Now Google Is Also A Dictionary

by | posted: December 7, 2009
The Google search engine is not just about finding information from other websites. One of the most valuable aspects of Google search is its ability to offer a wide range of information like exchange rates,...
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New DoT Directive Plans To Prefix An Additional 9 To Mobile Numbers

by | posted: December 4, 2009
If the Department of Telecommunications has its way, you could be spending the New Year’s day editing the contacts in your phonebook rather than actually calling your friends to wish them. A new...
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Yahoo Ranks Rahul Gandhi As India’s Top Newsmaker For 2009

by | posted: December 2, 2009
When it comes to internet search engines, Yahoo is not a company one might readily think of. It is easy to forget that the company still holds significant market share in the industry which is so mightily...
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Yahoo Mail Loses Top Spot To Gmail In Latest Rankings For India

by | posted: October 13, 2009
In what can seem like an ironic twist of fate, just when Yahoo came calling to India with the “It’s You!” campaign, Indians seem to have moved elsewhere. A new report from online analytics...
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Google Ads To Get Bigger and Better – The Right Way To Build The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem?

by | posted: October 7, 2009
A recent estimate by Gartner claims that the number of smartphones will see a huge surge in popularity in the near future with a 27% growth predicted for this year. With more and more mobile phone users...
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Online Matrimony Sites Focusing On Newer Technologies To Increase Revenues

by | posted: October 5, 2009
Online match-making is on course to get a makeover. Falling ad revenues, which constitutes a negligible, yet significant portion of the revenues for these websites has forced these companies to have a...
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Apple App Store Surpasses Two Billion Downloads

by | posted: September 29, 2009
One year and two months after it was launched, the Apple App Store has crossed a staggering milestone of two billion app downloads. What makes the number even more amazing is that the last one billion...
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Microsoft Launches WebsiteSpark To Fight Open Source. Is This Compelling Enough?

by | posted: September 25, 2009
For long Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to woo the web developer community into using their technologies for web development. In the era of the dot-com, open source rules and it is LAMP (Linux, Apache,...
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Samsung And DoCoMo Enter Tie-Up To Launch Android Handset ‘Galaxy’ In India

by | posted: September 25, 2009
Samsung’s foray into Android operating system begins in India with a tie-up with the TATAs. Today, Samsung announced its partnership with Tata Teleservices to launch the Android handset, ‘Galaxy’...
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Can Indian Search Engines Ever Tackle The Google Threat?

by | posted: September 24, 2009
A recent Comscore report about the state of the search engines in India states the obvious – Google is an undisputed leader in the space with close to 88.4% market share. The remaining dozen is shared...
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Facebook Partners With Nielsen For ‘Brand Lift’ – Is Facebook Shooting Itself On Its Foot?

by | posted: September 22, 2009
Social networking is great. People spend hours together on websites like Facebook and so it is a great platform for advertisers to reach out to their target audience. However, unlike Search Engine Marketing,...
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MingleBox Launches Free CAT Portal For MBA Aspirants – Can They Make It Big?

by | posted: September 21, 2009
2009 has not been a favorable year for Indian social networks. With the terrific growth of Facebook, each of these small time social networks have faced the heat, despite how they had positioned themselves....
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Facebook Groups Updates On SMS – Will This Help Brands Engage More With Users?

by | posted: September 19, 2009
The Groups pages on Facebook is such a popular way for brands to engage with their users; so much so that brands are actually willing to spend money to advertise their Facebook pages. Now after taking...
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Youtube Launches ‘Trending Topic’ – Inspired By Twitter

by | posted: September 18, 2009
I’m not being cynical here, but it is my opinion that most popular tech blogs are quite funny sometimes when it comes to covering news. When Susan Boyle makes headlines with her singing at a talent...
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Arunjaitley.com Is Lawfully Mine, Claims Arun Jaitley

by | posted: September 16, 2009
Arun Jaitley might not be as hot a celebrity like Yuvi or Ash, but the BJP minister still has 61 pages of information about him on Google (only 61?). That apparently makes his name a ‘commodity’...
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Orkut Launches Video Chat Feature – Will This Counter The Facebook Threat?

by | posted: September 16, 2009
Now that we have had so many social networks jostling for market shares, it is time to stop and wonder how many of these social networks have introduced features that have actually helped in the core concept...
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