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In one of my recent posts, I have discussed about IIT lectures on YouTube, this made it go international. But was unable to reach the small towns and villages where Internet is still can not be accessed. There are lots of people in India who are still uncomfortable using Internet. To break this disability [...]

 
In my earlier posts I have discussed about the virtual school that has been started between India and UK. This step showed that the educational system in India is planning to improve. With this thought Base and ExcelSoft, an e-learning company has launched www.successrunway.com. This site will enable the students to prepare themselves for the [...]

British Telecom (BT) is leading a consortium of 22 industry and academic partners such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to launch India-UK Advanced Technology Center (IU-ATC). IU-ATC is the first ever virtual graduate research school between India-UK. A virtual school is an online school.
This school will support collaborative transfer of technology and research [...]

TED brings together the best brains in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design or for that matter as the website says..Business, Sciences and The Arts..infact ANY subject area offering anything fresh and important. It is currently hosted by Chris Anderson and manged by his non-profit - The Sampling Foundation.
The TED blog is indeed a [...]

F**kedCompany? What the…? Before you jump out of your seats and feel dismayed at the use of such expletives on this public blog, it is suggested that you visit this website. FuckedCompany (now, I can use it, right?!) is perhaps the opposite of Techcruch. . While Techcrunch chronicles and reviews up and coming companies, services [...]

They say sharing is caring, which is indeed very true. But Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis perhaps took it a little too seriously, and created KaZaA and Skype. With Skype being acquired by ebay, the duo is now working on a project code named The Venice Project, which on the website calls itself “… a new venture [...]

Reuters: U.S. intelligence agencies have created a new computer system dubbed as "intellipedia" based on Wikis to gather input on sensitive topics from analysts across the spy community A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 [...]

Music can be everything you want it to be.. It can be spiritual, romantic, religious and even money! Well if its mobile music that is. According to Juniper Research revenues from mobile music services will top $14bn worldwide by 2011. Also Asia will become the world’s largest market for mobile music by 2011 with some [...]

Universal Music Group filed lawsuits against  two video-sharing Web sites Grouper.com and Bolt.com  for copyright laws  violation and by allowing users to share music clips and other content without permission.
Grouper.com was acquired by Sony pictures in August for $65 million. Universal Music agreed to a content licensing agreement with YouTube and negotiated licensing deals with [...]

San Francisco-based retail chain GAP inc is testing, a ecommerce web site piperlime.com with 100 shoe brands ranging from $24 to $900. Gap generated online sales of about $600 million on its new site last year, making it the biggest specialty apparel chain online, according to Internet Retailer magazine. In the first half of 2006 [...]

European Internet users are far more engaged in online dating than those in North America. According to the analysis done by comscore world wide metrix , 18 percent of European Internet users (38.2 million) visited online personals sites in July compared to a slightly lower 17 percent of North American Internet users. However, European visitors [...]

Pew Internet and American Life report have released a report on the future internet in which it has  surveyed 742 experts in the fields of computing, politics and business canvassing their opinions on seven broad scenarios about the future internet, based on developments in the technology in recent years.
A few findings from this report are [...]

I was called in as a Judge in the Advertising Hall of Fame awards 2006. An interesting opportunity, I thought. Would give me a chance to come closer to not only the work happening in the industry but also interact with the local talent and hob nob with the advertising glitterati in Singapore.Since a few [...]

Its a great time to be a part of Naukri group because not only its the first website company to file for an IPO but now it has got an exclusive tie up with US jobs giant Careerbuilder.com and India’s print media company Infomedia India. 
As part of the tie-up with Infomedia, Naukri.com will power content in [...]

The south east asian markets are have attracted the attention of the Indian internet companies. In two seperate developments Shaadi.com and Times Internet have both made initiatives to cater to the south east asian markets Shaadi.com has opened a regional office in singapore whereas Times Internet has has joined hands with Interactive Hub as its online [...]