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Have you ever thought what we as the civilized human rac is doing to the planet that we live in? have you ever imagined how contant construction, demolition, wars, population explosion, modernisation etc. would affect the way our planet looks?
Well google has done it yet again! You dont need to imagine anymore you can see [...]

Well it is no secret that in India the number of mobiles are more than the number of internet enabled computers. Also the fact that mobile penetration is happening in India at a record breaking spead. 6.6 million mobile phone subscribers were added in October 2006. Now the question that’s probably on most technology entrepreneurs and [...]

Microsoft along with culminis came up with a techtribe clone, www.aggreg8.net which they say is not for marketing purposes, but to enable you to be successful in your role in IT and help IT Pros collaborate.just as in any other socialnetworking site aggreg8 lets users to create profiles,join groups( called working groups), add blogs, [...]

After championing e-commerce during the dot com boom IBM, now wants to champion v-commerce (virtual commerce) and investing roughly $10 million over the next 12 months reports Reuters. Sam Palmissano is set to visit Second Life on Tuesday, following a “town hall” meeting with some 7,000 employees in China, and speak with the more than [...]

BBC: According to a Jupiter Research survey for Akamai 75% of the people would not return to websites that took longer than four seconds to load.
The time it took a site to appear on screen came second to high prices and shipping costs in the list of shoppers’ pet-hates, the research revealed.
The survey questioned [...]

IndianTelevision: Synovate a global market research company has released the findings from a survey of young asians aged eight to 24, revealing their product ownership patterns, spending habits, favourite brands, idols and aspirations. The survey was conducted among a total of 11,590 youth from affluent and mass households across ten Asian markets were surveyed. The countries [...]

After recently recieving a huge sum of 7 million dollars as funding from Sequoia Capital, Guruji.com the Indian search engine has announced a partnership with Infomedia India Ltd. This partnership will allow Guruji.com to use the business listings of Infomedia Yellow Pages as part of their city search. This tie up is expected to strengthen the [...]

With every passing day google is getting more and more aggressive as far as its social networking site Orkut.com is concerned. Not too long ago we had mentioned about google displaying google ads on the community pages of orkut. But now its Official! Today when i logged into my Google adwords account (Those of you [...]

Reliance and UTStarcom launched PPC-6700 a windows 5.0 and WiFi enabled mobile phone which stretches the boundaries of what a mobile phone can do. The "Reliance Mobile Pocket PC" as it is called has data and video transmission capabilities of up to 144 kbps, with average download speed ranging from 60-80 kbps, on high speed Reliance Communications network, is [...]

Well those of you who have missed our earlier article on the youtube and utube fiasco here is an update. The Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., of Perrysburg, Ohio which has a website utube.com has sued the most popular video sharing site on the web i.e. Youtube.com for an undisclosed amount.
From the lawsuit, [...]

               "It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.". Knover aka Knowledge rover is a different idea altogether. A search engine coupled with a Social Network. When I say Social Network, its a Social Network of Popular people which is created by them. The developers have uploaded around 16000 profiles of famous people. So [...]

DNA: Well it seems internet seems to be catching on it India or atleast as far as domain registrations are concerned as the India-specific .in Internet address has touched the 200,000 registration mark, firmly establishing it as a leading country code domain globally with most of the users (around 63%) in India followed by users from US [...]

BusinessStandard: Hutchison Essar and Microsoft Corp. have announced a mobile services tie up in India to provide mobile search and other key Windows Live services to Hutch’s subscriber base in India.
"India being the fastest growing mobile market in the world, providing a rich set of online services for mobile subscribers is more important than ever," said Steve [...]

In my last article i had explained what phishing was and how a fake UTI Bank page was online inorder to extract account username and password from innocent users and then rob their bank accounts. Now here is reason why Indians should be cautious about their financial transactions online.
According to a survey by Phishtank a [...]

Every day 100,000 new blogs are created and 1.3 million posts are made,
according to Technorati “State of Blogosphere” october report there was a slight decrease quarter-over-quarter in the number of new blogs created each day
Key Findings :
Total posting volume of the blogosphere reached about 1.3 million postings per day
English and Japanese remain the two most [...]