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Printers
HP retains
the printer crown
Rahul Neel Mani says the printer segment is headed towards decent
growth and will see more innovations in the multi-function device
and photo-printing segment
Monitors
Monitors
continue to tag behind PCs
Monitors can never be seen as a peripheral away from a PC, but frequent
upgrades and newer technology may put it ahead of and separate from
CPU sales, says Shipra Arora
Optical
Disk Drives
Optical growth
heading the read write way
Optical Disk Drives (ODDs) have now become omnipresent as they are
shipped with almost every PC today. With PC sales crossing the one
million mark in the first half of fiscal 2003, ODD players are gung
ho on sales prospects. Srikanth R P reports
Personal
Storage
Falling prices
widen personal storage options
Rapidly falling prices of storage devices like hard disk drives,
CDs and DVDs are giving users better value for money. Thanks to
the affordability factor, users are getting the benefit of higher
speed and memory capacities. Chitra Padmanabhan checks out the trends
in personal storage
UPS
Branded players
shine in Indian UPS market
Branded UPS players are gaining market share by playing the value
pricing and localisation card, says Abhinav Singh
Digital
Cameras
Digicam sales
rock as digital SLRs take a quantum jump
New technology and price cuts will boost the penetration of digicams
in India and take them closer to the goal of replacing film-based
cameras, says Akhtar Pasha
Modems
Modems: Uncertain
future for dial-up
V.92, the one-year-old dial-up standard, has not been widely adopted.
This shows that dial-up modem technology has almost reached saturation
point.
Technology
USB2 to lead
peripheral technology march
USB2 will be unstoppable while Bluetooth will continue to wait in
the wings in 2004. Digicams will plant their flag on Mount Film
as entry-level models start offering a respectable two to three
megapixel resolution. Colour will gain ground in the enterprise
as colour laser printers play catch up with their monochrome siblings
in throughput and duty-cycles, says Prashant L Rao
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