Facebook – e-Commerce Platform Up and Kicking
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
Yahoo + Google embracing Indian Diversified Vernacluar
Having lost majority of the market in China to rival, Baidu, the big 3 are embracing the Indian internet market developing tools and content for the regional diversity. Yahoo! India has launched 7 regional language portals – Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu and Tamil. This is a step inContinue Reading
GSM – CDMA Operators War Intensifies
With spectrum being a scarce resource, the war between GSM and CDMA operators has intensified asking for a probe in every major policy decision. CDMA operators allege that GSM operators are not paying for additional spectrum allocated and for the spectrum allocated over 6.25 MHz, a cap for every operator. GSMContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel + Vodafone Essar hike Tariffs
In what we can call the reversal fo trend, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Essar have quietly hiked the tariffs by 20%. All pre-paid and post-paid subscribers using lower end tariff pack with rentals les than Rs 150 / month will now have to pay Rs 1.20 per minute for calls betweenContinue Reading
Anil Ambani is Telecom Person of the Year 2007
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is Voice and Data’s Telecom Person of the Year 2007. Anil Ambani assumed charge of Reliance Infocomm [subsequently name changed to Reliance Communications] in June-2005 after the division of Reliance empire with elder brother Mukesh Ambani. [Photo: Anil Ambani entering DAKC after assuming charge as the Chairman ofContinue Reading
Indyarocks to Launch Widescreen Video + Mobile Features
Indian Social Networking site, Indyarocks will shortly launch WideScreen Video on its site. For folks like me who work on Dual Monitors with one turning into entertainment screen after 7:00 PM, I can easily pop-up the Video screen to the other monitor and continue to work on my primary. Check outContinue Reading
Minekey: Recommendation by Behavioral Targeting
Minekey a Silicon Valley based startup with R&D center at IIT Kharagpur has developed a unique Recommendation Widget based on behavioral targeting. As a publisher, one can signup with RSS feeds and display it on blog or website. They will be tracking user browing habits through a cookie collecting and analyzing data. Dr.Continue Reading
Airtel Broadband and Google in partnership
Their is good news to Airtel Broadband subscribers if you like Google and its web services. Google will power Airtel Broadband subscribers E-mail, Search, Chat and Personalized homepage. [Not very clear if the entire Google Apps will be made available to Airtel Broadband subscribers] Google will readily get 0.63 Million GmailContinue Reading
AskLaila a mashup of Web 2.0 ideas ?
AskLaila a local search engine in beta appears to be borrowing ideas from burrp! – the company which made it to the global list of Business 2.0’s top 25 Web 2.0 startups. What AskLaila has essentially done is dervied their platfrom from two great and successful concepts – burrp! and JustDial /OnYoMo.Continue Reading