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Google planning for 1GB Internet Bandwidth – We in India cannot get 1 mbps properly !
Yeah, that’s right, Google has announced a trial program called Google Fiber for Communities that's planning to launch an extremely fast, experimental broadband network that will deliver speeds up to 1Gb per second. That is freaking 1000…
A Job Portal For Aspirants With Disabilities, courtesy Nasscom
Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) is going to launch a dedicated job portal that will facilitate recruitment for persons with disability by creating a repository of applicants, available skill-sets and…
Indian Real Estate & Property market – Some Facts & Figures
We are finally seeing Indian property market rising in last few Months. 2009 was not a good year for Indian real estate after consistently rising for 5-6 years straight. With Economy slowly coming out of recession, Property prices have…
The Top 25 Hotels in India – Traveler’s Choice Hotels 2010
Trip Advisor one of the most popular Online Travel Agencies recently released the Travelers Choice awards for top 25 Hotels in India. The Casa Candolim in Goa was adjudged the best hotel by the travelers. Old Harbour hotel in Kochi,…
India to become 3rd largest Economy by PPP in the world by 2012
That’s what the report recently released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has to say – This is significant finding given that Goldman Sach’s in its earlier “BRIC report†had projected India to surpass Japan only by 2032. The PWC…
Corruption In India: A Billion Dollar Industry
It is a no brainer that Corruption In India is at its rampant best.There is not one section of the society that is spared from it.Corruption in the form of bribery takes the cake and given that it begins at the grass root level makes it…
Aman ki Asha: A new Lease of life for relations between India & Pakistan?
Aman ki Asha can turn out to be a new lease of life in betterment of relations between India & Pakistan, or should I say Indians & Pakistanis. If you are not aware what Aman ki Asha is – It is a joint movement launched by the…
Is Indian Education System Set For An Overhaul ?
Indian Education Sector looks set for a turnaround.From Corporate India entering the education sector to the various government reforms, things are looking bright for the Indian Education Sector.Infact, the HRD minister has invited the…
Corporate India Making In Roads Into Education Sector , Will It Help ?
Indian Education Sector(IES)Â is by far the largest capitalized space in India with $30bn of government spend (3.7% of GDP; at global average), and a large network of ~1m schools and 18,000 higher education institutes.But, a literacy rate…
Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay: a win-win industry-academia collaboration?
Hadoop, is an open-source project of Apache, for distributed computing over large data sets. One of the methods it uses is the famous MapReduce paradigm for distributed computing over large data sets that Google is believed to have…
Increasing mobile penetration in rural India: one-phone/multiple-numbers at a time.
Comvivia, which was formerly Bharati telesoft, has developed a new virtual SIM technology that allows multiple mobile phone numbers to be associated with a particular handset/physical SIM card such that you do not require a dual SIM…
SFO helping Bangalore to be the next valley ?
Bangalore, the next Silicon Valley? Now, the community has always been divided on this one. With its early mover advantage and it being home to probably the highest technology companies in India , some say Bangalore is ‘the’…
Faster e-commerce in India: RBI issues new guidelines
There are myriad problem as to why e-commerce is not taking off in India and we have discussed this issue numerous times below including the contrast with the thriving e-retailing business in US. Some of the issues, for the disenchantment…
An online home for all: a luxury or basic infrastructure?
While millions of Indians are homeless and do not have access to electricity, not to mention, internet; I was recently fascinated with this news form Turkey wherein Turkish Government plans to have their own search engine and to provide a…
An Airline That Is Bucking The Trend,Paramount To Expand Fleet and Provide Value Additions
The Indian airline industry has been living on the edge for sometime now. With skyrocketing fuel prices , the operating margins of all major airlines are being shot. Moreover, with the Indian skies opening up to a lot of players , it has…
Why are tech giants falling all over themselves wooing the UID babe?
There have been recent reports of tech giants like Yahoo and Cisco showing their interest in the UID project and trying to woo the Indian government and especially Mr. Nilekani, and trying to convince that they be given the contracts based…
Brand India is on a roll – The West getting even more interested?
Amidst all the recession and the economic downturn hulla boo in recent times , one major positive has been the resurgence of India as a nation to reckon with. Not that India was not walking shoulder to shoulder (at least in some areas) with…
Top 20 most useful sites in India
I just happen to come across this blog written by Simarprit Singh, co-founder of Infobase and mapsofworld. He recently released a report on India’s top 20 most useful sites and the ranking has been done by collating over 30…
Land disputes is costing India 100 Billion Dollars of Investment !
We very well know the story of Tata Nano Land Dispute. What was West Bengal’s loss though was Gujarat’s profit. Nano’s are now coming out of the state. However, most of the projects are not as lucky as Nano to get a Land…
10 days after launch Windows 7 still not available to consumers
We have written a lot about it and have been blown away with the new operating system called Windows 7. One of the very few products that has managed to create right kind of buzz ! Indian Consumers were quite happy that not only did…