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Mapathon 2013: First ever Google Mapping Competition in India!
Google want to make their Maps application comprehensive in India, for which they have launched India’s first ever mapping competition: Mapathon 2013.
The Mapathon 2013 competition is designed to encourage participants to map their…
Smartphones in India: Voice calls/SMS accounts for only 25 percent Usage
In India, feature phone sales are on decline and Smartphones are getting uber popular, especially with prices of Smartphones coming down drastically over past couple of years. You can now get a decent Android smartphone for around Rs. 5000,…
Content Writing in India: Opportunities & Challenges
Content rules. Content is information and now, content is a fast developing industry Globally. However, the Indian content industry isn’t quite at par with its global counterparts. With developed economies accounting for more than a fair…
Apna Chaupal, Airtel’s Voice based Solution For Rural India
The Telecom subscriber growth has saturated in cities and large towns in India. If you see the latest subscriber growth reports, the numbers are actually falling in Metros and cities. At the same time, the growth of subscribers is picking…
Missing “Tazos”: A Customer Relationship Story
One area of business which always interested me is the lengths to which companies go to ensure patronage of their customers.
Quite often, companies are more than willing to shell out millions of dollars to not only woo new…
Zovi Acquires Inkfruit
Ecommerce in India is consolidating, the latest being Zovi’s acquisition of Inkfruit. Although, there have been talks of merger in past few days, ToI reported today that Bangalore based online Fashion retailer has bought out Inkfruit.com…
Top Most Trusted Brands in India: Samsung, Sony, BMW Rise…
Trust Research Advisory released the Top Most trusted Brands by Indians for 2013, and the pecking order has changed quite a bit, except for the Top position which remains with Nokia. Even though, Nokia’s fortunes have been dwindling,…
Government launches eBiz Portal, a One-Stop-Shop for all Govt. to Business Services
Government of India has today announced launch of first phase of eBiz portal, bringing nearly all services offered by Government to businesses and investors through a single online window portal. The eBiz portal has been developed by…
Average Indian Internet Speed improves, albeit marginally! [Akamai]
Akamai recently released their popular State of Internet report for the 3rd quarter of 2012, and average Indian internet speed are on the rise. At 1044 kbps (meaning marginally above 1mbps), they are at their lifetime high. In 2nd quarter…
Cash On Delivery: Should Indian Online Retailers Persist with it?
Cash On Delivery (COD) is currently one of the most popular mode of payments among Indian online stores.
As the buyer does not have to pay anything before the good are being delivered, COD system minimizes the risks in online…
Mobile App Development: Growth, Trends & Economics!
Mobile Apps are hot… Smartphones would probably cease to exist without them.
If you are smartphone owner, think for a second, what would you do with that phone without some of your favorite apps and games on it. And for all those awesome…
Audiobooks – Just a fad or the real deal?
Books are changing medium faster than any other products. In fact, this has been true for the books since first book was written on papyrus. From being written on leaves to cloth to paper, books turned electronic almost as soon as it was…
Snapdeal starts selling Automobiles online!
Snapdeal.com, one of the leading Indian ecommerce portal, has now started offering automobiles on sale online. They have forged a partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra to offer range of their two-wheelers. This is probably for the first…
Aadhar Card, Now Mandatory for School Students?
While discussing with a friend in regards to the Aadhar poll that we posted yesterday on trak.in, I came across something quite interesting. It seems that some of the primary and secondary schools are making it mandatory for students to…
Sony LIV – MSM’s New Online Entertainment Channel for Mobiles & PCs
Multi Screen Media (MSM) today announced launch of its online digital entertainment destination – Sony LIV.
Sony LIV is a online and mobile based video-on-demand service that brings all the favorite TV shows like Comedy Circus, Taarak…
Aadhar Poll: Have you applied yet? If not, why?
This question has been on my mind for past few months – How many citizens, especially urbanites, have applied for Aadhar card as yet?I have been having discussions about Aadhar card with many people in past few weeks and I have met more…
Interesting Facts about India – A Video Infographic
Every week we publish Infographics that bring to you great information in a concise visual way. While, most of the infographics are image based, video infographics are the now becoming popular with netizens.
Here is a great video…
CDMA Internet Dongles: The Future looking bleak!
In the present scenario, internet in India is in a dismal state. Especially, if we consider the condition of countries like Japan or even in Europe. Now, I do not see, in the near future conditions improving all of a sudden, but with the…
IIT-B launches Aakash App Development Contest for Android & Linux Developers
IIT Bombay has recently launched an app development competition in a bid to create a developer community around Aakash Tablets. This developer contest aims at developing useful Open Source applications and content on Android / Linux for use…
Sensex @ 20,000: What Indian stock markets hold for 2013
Before I start, let me tell you that I am not a stock market expert. However, I have been dabbling in equity investments and stock trading for nearly 10 years and I have had my ups and downs.
The article below gives a perspective of what…