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India Post Also Wants to Keep Some of Your Data, Is That Such a Big Problem?

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 29, 2008

Saw a relatively sensational Title on LiveMint today – “Mapping Your Life”. Found it quite interesting but it basically spoke about the fact that the Indian Post is developing a directory that...

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A Sneak Peak At Windows 7, The Future of Computers, and Windows vs Mac

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 29, 2008

Microsoft previewed Windows 7 a couple of days back Bill Gates says it’s the beginning of an era of computing based on a new hierarchy of input systems. Today the machine is really set up for...

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Govt. Policy on IPTV and HITS Likely to be Announced Next Week. An Overview of the IPTV Industry.

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 29, 2008

This is a Guest Post by Raghav Soni – one of our regular readers. News Based Sources tells us that the government is likely to announce its policies on two advanced technologies i.e IPTV and...

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Social Media Marketing: Are We Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg?

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 29, 2008

Every advertising professional that you speak to today, is trying to uncover something or the other about Social Media Marketing. For a while now, it has been touted as the ‘next big thing’ in marketing....

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A Brief Introduction to Blogging

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 28, 2008

A Few Days Back I Wrote a ‘Brief Introduction to Blogging’. This is in Beta Stage and is supposed to go out to a couple of Media Students (freshers). I’ve tried not to make it too ‘technical’....

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Orkut Officially Introduces Themes

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 28, 2008

The guys at TechBuzz logged in to Orkut yesterday to find themes. This is not a javascript hack or Orkut app and according to him, only a limited number of users have access to this feature. As of now,...

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Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 27, 2008

Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com. I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s...

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Educomp to Raise Up to $500 Million

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 27, 2008

This is a guest post by Abhinandan Nardekar. He is a student at BITS Pilani. Educomp Solutions Ltd on Monday said that the members of the company have passed the resolution to raise up to $500...

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Dhoom 2.5 To be Out Soon via WATGame.com. More on Bollywood and ‘Engagement’

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 27, 2008

It’s bad enough that we had to be subject to that trash called Dhoom 2 in the theatres, that fine people from FXLabs (notorious for the pathetic Agni) have decided to torture us with their 3-D rendition...

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Google Beefs Up Top Management via WATJob.com

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 27, 2008

Google has made some key senior management appointments for its India operations. Sridhar Seshadri has been appointed Business Head-Financial Services, Parminder Singh is Business Head-Technology, while...

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Mohit Gupta Joins MakeMyTrip as CMO via WATJob

by Harshil Karia | posted: May 27, 2008

Mohit Gupta has joined online travel agency MakeMyTrip.com as chief marketing officer. Earlier, Gupta was vice-president, marketing, flavours, at PepsiCo International. Commenting on his move...

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