Microsoft recently retired its Hotmail Service & went all out in ensuring its users migrate safely to its newer avatar; Outlook.com. Now the revamped & reworked iteration features core integration of Google’s instant messaging platform, Google Talk, more commonly known as GTalk. How did Google agree to such a synergy? Google has a competitive product in the form of Google Mail or Gmail....

iPhone rumors can easily be defined by the word ‘unstoppable.’ The iPhone 5S rumors started as early as September 2012, and as the year 2013 is going by, the iPhone 5S has become hot as far as rumors are concerned. At this stage, we do have a possibly accurate picture of  release date timing, features and what the iPhone 5S will look like. All the rumors so far do represent as to what...

Vserv.mobi, a prominent player within the Mobile Ads Segment has bolstered its HTML5 based Ads with additional features like Social Media Sharing & A/B Testing. These Rich Media Ads will now feature some nifty & interactive marketing features. Additionally, the company has also announced that it will offer HTML5 Creative Services for free to Digital Marketers. HTML5 based ads are one of the...

National Association of Software and Services Companies or more commonly known as NASSCOM has just commissioned an Independent Unit to give impetus to Indian Software Products. An ambitious target of exceeding US$ 10 Billion in revenues by the year 2020 has been set. The Chairman of this new Product Council will be Ravi Gururaj, a seasoned entrepreneur who is the co-founder of a seed-stage angel...

How would you like it if you could ‘float’ in a bubble from one country to another? Just float like a cloud and see interesting sights and destinations, interact with people, make new friends, exchange ideas – all from your laptop screen? It sounds a bit dreamy but this is exactly what WorldFloat, a social networking platform promises. Founded by 37 year old Pushkar Mahatta, a psychology + philosophy...

The Consumer Court has just struck a blow to Airtel for not providing reliable service to its customers. The East District Consumer Disputes Redressal came to the conclusion that Airtel did not fully comply on the service agreements as stipulated in the contract & has ordered it to remedy the situation & pay penalty compensation. What implications does this have on the Service Segment? Realizing...

At a Public Hearing Forum, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) answered a few fundamental queries about its newest endeavor of offering generic Top-Level Domain names (gTLDs) to corporations. Last year in January, ICANN had announced that it was now able to offer custom extensions that went well beyond .com, .org or .in, among other prevalent ones. At that time multiple...

Two of the largest State-run Telecom Companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) & Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) could son be split up in an attempt to better monetize the two. The empowered Group of Ministers (GoM), have scheduled a meeting to consider the exact future fate of the two entities. The GoM is currently thinking of trifurcation & hive-off two new companies each holding...

Claiming the title of World’s Largest IT Training Center, Koenig Solutions has inaugurated an Offshore Campus in Delhi, Capital of India. Spread over 18,000 sq. ft., the campus houses 70 Lecture rooms & 30 Testing Stations. Amidst amenities that rival top MNC companies, the Training Center boasts of offering end-to-end facilities that are fully equipped of imparting real-world Tech Knowledge...

Every news item that you read about spammers, spam attacks, the future of spam, etc. tells you one thing over and above all else – that the threat of spam attacks is only increasing and will continue to do so. The new report by Kaspersky Lab on spam/spammers has something to say along similar lines. As per the report, unsolicited correspondence in email traffic grew slightly (+0.53% points) to reach...