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Is The Future Of The Web BLACK?

Back in 2007 , a blogger had blogged that a black google would save 3000 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of [...]

Twitt(url)y - A Service For Tracking Popular URLs On Twitter

Twitt(url)y powered by Summize is another service which promises to make users life much more easy. So what exactly does Twitt(url)y do?

Twitturly is a service for tracking URLs that people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. The about us page describes the easiest way to understand how Twitturly works if [...]

Updated: Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky Speaks About Windows 7

As Windows XP deadline approaches Vista sales is expected to go up. But people all over the world seem to be more interested in the upcoming version of Windows 7 rather than Vista. In an exclusive interview with CNET, Steven Sinofsky the senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft [...]

A Brief Introduction to Blogging

A Few Days Back I Wrote a ‘Brief Introduction to Blogging’. This is in Beta Stage and is supposed to go out to a couple of Media Students (freshers). I’ve tried not to make it too ‘technical’. Need to send this out soon so your additions would be invaluable.

If you’re one of those 35 [...]

Orkut Officially Introduces Themes

The guys at TechBuzz logged in to Orkut yesterday to find themes. This is not a javascript hack or Orkut app and according to him, only a limited number of users have access to this feature. As of now, you can choose between four different themes. More will be on the way. I tried logging into Orkut, [...]

Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. has invested in a US Based Social Network, which specializes in location based aggregation and services. What does this investment mean strategically? How does this coincide with the launch of Big Maps? Will Yatra, another RTVL Venture be tied in? We try and put the pieces together and get some stuff from the guys at RTVL.

Educomp to Raise Up to $500 Million

This is a guest post by Abhinandan Nardekar. He is a student at BITS Pilani.

Educomp Solutions Ltd on Monday said that the members of the company have passed the resolution to raise up to $500 million. The resources will be raised through ADR, GDR, FCCB, or QIP, with requisite majority. This announcement comes almost immediately after [...]

Dhoom 2.5 To be Out Soon via WATGame.com. More on Bollywood and ‘Engagement’

It’s bad enough that we had to be subject to that trash called Dhoom 2 in the theatres, that fine people from FXLabs (notorious for the pathetic Agni) have decided to torture us with their 3-D rendition of what claims to be Dhoom 2.5 for the PC.
While Yash Raj studios signed a deal with FXLabs [...]

UTV To Invest 120 crores in 10 Internet Portals.. Completes ITNation Acquisition

We had broken the story of UTV acquiring ITNation sometime back and now news is abuzz with the completion of the acquisition and the numbers are out. UTV paid 15 crores to acquire 76% of ITNation which owns digital news properties like Techtree.com , CXOToday.com, Channeltimes.com & Enterpriser.in. Earlier to ITNation UTV had acquired a [...]

Google Beefs Up Top Management via WATJob.com

Google has made some key senior management appointments for its India operations. Sridhar Seshadri has been appointed Business Head-Financial Services, Parminder Singh is Business Head-Technology, while Narasimha Jayakumar has been brought in as Business Head-Travel & Local for its advertising and monetisation business.

According to Google India, the appointment of Sridhar Seshadri, Parminder Singh and Narasimha [...]

Oldies Deleted From The Social Network. While The Youth Misuse The Same

Technology surely made the new generation kids smarter but in the end many of them end up doing some foolish act. Apparently a 17 years old, Alex Phillips from Wisconsin has posted nude pics of his underage (16 yrs old) ex-girlfriend on his myspace account.

He has been arrested and has been charged with distributing child [...]

Mohit Gupta Joins MakeMyTrip as CMO via WATJob

Mohit Gupta has joined online travel agency MakeMyTrip.com as chief marketing officer.

Earlier, Gupta was vice-president, marketing, flavours, at PepsiCo International.

Commenting on his move from offline to online marketing, Gupta says, “The intention is to participate and contribute in those areas of marketing which are showing a higher growth.”

He adds, “At MakeMyTrip.com, I will look after marketing strategy, [...]

What mobifusion-mcgrawhill education means for the Indian Education Sector

This is a guest post by Raghav Soni – one of our readers.

According to a press release:- Mobifusion, a top provider of Indian mobile content products and services, announced a partnership with McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) in India, a leader in educational services and publishing, to develop mobile learning products adapted from its best- selling titles. mcgraw [...]

All About The Great Indian Developer Summit

‘The Great Indian Developer Summit’ held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, saw large scale participation from the Bangalore IT Developer community. On the 19th of May, 1200 developers attended the two day Bleeding-edge.NET conference.

The Great Indian Developer summit is an effort to bring together the world’s leading software giants, technology innovators, creators, [...]

Exclusive Interview With SpotCrime Team

Last week I had come across a site called spotcrime.com. This site is another example that how important an “About Us” page can be. As this site was missing it I had to mail them few of my queries from their contact page. And I have received their reply for the same.

Q) What is the [...]