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Twitter Statistics: 74% still have less than 10 followers – 21% really active !

by Arun Prabhudesai on March 11, 2010

Twitter statistics have kind of become a rage – We already have feature more than couple of studies and research on this. Now Barracuda Labs has released the latest Twitter Report which shows that only 21% of all twitter can be termed as real active twitterers.

So how do they define an “Active Twitterer”

Has at [...]

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Indian Stock Markets Going Global, How Good Is It ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,

To bring in more transparency in the markets and bring down the manipulators
To increase [...]

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Google App Marketplace: A Phenomenon in the making !

by Arun Prabhudesai

WoW ! Just spent half an hour at Google marketplace, added 5 neat free application to my Google Apps account – Cant tell you how thrilled I am with the ease of use and the kind of functionality enhancements it brings to Google Mail, Docs, Calendar etc.
We have been reading & hearing about Google Marketplace [...]

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B-School Placement Salaries: Are we being told the real Truth?

by Viral Dholakia

Finally, the placement season of ‘Top’ Indian MBA grads has begun (or, shall I say, ended the way it’s been projected that all have been placed already?). And with the placement seasons come eye-popping Salary figures as headlines in major newspapers. I never could understand the real reason for the major Institutes or major dailies [...]

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Ecologically Green: Biodegradable Chewing Gum finds its Way on the Street

by Viral Dholakia

bio-degradable-environmental chewing gum

Chicza chewing gums, who claim to be the first ones to manufacture biodegradable chewing gum ever sold, went on sale in Waitrose stores in Britain. It is organic and biodegradable chewing gum pitted against highly-adhesive chewing gums which get stuck on roads and streets making life tougher for the cleansing staffs and authorities.

Chicza [...]

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30 Terabyte Hard-drive by an Indian – Gets offered 1.4 cr salary by Seagate !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – I think the minimum specs we have today are 1GB memory and for Hard-Disks it is 60 Gigs (I presume).
30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at Hard-Disks [...]

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Remote Controlled Street Lights: Civic Authorities go Hi-Tech !

by Arun Prabhudesai

It is always a delight to come across this kind of news – India’s capital city, Delhi, will see country’s first remote-controlled street lights operational that will be use Internet & Mobile technologies to function !
Most of the Street lights in India are either manual or they use timers to switch on and off. Once [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Vodafone Application Store, Self-Charging Phone From Nokia

by Ankit Agarwal

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application Store
It was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom operators, Airtel already has a app store in place and Aircel [...]

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Twitter adoption: Indian companies close to zilch !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Did you know that MSN India has the most active company Twitter account, while MTV is the most followed brand. This is what iffort survey – Indian Companies on Twitter: A Usage Study – has to say.
The study conducted by iffort, took into account tweets between period of November 2009 and Feb 2010 with company [...]

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Politicization Of The Women’s Reservation Bill: Do we really need it?

by Viral Dholakia

Backdrop: For the long pending Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33% seats in the state legislature and in Parliament for women, the Rajya Sabha is due to vote today for enacting a law reserving a third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislators for women. Earlier the Union Cabinet had formally [...]

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Passports, now in 3 days flat !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Under this scheme, a passport can be got in 3 days following police verification. Tatkal applicants could get the passport the same day.

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Air India To Fly An All Women Crew!! Brand Building ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Just when you thought that Air India has not been in the news for sometime, here it is albeit this time for not-so-embarrassing reasons. Infact, this time it is for good and in a true celebration spirit.Yes,
Air India will deploy an all-women pilot team on the ultra long haul, non-stop flight (AI-141) from Mumbai to [...]

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Media Monday- Coke Vs Pepsi war begins..who will win?

by rabigupta

It’s summertime and same old rivalry has resurfaced- “Coca Cola Vs Pepsi”! It’s been decades since these Cold drink giants are fighting over Indian beverage market share. Initially it was cold drink, but then the fight extended to other sections like energy drinks, healthy snacks, namkeens etc. But I’m here to compare the strategies of [...]

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Now a Mobile Phone that runs on AAA battery !

by Arun Prabhudesai

With Urban mobile subscriber base close to saturation point, most of the handset manufacturers are aggressively targeting the rural Indian market to increase their subscriber base. However, one of the biggest impediments is that many villages in India still lack proper supply of electricity – And where the supply is available it is quite erratic.
Now [...]

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Nose Scanning – A Revolution in Biometrics !

by Viral Dholakia

Until now an identity card with a photograph was used by various institutions in order to verify the identity of a person. But, with a high speed up-gradation of technology these identity determining procedures are getting obsolete and risk oriented as duplicating such identity cards is getting easier.

With fast growing technology came safer scanning procedures [...]

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