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Most phones are in the developing world although the biggest market would be China, which has nearly half a billion but the number of mobile phone subscribers in India is increasing by over 5 million each month. Also the TDG report predicts India’s mobile user base to cross 350 million by 2010. Now keeping this exponential growth in mind lets analyse [...]

AOL (formerly known as America Online), one of the oldest online companies is making its entry into India on 15th of November with an India based portal that will compete with domestic portals like Rediff, Indiatimes, and other international players like MSN and Yahoo.
Currently, the Indian AOL will be headed by Maneesh Dhir and the company is recruiting heavily [...]

Well it seems that orkut has been plagued with problems in India ever since it became the most popular social networking destination for Indians. So after the hate india litigation here comes another one.. Orkut’s sex problems. Orkut has over 100 communities that solicit sex and prostitution from Indian cities.
Soliciting is a crime under [...]

Google has announced availability of Google News for mobile devices in India. Google recently launched Gmail on mobile phones in India. Users can browse latest news on their web-enabled mobile devices by visiting news listed under
http://www.google.co.in/xhtml
http://www.google.com/mobile/news/faq.html
 Google has recently launched a free Japanese-language news service for mobile phone users in Japan. Google News aggregates headlines [...]

Chinese markets have always known to be bigger than indian markets be it manufacturing or now online advertising. So China’s market for online advertisements is expected to be worth a whopping US$2 billion by 2010!
The revenue from online ads in 2005 increased by 45 percent from 2004, while newspaper ad revenue dropped by 1 percent.
Interactive advertisements [...]

After exhausting over 90% of its capacity of one million broadband lines BSNL now plans to increase their average revenue per user and planning to introduce value added services reports Economic times.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will soon offer online gaming to its broadband subscribers from next month to increase revenues from broadband services,also planning to [...]

Techtree: It seems history is getting mashed up with technology to create entertainment and knowledge for all. Shakespeare would have been a proud man because even years after he created timeless plays the people are recreating his works in their own ways. So Edward Castronova, an Indiana University Professor, and an economist who studies virtual worlds, has [...]

Indians are the third highest number of users on orkut after brazilians and americans. If you want to find where your old school friends are and what they are doing i suggest that you open an account in orkut! YES! you heard me right.. Orkut has just opened registrations to everyone i.e. you dont need an invitation [...]

We have got a lot of encouragement from our readers and other bloggers regarding our India 2.0 a series and we appreciate every bit of the feedback and comments that we are recieving. So here is a short listing on news thats been going around regarding web 2.0 in India.
Web 2.0 catches on in India - Business Standard
Social [...]

Mozilla recently announced that its Firefox 2 Release Candidate 3 (RC 3) is now available for download to the public. Firefox 2 RC 3 is the latest update of the next version of Firefox, and it has incorporated several updates and bug fixes that are mainly the result of widespread user feedback. Firefox 2 RC 3 is available [...]

People are known to follow trends and it seems its not only the fashion world where trends are followed some trends are also followed in the corporate world. So TV18 the huge television company was in news recently for acquiring many internet businesses and hiving off a separate internet arm to take care and build [...]

UPDATED 20th OCT: An article in Hindu has stated figures from IAMAI that online sales are expected to go up by more than 100 per cent. The online business conducted during Diwali last year was around Rs 115 crore which is expected to cross the Rs 250 crore mark this year. In normal months, 85 per [...]

Tribal Fusion, the third largest ad network in the US with a reach of 113 million US users each month, has launched an ad network in India, reports exchange4media.com. Tribal Fusion claims to have a reach of over 500,000 Indian users a day, including a huge proportion of software developers and IT managers.
According to [...]

Economic Times: West Bengal will soon incorporate retail banking and agriculture advisory services through a network of e-governance kiosks right till the gram panchayat level. The state IT and rural development departments are in talks with three banks — United Bank of India, State Bank of India and ICICI — to provide retail banking services [...]

Business Line: GSM Association Development Fund is in discussion with Indian cellular operators to increase rural telephony penetration. The project involves setting up GSM-based mobile PCOs and Internet kiosks in rural areas that can be shared by the village community similar to the Government-sponsored village public telephony and Internet dhaba schemes on fixed line telephones.
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