Wikipedia encyclopedia’s first volume to be published in Germany in September 2008. The book will consist nearly 1,000 pages with approximate 50,000 most widely searched words on German version.

The Indian Internet space is seeing a proliferation of regional language content websites. This was then followed by Business Standard launching bshindi.com and NDTV launching NDTVKhabar.com - a news portal that is launched in Hindi. We also heard about BigAdda.com following Orkut by adding regional language messaging. But a step ahead Webdunia- a website that offers content in vernacular language. Webdunia relaunched itself in November 2007 with a T.V commercial.

Indian telecom market is hot favorite among the investors right now. Plenty of international companies have stepped into this market. Earlier, we had blogged about Virgin entering the Indian telecom industry in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Before Virgin coming to India, Orange and Hutch had already visited the telecom industry and were lapped up by [...]

With vacations around, different travel portals will have their own offers for attracting the customers. The online travel market is increasing. Many new players are getting into the travel business with a thought of growing large. International players are now targeting the Indian travel business. Sometime back we have mentioned about Expedia to launch [...]

 
Online transactions are increasingly being used to pay bills, recharge, booking tickets and etc. Earlier, SpiceJet had tied up with BillDesk for easy and safe online payments. Now, the cellular companies have also stepped into online payments. Airtel has launched M-Commerce solution for easy payment.
 
 
Airtel customers can now pay their bills, recharge their talk-time, buy [...]

As promised in my earlier post I am back with BigAdda’s COO, Siddhartha Roy in an exclusive interview on WATBlog regarding BigAdda launching 8 regional languages.

WATBlog: Orkut already has a multilingual support. What makes BigAdda.com different?
Siddhartha: We are not comparing ourselves with Orkut. We didn’t do a research in what they have. We strictly [...]

The use of social networking sites (SNS) is most common among the youths for networking, dating and friendship. There has been a growth of 47% in the use of the SNS. According to JuxtConsult, 44% of the online traffic just uses Internet for SNS. As the users are increasing there is a need for making [...]

 
Cyber crimes are increasing but today we gonna talk about cyber crimes that has an ill-effect on the society. Kids and the teenagers are most likely to get influenced by the negative things. Children are likely to perform things that they are unaware of and hence fall into some troubles. To make life simpler and [...]

Learning is now becoming simpler and easier. With the advanced in technology mock entrance test, IIT lectures on YouTube, knowing your IIT JEE ranking and many such things. Now, Encyclopedia of Life goes online. I remember when I was in school the encyclopedia book set used to be expensive CD’s were available but were limited [...]

 
Travel portals like MakeMyTrip.com has stepped into the business of booking online railway packages. Cleartrip.com can be used for searching railway tickets. This was a little inconvenient for people who didn’t have Internet or don’t know how to use it. Indian Railways (IR) is to start allowing booking of railway tickets through mobile phones. Mobile [...]

These days I have been hearing a lot about the educational portals and their new features. The educational standard in India is improving. India-UK virtual grad school was an initiative towards the educational system in India. Later on Tata Indicom, IITs, Mumbai Universities followed the suite. Now, Hundred Percentile Education Private Limited have announced IIT [...]

 
These days’ lots of websites and companies are stepping into the business of spreading awareness about some of the deadlier and incurable diseases like AIDS, polio, whopping cough, tuberculosis and many more. Sometime back Fropper.com along with Saadhan, stepped into spreading awareness and solving queries regarding AIDS/HIV. Facebook on other hand joined in [...]

After the first India UK virtual school there has been plenty of companies who have stepped into the business of e-learning. Few days back IIT lectures and entrance test went online with mock test for entrance test on Tata Indicom Mobiles. Now, MBD Alchemie has partnered with IBM for delivering e-learning courses.
 
 
MBD Alchemie, [...]

Yatra.com, one of the online travel website that offers booking tickets have reached a revenue of 120mn$ by the end of 2007 and now claims to reach the sales of 210mn$ in2008. Country’s online travel market has been increasing companies are stepping into this market with a thought of increasing their online revenue.
 
 
Sometime back, Yatra.com [...]

Online transactions are all round the place. The number of the people using Internet is increasing. In India, the active internet users have increased from 21.1 million in 2006 to 32 million in 2007. The increase in the users has lead to various new things in the Internet world. Recently, SpiceJet tied up with [...]