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Guruji.com the now famous local search engine which got a huge 7 Million $ as funding from Sequioa will bring regional language search in Hindi, Kannada and Telugu in the next couple of months. Also a search engine for cell phones will be brought to the market in three months. according to Anurag Dod, co-founder and CEO, Guruji.com. By [...]

Exchange4media: Zapak, the online gaming portal from Reliance Entertainment, has announced the launch of Zapak.tv and has tied up with actress Bipasha Basu for a game titled ‘Beach Blaze’.
Rohit Sharma, COO, Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, said, “Launching Zapak.tv at this stage will guarantee player loyalty and ensure that the players keep coming back for [...]

A Security vulnerability has been found in Direct Web Reporting (DWR) module of AJAX based applications by Imperva Application Defense Center. According to this, the client level application, throgh which a attacker can create more and more browser requests, using DWR. Though the requests doesnt reach the server, the client system is more affected as, [...]

 
Myspace is the messiah of Social networking and had been ruling the roost. The number of registered users in MySpace has increased by 40% in last year. Check out the article by Dion Hinchcliffe on The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006.
The pre-eminent granddaddy of all social networking sites, MySpace needs no introduction.  And while it’s [...]

                            These four technologies are the four pillars of present application development in any business line. Applications in present business scenario needs to be more dynaimic, development has to be efficient and the products must be customizable. This article is an high level round up and some examples on applications based on these. AJAX: This has [...]

TechCrunch wins the best search blog for the year 2006 on WEB 2.0 platform. Techcrunch is an awesome blog site. I my self used to take leads from the site for Wat some times.  Edited by Michael Arrington , who is editor for Crunch notes, the blog started in mid 2005, has been a weblog [...]

                                                                             Gone were those days when a candidate would be almost exhausted reaching the 6th round of Google Interviews (Out of Experience:) ). Google are desperate to Hire more and More engineers and sales staff for their Online Adsense projects. Google has always been into slecting A Graders and the interview process would take almost [...]

                Here are some interesting predictions floating around the Web on the potential for radical moves in the online search industry - and most of the ideas involve what Yahoo (YHOO) needs to do to stay competitive with Google (GOOG).
For instance, today’s 2007 prognostications from ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog proposed that Yahoo’s (YHOO) Panama [...]

Google has team up with the Large Synoptic Survey Project, in an effort to give users an experience of navigating through space. This is similar to what they did with Google Earth. Right now Google doesnt have any business model for the project and is just starting this as an experiment. Once the project is complete, [...]

                              Speech-to-text video and audio search engine Podzinger has made changes to their website through which they can search videos and audios inside YouTube videos with a tab on the front page of Podzinger. The functionality was added late in december. The funda is that the word you type in is matched with word spoken in the [...]

War between a blogger Spocko and KSFO radio (ABC a.k.a Walt Disney’s affliate radio station) intensified after Spocko’s blog was blocked by his ISP. walt disney company complained Spocko’s ISP about unauthorized use of copyrighted material.The controversy broke when Spocko recorded a radio programme and bought users about the hate speech the programme is spreading.He [...]

Naukri.com which got listed on the stock exchange last year and raised over 170 crores from the market has started making strides into being an innovative company. Now I in no way want to imply the naukri hasn’t been innovative before but most of naukri’s energies earlier has been spent on generating database thereby becoming the [...]

 Rediff is testing a stocks and mutual fund portfolio management site known as Rediff Moneywise. Im not too much of a financial guy so i purely looked at the site from the usability perspective.
There are some very noteworthy features that this site has. Firstly is the comparison of stocks which has the alexa.com feel to it. [...]

Sale of jewellery through the Internet in 2005-06 touched $9.55 million (out of $13.1 billion market) and expected to grow by 15-18% in 2006-07 according to GJPEC- KPMG report. Online jewellery sales accounted for 4% of all web based transactions in India.

Business standard: Godrej & Boyce the retail division of Godrej is launching a online portal www.godrej-lifespace.com offering consumer durable products, mainly targeting 25-35 year people and provide an alternative for NRI’s who want to present gifts in India. The company was supposed to roll out the facility in November 2006, but it got delayed due [...]