Facebook ropes in Mozilla VP & installs Live Search, while clearing off a few Controversies

by | posted: July 29, 2008
      While still largely lagging behind Google and Yahoo with the market share and the search rankings, Microsoft yesterday announced that it had expanded its deal with Facebook and...
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The Need For OLPC In India. Is Anil Ambani Joining In ?

by | posted: July 29, 2008
I have always believed we need better, more affordable computing resources. OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) always looked like a good solution for this. That the project always ran into one problem...
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DoT ditches the 3G Auction for CDMA Players, new policy to decide their future

by | posted: July 29, 2008
  If all the recent activity, that’s happening with India’s Telecom Market, is any indication, the Department of Telecom (DoT) has surely been busy with their decision making abilities....
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Mobile Subscribers Rise By 9 Million (almost) In June.. While Total Broadband Subscribers Only 4.38 Million!

by | posted: July 28, 2008
Well if the latest TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)  data is anything to go by than the monthly mobile subscribers are more than double of the countries total broadband subscribers! Well if...
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OnMobile Inks Deals For Mobile Music With South Indian Music Labels

by | posted: July 28, 2008
OnMobile has entered into exclusive content deals with over 40 music labels from South India, reports medianama. The labels will offer music to be used as mobile content by OnMobile. It is claimed...
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Ex-Googlers Launch ‘Cuil.com’ – They Claim Its Bigger.. Better than Google!!

by | posted: July 28, 2008
  Well lots of attempts have been made including claims of making a search engine better than google. There have been startups like Powerset or Mahalo both of which use natural language or human powered...
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RBI Tries to Introduce Norms for Mobile Banking – Cashless Society 2.0?

by | posted: July 28, 2008
  It all started with RBI suddenly realizing the importance & wide array of applications of mobile banking and planned to start working on operative norms! According to their draft, banks are...
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Reliance Communications laps up $ 500 million from EDC, Canada – Will it help improve their services now?

by | posted: July 28, 2008
  Reliance Communications has been upbeat about sprucing up its GSM services for a long time, now. After making SMART’s, its GSM network, presence felt in the eastern and central zone, Reliance...
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Accel Partners & Erasmic Ventures Merge To Launch Accel India Venture – Seed/Early Stage Venture Firm

by | posted: July 28, 2008
Erasmic Ventures which is a seed stage investor and has done investments like Myntra.com, Chakpak.com and HolidayIQ in the internet space in India has now been absorbed by Silicon Valley based Accel Partners...
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Jeevansathi.com Lets You Chat With Other Users Over Google Talk

by | posted: July 25, 2008
Just received this tip. Jeevansathi.com now lets you chat with other users over Google Talk. No IDs are exchanged, you can do it anonymously. Users can now chat with the users who are already online....
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Twitter Mania Or Twitter Maniac?

by | posted: July 25, 2008
    Yesterday seemed to be a doomsday for people in the blogosphere as their favorite messaging system Twitter had encountered with a weird problem. All of a sudden our hard earned followers...
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Rediff India Q1 Revenues Up 42% – “We are looking At Acquiring Companies” – Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman Rediff.com

by | posted: July 24, 2008
Rediff announced its first quarter results and things are looking bright as far as the Indian online business is concerned. Here are the highlights of the key numbers: India Online revenues up to 6.56...
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Social Gaming: Is it the Future of Gaming?

by | posted: July 24, 2008
Over the past 5 years, we have seen immense technological advancements on the internet. There have been huge changes to the way a visitor interacts with a website and pages. These technological aspects...
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Malicious Websites on the Rise, Google’s Blogger the Top Target

by | posted: July 24, 2008
    How secure are you when you browse the internet from your computer? How secure is your financial data? Do you check what page you are going to visit? How safe is the page that you have just...
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RK Swamy To Launch HR Portal hrdirectiononline.com

by | posted: July 24, 2008
RK Swamy BBDO, a 650-crore group having its own creative agency is planning to launch an HR portal for India, reports Business Standard. Rs. 3 crore will be invested in the portal that is planned...
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Microsoft Internet Explorer For Mobile Coming Soon

by | posted: July 23, 2008
After the success of Opera Mini and iPhone’s Safari, Microsoft plans to bring Internet Explorer to the mobile phones. The phone will be available in the third quarter of 2008, reports Telecom...
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