Home Ministry Asks DoT To Look Into Imported SIM Cards

by | posted: November 11, 2010
In yet another step by the Indian home ministry to tighten its grip on the technology and telecommunications company, they have asked Department of Telecom (DoT) to explore the feasibility of making it...
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Google & Bing ‘Stay Away’ from China

by | posted: September 14, 2010
Recently, China has granted Internet map service licenses. Google and Microsoft’s Bing, two of the most popular search engines globally, have been indirectly told to ‘Stay Away’ for the license...
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India’s Tablet A Bitter Pill To Swallow?

by | posted: July 27, 2010
Last Friday, Kapil Sibal proudly unveiled the $35 tablet. The media went berserk. Indian innovation was hailed. “It would change the face of education”, “breakthrough in low cost computing”. That’s...
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Google Gets A Ray Of Hope From China

by | posted: July 12, 2010
Few days ago, we had discussed how Google was changing the way its users accessed their website in China. Its Internet Content Provider (ICP) license was up for renewal and Google was trying hard to get...
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Google Looking At India, China For Android Growth

by | posted: July 7, 2010
Google is spearheading its campaign to capture the world markets and the latest development in this front is an announcement that Android will be made available on low end phones in the emerging markets...
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Google.cn – Dark Times Ahead

by | posted: June 30, 2010
The controversy surrounding Google and China never seems to die down. In the latest turn of events, Google has announced that it will stop automatically redirecting users from the google.cn website to...
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India’s SMBs Set To Drive Internet Spending

by | posted: June 29, 2010
In a new report studying the internet usage of Indian SMBs (small and medium businesses), it has been revealed that SMBs will be one of the major forces spending and driving internet growth in the country. Based...
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India Ranks 3rd in Censoring & Removal Requests To Google – A Detailed Look

by | posted: April 23, 2010
Google’s always stood by their stance of “Don’t be Evil“, which apart from their policy on software, also covers basic human rights. The recent Google China controversy brought...
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160by2.com Plans Foray Into China

by | posted: April 5, 2010
160by2 the sms marketing firm has big plans as far as expansion is concerned. We had blogged about the new features they had introduced 2 years back. Over the years 160by2 has launched its services across...
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China 2 – 1 Google – Google vs China Battle

by | posted: March 24, 2010
Round 1 27th Jan 2006 “We’re in this for the long haul. In the years to come, we’ll be making significant and growing investments in China. Our launch of google.cn, though filtered,...
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Yahoo Sees Red In China! Trouble With AliBaba? CyberAttacks?

by | posted: January 21, 2010
While Google V/S China is the big fight that has the entire internet world riveted, there is an interesting side story that could be developing. Yahoo and AliBaba on the rocks? Following cyberattacks aimed...
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Google Takes Steps To Secure Gmail After China-Censorship-Gmail-Hack Issue

by | posted: January 14, 2010
Yesterday we told you how GMail’s servers were almost hacked as Google discovered an attack originating from China which got through its security measures and compromised some intellectual property....
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TATA in Pact to Buy Majority Stake in South Africa’s Neotel

by | posted: June 25, 2008
With the Reliance Communications – MTN deal struggling to take shape, Tata Comm. (formerly VSNL) is all set to get a majority stake in another South African telecom service provider Neotel.   Neotel...
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WAT’s Up Online? – June 24, 2008

by | posted: June 24, 2008
  Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t...
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Zapak eyes US & China Based Acquisitions

by | posted: May 19, 2008
We had reported earlier about Zapak’s interest in the Russian, Chinese and West Asian Markets but it seems like the company is looking to recruit hardcore US gamers as well.   Zapak is holding discussions...
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China & The Internet. India Has a Lot of Catching Up to Do!

by | posted: February 5, 2008
The Chinese Government recently released some very interesting statistics – That of the number of Internet users in the country – the number at this point is pretty exciting. 210 Million are the...
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