One PC for every 50 Indians: Survey
New Delhi: The total installed base of personal computers (PCs) in India has crossed 22 million during 2006-07 which translates into a PC for every 50 Indians according to according to data released by IDC.

The India client PC market witnessed a 20 per cent year-on-year growth in unit shipments during FY 07 IDC date said.

"In the overall PC market (notebooks and desktops combined), the rankings remained unchanged, with HP retaining the top spot with a market share of 21.2 per cent, followed by HCL at 13.5 per cent, and Lenovo at 9.5 per cent, in terms of unit shipments during FY 07. In terms of total desktop shipments, HP narrowly led the market, followed by HCL and Lenovo in second and third spots during FY 07," IDC said in a statement.
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One billion PCs by 2008 worldwide: Forrester Research
Hyderabad: There will be more than one billion personal computers in use worldwide by the end of 2008 according to a new report `Worldwide PC adoption forecast 2007 to 2015' from Forrester Research. The report added that while it took 27 years for first billion PCs, the next billion is likely to come within next five years. The emerging Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) market will account for more than 775 million new PCs by 2015. Forrester predicts that there will be more than two billion PCs in use by 2015, representing more than 12 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2003 and 2015.

The report stated that vendors are used to the predictability of buyers in mature markets, but high volume launches into emerging markets are risky and vendors won't have the luxury of introducing products on a small scale to test the market before going into full production because the economics will force suppliers to focus on bringing volume to market more quickly at much greater risk.

The Forrester report notes that there is need for the PC industry to scale production enough to ship five times the number of systems at one-fifth the cost and arm these emerging markets with the low-cost product required for the PC market to take off.
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Indian employees call off strike
New Delhi: State-owned airline Indian will operate all its scheduled flights from Friday after its union the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) called off its two-day flash strike late Thursday afternoon after ACEU leaders met with a Government delegation headed by the Secretary Civil Aviation, Ashok Chawla.

Chawla said the employees had agreed to accept wage arrears of Rs267 crore and have also agreed to a new career progression plan. The arrears will be paid to the employees over 18 months. He added Indian will have to find resources to meet the expenditure.

The agreement is likely to see each ACEU member receiving between Rs80,000 and Rs1,50,000 as wage arrears, airline officials said.

The talks between the Government delegation and ACEU were held after the strike had been declared illegal by the Delhi High Court and Chief Labour Commissioner late on Wednesday night.
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