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IT Goes “Kheti”: Multi Lingual IVRS Helpline For Indian Farmers
It really feels that India is shining when we see something like IT going all the way out to provide help to the needy people in rural India. This feeling doubles (or may be triples) when IT helps the farmers of the country considering their plight and ill-treatment at the hands of the middlemen. After [...]
Dream11.com Announces Content Partnership: Opportunities For Advertisers, Good News For Users
Dream11.com announced a content partnership with various websites and online portals Cricketnirvana.com, Zeecric.com, Oneindia.com and Amarujala.com. Dream11.com is the flagship brand of Dream11 Media and provides Fantasy Cricket Gaming. This unique content partnership gives Fantasy Cricket fans everywhere access to the latest and most comprehensive statistics, community features, cricket games, high-score [...]
IPL Teams Look Up To The Web As Second Life!
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has already won many hearts and made a huge fan following among all cricket lovers. This is not all. It has also given a platform for budding cricketers to showcase their skills and thanks to IPL some players have left their country to play full-time in the IPL. And as [...]
BSNL Takes The Internet To Rural Areas – Launches Innovative Products
Public sector telecom major – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. has joined hands with Chennai-based IT solutions company Novatium in order to provide cheap and better broadband internet services in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. BSNL chief Om Vir Singh says “The broadband penetration in UP is quite low and lower still in rural [...]
Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Award To The Internet?
The Nobel Peace Prize is undoubtedly one of the most reputed international awards. Over the past few years, it’s been awarded to a lot of people and organizations. I was hitherto under the impression that the Nobel Peace Prize was intended for individuals and for organizations. In the past, various arms of the UN (ILO, [...]
Mysore Railway Station Goes Wi-Fi!
Indian Railways is gearing up the IT infrastructure of it’s facilities big-time. The Indian Railways Online Website is one of the most busiest websites in India and they have such a powerful architecture that you will hardly see a downtime in the Online Services. From Web World, Indian Railways has now stepped into some real [...]
Bing to replace Google on the iPhone?
In 2003, when Apple did the unimaginable and decided to make iTunes for Windows, they ran a poster campaign saying ‘Hell Froze Over’. It looks like another Cold day in Hell (no pun intended) could be around the corner. BusinessWeek has reported that Apple and Microsoft may be in talks to close a deal that [...]
Netizen Toddlers – How Does That Sound?
Two years back when I saw my 9 years old neighbor chatting away on MSN, I was shocked. She also had a profile on Orkut! I didn’t know whether to complaint to her mother or just sigh and think that technology has grown seemingly. I had no clue whether about computers. Well that was then, [...]
Broadband Internet: Where Does Karnataka Stand? – A Report
The recession might have bottomed out, but the cost cutting measures of the companies are still in place. Video conference and webinars have replaced the in person communication. In such a scenario, the most important resource becomes the high speed internet. So, how does the software hub of the east measure up to the world?
The [...]
Can SMS Ever Be Dead? Can You Survive Without Them?
With the ever-improving telecom infrastructure, can it ever happen that one fine day people stop text messaging once in for all? Vinay Goel, Head of products, Google India certainly thinks so. In a recent interview, Mr.Goel predicts that people are moving more and more towards e-mailing via their mobile phones that SMS may become obsolete [...]
Google Caffeine – Google Search Improved
For quite some time, the net was ablaze with how Bing was trying to one-up Google. Then there was Wolfram and other “decision engines”, then there was Collecta and a huge list of other real-time search engines who would one-up Google. Twitter came on with the hope to be the pulse of the planet, and [...]
Cybercafes More Popular in Small Towns – Omnipresent In Metropolitans
India, over the past decade, has become a test bed for innovations in information and communication technologies. Various reasons explain this emergence. Some of the reasons clearly lie in some of our earlier posts. Her Excellency the President of India Pratibha Patil inaugurated the Rashtrapati Bhavan Helpline Portal at Rashtrapati Bhavan recently.
The common man has [...]
Twitter’s Credibility & Immediacy Used By Media Publications And Others..
There’s a raw craze in many parts of the world about Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as ‘tweets’. It may restrict its posts to 140 characters, but the British Cabinet Office needed 20 pages to explain the microblog to its civil servants. [...]
TRAI Says, “Minimum Broadband Speed = 2 MBPS”
Inaccessibility to fast internet is probably the greatest problem faced by Indians. Cheap, easily accessible, fast Internet connections are a rarity in India. An associate of mine was boasting how he had downloaded around 200 GB in 4 days, all due to Wi-Fi and a dedicated internet connection of 16Mbps. This was in the USA. [...]
Google Internet Bus Now Travels Through Andhra Pradesh
Google is expanding its Internet Bus project, which tries to educate the rural masses about the Internet. After Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, its Andhra’s turn now.
The one and a half month long journey kick started from Ananthapur a few days ago and will finally ends at Chittoor (on 30th August). At the end of it all [...]