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Are Mobiles Harmful? More Confusion than Conclusion [Infographic]
Are mobiles harmful? This question has been hounding every mobile user since a decade, and even after much research and scientific findings, no one seems to have a definite answer to that question. Even though there are no conclusive…
Google’s Great Online Shopping Festival: What’s the reason behind it?
Google has launched a new online deal destination called the “Great Online Shopping Festival”. I learned about the site earlier in the day and browsed through what it had to offer. Even after thinking about it for sometime now, I am unable…
Kerala’s Startup Village gets 1GBPS internet Connection, 2nd in the World
While most other places in India struggle to get a decent 1 mbps connections, Kerala’s Startup Village has become only the 2nd place in the world to get a whooping 1 GBPS internet line. The only other place that has 1 GBPS connectivity is…
Facebook Job-Boards: Is LinkedIn listening?
Facebook seems to be gradually getting into the habit of shocking and surprising its users and the market at regular intervals. The buzz around promoted posts, their usage and how facebook had played smart with them had just not died down,…
Where is Aakash Tablet Made? [Infographic]
Datawind has published an Infographic, that clearly gives you peek into which part of Aakash was made where. This Infographic has been published in response to the huge controversy that was created due to the Hindu article that stated…
Online Food Reviews – Honest views or Mindless promotions?
With the explosion of the variety and availability of authentic yet exotic cuisines in almost all major cities of India, turning to online guides to help pick and choose the most appropriate restaurant and spend some time over good…
Youtube – Creating a new breed of Artists!
I know many people might feel that internet also fills the same criteria but I will talk about the broader perspective some other day. Today, I want to talk about the impact that Youtube has had on the consumption of videos and creation of…
Omni-Channel Retailing: The Future of Retail!
Retail industry has been an ever-changing one owing to numerous technological advances. Never before have customers been endowed with such choices as to not only who should they purchase from but also via what channel. In this hiatus, where…
Law enforcement agencies seize 132 domains, identify infringing PayPal accounts
Law enforcements agencies from countries including US, UK, Denmark, France, Belgium and Romania seized 132 domains selling counterfeit merchandise online. The PayPal accounts used by the seized domains were also targeted for investigation…
Top 10 Tech news of the week [Nov 18th- 24th]
Here's a look at this week's top 10 tech news. Samsung Electronics' shares hit lifetime high Shares of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd hit a lifetime high of 1.419 million wong. Samsung's market capitalization is now approximately $205…
RBI asks Banks, Financial Institutions to migrate to IPV6 addresses by Dec 2012 [RBI]
RBI has come out with a circular informing Indian payment gateways, banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and other transaction related Institutions that they should migrate from IPV4 to IPV6 address protocol by end of this…
Indian E-Commerce Industry: Who will survive and Who will not…
Indian Internet Industry post the Dotcom Bubble After the dot com bubble burst happened in 2001, the US economy along with other major developing economies saw the internet and telecom stocks crash. Since then owing to the gradual rise and…
Women Better Investors than Men! [Infographic]
Now, I am sure you would be surprised by the title of this post. Just a cursory look at all the top investment experts would show that less than 10% constitute women, and yet in general they are the better investors of money and there is a…
E-Commerce in India: Important milestones in past 3 years [Visualization]
Folks over at MySmartprice.com have created a cool visualization that offers a look at all the important news (mostly funding news) that have taken place over past 3 years. It gives a nice perspective on number of players in the market as…
10 Most Popular Social Media Analytics & Engagement Tools
Social media has revolutionized the ways in which the game of marketing, advertising and promotion was played. Almost every brand that exists is now roaring out loud on social media. However, there is a lot of skepticism over what makes…
Wifox – Software that increases WiFi performance by 700 percent!
WiFi provided in public places tend to be very slow, especially when large audiences are hooked into it (which is generally the case most of the time). In the name of free internet access, we tend to fret over the slow speed. The problem…
Arun Yadav wins Doodle 4 Google India 2012 contest
Arun Kumar Yadav has become a mini-celebrity today. His Doodle has been featured on Google Homepage on Children's day (today) and millions have seen it. According to estimates 3 billion searches are made on Google every day (around 35k…
Top 10 Tech news of the week [Nov 5th–11th]
Here's a look at this week's top 10 tech news. Myntra.com acquires SherSingh.com in cash cum equity deal Myntra.com acquired SherSingh.com in a cash cum equity deal which will see all the products under the Sher Singh brand being sold…
Facebook Promoted Posts – Its More than what meets the eye!
A revelation by Facebook some time back shook the world of social media, more so the brands who were concentrating a lot on the way their pages were maintained on Facebook. The statement by the officials of the most popular social…
Banks using social media to track defaulters!
Banks in India have reportedly started using social media websites like Facebook to track defaulters. "Banks use social media for lead generation, customer engagement and recovery. Some banks have turned to new collection vendors who…