The number of Indians over 15 years of age accessing the internet rose 7.8% in Q2-2006 to 18.02 million from 16.71 million. India currently ranks at ninth position in terms of total online population. America has retained top slot with 153 million users according to comScore. China and Russia followedContinue Reading

Google has the tradition of pleasing the locale in which it is operating in. I first learnt about this from “The Google Story” – David Vise. To honour the Indian independence day, it has changed its doodle to include the tri-color. And from Convergence.In – linking diversity, Wish You aContinue Reading

Not too long ago I had written if we can trust the Indian newspapers. Jeez! We can’t trust Reuters as well. Reuters admited and pulled down doctored photograph of burning buildings in Beirut after a blogger exposed the same. What’s up with the media lately ? Are they losing outContinue Reading

On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now.” There’s an ongoing discussion of theContinue Reading

m-EntertainmentIndia: Earlier I had reported about the popularity of Mobile Music downloads in India. Telcom experts are predicting that the Indian m-Entertainment market to be $5 Billion by 2009 in India. DoT’s Arun Kumar Saxena said that Mobile TV has a very huge demand in rural India. It is forContinue Reading

Its just not that real estate in Bangalore/Gurgaon or the Mumbai stock exchange SENSEX touching new highs, but the Indian Internet properties are also getting hotter. India had approximately 40 Million Internet subscribers at the end of 2005, witnessing a growth of 54% YoY. As reported in Business 2.0, goodContinue Reading