Way2SMS.com Claims Over 5 Million User Registrations – A Look At Their Strategy Vs Competitors

by | posted: September 3, 2009
One of the online free SMS services in India, Way2SMS.com has recently claimed to have crossed the 5 million mark in user registrations. This comes close to two years and seven months since the website...
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Tata Indicom To Charge Flat Charge Per Call. Is This A Risky Strategy?

by | posted: September 2, 2009
Tata Teleservices has been on an agressive footing in the past few months. First, they made an aggressive foray into the GSM segment to launch Tata Docomo. They caught the imagination of the target audience...
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Google Chrome Completes One Year. Gets Sony PCs as Birthday Gift!

by | posted: September 2, 2009
It is now exactly one year since Google introduced their new browser Chrome. All along, they had patronized one of the best open source browsers in the world, Firefox and helped it become the second most...
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Enough Of Tweeting And Retweeting. Now It’s Time For Pretweeting!

by | posted: September 2, 2009
The hot trends on Twitter pretty much seem to sum up the mood of the Twitterverse. So, as I’m writing this, I can gauge that people are animatedly talking about ‘Snow Leopard’, ‘Jay...
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Yahoo Closes Down SpotM – What Will Yahoo Close Next?

by | posted: September 1, 2009
Yet another day and Yahoo decides to close down yet another of its properties. After Yahoo 360, another social network, SpotM –  the India specific website that was never out of private beta has...
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No Chinese Handsets on Indian Border – Is The Govt. Proposal Acceptable?

by | posted: September 1, 2009
The past few years have seen military tension frequently simmer between India and China over border violations,  suspicions of military spying, etc. And considering the fact that China has a tight control...
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OkTataByeBye, Confusing Name? MakeMyTrip Loses Case Against Tata

by | posted: August 31, 2009
Here is a chicken and egg question: Which came first, Tata – the Indian business conglomerate or tata – the synonym for good bye? Personally speaking, it doesn’t matter. When my friend...
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80% Urban Indians Plan Holidays Via Travel Portals – Are The Best Days Back?

by | posted: August 31, 2009
When was the last time you booked a ticket using one of the online travel portals like MakeMyTrip or Yatra? Even if you think that was long time back, chances are high that you used them at least to check...
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iProperty.com Introduces Pay-For-Performance Model – Could It Backfire?

by | posted: August 28, 2009
The real estate market has taken a huge beating in the past one year. The recession did not help and neither did the cluttered market both online and offline. As we had observed in a recent post on the...
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5.2% Rise In PC Shipments – Will the Economy Finally Revive?

by | posted: August 28, 2009
The economic downturn might not have affected India as much as it has affected the west, but still managed to apply brakes on our growth story. Finally signs of revival have started appearing. After a...
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Yet Another Search Engine In The Making – But You’ll Like This!

by | posted: August 27, 2009
When I read this news article in the morning today, I was wondering if the search engine market was getting a little too crowded now. How many more search engines do we need when close to three fourths...
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Live Sports Streaming Online – Is This Viable For The Indian Market?

by | posted: August 27, 2009
You could soon be watching cricket matches live streamed online; and that could be as early as during the upcoming tri-series involving India, New Zealand and Sri Lanka in September. Well, this is not...
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Mobile Internet Ad Spend To Boost By 2014 – Majorly From India & China

by | posted: August 26, 2009
The way the mobile story in India (and in the rest of the emerging world) is panning out makes for a good case study on how great businesses happen over a period of time, and people of the present generation...
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Microsoft Launches OneApp For Non-Smartphones. Will This Excite App Developers?

by | posted: August 26, 2009
The blogosphere may have been discussing iPhones and Blackberries all the time, but most parts of the world, including ours, are those where it is the feature phones – the ‘not so smart’...
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MyBand Provides Online Digital Store For Music Bands

by | posted: August 25, 2009
India lives on music, albeit most of them are from movies. Each one of us would remember those batch mates from college who was the best singer or the best drummer in town – guys who would save the...
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Skype Phone In India – ISD At Re. 1 Per Minute? – Is That Disruptive Enough?

by | posted: August 24, 2009
Imagine this. You are on the airport waiting to catch a flight to US and would like to confirm the arrival time to your friend who is there to receive you. Well, you can make that costly ISD call from...
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