New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The affordable 5G smartphone shipments surged over 1,900 per cent in India in 2025 (year-on-year), steered by aggressive pricing, enhanced availability of entry-level 5G chipsets and expanding nationwide 5G network coverage, a report showed on Monday.India’s smartphone market entered a phase of structural transition in 2025, marked by explosive growth in affordable 5G devices and sustained premium demand, and the most significant shift came from the Rs 6,000–Rs 8,000 …
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New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s posts on a social media platform called Truth Social, announcing an immediate tariff cut from 25 to 18 per cent and heralding a trade deal with India raised much furore back home on Tuesday. Truth Social, launched in February 2022 by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has become the United States President’s primary megaphone for politics and policy. Initially dismissed as a “Twitter clone”, Trump’s relentless use of the platf…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) India’s smartphone market grew a modest 1 per cent year‑on‑year in volume but a robust 8 per cent in value in 2025, underscoring sustained premiumisation, a report said on Monday.The report from Counterpoint Research said that over one in every five smartphones shipped in India is now in the premium segment, and that Apple recorded its highest ever value share.Vivo (excluding iQOO) led the market in 2025 in volume terms with a 20 per cent share, while Apple led in v…
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the company set a quarterly revenue record during the October-December period in India — a market which has seen Apple production and exports touching new highs with each quarter.For the December quarter, Apple set all-time revenue records in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and rest of Asia Pacific, and grew in the vast majority of markets we track.“We continued to gain momentum in emerging markets, which includes India, where we saw str…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Apple had a strong year in 2025 as iPhone shipments grew 24 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 compared to 2024, data showed on Saturday.According to a report by CyberMedia Research (CMR) accessed by IANS, the iPhone shipments in 2025 outperformed iPads, which saw a modest growth of 2 per cent.“Apple’s full-year 2025 performance in India reflects healthy underlying demand dynamics,” Prabhu Ram, VP-Industry Research Group, CMR, said.“iPads remained resilient, sup…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) OnePlus India on Wednesday denied reports of shutting down its India operations, adding operations continue in normal manner amid online misinformation.In its post on social media platform X, OnePlus India CEO Robin Liu said that I wanted to address some misinformation that has been circulating about OnePlus India and its operations.”I wanted to address some misinformation that has been circulating about OnePlus India and its operations. We’re operating as usual and wi…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI Elon Musk has asked a US federal court to award him $79 billion to $134 billion in damages, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft defrauded him by abandoning OpenAI’s nonprofit mission and partnering with the software giant.Musk’s lawyers filed the damages request a day after a judge denied OpenAI and Microsoft’s final bid to avoid a jury trial scheduled for late April in Oakland, California, according to multiple reports.The filin…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) After facing significant global backlash, the Elon Musk-led X social media platform on Thursday disabled Grok’s objectionable image generation feature.The artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot Grok will no longer be able to generate objectionable images of women, regardless of whether the user has a premium account.“We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as b…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Apple on Tuesday launched Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription-based suite that brings together some of its most powerful creative apps for video, music, imaging and productivity, aimed at creators across skill levels.Unveiled from Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple Creator Studio combines professional tools such as Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage into a single offering.The subscription also includes new …
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI, Elon Musk, on Tuesday sharply criticised Apple’s decision to adopt Google’s Gemini models for next‑generation Siri and Apple Foundation Models, calling it “an unreasonable concentration of power” for Google.Musk posted his criticism on the social media platform X after Google confirmed the multi‑year deal would supply Gemini models and cloud infrastructure to power Apple Intelligence features.“This seems like an unreaso…