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Amazon enters India with Junglee.com Product Ads!
Amazon has finally made an official India debut, but don’t raise your hopes in anticipation that you will have the similar product buying experience as its parent Amazon.com - infact, far from it.
Amazon comes to India as Junglee.com,…
UIDAI Phase III Approved & Funded – 20 Cr. Aadhaar cards to be released by March!
Its nice to see that UIDAI is not only back on tracks, but they are now aggressively setting targets to achieve. Here is a statement released by Government yesterday, The Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India…
E-Tutor Tablet: A Rs. 7500 Cloud Based Tablet for students! [Image, Specs]
Looks like we now have an elite cousin of Aakash coming up - It is called “E-Tutor Tablet”. Many mainstream media newspaper including Times wrote about it saying it was yet another Government initiative. However, this initiative is anything…
The Hindu punches Times of India in face with this Super Creative Advertisement!
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…
How the internet is affecting Indian teens…
Notwithstanding the fact that the Internet has changed the world, there is a particular age segment which has been taken by storm – teenagers! Here's a no-nonsense look into how internet has affected the lives of Indian teenagers.…
How some start-ups used innovative methods to promote themselves?
After last week’s article on ‘Why some starts up survive while most fail’, some of you had written to me to elaborate on point number 5, i.e:- Innovative promotional strategies used. Well it is difficult to capture all this in an article…
What makes something go viral on the Internet?
Kolaveri Di topped the charts with 17 million views and more than 75,000 comments from over 130 countries just 2 weeks after it was released in November 2011 (current views at 37 Million). With this sensational outburst, the unpredictable,…
Indian Govt. to enable all Public Services through Mobile Devices [Mobile Governance Framework]
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…
5 great Ideas to Make Money out of your knowledge, skills and expertise!
If you thought that your ability to make money was only limited to the scope of your degree certificate, you couldn't be more wrong. Especially in an era when 'Googling' a query is more reliable than asking a friend! Take advantage of these…
TRAI’s new guidelines to Telecom Companies – How to publish Tariff Plans!
From an Indian mobile consumer point of view, last few months have been great. TRAI has been coming up quite a few directives that are pro-consumers. At the same time, for telecom companies, it is a nightmarish period - these new TRAI…
Nokiashop : Online store from Indiatimes and Nokia [#Fail]
In what could be termed as first of its kind - Nokia has partnered with Indiatimes shopping to bring consumers a direct manufacturer to consumer online store for selling mobile phones called NokiaShop. But, apart from being a direct…
How kids can use social media to boost their performance in school…
The power of social media has still not been harnessed in Indian classrooms as much as it should be. Schools and educational institutions are busy banning Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms rather than seeing how they can be…
Where is our literature headed with Twitter and Facebook fiction?
Have you ever heard the terms Twitterature, Twiller or Twiction? Or maybe Facebook fiction? If not, you're seriously missing out on the trend that has started since 2009 and is slowly gathering steam with more and more curious, excited,…
Majority Indians still prefer going abroad to work!
Indians are still attracted to West when it come to employment - Although, India is dubbed globally as land of opportunities, majority of Indians want to go abroad to work. That’s the finding by Work monitor report released by Ma Foi…
UC Mobile Browser: The new kid on the block giving tough times to Opera & other mobile browsers
Mobile Browsers are now becoming as important as our traditional web browsers - Thanks to rise in mobile internet. Infact, Google India head - Rajan Anandan, recently quoted that 40% of all Google searches in India are done using mobile…
Book Indian Railways tickets through Mobile using Paymate, Ngpay & Atom
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…
What to look forward to on trak.in in 2012!
Trak.in had a decent year 2011 - The average traffic at last year grew by almost 50 percent. We had set a target of doubling our traffic last year - We could not achieve it, partly because, many plans that we had, did not get implemented…
10 Popular & Viral Indian videos on YouTube in 2011!
Although Google came out with an official list of the top 10 most watched videos on YouTube in 2011 in India, here is Trak.in's very own list of the same. Google's list for India has a few international videos along with 6 movie videos. We…
Top 10 Indian advertising campaigns of 2011!
Apart from all the 3G launch campaigns were the talk of the town in 2011, there were also some great print and TVC campaigns that India saw in 2011. Let's take a look at the top 10 campaigns that were well recalled, liked, watched and…
Emerging trends in the insurance sector in 2011!
2011 has been an eventful year for the insurance industry and the policyholders both. The regulator has launched a slew of changes and guidelines which have positively impacted the sector in terms of making products and processes more…