More than 28 million people in India (age 15 and older) accessed the Internet from home and work in May marking a 27% increase over the same period a year ago, according to comScore. Since Internet users in India represent only 3% of the population there is significant potential for continued strong growth. According to […]
If we had any brains, we wouldn’t be pissing away money on over-priced, over-hyped gadgets like the iPhone 3G. But we are human after all (though many readers of the SearchIndia.com blog may disagree here) and so we succumbed to the twin banes of American capitalism – temptation and hype. Yes, we trudged over to the AT&T […]
Dell plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur (near the South Indian city of Chennai) to make notebook computers and servers in 2008, Â according to Live Mint. Dell currently makes desktop computers at the Sriperumbudur facility. In the wake of accounting irregularities and a resurgent HP, some of the fizz has gone out of Dell […]
With significant contribution from its India Design Center in Bangalore, AMD launched its delayed Barcelona chip for computer servers today. Officially called the Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor, the new chip intensifies the battle between AMD and rival Intel for dominance in the market for servers that underpin complex tasks such as managing corporate data centers […]
Media house Times Group’s new YoList classifieds web site has debuted, adding to the clutter in this online advertising segment. YoList has been launched in beta (trial version) and currently all ads posted on the web site are free. Registered users of Times Group’ portal IndiaTimes.com can use their existing user id and password to access the […]
The goal of developing easy-to-manage desktop computers and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) has been the cherished dream of several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for more than a decade. Oracle’s Larry Ellison tried and failed in the late 1990s with his network computers (remember the famous NCs?). Ellison’s buddy Scott McNealy of Sun failed to make much headway […]