Sports utility vehicles, imported cars and motorcycles, mobile phones, eating out at air-conditioned restaurants and cigarettes will become costlier with Finance Minister P Chidambaram deciding to impose higher taxes on these items. On the other hand, there is good news for ladies as far as jewellery is concerned as they will be allowed to bring more duty free gold items provided they have stayed out of India for more than...
02:25 PM, Feb 28, 2013
In the 2013 Union Budget presented on Thursday, Finance Mininter P Chidambaram has proposed an increase in excise duty on mobile phones priced above Rs 2,000 from the existing 1 per cent to 6 per cent. ...
01:07 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has floated a consultation paper to bring down the rates of mobile calls and SMSes that are currently charged from a customer on availing roaming facility. Among various options to reduce or remove additional cost burden on roaming customers, TRAI has proposed a new norm -- Home Price Rule -- wherein a mobile subscriber should be charged the same amount that he...
06:52 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The Tihar Jail authorities have initiated an inquiry against INLD chief and former Haryana chief minister OP Chautala's son Ajay Chautala after it was found that he addressed a public rally at Sonepat through the speaker phone when his grandson called him up last Wednesday in jail. ...
02:23 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A Class 8 student of a private school in Haryana's Sonepat was killed allegedly by two of his classmates, after he had asked one of them to return his cellphone, police said on Monday. Shubham (14) had lent his cellphone to one of the suspects a week ago and when he insisted on getting it back, he was asked to come to the school's backyard on Friday to collect it,...
01:46 PM, Feb 25, 2013
There seem to be no rules for VIP inmates at Delhi's high profile Tihar Jail. Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's son Ajay Chautala addressed a rally from inside his cell using his mobile phone. ...
01:13 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The HP Slate 7 will have a 7-inch screen and it goes on sale in April in the US. ...
07:05 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Huawei says the Ascend P2 is the "fastest" because it supports faster download speeds than other phones. ...
06:57 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Mozilla will showcase some of the first hardware devices based on Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress. ...
06:37 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Those expecting the hottest new phones to make their appearance at the show may be disappointed. ...
03:31 PM, Feb 23, 2013
International Business Machines unveiled its expanded mobile strategy on Thursday in an effort to gain an advantage over rivals amid a proliferation of devices such as smartphones and tablets. ...
11:16 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Telenor's India unit said on Saturday it would close down its mobile phone services in Mumbai zone immediately after a court ordered that carriers whose permits were revoked and did not win fresh rights to airwaves must stop services. ...
12:23 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Also on the show - an interview with FIA President Jean Todt. ...
05:25 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron's book analyses how mobile phones have revolutionised business, politics and ordinary life in India. ...
07:38 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A 10th class student Manpreet Kaur was set on fire by three women who suspected the girl of stealing a mobile phone. Kaur suffered 85 per cent burns and is in a critical condition in Patiala's Rajendra Nagar hospital. ...
11:07 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 14, 2013
There are some numbers it takes the mind time to come to terms with. When this year ends, roughly 87 million Indians will have no access to telephones. That said, 250 million Indians will also go to bed, undernourished, every night. ...
05:13 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Sales of mobile phones around the world fell last year for the first time since 2009 as consumers shunned cheaper feature phones, research company Gartner said on Wednesday. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
A new device that can charge your mobile phone with a hot cup of coffee or a cold beer mug has been developed by a US company. ...
05:19 PM, Feb 11, 2013
