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1st things 1st - 3 New IIT’s are being proposed (in Bihar, Rajasthan, and Andhra) and so are 16 central universities. A boost for India’s IT Human Capital Development. 300 new ITI’s have been proposed as well. 
 
 The Finance Minister also put forth the institution of national knowledge centers and has allocated Rs. 100 crore for the Information [...]

I happened to be reading a book on Rural India a few days back and an interesting point was raised by one of the authors with respect to a consumer dichotomy that exists between urban India and Rural India. One needs to keep in mind that consumers in rural India are extremely different with respect to [...]

We recently asked the Google MD for India on WATShow whether CTR (Click Through Rates) were dropping on google ads and whether google was doing anything to increase the response rates to its ads for the advertisers. The answer was a NO to the drop in google ads but if you see the latest comscore [...]

Google has launched Google Sites which is rehashed version of jotspot which was acquired by google in 2006. According to some Google sites is a direct competitor to microsoft’s sharepoint.  Google sites actually puts the power of creating/collaborating on a website in the hands of a normal user where he can add all other google [...]

The importance of getting the information and communication technology (ICT) to the rural areas cannot be overemphasized. Each time we rejoice the next upgrade in technology, deep inside we know there is a large section of India in villages, asking Internet : Woh Kya Hai. So while we might be awaiting the 500 Mbps connectivity [...]

Talk about the roof giving way and a windfall of money falling from it and it just doesn’t stop raining money! Im sure if one were to visit the cleartrip office in mumbai a similar scene atleast in context of the news just in can be visualized. So more funding has come into the [...]

Im sure everyone who is an indian has heard of the Lead India campaign which was heavily marketed and publicized by TimeofIndia group. The direct beneficiary of the lead india campaign was Rajendra Misra the winner of the reality show and an ex internet entrepreneur who scaled and sold off traveljini.com to ICICI Ventures and [...]

Im sure many of you might have used or atleast have heard of limewire (the media and file sharing P2P desktop application). Limespot the company behind limewire has now launched a website known as limeexchange.com which is a platform for services exchange i.e. projects/assignments can be posted by companies and sellers of services can bid [...]

I picked up this thread from GigaOM, which has picked it up from ComputerWorld. The reason why most Internet Pundits are trying to look beyond Page Views is that Nielsen had announced last July that they will no longer use Page Views as the primary rating mechanism for web sites. 
 
Page views is a metric that has been [...]

Just got a mail yesterday from the Indyarocks guys informing me that they had adding a complete gaming section to their social network. We have earlier done a complete review of Indyarocks on our blog before.
 
As per the release sent to us Indyarocks has added more than 800 games. The games are featured under various [...]

So Im hoping you read our earlier post on Politics 2.0 thats happening between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama in the US Presidential elections. If you haven’t then please do read it here as it will give you an understanding of how important twitter is as a communication tool in the US even for the [...]

Learning is now becoming simpler and easier. With the advanced in technology mock entrance test, IIT lectures on YouTube, knowing your IIT JEE ranking and many such things. Now, Encyclopedia of Life goes online. I remember when I was in school the encyclopedia book set used to be expensive CD’s were available but were limited [...]

Guruji has launched a mobile version of its search site. One does not need to go on another url and just keying in guruji.com on one’s wap/gprs phone is good enough to land you to the mobile version.

Search on mobile isn’t a new service as even another indian player onyomo.com has had a mobile search [...]

I wrote an entire series on Technological Innovation and Leadership a few weeks back (which I plan to continue now) but it struck me that most of what I was saying is restricted only to the products front. In innovation literature one often sees the grandiose themes of R & D, breakthrough technologies, and Intellectual Property. While [...]

This is the second part of a two part Interview with Leighton Phillips, Intel World Ahead Program Manager for Asia Pacific. The first part focussed on questions related to Intel’s WorldAhead program. As promised, this second part deals with some of the controversial questions including Intel’s abrupt exit from the One Laptop Per [...]