Asia Bizz: Despite being declared stable, water leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan have become more frequent. Last year, a massive earthquake and tsunami badly damaged the power plant which resulted in the meltdown of three reactor cores. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. is constantly facing challenges to keep the [...]
Asia Bizz: Auto manufacturer Renault announced on February 2, 2012 that it will soon launch a passenger car in the Indian market. The company even assured that the passenger car will be priced below Rs 4 lakh. Marc Nassif, the country managing director of Renault India Pvt Ltd, said that Beyong Rs 4 lakh a [...]
Asia Bizz: Dish TV India has recently launched the Dish truHD+ service which features high definition content as well as unlimited recording of the TV programs. But beware, the word ‘unlimited’ might be a bit tricky in terms of recording the TV programs. The TV programs actually get recorded in an external USB drive, which [...]
Asia Bizz: German luxury car maker Mercedez Benz inaugurated its Trendz concept store in Bangalore at the UB City Mall on February 1, 2012. The Trendz is a concept which allows the customers to experience the look and feel of the products of Benz. Mercedes displayed the newly introduced SLS AMG Roadster which was also [...]
Asia Bizz: Just a day after the government of Indian announced that it gave away the task of carrying the tender proceedings for the upgraded Aakash 2 tablet to the DIT, reports say that the IIT Rajasthan have lost the tablet deal. The government has now decided to hand over all the responsibilities to the [...]
Asia Bizz: Japanese auto giant Honda Motors has recently launched the upgraded version of its Dio for the Indian market. The Dio MotoScooter was first launched in the year 2003 and since then this is the first time the Dio has been given an upgrade. The new Dio was also introduced at the Delhi Auto [...]
Asia Bizz: With the launch of Junglee.com on February 2, 2012, popular American online retailer Amazon.com is also entering the Indian market. Junglee.com is the toned down version of the global online retailer. The best thing about the website is that users are allowed to compare prices of items, but the most actual purchases must [...]
Asia Bizz: In a good move by the administration of Ranchi, petrol pump owners have been instructed not to give fuel to motorists who do not wear helmets. The officials have asked the fuel stations to display a notice in their premises. The fuel station owners have also been told to note down the number [...]
Asia Bizz: The apex decision making body of the Indian telecom ministry, the Telecom Commission, has decided to allow the mobile phone companies to share spectrum. But the facility has been limited to the 2G spectrum only. The second generation (2G) spectrum is widely used for vanilla voice services. This means that the telecom companies [...]
Asia Bizz: Mobile phone manufacturing giant Nokia recently announced the launch of its dual SIM phones from the Asha series in the Indian market. The new Nokia Asha 300 will be available for sale from the Nokia Priority dealers and also on online shopping website Flipkart.com. The Nokia Asha 300 phone has been priced at [...]
