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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 to generate revenues of Rs. 10 crore by the first year.

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. Now, knowing Microsoft’s past, and what they did to win the first browser war, they sure gonna put up a worthy competent. Ohh, I know what you are thinking.

It was just today that we brought you the news about Zapak launching a mobile gaming site at http://zapak.mobi. Now, we have just been told that NDTV Active, the mobile portal from NDTV now brings your mobile Java based games, courtesy of Hovr.

You are reading it first here: Well that was quick! I just got informed by Bharatmatrimony that they too have tied up with Tata Sky and unlike Shaadi.com - Dishtv alliance have already launched the service on the Tata Sky yesterday itself. So as I write this blog the press conference is being held at chennai.

Its almost ironical that we mentioned in our post covering the shaadi and dishtv (which was done just an hour ago!) tie up that the reaction would come in the form of bharatmatrimony or jeevansaathi tying up with Tata Sky. Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

Well taking the web everywhere seems to be the funda being followed by the big web players. So if earlier it was about opening offline centres now Shaadi.com has set its eyes on the set top box users by tying up with DTH player DishTv to provide Shaadi Active a service that will allow DishTv viewers to browse through matrimonial profiles on their TV Screens!

Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there.

The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the market these days and the games have been designed [...]

In.com which is web18’s horizontal portal play which had launched as a closed beta site with invite only and a logged in portal as we had blogged before has now opened up to public beta. The site has a very nice UI but looks more like an aggregator of content when compared to its biggest competitor in the horizontal portal space i.e. rediff.com which i known for creating editorial content. Read on to find out more on what could it mean for horizontal space..

WATShow.com caught up with Zarik Ansari - Head Rediff Platforms at Proto.in where Rediff.com announced its developer platform. We asked him the following probing questions right after the announcement:

1) What is this platform that rediff has launched for developers?

2) What mark up languages can developers use for developing for rediff?

3) Is Rediff building apps of its own to start with?

4) How does the developer benefit?

5) How will rediff make money?

6) Will there be a separate page for apps on Rediff.com?

7) Will rediff allow its competitors to create apps for its platform?

8 ) How do you plan to help an Indian App Developer?

Watch Now..

A lot has been happening between India’s GSM players, foreign players interested in the growing Indian market, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the CDMA players. DoT has already had to take some important decisions related to the 3G spectrum auction. It has already allowed international players into the auction and doubled the reserve price for the WiMax auction, which we have already covered earlier. Now, the department is eyeing the recent Idea-Spice Mobile deal.

While the news about Apple suing Mac hardware clone maker Psystar is still ripe, here comes another company wanting to make some cash on the same grounds. Another firm, by the name of Open Tech, is now planning to sell hardware that apparently supports all the major Operating Systems including Windows XP, Ubuntu (Linux Distro), Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard. Although the first 3 Operating Systems are open to be run on any type of PC, no matter what brand or make it is, Apple’s license forbids the installation of Mac OS X on any hardware other than Apple’s own.

Updated Again: Sanjeev sent me this reply on facebook post reading this article. After reading his reply I have to say Point Taken Sanjeev Read his reply below:
 
Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s response: “The way to measure value creation is what happens to the merged entity after 3 to 5 years and not the fact that acquisitions [...]

A few days back, while surfing, I came across this piece of article that discussed how a researcher named Dan Kaminsky has figured out a flaw in the basic architecture of the Internet. The flaw, which appears in the DNS system allows for poison attacks. Dan had been working with Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Consortium to patch the vulnerability. Dan had planned to disclose the vulnerability once he is done patching it up. He was planning to disclose the vulnerability in the Black Hat security conference to be held on August 6.

Facebook have just unveiled the next evolution of Site Design!
Slicker, cooler, cleaner!
“We’ve made the changes rolling out today in order to highlight the most recent and relevant information that users value, give users even more control and ownership over their profiles and simplify the user experience,” said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Facebook’s [...]

Are you tired of looking at the plain, old and boring Gmail User Interface (UI) that hasn’t been changed ever since 2004? Even though Google has been constantly rolling out new features for its services, it has never bothered to update the UI for many of its services. Google may have its own reasons for not rolling out a new look, but that doesn’t stop us from customizing it our own way, does it?Here’s how a customized Gmail looks.

Pimpri-Chinchwad is a small city near Pune. Formed by two towns of Pimpri and Chinchwad, the city is located to the west of Pune. With four engineering colleges, Pimpri-Chinchwad is to Pune what Noida is to Delhi. Well, not exactly, but that can be the case within a couple of years. It was proposed that Pimpri-Chinchwad be renamed to New Pune. Now, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Infomedia Private Limited (PCIPL) has announced to launch a web portal for the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad