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The Airtel WOW Factor: Doubles Broadband Speeds At Extra Cost, Pact With Apple For iPhone 3G
Looks like Airtel wants to lure all the customers from other Internet and mobile service providers with it’s new schemes. After launching an App Store for mobile devices, Airtel now plans to generate a new wave and add more fuel to the broadband wars by doubling the bandwidth of it’s broadband internet customers at no [...]
Twitter Announces @anywhere, Attaches Location To Tweets
Amid an audience filled with brightest minds in web and emerging technology , inquisitive for the twitter’s advertising platform, at SXSW interactive twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a new platform called @anywhere.
Apparently @anywhere is nothing but twitter’s me too effort to counter Google and Facebook connect, the blog post for the announcement reads
We’ve developed a [...]
Orkut Now Available For Your Android Phone
It seems like more and more social networking is moving from web to the mobile. If the recent launch of the INQ social phone was any indication here comes another announcement this time from the Google stable.
Google’s social network Orkut has announced that it is now available for Android phones. As most would know Android [...]
Google Enters The Living Room, Google TV To Be Launched soon
In another example of Google’s ever-increasing efforts to expand to all vistas of technology, reports are coming in that Google TV may well be on its way. A collaboration between Google, IBM and Sony, the move is seen as Google and IBM’s effort to extend their dominance in the Television industry. It is also expected [...]
Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits
In another clear indication of Facebook’s ever-increasing growth in the internet arena, Facebook surpassed Google last week as the most visited site in the United States. According to a report by Hitwise Intelligence, Facebook surpassed Google for the week ending 13th March. According to the report, Facebook last week accounted for 7.07% of the US market share, which [...]
Paypal To Grow Via Asia Route – India A Part Of The Plan?
Paypal is looking for growth in Asia as the next level for their company states a new announcement by their CEO. Infact Asia is the fastest growing market for the online payment solution provider.
PayPals buoyancy about the asian market got a thumbs up as it stated that it will work with Chinese electronic payment [...]
How Patents May Stifle Innovation!
Thomas Friedman once famously said – The world is flat! While I did not completely agree with him when I read it, I am beginning to see some truth to it. At least as far as Innovation is concerned. Yes, Patents have been around for a while now. So have Patent Infringement Lawsuits. Most of [...]
Google Finally Heading For A Shut-Down in China – A Complete Low-Down on its China Strategy
Google’s embroilment with Chinese authorities is finally coming to a close with it making up its mind to completely shut down its China operations. Google enraged a war against Chinese censorship when it made public its intention to no longer succumb to such online censorship demands of the government.
Google has tried every move in past [...]
Apalya Technologies Expects To Double Subscribers Via Acquired IPL Live Mobile Streaming Rights
IPL fever is creating ripples for various digital media businesses to flourish with its scattered deals in place. In a demonstrate IPL earlier allocated first of its kind Online streaming rights for any sporting event in India to youtube and as anticipated did the same for mobile streaming rights. Apalya has managed to acquire live [...]
Now captions in youtube videos, Google’s effort to make ad’s on youtube more relevant
Despite having a lions share in the video business, youtube still is not a profit making business for Google with an estimated loss of $1.5 million per day for the service and It is quite imminent for Google to try hard to make sense of this investment to it’s share holders. In this pursuit Google [...]
Priyanka Chopra Tweets Her Way To Twitter HQ – Will Bollywood Drive Twitter To The Top?
One of the most active of the “Twitteratis”, Priyanka Chopra added another feather to her illustrating Twitter journey by visiting the Twitter HQ at San Francisco following a special invitation. At the time of writing this article, she had already crossed 200,000 followers on Twitter, a first for a Bollywood celebrity.
Reports have it that she [...]
Apple Sues HTC In A Not-So-Veiled Attack On Android
It’s the news that has thrown the Tech World into a tizzy. Apple Corp is suing HTC for patent infringement. 20 of them! No surprise that they are all related to the iPhone – user interface, architecture and hardware. The lawsuit has been filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and a U.S. District [...]
OPERA 10.5 Launched. Race For The Fastest Re-ignited.
Opera Software, the Norwegian company which builds the Opera web browser has just come out with the final release for the Opera version 10.5. With this, they claim to have re-established Opera as the fastest browser on the planet.
With the introduction of a new JavaScript engine, Carakan, and a new graphics library, Vega, both of [...]
Bloom Box Makes A Wave..
While most of us were still celebrating the Little Master’s amazing feat, there was a celebration of a different kind going on at Silicon Valley. eBay’s headquarters played host to the unveiling of energy startup Bloom Energy’s – Bloom Box! For the uninitiated – Bloom Box is supposed to be a new type of fuel [...]
It’s Official: Twitter To Make Money Online via Ads
Head of product management and monetization at Twitter, Anamitra Banerji told MediaPost that Twitter will have ads in the near future as they are working on an ad platform which only in the test phase. In the next few months Twitter will start rolling out it’s ad platform in phases that is one region [...]