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Global Advertising Industry Perspective: U.S Vs Rest of World !
Most of the start-ups as well as established companies in internet space primarily targets US audience. This is understandable as US Online Advertising market stands at a whopping USD 24 billion and is at least four times bigger than the…
Faster e-commerce in India: RBI issues new guidelines
There are myriad problem as to why e-commerce is not taking off in India and we have discussed this issue numerous times below including the contrast with the thriving e-retailing business in US. Some of the issues, for the disenchantment…
An online home for all: a luxury or basic infrastructure?
While millions of Indians are homeless and do not have access to electricity, not to mention, internet; I was recently fascinated with this news form Turkey wherein Turkish Government plans to have their own search engine and to provide a…
Finance Friday: How do you manage your expenses?
Let’s face it. How good are you at managing your finances? I speak for myself and I know I am very bad at it. With finances I am not talking about investments and the savings , that I somehow do a decent job maintaining.
What I am…
When will India have its own ‘Expert Labs’ ?
Two days back, at the Web2.0 expo, a respected blogging pioneer and six-apart founder, Anil Dash announced to the world the launch of ‘Expert Labs’ - a not-for-profit technology incubator, that will focus on providing value…
Why are tech giants falling all over themselves wooing the UID babe?
There have been recent reports of tech giants like Yahoo and Cisco showing their interest in the UID project and trying to woo the Indian government and especially Mr. Nilekani, and trying to convince that they be given the contracts based…
Media Monday: Bharatstudent.com on for Sale- Is Indian internet media helpless?
This was kind of “shocking” to me. With Alexa rating of around 500 and Indian rating in top 50 how can a website can’t generate enough money to survive on its own?
Last week Northgate technologies informed that it will…
Sixth Sense For Real and Open Source Too
If Hollywood Sci-Fi movies make you jump from you seats and be in awe of the hero using gizmos that are seemily out of this world, here is something that is as good as the mind blowing technology that you see on screen but this time it is…
Top 20 most useful sites in India
I just happen to come across this blog written by Simarprit Singh, co-founder of Infobase and mapsofworld. He recently released a report on India’s top 20 most useful sites and the ranking has been done by collating over 30…
Microsoft trashes Zoho Office as Fake– Zoho does even better
Now this is something you really got to watch :) I think Microsoft is getting really nervous about competition from emerging Online office tools. First it trashed Google Apps and now their corporate VP, Ron Markezich of Microsoft Online…
Broadband for Rural India
You must be joking right? When seamless broadband connectivity is a dream even for the urban population, how is the broadband going to spread to the rural areas with little or no infrastructure in place. But, BSNL is out there to change…
10 days after launch Windows 7 still not available to consumers
We have written a lot about it and have been blown away with the new operating system called Windows 7. One of the very few products that has managed to create right kind of buzz ! Indian Consumers were quite happy that not only did…
Unilever goes Crowd Sourcing for their new TV & Ad Campaign
I have been a staunch supporter of Crowd sourcing ever since I hopped on to twitter. The ability to utilize the brains of a group of people collectively for a solution is indeed powerful. In my previous discussion on Crowdsourcing providing…
Google spells doom to paid GPS services and devices !
Google integrates their hugely popular Google Maps to Android Mobile OS – What comes out is plain awesomeness that has power to make all the paid GPS services and devices literally redundant. Don't mistake Google GPS for normal mobile…
A Technology Brand is discussed every two minutes Online !
A Technology brand is discussed every two minutes in an online conversation – This unique finding has been published by Digital Brand Index (DBI) specifically for India. The DBI has been undertaken by Edelman in collaboration with…
Top Outsourcing Cities in the world
India has reiterated its position as the top Outsourcing Destination in the world – 6 out of 8 cities figure in the list of Top Outsourcing Cities in the world according to the report – Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities - …
Kindle comes to India: Should I buy it?
I am seriously tempted to buy it…. As soon as I read the press release that Amazon has slashed Kindle rates and now is offered globally across countries – My first reaction: Is it available in India? Yes, it is very much available…
Top 20 I.T Employers in India
Yeah, we have a top list today for our readers today – The best 20 Information Technology Employers in India. The survey was conducted by Dataquest and IDC jointly – The DQ-IDC Best Employers Survey. This survey surprisingly does not…
Animation & Gaming Industry in India: Report
Animation is taking off in India in a big way. It is quite evident from the fact that mainstream animated movies are getting released in Bollywood and many others in pipeline. On other hand even offshoring of animation services to India…
Mobile Internet Usage in India
Opera released the numbers for Mobile Internet usage for the month of July and as expected there is tremendous growth YoY in Mobile Internet Usage. Opera Mini is supposedly the most widely downloaded mobile app, so this reports is…