interesting. The authors have analyzed this ‘ever debated’ topic in detail.  Some highlights,

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/01/has-project-go-online-for-indian-newspapers-failed/feed 3 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/02/01/has-project-go-online-for-indian-newspapers-failed Google fuels and advances the eulogy of IE6 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/dzVkz6Mqz24/google-fuels-and-advances-the-eulogy-of-ie6 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/30/google-fuels-and-advances-the-eulogy-of-ie6#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:28:55 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1262 While we hear a lot of noise about Microsoft Internet Explorer being evil, it still rules the browser market. Its share might be reducing but it still holds a comfortable majority.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/20/majority-will-access-the-web-from-mobile-by-2013/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/20/majority-will-access-the-web-from-mobile-by-2013 Online ad spend does help offline sales http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/EwMRblAp0PY/online-ad-spend-does-help-offline-sales http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/14/online-ad-spend-does-help-offline-sales#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:02:20 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1254 In my previous blog post titled CPC statistics are not a true reflection of performance, I had mentioned that online publishers are held a lot more accountable when it comes to “performance of ads” when compared to print and TV.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/14/online-ad-spend-does-help-offline-sales/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/14/online-ad-spend-does-help-offline-sales Mobile Internet in India: How big is it really? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/HXQiyXCHozk/mobile-internet-in-india-how-big-is-it-really http://www.mahesh.com/2010/01/06/mobile-internet-in-india-how-big-is-it-really#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:01:44 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1246 As of September 2009 India had 471 million mobile users.

The December 2009 report from IAMAI on Mobile Internet in India says,

  • Mobile is emerging as the potential point of access for low PC and high mobile penetrated Indian market, although the present usage is restricted to 4% of total Active Internet user base.

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]]> http://www.mahesh.com/2009/12/26/long-weekend-in-bangalore-good-for-our-roads-bad-for-language-traffic/feed 0 http://www.mahesh.com/2009/12/26/long-weekend-in-bangalore-good-for-our-roads-bad-for-language-traffic Oneindia.in close to completing 4 years, ranked 4th in India http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bgmahesh/~3/U64zTaduORY/oneindia-in-close-to-completing-4-years-ranked-4th-in-india http://www.mahesh.com/2009/12/15/oneindia-in-close-to-completing-4-years-ranked-4th-in-india#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:22 +0000 bgmahesh http://www.mahesh.com/?p=1224 Oneindia.in Comscore October 2009

Oneindia.in Comscore October 2009

I had seen the  comScore October 2009 report for Oneindia.in just 10 days ago but I never bothered to get into the rankings.

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