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The bug for being Numero Uno has severely bitten Mr. Anil Ambani and his team 🙂 The core team keeps announcing things one after the other even before the products are ready. For instance, they announced the launch of Reliance Mobile Money Transfer in a filing with the Stock Exchange Mumbai on theContinue Reading
Mobile has become a converged device in the hands of an Indian. According to a recent survey by Singapore based SoundBuzz, sales of digital music for mobile will touch Rs 3,601 crore [$900 M] out of the projected Rs 4,100 crore [$1.025 B] digital music market in 2009. It isContinue Reading
India’s leading computer media manufacturer and also Bollywood and other DVD retailer’s website is considered unsafe according to Google’s StopBadware project. If you Google for Moser Baer, you see a warning being issued from Google as shown below. Google started filtering sites which hosts Malware / Badware from its searchContinue Reading
The NDNCRegistry did go online in India but most consumers feel it’s a painful exercise. Vodafone-Essar which has been active in receiving its customer feedback today became the first mobile service provider in India to introduce unwanted call blocking and filtering mechanism to any of its customer irrespective of the mobileContinue Reading
Finally, the Minsitry of Consumer Affairs [MCA] is trying to help the Indian consumer fight for his rights online. MCA has setup a Consumer Online Resource and Empowerement Centre [CORE] which is an online platform for the Indian consumer to address his grievance. A quick look at the site tells us thatContinue Reading
You have probably read on Sunbeltblog by now that Bank Of India website has been infected to install Trojans. I am checking from my Linux terminal the website at 1:15 PM IST and the malicious code still exists. See Below. Please do not visit the BOI website, yet. I called Chic Infotech theContinue Reading
TRAI came out with its recommendations on wireless spectrum allocation and mergers and acquisition in the Indian telecom market. My comments appear in Italics. TRAI suggested, No cap on the number of service providers operating in any circle [HFCL, Spice, By Cell, Parsvnath, etc may all get to enter the Indian Telecom space]Continue Reading
Parsvnath Developers, a realty company announced that it plans to diversify into Telecom services and has applied for an Unified Access Services license in 22 telecom circles across the country.The licence for Unified Access Services would entail a 2G licence for GSM and a triple play of various services like IPTV,Continue Reading
This May, the arrogant Facebook team announced the launch of Facebook platform / social OS. Two of the kick-ass apps that got ported to Facebook and need mention are eBay and LendingClub. eBay’s application is all about selling / buying merchandise within one’s network. Their are no takers for this on FB, ifContinue Reading
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