If you are talking about an Internet revolution in India, you will, now, have some very impressive numbers to aid you. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) , jointly, carried out a research recently and concluded that the number of active Internet users in rural India is expected to rise to 5.4 million in 2010 – a staggering 30% increase since 2008.
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Now Surfing – Rural India @ 5.4 Million Users
Google seems to be looking at bringing you your search results even quicker. Infact they have launched a product called Google Instant that brings you search results as you type. Google infact believes that their new feature google instant achieves search- before -you-type—that is, results for the most likely search given what you have already typed
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Google Announces Google Instant – Search As You Type
India is a country on the move. The country is moving ahead slowly but surely towards a brighter future; a future where the customer is king and all his preferences are given more priority than it is given now. We have in the past talked about how digitalization and its impact on the customer or how resourceful 3G will turn out to be for the end user.
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Curb On Bulk SMS, National Broadband Plan, MNP Coming Soon – TRAI
Reliance Communication , one of India’s leading telecom companies in India, is in a spot of bother as their debts are rapidly increasing. It was a known fact that RCom had plans of cleaning these debts by the selling its 26 per cent equity to Etilasat and tower assets to GTL . Since the tower sale is cancelled, RCom is planning a new strategy for reducing its Rs 33,000 crore debt.
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RCom’s Debt Increases, With The Loss Of Deal
Creating a new Google account has now become a one-click-process for Yahoo users, thanks to Google’s decision to use of OpenId for authentication purposes. Though Google still doesn’t support the usage of OpenId for replacing passwords on its own sites but this new feature brings the ability to use OpenId for the Google signup process.
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OpenId Brings Yahoo And Google Closer?
Instamedia Network which owns the blog networking Instablogs.com has announced that it has has secured $4 Million in Series A funding from Times Internet Limited which is a subsidiary of The Times of India Group. This comes 2 years after it had its first round of seed funding from Vishal Gondal who is the founder of Indiagames
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Instablogs Raises 4 Million $ In Funding From The Times Of India Group
Google’s not for profit arm Google.org has taken up the noble initiative of translating health articles on the web into Hindi. This is being done under its initiative ‘ Health Speaks ‘ to boost the amount of online medical information in local languages
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Google Initiates Hindi Translation Of Health Articles
It is a known fact that Nokia is in troubled waters and trying hard to come out of the ditch it has dug for itself. Few years ago, Nokia was way at the top, but things changed after the introduction of the smartphone. Not to be bogged down, Nokia introduced a variety of smartphones, but lost out to the bigwigs like iPhone and Android. It didn’t predict the trend of the market and has been lagging ever since.
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Nokia Looking For A ‘Smart’ Revival
Telecom leader Bharti Airtel’s exit from bulk SMS business has come as a big surprise. Even its competitors must have astonished by this move. For this exit, Bharti Airtel has cited “increasing customer convenience issues arising out pesky calls and SMS”.
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What compelled Bharti Airtel exit bulk SMS business?
Next time when your mobile phone flashes the “Battery Low” message, you might not go through a wave of irritated emotions. Olive Telecom has rolled out India’s first hybrid powered mobile phone with a free Airtel connection! In addition to the regular LiOn battery, the phone can be powered by a sleek AAA battery as well
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Olive And Airtel Offer Hybrid Phone at Rs 1299!
Godrej Appliances has launched Game LCD TV featuring Motion Sensing Technology. The product, which is first of its kind in India, combines the features of an interactive gaming console with an LCD TV. Through this latest innovation, the company expects its market share to increase to 10 per cent in the television segment
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Godrej Gives India, Its First Game LCD TV
A few days ago, Bharti Airtel took a big step towards customer satisfaction by stopping bulks SMS services . This was great news for customers of the telecom giants as more and more mobile users around India were troubled through such services. Being the first in the industry to do so has definitely given Airtel an edge over other services providers in the industry (though there might still be some disgruntled customers regarding service).
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Bharti Airtel Ties-Up With ip.access For Picocells – Readying For MNP?
Saregama the music label company has taken a serious stride into the digital arena by revamping its current web presence. Saregama which is an age old music label since the gramophone days is looking to bring all its music on one platform via this new website at saregama.com . One of the key changes and additions to the website has been the addition of free streaming of music.
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Saregama Revamps Website – Allows Streaming, Downloads & Internet Radio
A social support revolution is taking place in the United States and it is firmly dealing with the issue of independence to people with disabilities and their acceptance in society. This is being brought about by Pacific Diversified Services , an integrated work and community inclusion agency as they describe themselves. What got me writing today is the technological side of societal integration for people with disabilities
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Technology That Makes A Level Playing Field For People With Disabilities
This week saw the Government taking initiative to launch a heritage sites portal for the Father of the Nation. Also, MHRD partnered with HCL to roll out the $35 laptops. On the international front, Apple announced the launch for Ping, a music based cosial networking website, while Sony launched Qriocity to compete with iTunes.
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 29th August – 5th September 2010
This was the update on a write up on The Economist about the telecom networks using “network analysis” which in short meant that one looks for patterns in random activities. Interestingly, they gave the example of Bharti Airtel which I quote,” “Instead of looking at the call records of a single customer at a time, it looks at customers within the context of their social network. The ability to retain customers is particularly important in hyper-competitive markets, such as India.
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Bharti Airtel: “Running Network Analysis”
We all know how much mobiles have progressed since its inception. Thanks to all the mobile applications, these days you can do pretty much anything through your mobile from getting answers to questions on your mobile to banking . So what part will the mobile phone play in the digital revolution
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Mobile Phones Will Lead The Digital Revolution In India
The first session at the Conference on Digital Media by CII focused on monetizing digital opportunities for broadcasters and movie studios in the highly competitive broadcasting space. Advertisement management, broadcast management technologies, air time sales, with the help of IT and upcoming technologies will be used for protecting the content and restricting piracy. But will this monetizing by the industry on a whole result in the consumer emptying his wallet?
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Digitization To Come At A Price For Consumers?
Broadcasting will be completely digital by 2013 as announced by TRAI Chairman JS Sharma in a recent media meet. That would actually mean a lot of positive things for Indian media industry- More revenues from Subscribers and Advertisers
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Broadcasting to go completely digital by 2013. Are we ready? [Media Monday]
In a recent development, YouTube has increased the video length upload limit by 50% to 15 minutes from the earlier 10 minutes. “Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
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YouTube Increases Video Length Upload Limit to 15 Minutes
Have you ever got annoyed with bad scanning quality of your old childhood photo or your grandparents wedding photo, or scratches on photos that put off its impact? Scancorner is emerged as an outsourcing company to scan and restore old photos, negatives, slides and any other offline media. One sentence description: You can now preserve precious moments by digitizing old photos, negatives, slides and other offline media.
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Saturday Startup Review: ScanCorner.com – Now Digitize Your Memories
Just three days after PayPal decided to discontinue electronic transfers in India and dismayed its Indian customers, Paypal has decided to reverse its decision. Dickson Seow from the PayPal Communications team posted on the official PayPal blog that Indian users can perform electronic withdrawals right now as they did before. Going the extra mile to serve its customers, the company has also decided to still provide the US$5 processing fee refund for any cheque withdrawals made from July 29 until further notice
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PayPal Electronic Withdrawal Service Resumes in India
Picture Post service on Airtel is a Rich Content Alert Service that leverages the power of Mobile Internet to distribute Premium Content on topics as varied as Bollywood, News, Sports, Travel, Learn English, Jokes, Recipes etc. Presently, Picture Post is one of the largest subscription services in the country with more than 6 million users
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Airtel Picture Post – 55563
Google, having dominated the search engine industry for quite a while now, desires to conquer the social networking world too. This exact motive of Google’s has compelled it to ideate and carry out talks with leading online game developers like Playdom Inc , Electronic Arts Inc’s Playfish and Zynga . Rumour has it that of these three, Google has already made an investment in Zynga that approximately amounts up to $100 million, for the very purpose of launching an online gaming site.
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Google breeding a ‘New Weapon’ to beat Facebook
Hi all we are at the digital media conference which is happening in Mumbai, and covers digital impact on all forms of media. The Conference aims to answer challenges and opportunities across digital TV, mobile media, monetization of media, digital media, and social media.
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CII Digital Media Conference – We are Live tweeting
The privacy of Facebook users was violated when personal details of its 100 million users of were available for download after they were published by an online security agent. Ron Bowles, who works for Skull Security, used a code to scan Facebook profiles.
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Facebook Exposed: Personal Details Of 100 million At Stake?
A recent post from the Facebook blog revealed a lot of plans which clearly states one thing and that is- Facebook is the No.1 Social Networking Platform with 500+ Million Users and is under some serious expansion mode. We have heard stories about facebook wanting to expand in the Location Based Market as well which is a no brainer if it comes to such a huge and active population. Coming back to the post, Facebook has come up with Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets you pose questions to the Facebook community.
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From ‘Poke Me’ To ‘Ask Me’ – Facebook Adds A New Feature
In another tie-up in the media space, Midday have acquired the “Indian craigslist ” in SnatchKing.com. The details of the acquisition have not been disclosed as of now. SnatchKing is supposedly one of the leading classifieds in India with everything from cars and bikes to books and apartments finding sellers and buyers on the website
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Midday Snatch Up SnatchKing – Will It Help Them Grow?
The Indian Entertainment and Media industry that is back on the right path if the latest study conducted by the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ – Indian Entertainment and Media Outlook 2010 is to be believed. It reports that the Media industry would swell by 12.4% in the next 4 to 5 years. This comes after most Media and Entertainment types suffered decline or underwent gradual growth in the year 2009 vis-à-vis the current trend (2010); and also the future trend.
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Indian Entertainment and Media Industry To Grow 12.4% In 4-5 Years
We caught up with Rahul Razdan of Ibibo.com and spoke to him at length on the change in strategy of Ibibo from Talent hunt contests to social games. Find more such videos on WATShow.com Related Posts Aircel Brings Ibibo’s Social Games To Its Users IAMAI Session II: Empowerment of the User and Humanization of the Internet IAMAI Session II: Empowerment of the User and Humanization of the Internet In-Game Advertising : The Potential WATShow with Jasmeet Gandhi From Nokia On Ovi, Life Tools & Future Of Mobile Apps Social Media Course – Mumbai – On 12th JUNE.
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WATShow With Rahul Razdan Of Ibibo On Their Social Gaming Strategy