2014

With the growth of Smartphones in India, these numbers are not that surprising – Indians spend at an average of 3 hours and 11 minutes on Smartphones per day as compared to 2 hours and 8 minutes in front of their televisions. These are…

We have witnessed many instances previously that shows Google’s thrust on localizing content. Last year they enabled their hugely popular translate tool for several Indian languages and then went on to add phonetic support for them as…

Last week, the technological world was stirred and shaken with the news of Microsoft laying off 18,000 employees in one single stroke. Although 12,500 of those fired employees were from Nokia, the industry has never observed such large…

Facebook is the largest community on Earth – if Facebook was a country, it would be now nearly equivalent or may have even surpassed China (In 4Q2013, they had 1.23B active users). So, obviously when Facebook introduces any new feature,…

I am sure you have come across those mails about “You have won $100 million lottery” or such similar mails. Most of you know that it is a scam and ignore it. However, there are many Indians who have fallen trap to such scams. Infact,…

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and many other social media platforms are invaluable for building contacts, networking and promotion. There is little doubt about that. However it is a double edged sword. The lay man is suddenly…

Internet in India is predominantly an English affair. It is true that there are webpages that range from Hindi to Bengali to Tamil now but still, to reach these pages, you still need to know some amount of English. The domain names are…

It’s Monday morning and time to do a quick wrap-up of some of the buzzing posts published on trak.in last week. Adsharp is a new advertisement technology introduced by Star India using which advertisers and marketers can laser target…

Datawind, which manufactures low cost tablets Akash has partnered with BSNL to offer free one year Internet to all its users. This offer is only for their UbiSlate 7Cz and UbiSlate 3G7 tablet buyers. Additionally, they have also…

Jolla, pronounced as Yoo-Laa, is a Finnish company that was started by many ex-Nokia employees. Their vision? To create a beautiful Smartphone and UX that serves the user better than any other ecosystem. Of course, the company hasn't…