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The taxman is on the loose on international web portals. If you have an ecommerce portal (this includes the tonnes of travel sites as well) hosted abroad (i.e. with servers based in foreign countries) but with a base in India — whereby users can subscribe or pay and buy goods and services — will be [...]

Buy a pizza get cricket game free! That seems to be the promotional campaign that has come about after a tie up between Zapak and domino’s.
Zapak is giving away game cd’s which include their cricket game as well on the purchase of domino’s pizza’s. Now considering that zapak is an online portal giving game cd’s [...]

Cricket cricket everywhere! Thats the scene which is expected once the world cup gets underway! But in the online mobile space the fever has started to spread already.. We had written an article earlier about how cricket was spreading itself all over the web but now its seems that even mobile will have its fare [...]

something for the guys who want to lean microsoft technologies online. Microsoft has unleashed virtual labs india link.
Some text from the site
Learn and practice building great applications for Windows and the Web through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes or less. MSDN Virtual Labs don’t require any installation [...]

"Father of Java" Receives Prestigious Canadian HonorJames Gosling Named as a Member of the Order of Canada by Java News Desk(February 22, 2007) - Sun VP & Fellow James Gosling, the "Father of Java," pictured here talking with Jeremy Geelan on SYS-CON.TV at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, has just [...]

How about putting together all content at one place so that kids can learn better, teachers and parents have more resources to teach, makeing the content available across the globe..
This is what a NGO called Curriki(curriculum + wiki = curriki) is doing under the leadership of Scott Mcnealy
Curriki is the result of work done for [...]

EPO may be the next big thing to Indian outsourcing story 
Education Process Outsourcing(EPO) Business opportunity came in because of a law called No child left behind act. The law aims to improve the performance of students and cut federal aid ( US govt gives 12 billion $ in aid to schools) to schools with poor [...]

What happens two upcoming and booming habits/hobbies of human beings converge? Well you get a recipe for a fantastic business opportunity or so claims an article in economic times.
Lets consider the statistics..

200 million global bloggers.
1.2 million bloggers in India.
156 million mobile subscribers in India.
10% of mobile subscribers in metros use GPRS facility
2-3% in tier II [...]

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Web 2.0 explained in less than 5 minutes
Singleton Design pattern in JavaScript
http://whatshouldisay.com enjoy the sorting here
Great news for JavaScript developers {YUI/JQuery}

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Google vice president Vinton G. Cerf who was also the co-designer with Robert Kahn of the basic architecture of the Internet has predicted that mobile phones will fuel growth of the worldwide web.
"You will get those other 5.5 billion people only when affordability increases and the cost of communication goes down," said Cerf, 63, who joined [...]

"Gold Sift" That is the name of an online and search marketing book which was launched in the capital by exchange4media. The book is written by Vikas Malhotra who is also the founder Mosaic Services and published by Exchange4media.
On the occassion of the launch Publisher of the book and Editor-in-Chief of exchange4media group Anurag Batra said, “The [...]

Ybrant Technologies Ltd a company engagaed in providing emarketing solutions has acquired AdDynamix, an online Ad network, for $10 million in cash and promissory notes. AdDynamix is an interactive advertising network delivering ad management, video and digital media services to agencies, entertainment clients and direct marketers.
"Given the deep network reach and the premier client roster of AdDynamix, we [...]

Internet is growing and ecommerce is booming so all that was sold offline is being pushed online as well. But some of these businesses are really blooming! I am talking about the online flower selling business which is now riding the wave of days like valentines day and others.
Online flower delivery shops have witnessed [...]

Hutch one of India’s largest telecom company in collaboration with Jet Airways India’s leading Premiere Airlines has just launched a M-Ticketing Service called JetWallet.
This mobile ticketing solution is developed by C-Sam Inc. USA, using the latest security and encryption methods with unique features.  Founded by its Chairman, Mr. Sam Pitroda, C-SAM Inc is a leading [...]

 
India has been taken by the web 2.0 bug with the number of bloggers rising and everyone scrapping away to glory on orkut.
Also the top 100 sites visited by indians in India show that orkut, blogger, youtube and wikipedia all figure among the top 20 sites! Orkut being the 2nd most popular site (even more [...]