India's Top 12 Tech Stories Of 2012


Bangalore: Yahoo! India has announced its Year in Review 2012, which reflects topics that dominated the daily online habits of Indians net users. This combines search trends with the editorial selection of what users read, recommended and shared most on the Yahoo! network in India during 2012.

Scams and controversies, with a large dose of Bollywood gossip, captured the attention of the user in 2012. iPhone 5 and iPad Mini dominated the list of Top Tech Stories for Indians in 2012. Many surprising topics also made it to the top 12 topics tech aficionados could not get enough of.

Here are the top 12 Tech Stories Of India in 2012

#12 Microsoft debuts the Surface

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system was trending this year but what attracted Indians more is the debut of Microsoft’s first real hardware, the Surface. Eventhough the Windows operated tablet is not yet available in the country, the netizens literally clicked any news ‘surfaced’ on this, maybe it’s the love for a hardware from Microsoft, a company which defined the term ‘computer’ for India.