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Currently, tech savvy train commuters have only one option to access internet while travelling on trains in India – through their mobile handsets or by using a broadband stick that plugs into a USB drive. However we all know that getting a…

Skytrax, who offer the most prestigious & trusted awards for the Airline industry worldwide have announced “Best Airports in the World” Rankings for 2012. Incheon International Airport in Korea gets the coveted position of having the…

What do you say to a state which is on a dream run? The state's tourism is promoted by Amitabh Bachchan, its infrastructure for the automobile industry is geared towards making it the Detroit of India and now the state has launched Asia'a…

A car made for global markets, but designed keeping India in mind? While that sounds too good to be true, Maruti Suzuki seems to have nailed it. Based on the tried and tested Swift Platform, Maruti has unveiled its plans to launch the brand…

UIDAI have dispatched close to 10 crore Aadhar cards till now, however, one of the major issues most users face after applying, is the delay in getting their Aadhar numbers. If not for delay, these numbers would have been much more. Some…

Better late than never! The much need Voice over Internet (VOIP) services have been approved by the Indian Telecom Commission and will be released in National Telecom Policy 2012 as per Mint, who have reviewed an internal DoT memo in…

In last few days there has been a talk about Datawind being the shown the door - Most of the online media sites covered this story. We also wrote about it citing NDTV & Livemint articles. However, the reality seems to be quite…

After nearly 2 years, Blackberry has finally agreed to setup its server in Mumbai, India. This controversy has had quite a effect on Blackberry’s business in India. According to the latest report by convergence catalyst, Blackberry…

Post paid mobile users had a major advantage over pre-paid users till now - They could easily manage all aspects of their mobile & value added services through Operator’s website. Pre-paid users on the other hand did not have any such…

Studying medicine in India has always been in the news for some reason or the other – whether it is about increasing seats, common entrance tests being introduced, government packages being announced for medical colleges or what not. This…

This is one news that has made me really happy - According to the study published by Wikimedia, Indians have expressed strongest desire to donate to Wikipedia. Over 42% of Indians are willing to donate as compared to 33% Americans.…

Indian Railways is bringing up much needed changes to the system and making life easier for Indian train travelers. For few years now, the only accepted way for E-Ticket confirmation was carrying a physical paper printout of tickets booked…

The below “The Hindu” Advertisement is creative at so many levels, I can’t describe. Whoever, has made it, has punched ToI in the face, all keeping themselves within the legal boundaries of what is allowed. The advertisement indirectly…

Government of India yesterday released “Framework of Mobile Governance report”, an extension of National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), that may potentially bring about massive changes in the way Indian citizens access public services. The…

This looks like precisely the reason why Government has been so silent on matters pertaining to access of data from biggies like Nokia, RIM, Apple and others. They made a big hue & cry about it earlier last year, but everything went…

We generally do not report any political news, but this is something that I do feel strongly about and hence I am posting it. Today mainstream media portals as well new channels reported that US has fixed the map on their main Government…

Booking Train Tickets is getting easier and easier - Gone are the days when a very slow IRCTC website was the only channel for booking train tickets online. Now we have IRCTC partners like Cleartrip & others who have made booking…

Draft National Policy on Electronics was released on October 3rd and it promises to bring about changes that will bring about a major fillip to the Electronic sector in India. Electronics Industry is one of the fastest growing in the world…

This is big and something very unexpected - According to the story that has appeared in India Today, the ambitious Unique Identification Project may soon be shown the door by Parliament Committee. The reason given by the committee was -…

If iPhone 4S wasn’t a shock enough wait till you hear this. No not the HTC Sensation Xl’s 39K price tag but this comes from our beloved half bitten fruit itself. Apple has chosen to reduce the memory on the iPhone 4 to 8GB and chosen to…