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According to Hindu, BSNL has made its dial-up connection, NetOne, available for free. Such a move by BSNL spurred a thought in me. What if dial-up connections are actually made free in India? Will that see people making bee lines outside land line operators’ for new connections, all year round? How can an operator leverage on such a scenario. Let us try to analyze how life would be, in a world of free internet (dial-up, of course).

There are a lot many of us who either hate or do not even know how to set up RSS feeds. A lot many people prefer content updates to be delivered right to their email addresses. A friend of mine satisfies most of his internet needs at the expense of his working hours but since he cannot access most of the news and blog pages in office. So, how do we solve his little problem? And yours, of course!

It hasn’t been too long since blogging took off, in a big way, in India. Although a lot of interesting debate can spark off on which one the oldest Indian Blog might be, we ask, does it really matter? What matters is the evolution, the way the blogging scenario shaped in this country.

It was InstaBlogs who first realized the importance of forming a guild (of sorts) for the Indian bloggers. It was sad to find no other volunteer for the cause, until it was August 2007 and IndiBlogger was formed…

One can always trust the Department of Telecom to come up with the most radical of ideas and storm up conspiracies. Of course, it must be said that almost all the ideas, DoT has ever implemented, have benefitted the end user till sun dawn. And of course, they have done it again, their favorite theft of time, the 3G policy.

It’s been a while since big-wig search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN Live had launched their local search engines but how many times have you ever used it to find a certain eatery joint or a movie multiplex nearby? It’s both an irony and heartening to know that OnYoMo manages to quench our thirst for local search much better than any other in the market.

Well, no more. Google has come up with a Mobile Search feature that allows you to search whatever you like that might make use of knowledge regarding your current geographical location.

Do you have a brand image to maintain? Do you have any idea what the web-o-sphere is talking about the new Facebook application you created for your client? Are you working on an online reputation management project for some brand and weekly progress needs to be sent to your client by your team? Google Docs Spreadsheets does the job easy for you, combined with Google’s famed search engine and Yahoo Pipes

A lot is going to happen, this September 9th. Speculations are around on Apple launching a new version of iPod, touch sensitive Macbooks and even Windows bidding goodbye to “laser”! Indeed, the time seems to have finally come, to say good bye to the beloved and faithful mouse that served the human kind for so many years!

Rajshri Media, the web, mobile studio and digital entertainment arm of Rajshri Group, has signed multi-film content licensing deal with Eros International , the leading integrated studio within the Indian media & entertainment sector.

What makes me wonder, though, is the fact that with so much of TV content gradually shifting online, emergence of WiMAX in the country and also IPTV making its foray, slowly but surely, how long more till we have two different viewing devices at home, one for television content and another for computing pleasures?

UTStarcom, announced a contract with Aksh Optifibre, to deploy UTStarcom’s end-to-end RollingStream® Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution in 20 cities on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s ADSL 2+ network, a UTStarcom-built multi-play infrastructure that currently supports more than 75 percent of the active wired lines in India. UTStarcom is known to sell its IP-based, ene-to-end networking solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunication markets around the world.

How do you make people believe that the average age of today’s Indian gamer is 28 years and 61% of all console players are above 18 years of age? This is hardly the age that one might call adolescence. Rather, this is the age that actually influences a family’s purchases and is also a young, bachelor bread winner who does not mind splurging a few extra bucks on branded consumer goods. So, it comes as no rocket science that today’s brands and advertising agencies are eyeing the video gaming industry is the latest prospective arena for advertising and increasing brand awareness.

MSN India has decided to offer children across India an oportunity to experience Noddy through its exclusive videos of the live musical performance that would tour different Indian cities in August and September, including Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore.

Microsoft and Nikon on Thursday announced that they have signed a cross-licensing patent agreement on Nikon’s digital camera patents as well as consumer electronics patents from each company. The two parties did not disclose specifics of the deal, but Microsoft said that it will be receiving payment from Nikon and that the deal will be related to its digital imaging software.

Get ready to dial a new set of numbers in near future. he earlier announced guidelines had specified that spectrum for broadband wireless can be used only for data services. However, the Telecom Commission, in its meeting on August 21 has taken a decision to remove the restriction.

After announcing new versions of its traditional image and video editors, Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7, Adobe also announced a new flash based mobile application, the Photoshop.com Mobile for Windows and Palm based smartphones.

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.

This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.