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The possibilities that the web provides when it comes to being entrepreneurial is limitless. Now there can be better ways to set your business up, however, using the web as a platform certainly makes it easier to get things started. And we all know so many dudes who did such stuff while in college and went on to make truckloads of truckloads of money. This may just help in you in getting your act right while you still can.

September seems like a month of events. Hell, it seems like there are more events than there are speakers. Let’s see what all is coming our way in September.
IAMAI Mobile VAS Conference
Delhi. 2-Sept-2008
The VAS conference of IAMAI will be held in Delhi. Prominent speakers include Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Guruji.com; Prasad Narasimha, [...]

Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d have imagined that a research project in the Stanford University would actually go on to become on of the Internet’s most essential products?

If John Davies, the Head of Next Generation Web Research at BT, is to be believed, Semantic Web may be commercially viable sooner than you think. Does this mean that the days of Web 2.0 and the community gone by?

The term ‘Semantic Web’ was derived from W3C director, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Semantic Web is seen as the development of the World Wide Web where the content of information and services are defined to make web content more searchable and useful.

Today we have two important Industry movements via WATJob.com.

1) Uday Zokarkar To Launch His Own Venture And Quits As Chief Business Officer Of ClickJobs

2) Dinesh Vaswani Quits Temasek And Co-Heads Englefield Capital In India

Google has added one more Indian Language to its localization options for its News and Blogger services. Apart from English, Tamil has now been officially added as a language to these services from Google and the third being Hindi, which was added back in May 2008.

After launching Weave 0.2, the synchronization plugin that enables data to be synchronized across multiple computers for Mozila’s Popular web browser Firefox, Mozilla Labs have now announced a new project where it wants us users to participate and contribute towards their goal of designing a next generation web-browser.

Intel is now eying the growing market of Web 2.0 companies over the World Wide Web with new start ups coming up every single day. Most of the web-start ups are resource hungry websites that process vast amount of data and have large number of users. These companies need a strong and powerful infrastructure to back the activity that goes on through the sites. Intel is apparently trying to cash in on this factor and is aiming to power the systems that run these sites.

In recent times, there has been a lot of development on the Global Positioning System (GPS) front. GPS units have not only reduced in size making them portable enough to carry around, but the prices have drastically reduced too. Most cell phones now come enabled with GPS units, allowing the user to get turn-by-turn directions to any place. This initiative by Microsoft will nothing but boost the same purpose.

Web18, the internet arm of TV18, part of the Network18 group has seen a rise in its revenues, with a 41% rise. The revenues rose to Rs. 13.1 crores from Rs. 9.3 crores year-on-year. While, the operating losses reported were Rs. 5.6 crores compared to Rs. 2.3 crores last year in the same quarter.

Tata Sky plans to stay on top of the competition by riding the same tie-ups train. Apparently, Tata Sky has now planned to tie up with Sony Pictures and Fox News Corp for content in order to enhance its pay-per-view portfolio. The tie-up entitles Tata Sky to receive content such as movies and telecast of special events through their channels.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has brought forward a plan, which, if implemented, would allow anyone to use WiFi on their compatible laptops or mobile phones. This initiative by the BMC is a public-private partnership of sorts, in which the BMC plans to cover the entire city with WiFi coverage, albeit not free.

Are you tired of looking at the plain, old and boring Gmail User Interface (UI) that hasn’t been changed ever since 2004? Even though Google has been constantly rolling out new features for its services, it has never bothered to update the UI for many of its services. Google may have its own reasons for not rolling out a new look, but that doesn’t stop us from customizing it our own way, does it?Here’s how a customized Gmail looks.

Experts from the Land Down Under, Australia, claim to have developed a new technology that will apparently revolutionize web-surfing for the internet users. They say that the technology is capable of making ‘web surfing’ a 100 times faster, than what it is right now.
The technology, the experts say, makes use of ‘a small scratch on a piece of glass’, to enhance the performance given by traditional fibre-optic media.

 
MSN Israel, one of Microsoft’s suite of web portals, will now be independently handled by Microsoft.

 
Microsoft today announced that the MSN Israel web portal would no longer be co-managed by Microsoft and Internet Gold, a leading communications group based in Israel. Microsoft had a 49.9 percent share in the portal, with Internet Gold having the [...]