Google India has launched a ‘Start Searching India‘ campaign aimed at simplifying Internet usage for it’s users. “The objective of the campaign is to help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant answers to their most common queries,” Sandeep Menon, Director, Marketing, Google India, said. The campaign aims to share interesting tips about search...

Skype’s free video messaging service has exited beta and landed on Windows 8, Mac, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Skype’s video messaging feature lets you record and share a 3 minute personal video and send it to people on their contacts list if they are offline. The recipients will be able to watch the video message when they sign-in next time. Skype is calling the feature as a video...

Gaana, Times Internet’s music streaming service has updated its Android app with  Gaana 2.0 and Gaana+. Gaana 2.0 updates the app with a new interface for My Zone and adds feature like multi-bit rate streaming which enables users to choose the streaming rate based on your data connection strength. Furthermore, 2.0 is more intuitive  and allows better search, creation and editing a playlist  in...

WeChat , the mobile messaging platform is apparently within the crosshairs of Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) as the body has proposed banning the same. The internet dependent smartphone based messaging platform is quite similar to immensely popular rival Whatsapp. The intelligence tracking & monitoring authority feels that proliferation of such a service is a threat to National Security. In...

Online Ticketing Agents (OTA), especially for movies, are being questioned by Bombay High Court (HC) for overcharging patrons who purchase movie tickets from them, reports Medianama. The HC has asked multitude of online companies like BookMyShow.com, Big Cinema, Fame India, INOX, Fun Multiplex, Sterling, Globus Cinema, New Excelsior, 24 Karat Multiplex, HDIL Broadway, Abhiruchi City Pride and E-Square...

Ayojak has rebranded their service and is now known as Explara. The move comes as part of a larger effort to grow global. They announced the change in their official blog. Ayojak has had a good 4 year run and has powered the registration and ticketing functions of quite a few events over the years. We have used Ayojak for our WATSummit and Digital CMO events and we have to say that it worked out well...

Continuing its long trait of smartphone launches, Samsung has launched Galaxy S4 Zoom,  a new version of its flagship smartphone that includes 10x optical zoom. By launching the phone the South Korean electronic giant has actually erased the fine line between a smartphone and a digital camera. The S4 Zoom sports a 16-megapixel camera with a 10x optical zoom and a Xenon flash, along with a special...

The power of Social Media & Internet is a very interesting one. Zomato experienced the same owing to a few teenagers. Their experience after opting to go to a restaurant based on information obtained from Zomato, went viral and prompted the local listings and deals company to relook at their rating & information mechanisms. How did the Internet help? In this case the internet helped a few...

Mumbai based online e-Books e-Commerce portal Attano has added a new & unique convenience feature that allows buyers to purchase individual chapters within an e-Book instead of paying for the whole copy. e-Books have been around for quite some time. In fact, they have come to the aide of students for their references & studies. But, purchasing a whole book for a few chapters has been a financial...

Being a standalone app developer in India is freaking hard! If you have a successful web service, you can only then afford to introduce mobile apps. Not many companies/startups want to even test the murky waters known as ‘mobile first’. Even if we are witnessing an increase in the amounts of Indian apps being developed, we still have some way to go before the scene lights up in the country. A critical...