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Trainman Predicts Availability & Confirmation Of Indian Railways Train Tickets For You
How many times has it happened to you that you have visited IRCTC site to book the tickets only to find that the train you want is completely booked and has a waitlist. Even then, you spend considerable amount of time thinking whether…
[Updated] Over 219 Popular Torrent And File Hosting Websites Blocked In India
It is just not the 10 sites that we have mentioned, but over 219 sites have been ordered by Delhi High Court to be blocked. Please see the update at the end of the post for more details.
It seems that many popular free file hosting and…
Bangalore’s Electronic City To Become Asia’s First Internet of Things Hub, Cisco Building The…
Cisco is building Asia’s first Internet of Things hub in the Electronics City, Bangalore. This state of the art hub will provide a ‘smart city environment’ to IT and Electronics companies and help them create the next generation IT enabled…
14 eHealth Centers Powered By HP Cloud To Be Opened In India
Consider this irony of Indian health care system: 75% of modern, upgraded health care infrastructure only exists in urban locations, where less than 30% of Indians live; 89% of rural Indian patients need to travel on an average 8 kms to…
Mumbai Metro Brings Free Wi-Fi Access On Trains And Station, And It Works Quite Well Too!
Mumbai Metro was flagged off last month to much fanfare, and many young-smartphone-wielding metro travelers were waiting for one thing that was promised – Internet connectivity!
And now their wait is over. Mumbai Metro has now started…
Facebook Bringing “Missed Call” Ad Feature In India
Facebook isn't something ephemeral. It's become a part of our lifestyle. We wake up to multiple notifications on Facebook, and sleep by posting updates that become other's morning notifications. Such is the importance of the service that we…
FIFA #WorldCup Interactions Cross 1 Bln, Creates All Time Record On Facebook And Twitter
As per latest data coming in, 2014 FIFA World Cup has broken all records for social media engagement and interactions. On Facebook, more than 200 million soccer fans have already had 1 billion+ interactions, breaking all existing records of…
Walmart Launches BestPriceWholesale.co.in, A B2B Ecommerce Site
Walmart has finally made their ecommerce debut in India. They have launched a B2B wholesale eCommerce site - http://www.bestpricewholesale.co.in/. The products sold on the site are currently available for cities of Lucknow and Hyderabad.…
Indians Have Slowest Internet Connectivity In Asia: Akamai
In the just released State of Internet Report for the first quarter of 2014, Akamai has said that Indians continue to have slowest Internet connection in the whole of Asia. Even tiny countries like Vietnam and Thailand has better Internet…
RIP Orkut, Our Tribute Via 8 Interesting Facts About Orkut
Yesterday Google announced that their flagship social networking site: Orkut will be retired. Announcing via blogs posts in English and Portuguese, Google said that effective September 30, 2014 Orkut would be “shut down”.
From today…
TOP 10 SAAS eCommerce Platforms in India
In 2012, online businesses grew 21.1% to top $1 trillion for the first time in the history of ecommerce development. This year sales are estimated to grow by 18.3% to $1.298 trillion worldwide. It’s also projected that there will be 175…
Facebook Turns Into Mental Research Asylum As Half Million Users Forced To See Depressing Posts
There is a serious uproar & protests going on in the social media world after news came in that Facebook has conducted some secret psychological research on it’s users, without informing them. Termed as a‘disturbing emotional…
Narayan Murthy Joins Forces With Amazon To Launch Ecommerce Portal In India
Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy is partnering with Amazon to launch an ecommerce project in India, reports Reuters .
Considering that Narayan Murthy is an experienced campaigner in launching companies and making them not just big, but…
Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad And Chennai Top Cities In The World That Attract Tech Talent
LinkedIn, world’s largest social networking site for professionals with more than 300 million users (out of which 26 million are from India) has a goldmine of data related to talents and skills. Recently, when LinkedIn did some analysis of…
Japanese Ecommerce Giant Rakuten Opens India Office. More Competition?
Japanese E-Commerce giant Rakuten has announced that they are opening up Rakuten India Development and Operations Center (RIDOC) in Bangalore India. They have collaborated with PROLIM Global Corporation, an IT consulting services company…
Google’s Voice Search now recognizes Indian Accents
Google’s love for India continues as Google Voice gets better support for Indian Accents. It is no secret that Indian Accents are a lot different than any other accents like British or American. It might be argued that even Australian…
Cloud Wars: Microsoft Offers 15GB Free OneDrive Storage, 1TB For Office 365 Subscribers
Microsoft has just announced a very tempting offer: 15 GB free online storage for all OneDrive users; up from 7GB limit and 1 TB of space for Office 365 users; up from previous 20 GB limit.
Omar Shahine, Group Program Manager for…
Google Domains Is Coming And It’s A BIG Deal! Here Is Why…
Google seems to be on the verge of making a big dent in yet another key online vertical: Domain Registrations. And, from the looks of it, the services offered will be at par or even better than most of existing popular domain registrars.…
Facebook’s Growth In India Highest In The World, To Cross 200M by 2018
Facebook remains by far the most popular social network in India. In April 2014, Facebook crossed 100 million userbase mark in India and by end of the year, it will reach close to 109 million.
This year, Facebook’s userbase in India will…
Indians Are Least Concerned About Their Privacy Online!
If given an option to choose between privacy and convenience, 61% of Indians will opt for convenience, ditching privacy.
This startling revelation was discovered when IT infrastructure company EMC conducted a survey called “EMC Privacy…