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Samsung India has started pre-booking of its flagship smartphone – Galaxy S III GT-I9300 for a nominal amount of Rs 2,000. The new Samsung Galaxy S III comes with a 4.8-inch HD Super Amoled Plus touchscreen display and a powerful quad-core mobile processor. Samsung reportedly received over 9 million pre-orders for Galaxy S III smartphone [...]

Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday. Samsung toppled Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone maker in the first quarter, helped by its line-up of Galaxy named devices running on Google’s free Android software. [...]

The Finnish giant Nokia is reportedly shifting its base to Asia. If reports are to be believed, Nokia has already closed plants in Germany, Hungary and Romania and now it’s turn of Finnish assembly plant; leading to employee layoff of over 1000 employees in Salo in southern Finland plant. Sources informed, Nokia has still stuck [...]

The budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee puts more burden on mobile consumer’s pocket Your mobile bills are set to get costlier as Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed an increase of service tax to 12 per cent from the current 10 per cent in his budget presentation in Lok Sabha today. The [...]

Union Budget 2012 : Highlights Individual income tax exemption limit raised to Rs 2 lakh. Income from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh-10 per cent tax. Income from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh – 20 per cent tax. Income above Rs 30 lakh – 30 per cent tax. No advanced tax requirement [...]

Rail Budget 2012 : Live Updates Railway Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi focuses on safety, modernisation Train fares hiked for first time in 10 years. Four new rail coach factories to come up in Kerala Improvement of passenger amenities at a cost of Rs.1,112 crore; regional cuisines to be introduced. World Bank funding of R.6,500 crore [...]

State-owned insurance giant LIC, which saved the much-hyped ONGC share auction, has lost around Rs 900 crore in market value of the acquired stake in the oil major in just two trading sessions after the Offer for Sale (OFS) on Thursday. LIC, according to official sources, picked up 40 crore shares, or 95 per cent [...]

Considering the recent price cuts, it won’t be wrong to predict that the Nokia Lumia series has failed to lure people at a price point set by the company. After Nokia Lumia 710, now the price of Nokia’s flagship phone – the Nokia Lumia 800 – has been slashed by approximately 20 per cent. The [...]

Nokia surprised observers with a new Symbian camera phone at the opening day of Mobile World Congress. Symbian has always enjoyed a reputation for producing impressive camera phones, and the Nokia 808 Pure View, has certainly upped the game. As with other Nokia phones it uses Carl Zeiss lenses, but what makes this phone radically different [...]

A couple of days back BSNL forayed into the low and mid-range tablet space with three new tablets manufactured by Pantel Technologies and priced between Rs 3,250 and Rs 13,500. Pantel Technologies started taking pre orders for the three tablets a few days ago. Virendra Singh, managing director of Pantel Technologies, said, “Consumers who wish [...]