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Sony BRAVIA has been declared as the market leader in the Flat Panel Display sales by market research company GFK Nielsen India. In May 2010, Sony BRAVIA grabbed 32 percent of the market share.

It is reported that the company sold more than 35 thousand units in the month of May. This was more than the sum of the LCD and Plasma TV units sold by any of its other competitors in that month.


Sony BRAVIA has recorded a substantial growth in its market share from 24.3 percent in January to 32 percent in May.
Masaru Tamagawa, Managing Director, Sony India, said, "Indian consumers trust and recognize Sony's relentless commitment towards quality and unparalleled customer service. Our sincere endeavor would be to maintain this leadership position in its true sense in upcoming months."

Sony BRAVIA is the most sold LCD brand in the 22 inch, 32 inch and 40 inch and above segment, clearly indicating its strong appeal across different customer segments. These three segments together contribute more than 75 percent of all LCD TV units sold in India.

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Onida has come up with a range of Movie TVs, the first of its kind in India, that include USB 2.0 which allows users to watch movies, photographs and listen to music directly from the USB port. The Movie TV range includes the models - ONIDA 21 Ace 300 USB, ONIDA 21 CARBON 300 USB, ONIDA 21 ARIA 350 USB and ONIDA 21 Thunder 1200 USB. The ONIDA 21 Ace 300 USB is available in markets at a price of Rs. 9190.

There are many features in the Movie TV range like USB Playback, Music Mode, Surround Sound, ZAP or Timer Return, Digital Eye, Wrap Sound Technology. The Music Mode allows user to hear music without the picture being on. The Timer Return helps the user to skip ads while watching the TV. The Wrap Sound Technology comes with hidden speakers that enable wide range sound to spread across.

Anand Ramadurai, GM, Marketing, ONIDA, said, "The expected growth rate of CTVs is positive and on a rise even with the end of the Football World Cup 2010. While the LCD prices have been dropping consistently over the last 18 months or so, the Ultra Slims TVs are growing fastest in the CTV space. We are expecting to almost double our contribution from this range in the current fiscal year."

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Bharti Airtel, India’s largest cellular services providers today announced the launch of new BlackBerry service plans with the flexibility to choose weekly and monthly offers with Unlimted Email and Internet at affordable price for its prepaid customers.

Airtel BlackBerry smartphone customers on the new prepaid service plans can enjoy unlimited access to email, BlackBerry Messenger, Instant Messaging (IM), Social networking and Internet browsing, as well as access to the BlackBerry AppWorld application store, at a pocket friendly price starting at Rs.100 for a week and Rs.399 for a month.

Apart from the above new plans, Airtel also has Unlimited emails (POP/IMAP) + Instant Messaging Plans at Rs.80 for 7 Days and Rs.299 for a month. For Monthly Enterprise-Mail Service subscribers charges Rs.899 for Unlimited emails (POP/IMAP), Instant Messaging, Internet Browsing and Office emails for 30 days. The launch of Airtel BlackBerry prepaid service plans reiterates Airtel’s promise to make mobile Internet browsing more attractive and economical to all its customers, especially the upwardly mobile youth and enterprising women of today.This service will enable them to do much more on their mobile phones at attractive prices ranging from Rs.100 for 7 Days to Rs. 399 per month.

Customers can also access as many as ten supported email accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail and chat on popular services including Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.

As an additional customer benefit, BlackBerry smartphones can display messages from multiple mailboxes in a single Inbox and support the viewing of email attachments including Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and Adobe pdf (.pdf) documents, as well as image files (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tiff).

Here are the Details-:

Plan Name	Rental	Validity	Benefits
Weekly Internet-Mail Service	Rs.100	7 Days	Unlimited Emails (POP/IMAP) Unlimited Instant Messaging Unlmited Internet Browsing
Monthly Internet-Mail Service	Rs.399	30 Days	Unlimited Emails (POP/IMAP) Unlimited Instant Messaging Unlimited Internet Browsing
Limited Plans (for Email and IM) :
Weekly Personal Mail	Rs 80	7 Days	Unlimited emails (POP/IMAP) + Instant Messaging. Note-: Internet browsing restricted in all Personal Mail plans.
Monthly Personal Mail	Rs.299	30 Days	Unlimited emails (POP/IMAP) + Instant Messaging. Note-: Internet browsing restricted in all Personal Mail plans.
Business EMail Plan :
Monthly Enterprise-Mail Service	Rs.899	30 Days	Unlimited emails (POP/IMAP)+ Instant Messaging + Internet Browsing + Office emails

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India’s National telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has introduced a new GSM mobile phone top-up service that allows its customers to instantly top up mobile phones of family and friends in their from anywhere in the World, following a partnership agreement with Ezetop, the world’s largest company specializing in online mobile phone top-up services.

With the “ezetop” mobile recharge system any one can recharge, Gift a Top-up or add balance to any preapid BSNL mobile numbers via https://www.ezetop.com/. In this service, the top-up goes straight to the phone and can be used right away by whoever receives it.Ezetop is the largest and fastest growing international group focused on international and online mobile phone top up. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Miami and Dubai, Ezetop leads the global top-up space, and has been at the forefront of this sector since its inception.

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Idea Cellular launches one of the lowest tariffs for Mumbai circle which will enable you to talk local in Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa for as low as 30paise/minute irrespective of mobile & landline and also you can enjoy all STD calls to any phone across India at just 50paise/minute.

Idea cellular is betting very big on this one of the most customer centric offer as whole city has banners campaigning about this offer.

The campaign is dubbed as “Koi bhed bhav nahi” clearly states that all local calls across Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa will be charged at just 30paise/minute.

Not surprisingly, to enjoy this low cost tariff a monthly recharge of Rs.19 has to be done. For per minute plan all STD calls will be charged at 50p/minute whereas if your base tariff has per second benefit then all STD calls will be charged at 1p/second and the validity of this tariff continues to be 30 days!

The tariff details are tabulated below: Particulars STV 19
MRP (Rs.) 19
Talk time (Rs.) 0
Benefit All local calls across Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa at 30paise /minute &

STD calls at 50paise/minute (1p/sec. for per second billing tariff)
Tariff Validity 30 days

For more, call !dea customer care at 9702012345 or log on to www.ideacellular.com

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