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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…

WOW…This is just wow ! Nokia has revealed the specs for their much awaited Mobile + Netbook Combo called the Nokia Booklet 3G - source   These are the signs to come – just other day I was talking to my friend about a…

Now this is really a scintillating news ! 2 years back TRAI had mentioned that only speeds of above 256 kbps can be defined as a broadband connection, but now TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) today indicated that : Government…

If you are noticing India Inc's moves of late then you are bound to notice a trend. Most of the companies are rushing for the rural areas. Be it telecom, banking, computing or the auto industry. What prompts the companies to look for rural…

Do you know what Rickshaw means ? The name “Rickshaw” comes from the Japanese expression, "ji riki shaw" which means "vehicle powered by man". The concept of the rickshaw first came to China, then India and…

453 container ships or 11% of global ship capacity is lying idle. With the kind of job's being shipped overseas at least some of the ships can be put to use. The latest in the line of shipping jobs overseas to India is IBM. It plans to…

Airtel and Tata Indicom the providers of broadband Internet in India are trying to cap the broadband speeds. There are also talks about policing the content which you read. Your Internet will be monitored for both the content and download…

Conglomerization is nothing new to India. Almost all the business houses are obsessed with spinning off separate business units. Sometimes in related fields and sometimes in totally unrelated fields. It is so prevalent that even Infosys…

Couple of months back, most of the mobile companies slashed their local and STD rates by as much as 40%, making STD calls rates at 1.50 paise per minute. India already has the cheapest call rates worldwide and I did not expect the rates to…

During my train travels from New Jersey to New York via Subway, I used to always think of how it would be to have a similar ticketing system for journey in crowded Mumbai local trains. The first thing that came to my mind - it was just not…

Mark (name changed) wanted to outsource some of his development work. A typical outsourcing process starts with bidding, where companies from different cheaper countries including India would bid for projects. He asks one of his manager (An…

Now, I feel this is a serious threat to user's privacy. Even though the Yahoo! officials have assured that they follow strict privacy policy, a normal user will be quite uncomfortable knowing that everything he/ she does is tracked and…

It is amazing to see how television broadcasting has changed over past 10-15 years. Earlier, we used to watch anything that was dished out to us on Doordarshan, be it Nukkad, be it films division cartoons (do you remember those?) or Sunday…

Indian mobile subscriber growth does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. It is no wonder that most of the services are going mobile. Users now want all information to be available on the web, be it local search, banking, bill…

Quite a few things happened these last few days in the social networking space. While tons have been written about Microsoft valuing Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook at $15 billion , we mostly missed Yahoo's decision to let go of Yahoo! 360…

One of the major problems that I face during my travel to India is the speed and reliability of broadband connections. In US, majority of users have 4 to 6 mbps lines at their home and reliability problems are next to none. Downloading a…

Mobile commerce in India is gaining quite a bit of momentum, and why not. India currently boasts more than 200 million mobile subscribers growing at nearly 100% yoy. Online E-commerce is yet to catch up, but it also has started picking up…

MagicBricks, one of the leading Indian real-estate portal launched a mobile version of their site- MagicBricks mobile. They are supposedly the First Indian mobile property portal. The users need to download a small application on their GPRS…

If you walk on the any of the city streets in India, you will rarely see people without mobile phones. More than half of these people have new generation mobile phones sporting big screens and GPRS having internet access. Infact, as per a…

As you may know I am an ardent advocate of corporate blogging. As much as a Corporate blog program can work as a great marketing and image building tool, it can work exactly opposite if you do not give enough importance to certain aspects…