There has been explosive growth in the number of TV channels that are beamed in Indian Homes. In the earlier part of this decade we had no more than 100 channels – which by the end of it has ballooned to over 500 TV Channels.
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No more new TV Channels – Thanks to lack of Spectrum availability
Twitter growth is slowing down and that too quite drastically – that is the finding of “ State of Twittersphere ” released today by HubSpot. However, the average Follower and following count of users is increased a lot – A lot more tweet communication is happening as well as compared to March last year.
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Report: Twitter growth slowing drastically – but communication increasing !
It is not yet official, but if reports appearing in mainstream media are to be believed, Cricket Fans worldwide will be able to watch IPL Season III streaming live on their computers ! It is speculated that Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will partner with Google India to stream live matches of its IPL league. The Indian Premier League will be starting on March 11th and will have 59 matches spanning over 44 days. The players auction is currently underway and we will soon come to know the cost of new players entering this tournament.
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IPL Season 3 will be available Streaming Live on Youtube !
Infomedia 18 launches local listing website askme.in- why not use ‘burrp’ brand? Infomedia 18 recently launched it long awaited local lsiting website askme.in which boasts of having 3 million businesses on its platform and is going to offer a unique feature ‘Click to Call’.
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Media Monday: A new local listing site, some ‘Action’ and DTH players under scanner
The Indian IT sector , the darling of trade pundits is seeing some kind of resurgence since the start of the year.After a tumultuous last year which saw the Indian Stock Market losing nearly 50-60% of its value, IT stocks fared ever so badly.
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Is the Indian IT Sector set for a Stock Market rebound ?
Aman ki Asha can turn out to be a new lease of life in betterment of relations between India & Pakistan, or should I say Indians & Pakistanis. If you are not aware what Aman ki Asha is – It is a joint movement launched by the two leading media houses of India and Pakistan – The Times of India and the Jang Group – have come together to develop a stronger Track 2 in the diplomatic and cultural relations between India and Pakistan. “Aman ki Asha: Destination Peace” looks beyond the confines of a 62-year-old political boundary to the primal bonds that tie together the two peoples.
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Aman ki Asha: A new Lease of life for relations between India & Pakistan?
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I will be getting quite active in stock Market (that’s one of my resolutions) in 2010. You may see increase in the posts on stock Market in coming days. While researching a few things on the net, I hit upon this very interesting news.
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Technology spells doom to day traders in Stock Market
Indian Education Sector looks set for a turnaround.From Corporate India entering the education sector to the various government reforms, things are looking bright for the Indian Education Sector.Infact, the HRD minister has invited the Private Sector to play a major part in lifting the education standards in India. “There is need for paradigm shift.
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Is Indian Education System Set For An Overhaul ?
I still remember the days (nearly 10 years back) when I was first applying for my H1B visa, it still gives me creeps to think of the whole process – from filling up the form to going for an interview at the Consulate for that one small sticker on your passport called Visa. It felt bigger than giving your Final Engineering Exams – at least I felt so back then
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American Visa Application process goes online
High Speed Internet Connectivity in India might as well be called an Oxymoron.Despite the larger than life claims from the Service providers, the broadband speeds have been rather sub standard or even if they deliver on the speed , the uptime and the pricing negate the effect. We keep pondering over why E-Commerce has not taken off in India , and one basic answer lies in the below par connectivity.The service providers are upbeat about their plans and they market their seemingly Fastest Broadband connections like there’s no tomorrow.Risking generalization, i think its safe to assume that most of us have complains from our Internet Service Provider. So, when MTNL announces a whopping 20 Mbps broadband speed , one wonders if someone out there is actually doing something about it.Before we get into the details, here is the new plan as proposed by MTNL for its new broadband connection .
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20 Mbps Broadband From MTNL , Too Good To Be True
3G Auction Delayed,Yet Again The Indian Government seems to have lost it way with the much awaited 3G auctions.If the Department of Telecom(DoT) is to beleived , the official 3g auctions might get delayed by a more than a month and start around the first week of March.DoT is yet to finalise the Notice Inviting Applications. The 3G hype has been doing the rounds for quite sometime but it got delayed on a regular basis.India despite being one of the largest growing telecom network, is still waiting in wings to have access to the 3G network.More than that, the spectrum being offered is one of the lowest too
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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auctions, Advertisments,Mobile Banking
Yes, both these words share common initials, but in reality there is huge gap between India and Innovation. In past decade India has become a hub for outsourcing (specially in IT), and has shown some outstanding growth in fields like Telecom. But this post is specially for Internet Startups where all the action is happening today (both locally and Internationally)! I have recently started my startup journey and have experienced some fake expectations and harsh realities in past one year.
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Why In-dian startups stop In-novating?
It might sound hard to digest but the United States has agreed to help India predict and track the monsoons better by providing imagery from its satellites.The advanced satellite images will help India track the monsoon changes with a greater degree of certainty. The US has agreed to provide India with imagery from its satellites on weather patterns over the Indian Ocean and the subcontinent that will allow scientists to predict rainfall 15 days in advance. At present, Indian scientists can predict the monsoons only one-and-a-half days in advance.It will also supply India a supercomputer that can analyse and interpret the satellite images.
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U.S. to help India predict monsoons with greater certainity
Google has recently announced the favourite places on Google, a project that enables and merges offline and online interactions for local businesses. It works as follows: the 100,000 local businesses in US, handpicked by Google, get stickers containing QR codes that they can display on their doors/windows/menus. When a potential customer scans the QR code using his mobile camera, which has a QR code reading application installed, the QR code is converted into a URL (the URL of the business page on Google Maps places) and the browser displays the page from that URL that contains information about that place like user reviews and ratings , coupons and hot deals etc
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The web meets world: Google favourite places, Sixth sense and augmented reality
It all started with one mission for Google “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful ” and the motto “Don’t be Evil” . In short, they always wanted to provide all of world’s information at fingertips and that too for Free ! But then who cares about such mission statements and mottos of any company. But Google is probably one of those chosen companies which is almost able to deliver what it had promised! And in achieving this it has become huge- in fact “God-like” .
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Google- From “No Evil” to a “Vampire” for Publishers!
If you thought crowdsourcing only worked for creating marketing/design campaigns and soliciting community feedback, think again? IBM is changing that and taking crowdsourcing to the next level with its latest project
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IBM takes Crowdsourcing to the next level with its Real Time Translation Project
Google has recently announced its own Public DNS system that will allow internet users the ability to bypass the ISP’s DNS servers and contact the Google’s Public DNS servers for resolving all DNs queries. First some background on DNS. whenever you type a web address like http://google.com in your browser, the domain name address (google.com) needs to be translated into an IP address
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Google Public DNS- a ploy to get handle on the real-time pulse of the internet?
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 second largest market that of UK. In developing countries, it’s a rarity if an internet company gets funded, and most of the start-up visionaries here are not very bullish when it comes to internet space.
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Global Advertising Industry Perspective: U.S Vs Rest of World !
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 unique mail address (and 10 gb storage) to each of its more than 70 million citizens. The project is codenamed ‘Anaposta’.
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An online home for all: a luxury or basic infrastructure?
Oh Boy!! A Saturday morning cannot be more eventful and worrying then waking up to a news (or rather a tweet) which says, CAT servers crash in Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal and Lucknow (via @ndtv ) Websites crash all the time and so do one of the best made software’s.But, when a software fails at its very first live execution, it is a little worrisome to say the least. More so, when the test system is used for selecting the best brains of India for admission to one of the most reputed MBA colleges in the whole world .
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Did someone just forget to test the new IIM Prometric (Online Test Taking System)