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Two gaming companies Games2win and Indiagames have done their individual research and came out with two very different and interesting insights on gaming.
Here are the insights from the indiagames survey on more than 10,000 paid subscribers of its Games on Demand (GoD) subscription:

Mobile gaming saw growth of users from smaller towns and at lower price [...]

Mumbai gets its own Laila 
Asklaila the funded local search engine expanded its reach to another city after bangalore. Its Mumbai! Asklaila has launched its local search service for mumbai. Users can search for local information across 650 localities in Mumbai on www.asklaila.com.
 
There are many existing players with mumbai local information like onyomo, guruji, burrp, dwaar [...]

In continuation with our series of WATShow’s from the IAMAI digital summit this time we bring to you an interview with someone who can be considered as the father of digital advertising in India Mr.V.Ramani the Vice Chairman &MD of Connecturf (previously known as Mediaturf) known as India’s first online advertising agency.
 
We asked Mr. Ramani [...]

Sun Microsystems has made a bid to tap into the burgeoning market for providing services to web 2.0 companies like Facebook by buying MySQL, a provider of enterprise software,’ reports Times Online.
Sun will pay $1 billion for MySQL.
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, [...]

Since the time I first used it, I have always maintained, that the Indian railways website is one of the most informative one. Leaving a few design issues aside, the website serves its purpose pretty well. In the recent times, the Indian Railways has emerged as an efficient organization. It has reduced its expenses successfully, [...]

Two Online Startups BigAdda and Zapak both from the Reliance Entertainment stable are looking at different strategies for their future. While one is into social networking the other is into gaming. Quite different products having similar target audiences i.e. the indian youth.
BigAds Coming Soon!
BigAdda COO has been quoted saying “We are building customised solutions [...]

Ever Since Rediff Ishare was launched it has been on tieup spree when it comes to exclusive content so be it saregamapa, anecho, gandhi jayanti or zoom tv Rediff has been making content tie ups left right and center. We had discussed how Rediff had to go the content tieup way as Indian are viewers [...]

TIECon Chennai - 18th January 
Its raining events in january so on one end there is Proto.in being organised in the City of Chennai on 18th and 19th of January and on the other end in the same city TIECon Chennai ‘08 is being organised on the 18th of January.
The theme for TiECon Chennai 2008 is [...]

Earlier we have blogged on how social networking had taken over the world in 2007 and about social networking being one of the key trends for 2008.  The new reformation to take place in the world of social networking is mobile social messaging. It is a new platform for the users to change the way [...]

Yahoo has always been aggressive on the mobile front and we have covered their initiatives on this front before as well. Not too long ago they had announced the launch of Onesearch a search service for mobiles. Now it seems they are getting aggressive with their distribution for the same.
 
 Inorder to reach out to a [...]

In a wonderful step towards including the population at the lower strata of the income, the government of India has announced new a service which will allow them to receive SMS alerts for the food distribution.
 
Under a scheme, the Government of Chhattisgarh plans to provide 35 Kilo of rice per month to each family at [...]

You might have heard the adage,
“The pen is mightier than the sword…”
 
 
In this era, blog has replaced the former one. Many famous personalities take it as a leisure activity, but it has brought fame to India-born Om Malik, who has been listed as one of the global web celebrities by Forbes. He has been [...]

Google has lent a helping hand to Proto.in, a premier entrepreneurial start-up forum, by becoming the lead sponsor for the same. Proto is in its second year and has been a brilliant platform for over 40 companies to acquire clients, receive exposure, retain and hire talent, and in growing in market presence that quite [...]

We have discussed Mobile TV in the past. For beginners, it’s the reception of TV signals, Live on your mobile screens. As opposed to downloaded video clips, this reception. For a cricket and Bollywood crazy nation, this seems like a huge opportunity waiting to be tapped. Many of the operators (the mobile phone operators) have [...]

I recently discovered that Facebook has added an application which can be used as the GTalk chat client.
 
 
After spending some time trying to figure out the interface and how to go about adding the application I finally managed to get myself to use it.
 

 
What’s interesting is that the interface is completely similar to the [...]