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Indian state OKs shooting tiger poachers on sight
2012-05-23 17:39:00 A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife.
Microsoft Wants To Incubate Indian Startups Who Want To Use Its Azure Platf
2012-05-23 14:30:00 Microsoft will soon open a parallel incubator program in India. The first one was in Israel. This is how the Israeli Incubator looks, courtesy: TheNextWeb Why? Microsoft’s cloud computing program Azure, needs startups that are focused on working with cloud computing. Hence Microsoft is willing to offer office space, mentorship, and $60,000 in credits to use Microsoft’s Azure platform. Attempts to set a firm foot in the cloud computing space were amply evident when Microsoft bagged its biggest Indian project from AICTE. Soon, even schools from Mumbai & Delhi were found to avail the services & that too at no extra cost! This commitment seems to have been extended in order to compete with the growing clout of Google & imminent threat from Amazon too! While Amazon has started to offer its super-computing for people who are willing to pay, Microsoft seems to have taken the higher ground in offering nurturing environment for fledgling startups. However, it will only extend...
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Indian passenger train rams freight train; 15 die
2012-05-22 08:00:00 A passenger train rammed into a freight train before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 15 people in the collision and fire, officials said.
High End Tablets Rule Indian Markets, No Place For Ultra-Affordable?
2012-05-21 13:57:00 Despite companies continually launching low priced tablets, it’s the high-end ones that are ruling the roost. Indian consumers have demonstrated their hunger for performance oriented & premium priced tablets with Apple’s iPad gaining a very healthy 51% market share last year. The latest iPad launched recently may show a healthy adoption rate too. After defeating its close rival Nokia, Samsung has proven itself in the tablet market with 24% via its Galaxy line of tablets. A recent survey by an US Based ABI Research brought forward such interesting insights in the hereto niche market. Will the ultra-affordable stand a chance? India as a market for tablets is yet to take off. Last year, only 0.39 Million Tablets were shipped in India as compared to 65 Million shipped globally. Experts estimate the market to grow 71% annually & by 2017, around 10 Million tablets could be sold here. Hence, it is too early to relegate the low-cost tablets to the history books. While the high...
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No Wizard of Oz For Indian Economy
2012-05-17 15:25:00 There was (or is?) one Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist Prime Minister in India. In his cabinet, and also among his policy-advisors, he had many other noted economists, many educated from Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge et al. Unfortunately, what his cabinet did not have is one Dorothy. And that happened to be the root of all economic ...
Anonymous Launches Operation Against Indian Government Websites.
2012-05-17 14:12:00 Anonymous, the worldwide initiative by hackers to defend free speech and file sharing, has now targeted Indian Government websites. A blog called TheDNetworks, was the first to break the story. Anonymous claims this is retaliation for the Government’s directive to ISPs to block video and torrent websites. MT Operation #India: BREAKING: Tango Downs: supremecourtofindia.nic.in & aicc.org.in | Reason: Internet #Censorship via @opindia_revenge — Anonymous Operations (@Anon_Central) May 17, 2012 BREAKING : supremecourtofindia.nic.in is down, aicc.org.in is down and dot.gov.in is back up!But it will be down soon — opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 17, 2012 The hacktivists at Anonymous have taken down the Supreme Court and All India Congress websites. The sites are still down at the time of writing. Anonymous is calling this “MT Operation India”. Earlier today, Medianama ran an article detailing the websites that have been blocked as result of a cou...
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Airtel Wants Youtube To Be A Digital Billboard For Indian Music
2012-05-08 13:29:00 Youtube is huge in India in terms of views and searches for programmable content. All the major broadcasters now have Youtube videos of their shows ready for the online crowd. They have understood that the reach of such a powerful online video service can give them the best outreach not just among the netizens in India but also abroad. Youtube has cracked a lot of content deals in the last few months and are already looking at new strategies to serve online content to users and be relevant in the long term. Manan Kakkar from ZDnet reports that Airtel is trying to pitch the idea of an online music billboard to the search giant. Airtel is one of the largest mobile networks in India and have forayed into diverse digital services like DTH, Mobile broadband and IPTV in addition to its mobile business. With Google’s commitment to mobile Internet in India, Airtel pitch might just work out. Vikrant Khanna, Vice President of Consumer Engagement and Digital at Airtel spoke to Ryan Hayward ...
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Indian Internet Connectivity Among The Worst In The World, Says Akamai Tech
2012-05-04 10:35:00 We all know how Internet Connectivity in India is abysmal in comparison to other countries like South Korea, Japan and the USA. A recent study by Akamai Technologies, the world’s biggest content delivery platform, has shown just how bad the state of Internet connectivity is in India. Akamai was able to get the data for these studies through its Akamai Intelligent Platform for the State of the Internet report for Q4 2011. The report goes into details about tracking, mobile connectivity, broadband speeds and proportional Internet users. According to the report, India have an average connection speed of 0.9 mbps! Besides being a very low figure, it also puts our country in the league of countries like Egypt and Venezuela. The report goes into further detail with analysis on data downloaded per user and peak connection stats. The attack traffic recorded in India for the fourth quarter was around 3%, which was surprisingly lower than the previous quarter’s result (3.7%). The averag...
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Trains To Get High Speed Internet Via Satellites, Courtesy Indian Space Res
2012-05-02 08:40:00 It is newly reported that Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has allowed the use of satellites to beam high speed internet directly onto moving trains. According to the news, Indian Railways will use the KU Band to make availability of broadband speed in trains like the Rajdhani. Exactly a year ago, the Railways had finally received the financial backing of Rs. 6.3 Crores (US$ 1.2 Million) to introduce WiFi Connectivity on trains. How will the system work? As this is a pilot project only 3 coaches of the Howrah Rajdhani will have such connectivity. This will establish a direct link up with the satellite. Once the link is good, the coaches will have internet connectivity through WiFi. Interestingly, passengers are not being charged for this service, yet. Railway stations are already being connected to such services. A while ago, they had initiated a project to link their trains with GPS for accurate position information. Indian railways are by far the most ...
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ESPN Digital Caters To Indian Football Fans With A New Online Platform
2012-04-30 14:23:00 ESPN Digital has introduced ESPN Football Club (ESPNFC) to Indian Football fans. This football centric application should be available across mobile platforms & is being developed to push targeted advertisement by offering quality content to the masses. Why the sudden development of interest? ESPN already owns & operates a cricket centric website cricinfo.com. This website has already witnessed record number of visitors during peak game season. It seems only logical that another game that has captured the hearts of Indians be exploited for commercial gains. ESPNFC will have geo-location enabled smart engine that will bundle advertisement & serve it by sensing the location of the user. How is a geo-location enabled recommendation engine going to work with a football app is best left to the designers. Garnering quality content is now the simple mantra that companies have adopted in order to make money from advertisement. The mobile centric application will be vital in acc...
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Reality Show Maker Endemol Has A New Partner; Indian TV Content Gets A Boos
2012-04-30 09:14:00 Chernin Group’s CA Media has bought a 49% controlling stake in Endemol India. Though the amount of money changing hands was not disclosed, Industry experts peg the figure at roughly Rs. 180 –200 Crores (@ US$ 35 Million) for a 49% stake. “Endemol would not let go of 49% share for a small sum” were the words of Deepak Dhar MD Endemol India. What has Endemolg got? Well, the company manages to churn out 2,000 hours of programming every year. Additionally, judging by the shows, the media company has a stronghold over the reality shows market. Dhar has also confirmed that Endemol is seriously looking into regional content too. With TV’s becoming smarter & people adopting faster broadband internet, we can expect more such mergers in the future. Production & distribution of quality content is the need of the hour. Endemol plans to use the fund infusion for to get into film production & to buy-out smaller production units. A while ago we saw how online retail industry...
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Starting At Rs. 30,500 Apple’s New iPad Hits Indian Market
2012-04-30 07:41:00 A whole month after the international release Apple has finally allowed Indians to purchase their latest iPad. Though it’s a third generation iPad, Apple has refrained from calling it iPad 3. However, specifications wise, there has been significant upgradation. What does the new iPad have? Any tablet’s most important aspect is its screen. Apple simply leaves other tablet makers far behind with 2048×1536 resolution Retina Display. The screen size is same as before i.e. 9.7 inch but it has 44% more color saturation. At 3.1 Million pixels, it’s 4X the amount as compared to older iPad2. Under the hood is Apple’s proprietary A5 Quad-Core chip, which is supposed to have market-leading processing capabilities. Furthermore the older version had just 3G, the newer has the faster 4G module built into it. However, no Indian mobile telecom operator has so far endorsed the faster standard of internet built into the iPad. Hence it will wise to wait till some Telco confirms that the...
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Recipe of Failure in Indian Education
2012-04-29 07:47:00 Part Iof this article dealt more with primary education whereas this part deals more with higher education ? People familiar with Operations Management or even some of the best practices in management would be familiar with Toyota Production System that defines value and waste. In our education policies, we have 90% or more waste (and this ...
Indian Gorilla V4 ? Bike Of The Future
2012-04-28 23:13:00 I’m a fan of classic curves on cars, but I love sleek new concepts just as much, so when I found the Indian Gorilla V4 in my email this week, my jaw dropped. What is the Indian Gorilla V4? Designer Vasilatos Ianis from Oradea, Bihor, Romania offers us his vision of old school flavor with ... Related posts:Build A Custom Car Online With Local Motors SuperBot : Robotics of the Future India Launches $2,400 Car – World’s Cheapest Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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Is The TRIA Laser Hair Removal Safe For Indian Skin
2012-04-27 16:26:00 TRIA Laser System Safety On Indian Skin This post is about the safety of the Tria Laser for hair removal on Indian skin. The Tria laser is a safe laser hair removal system, as long as it is used by the manufacturer guidelines and safety instruction (not to be used on face!). Tria Laser system ...
Sharing Content From PC To Mobile Now Made Simpler By TextMe, An Indian Web
2012-04-26 13:44:00 ‘Sharing’ is the pillar on which many services and apps are based. Every service is being engineered to make the process of sharing content easy and smooth. There is one area where this has been a problem with no ready solution at hand – Sharing from your PC to someone’s phone via SMS! Now, with TextMe, an Indian web app, you can do just that! This simple and clean app helps you send any kind of data on the web to someone’s phone via SMS. Check this video and see how the app does it. TextMe has been developed by EpicWhale, a Mumbai based App development firm. TextMe is available for almost every major browser from Chrome to Opera and the service is fairly painless and makes sharing content with someone, a piece of cake. We used Chrome to test the app out. The app is very light (just an extension) and makes sharing a simple 2 step process. The best part about TextMe is the fact that everything that you want to share is conveniently packaged in a short link. You ...
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We Reviewed Zync Z-990 – The First Indian Tablet To Have Android 4.0
2012-04-26 08:23:00 Sometime back, Apple Group of Companies (no relation to Apple!) launched the Zync Z-990. This is the first Indian tablet to have Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich and made quite a splash when it was launched. We managed to get our hands on the Zync Z-990 and here is what we found. Design and Looks This 7 inch tablet is compact and very easy to hold. We loved how it was light in comparison to other tablets out there. The downside is that the make of the tablet is very poor. It is cheap and plasticky and doesn’t feel like a polished product. The design is simple and it looks like the company did not put enough thought to it since there is considerable room for improvement in terms of finish of the product. Product Specs: The tablet sports a resolution of 800*480 pixels, which is not very good for content display. We ran quite a few apps and it was our opinion that we could not read stuff on it very clearly. It does have a capacitive touch-screen and that is the good thing. Th...
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Modern Indian Mehendi Henna Style
2012-04-25 17:17:00 1. Henna Paste Recipe No 1 - Take three cups of boiling water, add to it two tablespoon of coffee or black tea and make a decoction (decoction = boil three cups and reduce it to half a cup), add a teaspoon of eucalyptus oil and the juice of half a lemon and one teaspoon of sugar.
Cartier's Indian Style Pair of Art Deco Pearl, Ruby and Diamond Ear Pendant
2012-04-20 18:43:00 A pair of dangling long ear pendants, characteristic of the Art Deco period, with openwork circular discs and arched surmounts, mounted with diamonds and rubies, and fringes of natural pearls and rubies
Captains Cove Indian Shores Real Estate for Sale under $200K
2012-04-20 18:25:00 Indian Shores Real Estate – Captains Cove Condos for Sale Indian Shores Florida – Captains Cove Indian Shores condos were built in 2002 and are 27 2 bedroom 2 bath 1140 square foot waterfront condos in Indian Shores FL. These condos are newer as Indian Shores beach condos go and have lots of great features ...
5 Reasons to Love Captains Cove Indian Shores Florida Condos
2012-04-20 16:32:00 Insiders Guide to Captains Cove Indian Shores Florida Real Estate Indian Shores Florida – With so many choices of Gulf beach condos in Pinellas County I thought I’d share the 5 reasons to love Captain’s Cove condos in Indian Shores Florida. Captains Cove Condos are 27 popular waterfront condos in Indian Shores FL just steps ...
Indian Developer 2012 Awards Features Products By Microsoft & Google
2012-04-20 08:45:00 Microsoft & Google have bagged awards at the Great Indian Developer Awards 2012 for innovative products and applications. While Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 was selected in the Development Environment category, Google’s Android was selected in the Mobile Development category. The other award winners were: Modeling category: Rational Rose (IBM) Collaboration category: TeamPulse (Telerik) Change and configuration management category: TeamForge (Collabnet) Web development category: Toolkit (Dojo) Database category: Database 11g (Oracle) Testing category: Profiler (JBoss) Microsoft’s Security Essentials and SharePoint 2010 also bagged awards under the security category and the content management category. While speaking at the Award presentation ceremony, Saltmarch chief executive Dilip Thomas said, “The Great Indian Developer Awards recognize the trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations contributing to evangelism, productivity and innovation excell...
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Myshaadi.in Raises First Round Of Funding From Indian Angel Network
2012-04-19 11:32:00 Myshaadi.in, a Delhi based online portal offering host of wedding related services including personalised wedding sites, today announced raising the first round of funding from Indian Angel Network. The investors include active angel investors Rajan Anandnan, Sunil Kalra, Ashim Mehra and Rehan Yar Khan who is joining the board of directors of myshaadi.in. Founded by Abhishek Jain, Myshaadi.in enables couples to plan wedding events, share invitations, share photographs along with features like budget calculator, shopping list, to do list, etc. The website boasts of an interactive blogging section which is contributed by the industry experts that illuminates couples on latest trends and international concepts of wedding. Launched in February, 2011, the site has served more than 13,000 couples and aims to have over 1 lakh couples by this year end. What caught the investors’ attention towards Myshaadi.in was that there was hardly any significant and focused player in the matrimony do...
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Indian Angel Network Pumps Rs. 2 Crores In Mumbai Based Tech Startup, Birds
2012-04-18 11:53:00 Indian Angle Network has funded an amount of Rs. 2 Crores (US$ $4, 00,000) in Birds Eye. Birds Eye is a Geographical information systems company & offers two products. This Mumbai-based company intends to use the funding to expand nationwide, enhance the scope of services and further develop the products. As part of the deal, IAN investor members Rajiv Dadlani and Nitin Agarwal have joined the board of Birds Eye Systems. The products presently include Traffline and a mobile Taxi booking service, TaxiGo. Traffline is a geo-information system that offers real time traffic updates to commuters by using available GPS data sourced from cabs and buses that are already on city roads. The company is in talks with mobile companies to offer the service via SMS too. The updates are currently free. Interestingly, the company wants to earn through Value Added Services (VAS). We assume they want to run some sort of active recommendation engine wherein a person is informed about deals nearb...
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Walmart To Hire 100 More Indian Developers: What Is Walmart Upto?
2012-04-18 08:06:00 Walmart Stores has chosen Indian developers to work on its retailing technologies. The physical & online store giant has hired 20 Indian developers over the last few months & plans to have about 100 within few days. The company has set a target of 200 People by the end of the current year. Walmart appears to be gearing up for the onslaught of Amazon. The web-only company has been steadily eating into Walmart’s customer & revenue base. Hence the company has set-up @WalmartLabs, a unit of Walmart Global e-commerce. This project is the company’s hub for creating platforms and products around Social and Mobile Commerce. Walmart has realized the challenges that need to be overcome if it needs to maintain its position in the world which is increasingly reliant on online shopping. However, the company does have a very strong asset of physical stores where customers can get a feel of the product. In order to bolster the offline-online linkages, Walmart is hirin...
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Revolution By The Indian Music Industry Reap Results As Banned Websites Beg
2012-04-17 09:30:00 The Indian Music Industry (IMI) association has been working hard to curb piracy. It’s efforts have slowly started to bear fruit with banned website like www.smashits.com buying- a license to legally sell music. The website, which was earlier part of the large list of websites that were banned, has chosen to take the legal route of music distribution & has accordingly bought a license from IMI. Though the amount paid for license is not disclosed, it is said to vary depending on the quantum of downloads and streams of music. A while ago IMI had drawn out big guns in order to secure injunction orders against 104 websites that were directly responsible to distribute Indian Music without paying any royalty to the makers. This entitled an estimated annual loss of about US$ 4 Billion. Though the organization was successful in getting Songs.pk banned, the site owners simply chose to open a new portal named SongsPk.pk & continued pirating music. And this is the majo...
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Indian Companies To Shine At Asia’s Premier Global Networking Events
2012-04-16 15:52:00 The upcoming Information & Media Communication Tools (ICT) events CommunicAsia and Broa-dcastAsia will be held from 19th to 22nd June 2012 at Singapore. Indian Companies like Tata Communication & TPEC wil-l be part of these prestigious events. The event helps launch newest technologies, products and solutions from over 2,000 multinational and small and medium companies. It also helps forging strategic business partnerships even with Governments. India’s ICT sector is witnessing phenomenal growth. While mobile subscriber base is exploding, companies are also considering global environment. With Kapil Sibal’s ultra-affordable Aakash’s second-rising comi-ng soon, we can expect a new wave of education driven through these innovative tools. Analysts are estimating revenues to cross US$ 100 Billion, with exports having a majority share of US$ 69 Billion. With cloud computing gathering momentum, companies like Google, Amazon & W-almart have trained t...
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Indian chicken curry recipe
2012-04-15 15:34:00 Delicious Indian chicken curry recipe: fast and easy with a blender, more authentic using a mortar and pestle. A lot of sweat and tears making your own curry mixture with fresh and dry herbs. More tears if you use an extra amount of chilies… This curry chicken recipe is prepared much faster using a blender, ...
Incredible India Campaign Will Come To Facebook, Announces Indian Tourism M
2012-04-12 13:14:00 The Indian Government and other aligned governmental bodies are slowly but surely realizing the power -and reach of Social Media. Sometime last year the Government formulated a Social Media Policy for all governmental organization. This year we saw the PMO’s office making its entry on Twitter and Facebook. Taking a leaf from this, the Tourism Ministry has now announced that they will be bringing their successful Incredible India Campaign to Facebook. The Campaign will be taking an aggressive approach towards showcasing India’s diversity and rich cultural heritage including all the special travel destinations on the popular social network. The huge global user base of Facebook will make it possible for the Tourism Ministry to take the campaign global in a big way. The Campaign now has two interesting sub-campaigns that are coming up titled Atithidevo Bhava and Clean India Campaign. Aamir Khan is the brand ambassador of the Athithidevo Bhava campaign and will be ...
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Walmart Eyes Indian Online Retail: Fact Or Fiction?
2012-04-12 08:00:00 American retail giant Walmart appears to be eyeing the lucrative online retail in India. Though the news could not be corroborated, the company was apparently in talks with e-commerce companies in India for partnership possibilities. However, upon confrontation Walmart reverted that information was “completely speculative”. Why is Walmart keen in a partnership? With a global revenue of US$ 400 Billion, one would think Walmart could easily open a chain of stores just like in the US. However, our Indian foreign investment restrictions in domestic trading are applicable to e-commerce, too. Accordingly, such companies can only conduct Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce and no direct retail trading is permitted. In case Walmart opens a physical store it does get a 100% trading permit but for wholesale B2B. Additionally Walmart does not do single-brand trading which too has 100% investment permission. The Union cabinet had cleared FDI in multi-brand retail in 2011 but then withd...
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Indian Art And Culture Will Go Online: Google Partners With National Museum
2012-04-11 13:59:00 Google has agreed in a partnership with the National Museum and National Gallery of Modern Art under the Ministry of Culture to shape and extend its new Art Project in India. Google wants to design an online podium for museums across the world to exhibit their art works and allow art lovers to explore more from the art archives of India as well as other international artists. Just imagine how lovely it would be to visually see a gigapixel image of the Radha and Krishna in the “boat of love” from the National Museum and “Santiniketan Triptych”. The intriguing part is the super high resolutions revealed in these art works which is otherwise not conjectured by the naked eye. Art loving users can also use the Google Street View technology to surf through the galleries and add them to their very own online collection. This idea was sown in the presence of Smt. Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of Culture and Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Dr. Vijay Madan...
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Indian Music Industry Wins Battle Against Music Piracy: But Will It Win The
2012-04-11 12:21:00 Music Piracy took a beating today when the Indian Government issues a mandate that asks all ISPs to ‘protect and preserve’ copyright ownership of music artists and companies over the Internet. We had reported earlier that the Calcutta High Court had made it mandatory for 384 ISPs to block around 104 offending websites and services, especially Songs.pk. This was finally achieved by extensive lobbying by the Indian Music Industry (IMI) which is a group of all the major players in Indian Music. Some of the prominent ISPs who were named were Bharti Airtel Ltd., Vodafone India Ltd., Hughes Communications India Ltd., Tata Teleservices Ltd., Reliance Communications Infrastructure Ltd., Wipro Ltd., Sify Technologies Ltd. and others. Vijay Lazarus, IMI, said in a statement, ” Recent estimates suggest that India’s digital music market is in the range of Rs. 5,000 crore, but only 7 percent of it is legitimate. We hope that such a move will help curb piracy and go a long way in sup...
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Spuul Launches Indian Content Streaming Service; What’s The Big Deal?
2012-04-11 08:26:00 Singapore based Spuul Pvt Ltd has launched a Video Streaming service that offers Indian Content. The race to offer premium video content has begun quite some time ago. Though Yahoo entered a bit late, the space was first explored by Youtube which began by hosting Hindi movies & TV shows. Later many companies began to offer their versions of Video Streaming services. So, what makes Spuul unique? Spuul offers a mixture of free-to-view and paid content. Currently, majority of its revenue comes from in-media advertisements. Spuul has simplified the login process. Users have to log-in using their existing Facebook accounts! Spuul extracts only relevant information to complete the registration whereas most of the premium content is locked away in a subscription costing US$ 4.99 (Rs. 250) per month. Spuul has also kept a pay-per-view option wherein some movies are available at just 99 Cents (Rs. 50). Note: This introductory price will shot up to US$ 7.99 (Rs. 400) depend...
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IDBI Rises To Become The Number One Bank On Indian Social Media
2012-04-09 13:08:00 Having a good Social Media Strategy is critical for a brand to develop its image as well as to increase its engagement, reach to its consumers. Many consumer brands have got this spot on but how about banking companies? It seems one Indian bank has managed to rise to the top of the social media game. IDBI is an Indian Public Sector banking institution which has a network of 933 branches, 621 centres and 1514 ATMs as of 2011. Let us run through the numbers the bank has accumulated on Social Media: Facebook: 6,25,762 fans Twitter: 15,396 followers Youtube: 7428 subscriptions Google Plus: 15981 have it in circles. These figures make the bank the largest socially networked banking organization in the country. They have said that they gained the Facebook and Twitter figures in short span of 9 months. That is quite a feat for a Public Sector bank. IDBI has tasted success because their approach is very good. It is an interesting mix of informative content, product awareness and g...
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San Diego Indian Diwali Festival in Balboa Park
2012-04-05 08:29:00 INDIAN DIWALI FESTIVAL IN BALBOA PARK ON OCTOBER 25, 2009 4:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m. Balboa Park always has something cookin' and this weekend it is the DIWALI FESTIVAL, the annual Festival of Lights c
Indian Games Carnival From 6th April 2012 , Are You Participating?
2012-04-04 13:55:00 The global event centered on Gaming will commence on April 6th in the capital. Professional gaming in India is still at a nascent stage, but such events are vital to help it grow. The three-day event will get players across Malaysia, Russia, China and UAE competing against each other in 17 tournaments. The genre of the games is myriad. Interestingly, Angry-Birds has also made its debut in the tournament. Where in country like ours where gaming is more like a hobby & not a sport this step is very interesting. Does India gain from such gaming-centered events? India may not play games professionally, but many Indians are heavily into game-development. Quite recently, many companies have begun hosting games on their sites. Such events definitely bring the much-desired focus on this upcoming industry. Additionally, such international events increase exposure to Indian developers to the newer developments world-wide. Companies are known to use such platforms to showcase new products ...
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TA Associates Acquire Minority Stake In Indian Online Payments Company, Bil
2012-04-04 13:19:00 Billdesk has been one of the oldest Indian online payments companies. The company was founded in 2000 and has now grown significantly to become one the most trusted companies in online payment services for a lot of companies and services. The Indian Digital Review reports that TA Associates, a global private equity firm has acquired a minority stake in Billdesk. The amount of this investment has not been disclosed yet. This is a good boost forward for the company and will help it to build more solutions which can adapt to the rapidly changing online payment scene. Billdesk currently powers most of the payments processed by Indian companies via some of the top banks in India. These companies are into diverse sectors and include utilities, telecom, insurance, mutual funds, travel and several ecommerce websites. M.N Srinivasu, Co-Founder and Director of BillDesk spoke of the investment saying, “We are delighted to welcome TA as an investor in BillDesk. With their wealth of experie...
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Arise, Awake and Stop Not until Indian E Banking is made Safe
2012-03-31 06:05:00 Today is the end of a financial year for Indian Banks. It is time for them to draw their annual reports and submit it to both RBI and its shareholders. One essential information missing from Bank reports it the extent of loss in E Banking frauds. RSA recently stated that the losses suffered by Indian ...
Indian Use More Social Media Than Emails, Says Study
2012-03-29 13:56:00 The findings of a survey commissioned by Norton to find out trends in Internet usage by Indians have verified the speculation that Indians show more love to social media than email. Norton is an online software security company which specialises in anti-virus software. The survey reports that an average Indian spends roughly 9.7 hours a week on multiple social networking services like Facebook and Twitter and other applications that enable chatting with friends. Email on the other hand are showing a usage statistic of 6.1 hours a week. 8 out of 10 people quizzed by the survey claimed that they cannot live without the Internet for more than 24 hours. We can vouch for this statistic because now that more and more people are smartphones or Internet enabled feature phone, the web has become some sort of a life-line to the world in general and the withdrawal effects can be severe. Overall, Indians spend 8.4 hours a day or up to 58 hours a week online. A proper breakdown of the hours spe...
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Indian Railways To Launch GPS Train Location Tracking Service
2012-03-28 08:38:00 Indian Railways is looking at launching a service which will help passengers track its trains in real-time using Google Maps, a functionality very similar to GPS navigation. This will make it easy for travelers to access and track track their trains from their computers and mobile devices. Economic Times reports that the Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) has partnered with the prestigious Indian Space Research Organization to develop a GPS-based solution. This technology can provide the location of a train accurately down to 10 meters and at a maximum time latency of 2 minutes which makes it almost real-time by practical standards. Besides helping travelers, this new GPS device is mainly being installed to avert collision between trains and prevent any loss of life. CRIS has integrated this GPS device in Google Maps and ISRO’s INSAT-3C will help in tracking the trains. This project is large scale and hence CRIS plans to allocate Rs. 70 crore to the project. A pilot pr...
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Indian Wedding Saree is now friends with Angarkh and mohd javed
2012-03-23 06:31:00 Indian Wedding Saree is now friends with Angarkh and mohd javed
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Indian arms race accelerates further
2012-03-22 21:10:00 India leads arms imports: Swedish think tank“India is the world’s largest arms importer,” the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said as it released its latest report on trends in the international arms trade.”India received nine percent of the volume of international arms transfers during 2006-10, with Russian deliveries accounting for 82 percent of Indian ...
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Budget Tab Zync Makes Its Debut In The Indian Market: But Will It Survive T
2012-03-21 07:12:00 The Tablet Market, which has been ruled by Apple’s iPad, has been growing since 2010. With the new iPad enjoying record sales of 3 million units we know consumers want to buy tablets. However, in a country like India, the number of people who can afford high end tablets like the iPad is significant but yet limited. This is where low end tablets come in. India is an extremely price sensitive market, the potential for mass sales lie with mid and low end tablets. The Reliance 3G Tab enjoyed extremely good sales. Now, we have a new contender in the budget tablet market: The Zync Tab. What we find especially interesting about this device are its specs: While most budget tablets run the phone-specific Android 2.3, this runs the latest Android 4.0 OS. 7″ Capacitive Touchscreen, rather than resistive like in other budget offerings. High End features like HDMI output and WiFi N 1.2 Ghz Processor USB Port for Keyboard connectivity Front Facing Camera for Video Chat Launch...
By: WATblog
Vodafone Brings Worldspace Radio To 18 Indian Telecom Circles
2012-03-20 12:15:00 Vodafone has brought satellite radio to its customers with the launch of their new value added service for its customers in 18 Indian Circles. Now you can enjoy great satellite radio on your mobile phone for a very nominal price. Vodafone has made available 10 exclusive radio stations which will have more than 1,00,000 lakh songs. The content is very Indian specific and the channels includes many regional flavors. The satellite radio service also has a music trivia feature which will satisfy your curiosity of the Indian Music greats. The service costs Rs. 30/month and includes 300 minutes of free usage. Vodafone’s product page also points out that the service is not live in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Here is the lowdown on the 10 exclusive channels on the service: Farishta – Best of Bollywood! Falak – The greatest ghazals! Sonar – The best Bengali music ever! Umang – All the flavours of Gujarat! Surabhi – The best of Marathi music! Tunak – The grea...
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Youtube Makes 19000+ Indian Shows Available Online
2012-03-20 06:42:00 Digital Content is going places in India. First, we saw Reliance Entertainment Digital releasing BigFlix Plus and Times Digital is coming up with BoxTV and now Youtube has announced that it has made 19000+ episodes of Indian Television shows available on its site. This is big! Entire television shows online can now be legally watched at a time that is most convenient for everyone. Youtube announced these new additions on their official blog. It said, “India is one of world’s largest producers of TV shows. With more than 400 terrestrial and local channels available, Indians often face the challenging question: What am I going to watch? The good news is that we increasingly don’t have to worry about when to watch. Over the last few years, major Indian broadcasters such as Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, ImagineTV, Star India, and VikatanTV have been bringing their shows to YouTube so that you can watch them whenever you want. Now that our Indian TV partners offer more t...
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Internet Contributes 3.2% Of Indian GDP, Says Google’s Rajan Anandan
2012-03-19 08:42:00 The India Today Conclave which was held last week focused on how India and its businesses will transform the future? The conclave brought the best minds in politics, economics, business and administration, security affairs, social issues, the sciences and the arts to examine what the present looks like and what the future entails. An insightful event of the conclave was about how the web has changed how we do things in our country and the world. The session had the Indian Heads of Facebook and Google, arguably the most influential and successful Internet Companies in the world, talking about the web is transforming India businesses. Facebook’s India head, Kirthiga Reddy spoke about India’s increasing Facebook usage and the way it helps people and social efforts. She gave the example of how farmers in Sangli, Maharashtra were able to reverser the price drop of turmeric via Facebook. She stressed how Facebook is not just a place for friends to connect but for larger initiatives l...
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