Here is a great way to integrate an online shopping experience into people’s offline world.  Popular online fashion and lifestyle portal Yebhi.com has followed the footsteps of Homeshop 18 and rolled out 30 virtual stores across Café Coffee Day outlets in two cities — Delhi and Bangalore. The stores boast of a virtual wall that showcases the range of products offered by the portal, along with...

When Adobe launched their Creative Cloud offering last year, it was immediately clear that this would be what Adobe would bank on for the future. However, the company has many legacy apps from the Creative Suite line which have been running since a while and it would definitely take time before a transition to the new series took place. This has now happened as Adobe announced yesterday that it would...

India’s dream to give a positive boost to education via electronic medium of Tablets seems on its way to fruition. Datawind, the company assigned with the duty of manufacturing 1 Lakh units of ultra-affordable Aakash II has just announced completion of delivery of the entire first batch. What does the final dispatched version have? Datawind has managed to include a lot of mainstream features within...

Nokia India, continuing with its push for developing apps on the Windows Mobile platform, has launched ‘Appcelerate-India‘ in collaboration with AppCampus and the members of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels (India chapter), to foster development on Nokia Lumia and Windows. The key stakeholders are set to invest in excess of $500,000 to provide for an array of grants, seed funding,...

Okay, let us admit it – We spend a lot of time these days in front of the computer! A whole lot of professions require the use of the Internet these days. Students are using the Internet to study and explore information (at least, that is what they say!).  We can all agree that the Internet has made communication across geographical boundaries easier with the introduction of video chat and VOIP.   Most...

CareerBuilder.co.in, the online job portal has launched a free tool namely ‘hireINSIDER‘ that will let know who exactly you’re stacked up against competitors in the job-hunt. The company has called the launching of this technology as a radical move that will potentially solve the issue thousands of job-applicants face in their lives. Until now, many job-seekers faced one major problem-...

Facebook announced its new experiment called Facebook Home yesterday. Last week, speculation was rife among silicon valley tech pundits about Facebook’s event and what ‘Come see our home on Android’ meant. Facebook phone and custom android OS were some of the possibilities being discussed. What Facebook ended up showing was – to put it frankly – pretty okay! Facebook home is what...

The Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) recently conducted a survey based on Cyber Security and what it means for school children across India. The survey covered more than 13,000 students of 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th standards in cities such as Pune, Mumbai, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Patiala, Bhatinda and Nellore. The participants were also given out bookmarks specifically designed for the purpose and theme...

The potential of making education more accessible is immense these days with the proliferation of the Internet around the country. It is not surprising there is considerable interest being shown in the segment by both VCs and startups. One of the companies that provides online education services is Liqvid which calls itself an e-learning company. Currently, their focus is on English Edge, their new...

The Insight newsletter team of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai) has launched a Facebook Social Reader along the lines of the Washington Post Social Reader Facebook app. For the uninitiated, a Social Reader app on Facebook helps you know what your friends are reading and will share what you read with your friends thereby giving you access to intriguing articles, ones you have missed...