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The Hindu Business Line: MTV has joined hands with travel portal Travelguru to launch MTV Backpack Holidays. MTV Backpack Holidays features custom-made adventure-travel packages for the youth, and will be available across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
 
Hrishikesh and Haridwar near Delhi, Kihim and Karjat near Mumbai and Antargange and Rangaswamy Hills near Bangalore are among [...]

India is putting in place an advance screening system at the bandwidth landing stations to block individual websites and blogs perceived as threats to national security reports Economic times. The technology to be put in place at the eight landing stations — which bring international bandwidth into the country — will be capable of blocking [...]

Punjab National Bank has launched a new internet-based remittance service in cooperation with US-based Buyindiaonline.com Inc. As per this service remittances of NRIs would be credited to beneficiaries, who are PNB account holders, through a website Xoom.com. Buyindiaonline.Com is a wholly owned subsidiary of US’s Xoom Corporation and has an existing tie up with the [...]

While we wake up to a new social networking site everyday, well almost everyday, here in India, as comprehensively documented by Rajiv in his India 2.0 series, interesting activity is happening outside of India in the social networking scene.
There’s talk of Wide Area Social Networking or WASN, Business 2.0 has an article on Linkedin which [...]

Well this is one online ad that made me laugh! I have always been an admirer of Webchutney’s work right from their award winning chidya udi campaign to their latest campaign for microsoft outlook. Their latest campaign seems to have hit a "right note" with the "bade dino ke bad song" for Microsoft outlook 2007. Though the viral [...]

Exchange4Media: MIH India, the Indian arm of South African media company Naspers which has recently launched the blogging and social networking website Ibibo.com and two gaming sites chotafish.com and motafish.com has bought Bixee.com (a search engine for jobs) and Pixrat.com (a picture sharing site)which was owned by RHRNetworks.
RHR Networks was founded by ex-Yahoo employees Rajesh Warrier and Ruban Phukan. [...]

Agencyfaqs: Tequila which was recently launched in India, has alreadt won its first business, the online movie rental company, Seventymm
Seventymm has operations in two Indian cities – New Delhi and Bengaluru – at present. Its network will be extended to six other cities by March 2007. Seventymm has received $7 million from Matrix partners and [...]

In my last post I discussed some problems with xmls from the perspective of developer.Lets discuss what is JSON? It is JavaScript Object Notation a minimal,textual format-a subset of JavaScript Okay that was tehnical definition ;). This is going to be lengthy post; may be I will break in two parts.
I will discuss it [...]

India’s largest private telecom operator Bharti Telecom has tied up with search engine giant Google and would now be offering Google’s search service to their mobile customers. My question is isn’t a GPRS phone already able to access google.com?
To answer that Bharti Airtel President Manoj Kohli spoke about this deal: “Under the agreement, Airtel will provide ‘Google [...]

UNESCO: Kofi Annan stressed on the need of for improved accessibility by persons with disabilities to the Internet, cell phones and other information technologies As information and communication technologies spread across the world, drawing in more and more users every day, most websites remained inaccessible to the millions of people who have difficulty manipulating a [...]

 Zapak.com the gaming portal which is backed by Reliance ADA Group, will soon have a new ‘Zapak TV’ feature, which will offer audio visual content such as online game reviews, features on online gaming, news on the online gaming industry as well as contests, presented by video jockeys and gamers.

Zapak currently is a casual online [...]

According to this Press release Monsterindia.com claims thats its traffic has surged by 238% in July-Sept 06 compared to the same period last year. It also states that Monsterindia.com acquired 62% more new resumes than the nearest competitor’s (Thats a hint to Naukri.com if you did not get it!) claimed new resume inflow.They have attributed the high traffic [...]

Does your project works extensively on xmls?Do you plan to use them as smart data interchange format?Its good… Agreed..It looks simple but sometimes cumbersome for end developer. There is already lot of discussion online to read about this. I would like to summarize simple problems I faced there:(My views) 1) its verbose 2) too [...]

Internet and SEO celebrity Danny Sullivan, who has run the ever expanding and informative SearchEngineWatch, for close to a decade now, has finally said Goodbye !
Here is what Danny has to say … "After ten years, I’m leaving Search Engine Watch and almost certainly leaving the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well. My [...]

Just ran through a post by Jason Miller at WebProNews about Bloggers reaction to a proposed "Code of Conduct" by a government body. Here is the low down …
It can be debated that bloggers already have their own unwritten laws, a code of conduct to which the prominent bloggers are to adhere. In Britain, the same governmental [...]