Directi, an Indian corporation which offers a variety of internet products in the domains, hosting and media space has announced a new web suffix which they will be launching next month. The new suffix ‘.in.net’ is being targeted towards Indian businesses who would like to have an online presence. This domain extension will be operated by Directi as generic, unrestricted domain. The company previously...

Despite a weaker demand for personal computers, India has still managed to see an upward trend in PC shipments. As per the latest report by research firm IDC, personal computer sale in India has grown by 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013 as compared to last year’s sale. The overall India PC shipments for quarter 1, 2013 stood at 2.71 million units with quarter-on-quarter growth of 7.5%. “The...

The Indian government has asked net telephony service providers which use the VoIP (Voice over internet Protocol) technology to set up their servers in India if they wish to operate within the country’s territory. Services that will be concerned with the development include Skype, Viber and other similar apps and programs. This is primarily because the government at the Centre wishes these companies...

We  had covered Sailfish, the mobile OS that Finnish startup Jolla was developing, a few months back. The OS is based on MeeGo, the OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone OS. A lot of developers had dedicated a fair bit of time to Nokia’s linux based platform to see it get axed this way. The most passionate among them forked the MeeGo codebase and over time created the new gesture based...

Soon after adding whopping 41 features for Google+ last week during I/O, Google has now updated its Google+ android app.  The latest update focuses on images, location and the overall stream. Like the Web version,  Google+ for Android provides users with options such as automatic photo enhancements and Auto Awesome. Google+ will automatically show you “highlights” of each photo gallery...

An 18-year old Indian-origin teen who resides in the United States of America has invented a super-capacitor device that provides the capability of charging a cell-phone in almost no time at all: it can charge a mobile handset in just 20 seconds. Eesha Khare, who stays at Saratoga, California, has been awarded the Intel Young Scientist Award which is given by the Intel foundation. She has designed...

Soon after buying  social media blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Yahoo has overhauled its photo sharing service Flickr. Flickr has been overhauled with high resolution images and larger photos. The new Flickr homepage offers “endless scrolling” and has ditched the old interface with white space, text and blue links. It now sports a sleek user interface with grid layout...

Wechat is being hailed as the up and coming competitor to Whatsapp. The app has picked up in the Indian market which is itself getting accustomed to smartphones and the handheld device revolution. It was launched in India in July last year in partnership with Ibibo as Tencent has minority stake in the company. There were speculations about it starting to charge money from its customers but Dennis Hau...

In a bid to strengthen its revenue even further, Indian music streaming service Dhingana has rolled out ‘Premium Video Advertising” – video ads that run for 10-30 seconds, and which are displayed on-screen before or after a song is played. For now, they’re available within Dhingana’s iOS app, with Android to follow. Speaking about the launching video ads, Rohit Bhatia, CEO of Dhingana ”Video...

Ravi Gururaj, a seasoned executive at software firm Citrix Systems has initiated a new startup incubator.  Titled Frictionless Ventures the program will attempt at nurturing Concepts & Experimental platforms. The co-founder of the Harvard Business Angels (India chapter) explained the concept, “We follow a slightly different model at Frictionless Ventures. Unlike other incubators, we will put...