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Enterprise Smartphone Usage Trends – Security Awareness Missing!
Enterprise Mobility space is getting really interesting with the sudden explosion in the smartphone and tablet choices in the market. We earlier wrote about tablet usage in enterprises and now we have some interesting trends on enterprise…
Tablets Making Their Slow But Steady Entry Into The Enterprise Segment
The launch of iPad led to a renewed focus of manufacturers all around and every technology manufacturer worth its salt has since launched a tablet or is working towards it. There is no doubt that tablets are being touted as the next big…
Online Travel audience jumps by 32% [Comscore]
Indian Ecommerce space has been growing consistently over past few years, and is expected to grow even fiercely in coming years. However, it is dominated by one sector – Online Travel Booking. Infact, OTA command more than 80% of all the…
Google Street View Imagery kicks-off in India, starts with Bengaluru
Google India today announced on its twitter stream that it will be kicking-off the much awaited Google street view imagery collection using Google branded cars and Google Trikes. It will be interesting to watch how Google goes about this…
Youtube hits 3 Billion Views a day..Wow !
3 Billion Views – that too in a day...wow ! That is equivalent to nearly half of entire world’s population on this earth watching Youtube everyday. Youtube celebrated its 6th year of existence with that record. In the blog post, Google…
Hostgator comes to India – Publishers rejoice!
In last four years since I started this blog, one of the main problems I have always faced is – Lack of quality of India based web hosting company. Yes, there are many, but most of them are quite expensive or lack sorely in the services…
Most Social Media Friendly Bank in India!
Can you guess which are the most Social Media friendly banks in India ? If you thought of HDFC Bank, you are right – It is the most social media friendly private sector bank in India and when it comes to Public sector the honour goes to…
Evolution of Tablets [Infographic]!
Did you know that first tablet computer came into existence more than 24 years ago? Infact, not one but 2 portable computers (now called tablets) were launched way back in 1987! Obviously they were not real fancy as the tablets today – but…
Top 5 reasons why 3G has not taken off in India!
We are nearly 6 months since 3G first rolled out in India – Now-a-days you see every Mobile operator heavily advertising their 3G offerings. Airtel, Vodafone, Tata, Reliance, Idea, BSNL and others are offering 3G services in Metro’s and…
Dell trumps HP to become top PC company in India!
Dell has been steadily increasing its market share in India over past few years, however last quarter has been quite stellar in when it came to number of PCs shipped in India. According to Gartner, in 4th quarter of 2010, Dell had shipped…
Wow…1 Million Tablets in India by 2011 end!
Tablets are emerging as a very important product category in India. A very good indication of this is Apple’s launch of iPad 2 in India. When Apple enters the Indian market, then we know we have a winner. As per the BS article, India’s…
20 mbps unlimited internet for Rs.2500 in India – Why only in Hyderabad?
I have been harping about bad Internet connectivity for far too long now on this blog – and even a recently conducted survey shows that we are going from bad to worse when it comes to Internet speeds in India! But a revelation has truly…
Indian Internet speeds go from Bad to Worse!
I don’t know what to say here – India seems to be on a reverse train. While globaly, Internet speeds are increasing drastically, India’s already bad internet speeds are going worse! This is what the Akamai “state of Internet” report says –…
Chromebook – “Nothing but web” device by Google at $20 per month!
Can this be a revolution of sorts ? In the on-going Google I/O conference, something very interesting was unveiled by Google – A device called a Chromebook (Google does not prefer calling it a notebook, laptop etc..)!
What is Chromebook ?…
Google defies new Indian web rules – Issues statement!
I am sure by now you are aware that Indian Government released amendments to IT act last month – and some of the rules proposed, especially in case of publishing content on the web, are extremely ambiguous and open with no real clarity.…
Half of Indian Internet users use it only through Mobile [Infographic]
Opera, the makers of popular Mobile browser, Opera Mini, have released an infographic which offers quite an interesting insight on “Mobile only” generation.
Did you know that 49% of all Indians who access internet, either never or only…
Paypal makes Purpose Code & PAN mandatory [Details & Images]
This was expected to happen – Paypal has informed their Indian users that, to receive payments in their Bank accounts from paypal, they will now have to furnish a Purpose code along with PAN (Permanent Account Number) and Bank Account…
Facebook India Stats – Adds max new FB users globaly in April!
Yesterday Facebook released some interesting statistics about the growth of Facebook users world-wide and it looks like Facebook is on the over-drive, especially in India. Facebook Users Growth Facebook now has over 675 Million users…
Beware of Fake Osama bin laden links on web!
I have been receiving posts on my facebook wall that says, “Checkout the photographs of dead Osama” or “Secret Video of Obama Killing”and other similar posts that are nothing but spam fake messages. Once clicked, it gets posted to all my…
Wow…Predict traffic jams before they happen!
What first comes to your mind when you are in a traffic jam? Probably a statement cursing yourself to why at all you took this route! This happens to majority of office goers in metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai. Tier 2…