|
|
Xiaomi banned from selling smartphones in India
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Delhi High Court has ordered Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd to temporarily stop selling its smartphones in India in a case related to patent infringements that telecom equipment maker Ericsson had filed against the Chinese company.
Xiaomi, whose low-priced but feature-rich smartphones have made it the biggest smartphone vendor in China, sells its phones exclusively through online retailer Flipkart.com in India, the world's third largest smartphone market.
Both Xiaomi and Flipkart.com have been ordered by the Delhi High Court in an order on Wednesday to stop selling the devices until Feb 5, when it is due to hear the case, according to the court documents seen by Reuters.
Xiaomi entered India in July this year and has been a huge hit among customers in a market that has at least 80 different phone makers including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> and a bunch of home-grown companies.
India is an attractive market for cheap smartphones, as more people are now able to afford a smartphone, often for the first time. Just 10 percent of the India's population currently owns a smartphone, brokerage Nomura said in a recent research note, and that figure is likely to double over the next four years.
Xiaomi in October became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, just three years after first hitting the market, trailing only Samsung and Apple Inc .
The Delhi High Court also asked both Xiaomi and Flipkart.com to provide details of the devices sold so far in India that are compliant with the 3G, EDGE and AMR technologies and the revenue earned from the sale of the devices.
Ericsson, in a statement, said on Thursday it had to take legal action against Xiaomi in India for using its technology in its smartphone devices without paying it a licensing fee.
"To continue investing in research and enabling the development of new ideas, new standards and new platforms to the industry, we must obtain a fair return on our R&D investments," the Swedish company said.
The chief of Xiaomi's India operations told Reuters the company had yet to receive an official notice from the Delhi High Court and that it was willing to work with Ericsson to resolve the issue "amicably".
"Our legal team is currently evaluating the situation based on the information we have," said Xiaomi's Manu Jain. He did not give details about the case.
Flipkart also said it was yet to receive an official notice and would work with Xiaomi and the authorities.
(Aditional reporting by Suchitra Mohanty in NEW DELHI and Jeremy Wagstaff in SINGAPORE; Writing by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Miral Fahmy and Mark Potter)
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Delhi High Court has ordered Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd to temporarily stop selling its smartphones in India in a case related to patent infringements that telecom equipment maker Ericsson had filed against the Chinese company.
Xiaomi, whose low-priced but feature-rich smartphones have made it the biggest smartphone vendor in China, sells its phones exclusively through online retailer Flipkart.com in India, the world's third largest smartphone market.
Both Xiaomi and Flipkart.com have been ordered by the Delhi High Court in an order on Wednesday to stop selling the devices until Feb 5, when it is due to hear the case, according to the court documents seen by Reuters.
Xiaomi entered India in July this year and has been a huge hit among customers in a market that has at least 80 different phone makers including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> and a bunch of home-grown companies.
India is an attractive market for cheap smartphones, as more people are now able to afford a smartphone, often for the first time. Just 10 percent of the India's population currently owns a smartphone, brokerage Nomura said in a recent research note, and that figure is likely to double over the next four years.
Xiaomi in October became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, just three years after first hitting the market, trailing only Samsung and Apple Inc .
The Delhi High Court also asked both Xiaomi and Flipkart.com to provide details of the devices sold so far in India that are compliant with the 3G, EDGE and AMR technologies and the revenue earned from the sale of the devices.
Ericsson, in a statement, said on Thursday it had to take legal action against Xiaomi in India for using its technology in its smartphone devices without paying it a licensing fee.
"To continue investing in research and enabling the development of new ideas, new standards and new platforms to the industry, we must obtain a fair return on our R&D investments," the Swedish company said.
The chief of Xiaomi's India operations told Reuters the company had yet to receive an official notice from the Delhi High Court and that it was willing to work with Ericsson to resolve the issue "amicably".
"Our legal team is currently evaluating the situation based on the information we have," said Xiaomi's Manu Jain. He did not give details about the case.
Flipkart also said it was yet to receive an official notice and would work with Xiaomi and the authorities.
(Aditional reporting by Suchitra Mohanty in NEW DELHI and Jeremy Wagstaff in SINGAPORE; Writing by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Miral Fahmy and Mark Potter)
Mangalyaan 'tweets' first image from Mars
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed receiving initial data from the MOM.
India's mission to Mars entered the orbit on Wednesday, making it the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, and the first country to achieve the feat in its maiden attempt.
The cost of the mission was less than the budget of the Hollywood space blockbuster "Gravity".
The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, cost $74 million (45.29 million pounds), a fraction of the $671 million the U.S. space agency NASA spent on its newly arrived MAVEN Mars mission.
With this success, India joined the United States, Russia and Europe in successfully sending probes to orbit or land on Mars.
In 2011 a Chinese spacecraft destined for Mars failed to leave Earth's orbit after a botched Russian launch.
ISRO successfully ignited the main engine and eight small thrusters, which fired for 24 minutes, trimming the speed of the craft so it could be captured by Mars's gravity and slide into orbit.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed receiving initial data from the MOM.
India's mission to Mars entered the orbit on Wednesday, making it the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, and the first country to achieve the feat in its maiden attempt.
The cost of the mission was less than the budget of the Hollywood space blockbuster "Gravity".
The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, cost $74 million (45.29 million pounds), a fraction of the $671 million the U.S. space agency NASA spent on its newly arrived MAVEN Mars mission.
With this success, India joined the United States, Russia and Europe in successfully sending probes to orbit or land on Mars.
In 2011 a Chinese spacecraft destined for Mars failed to leave Earth's orbit after a botched Russian launch.
ISRO successfully ignited the main engine and eight small thrusters, which fired for 24 minutes, trimming the speed of the craft so it could be captured by Mars's gravity and slide into orbit.
Salman Khan Fake Abs Controversy VS Shah Rukh Khan’s Real Abs
Reel Life and real life are very different. It has now been proven. Rounds of the fake Salman Khan body video from a scene in Yash Raj films Ek Tha Tiger special effects was put up by a user on vine . The video shows the flabby body of Salman Khan being digitally worked on to give him the abs that are required for the final look of the movie.
The video as you see below has Salman Khan‘s original body and the the computer generated image shows up. While at the same time we have Shah Rukh Khan‘s images for his upcoming film Happy New Year with Deepika Padukone. These images show him working out hard at the gym to make his 10 pack abs for the movie.
While Salman Khan who started the trend in Bollywood to make good chistled bodies is now retorting to digital enhancements for his abs is a real downer for all his fans .
This will certainly spark another heated war between Shah Rukh and Salman Khan’s fans on Facebook and Twitter.
What do you think of Salman Khan‘s fake body. Do you think Salman Khan is cheating on his loyal fans or is his health the reason for this and the fans don’t care. Let us know what you think.
Reel Life and real life are very different. It has now been proven. Rounds of the fake Salman Khan body video from a scene in Yash Raj films Ek Tha Tiger special effects was put up by a user on vine . The video shows the flabby body of Salman Khan being digitally worked on to give him the abs that are required for the final look of the movie.
The video as you see below has Salman Khan‘s original body and the the computer generated image shows up. While at the same time we have Shah Rukh Khan‘s images for his upcoming film Happy New Year with Deepika Padukone. These images show him working out hard at the gym to make his 10 pack abs for the movie.
While Salman Khan who started the trend in Bollywood to make good chistled bodies is now retorting to digital enhancements for his abs is a real downer for all his fans .
This will certainly spark another heated war between Shah Rukh and Salman Khan’s fans on Facebook and Twitter.
What do you think of Salman Khan‘s fake body. Do you think Salman Khan is cheating on his loyal fans or is his health the reason for this and the fans don’t care. Let us know what you think.
Packed itinerary of ModiWashington/New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule during his Sep 26-30 visit to the US.
Modi's itinerary:
Sep 26: Arrives in New York, stays at New York Palace Hotel; Mayor Bill de Blasio calls on Modi. Meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Eliot Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute.
Sep 27: Visits Ground Zero and 9/11 memorial; participates in the General Debate of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly - on the theme "Delivering on and implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda"; bilateral meetings with Ban Ki-Moon, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sushil Koirala and Sheikh Hasina; to meet former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg; addresses annual Global Citizen Festival at Central Park; meets group of eminent Indian-Americans.
Modi would also meet the governors of three US states - New York's Andrew Cuomo, South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Maryland's Martin O'Malley.
Sep 28: Addresses Indian-American community reception at the Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan; meet representatives of the Sikh community in the US and Canada.
Modi would meet 10 distinguished Persons of Indian Origin. He will also meet members of the US Jewish community and attend a dinner reception at The Pierre, a luxurious heritage hotel owned by India's Taj hotels, hosted by Indian Ambassador to the US, S.A. Jaishankar. The dinner reception would be attended by Indian Americans and Persons of Indian Origin.
Sep 29: Breakfast meeting with top CEOs of 11 US companies and later one-on-one meetings with six CEOS. The companies include Boeing, Pepsico, General Electric, Google, Goldman Sachs. Individual meetings with eminent people and with the intelligentsia; meets the Clintons in the morning; addresses Council on Foreign Relations, a leading think tank; leaves for Washington.
Arrives in Washington in the afternoon, checks into Blair House, the presidential state guest house across the street from the White House; private dinner with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Sep 30: Visits Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. memorial and Gandhi statue in front of the Indian embassy in Washington; formal summit meeting with Obama at the White House; lunch with Joe Biden and John Kerry at the State Department; Meeting on Capitol Hill with Congressional leaders hosted by Speaker John Boehner; Reception and policy address to the US-India Business Council (USIBC); leaves for India
Forbes India rich list: Mukesh Ambani tops againReliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 richest tycoons in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from last year.