Sify is riding high on back of its enterprise business at least that’s what we can gauge from its latest quarterly results. Sify has announced a marginal decline in its Revenues at $39.19 Mn.
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Sify Q3-10 Results: Top-Line Down Marginally At $39.19 Mn; Net Profits At $9.46 Mn
MSN (Microsoft Network) India has entered into a deal with the Mumbai Indians Team Owners according to which MSN India will manage the Internet presence of the Mumbai Indians team for the forthcoming IPL3 by setting up, managing and maintaining the official website of the Mumbai Indians Team.
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Microsoft’s Dose Of IPL3 – Signs Deal With Mumbai Indians Team
Essar Eyes African Telecom It seems that Africa has become a de facto ground for any Indian Telecom company that is planning to invest abroad and why should it not be? African nations are undergoing a development phase and major changes and naturally become a sweet spot for the investment in various avenues. The average mobile penetration for the continent is 37 per cent, expected to rise to 61 per cent by 2012 which again attracts the Telecom Industries. We have already told you about MTNL’s plans of entering Nigeria and Airtel’s ventures in Africa
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Telecom Roundup: Essar Eyes African Telecom, 3G Auction Postponed
Its been a long journey and a labour of love for me and all those who have worked with the WATMedia . What started as an amateur blog in the middle of 2006 by an ignorant (and some what arrogant) 21 year old (yes thats me!) is now a growing company that owns and runs not 1 but 2 offices in Mumbai. As you might have noticed from the Job openings we posted recently we have been on an expansion mode starting year 2010
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WATMedia Opens Its 2nd Office In Mumbai!
All of a sudden what is the ‘one’ service you would find in every agency’s array of services? I think you got it right – Social Media Optimization . A new rat race is initiated…Every body….all brands, enterprises are all of a sudden flocking into this wave of change, talking about how Exposure Business dying its slow death, discussing the advantages of conversational advertising. To “ feed the need ” we see our social media ‘ expert ‘ friends coming up with a package…a “ success mix ” (so called – tested) of different social media vehicles like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr etc irrespective of the genre of business, brand positioning and brand attitude.
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What Is Your Brand’s Social Media Attitude?
We all know that Facebook has already surpassed Orkut as the most visited social network website in India where Orkut used to be the most visited social network once! The war is still not over and Facebook now wants to leap frog Orkut. Well, not that Orkut kept quiet, they too have taken counter steps to check facebook’s growth but have not made much of a difference. And now Google is trying yet another strategy to give a jump to Orkut’s usage graph by launching a cool orkut extension for Google Chrome Browser ( Download )
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Google Hopes To Increase Orkut Usage With Orkut Extension for Chrome
We have earlier told you about the web based language translation tool from Google for Indian Languages. The problem with all web based tools are generic – you can not use them when you are not connected to the internet and are not integrated with the applications that are already installed on your desktop
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Desi Language Transliteration Comes To Desktop Courtesy Google
Google has released versions of Google Voice for the iPhone and Palm webOS operating systems. It works on the iPhone running the 3.0 operating system . It also operates on Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets, and provides a large chunk of the functionality of the native Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry to your phone’s browser
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Google Launches A Voice App For iPhones
Finally we have a magazine and a web-portal that will help to bring out the experiences and expectations that the citizens and voters may have from the Government. Titled GovernanceNow – it is a fortnightly magazine from Sri Adhikari Brothers Group
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GovernanceNow.com – A Web Portal That Aims At Taking Voice Of Citizens To The Government
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba , recently conducted a search over the web, the result of which turned out to be a pleasant surprise that ‘The Indian’ especially the Indian Entrepreneurs have started using the web as a medium to buy more of pre-used products.
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Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?
Image via Wikipedia Business India, in the issue dated January 24, 2010, came out with a list of 20 stocks that would perform better than the rest in this decade. They are Larsen& Toubro Reliance Industries State bank of India Ultratech Cement IVRCL Infrastructure TATA Motors SUN Pharma TATA Steel HDFC Bharti Airtel Reliance Infrastructure Unitech Shree Renuga Sugars Dabur Financial Technologies Bharat Electronics ONGC Mahindra & Mahindra TCS Hindalco Industries WWW.INVESTCHIPS.COM This post is originally posted by R.John Christy for www.investchips.com
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The Game Changing Stocks worth investing for 2020
No doubt we all have become die hard users of Google services. Plenty of reasons for this. Some of which being free, good and reliable service, easy-to-use and clutter free interface, speed, cutting edge innovation and what not
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Now Google India Wants To Provide Your Website A Clinic… As Usual For Free!
*(This is what i recently have written to Airtel Nodal Office and their other departments and all that has happened to me.) DTH SERVICE- CONTINUED HARASSMENT/ NO HELP FROM CUSTOMER SUPPORT Hello, I am using airtel dth service since October 2009 (CUSTOMER I.D – 3001640031), have got 1 + 1 multi connection.
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4 Months Experience With Airtel DTH – Absolute Headache, NOT At All Worth it
Telecom tie-ups and partnership updates are the flavor of the season specially looking at service roll out of new players and frequency of VAS introductions. In latest, MTS has announced their tie-up with Utiba to facilitate better E-recharge facility to its subscribers.
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Telecom Tie-ups: MTS ties up with Utiba for E-Recharge ; BSNL partners NFL for Distribution
Once again Airtel rocks the telecom world with 2.85 million mobile users with an increased subscriber base to 118.9 million subscribers in the December month. Earlier at November Bharti Airtel occupied first place with 116 million subscribers, up from 113.2 million
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Airtel ranks ‘First’ with 118.9mn Subscribers
HIV positive victims can now heave a sigh of relief atleast as far as finding a soul-mate is concerned. A special website will be soon launched with an idea of getting these victims hitched for a curtailed but loved future. This new website is called HitchIV.com and it has already got about 150 to 200 requests
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Relief For HIV Positive Victims – HitchIV.com To Get Them Hitched!
There was a talk before of the 10 digit numbers being exhausted and a new DoT directive which aimed at adding an additional 9 to mobile numbers thereby making the mobile numbers into 11 digit numbers. But as news has it the current 10-digit format would stay but instead of adding another 9 DoT would open up digits 2 to 9 for mobile numbers.
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10 Digit Landline Number? Or 11 Digit Mobile Number? Your Call?
Indian Institutes have always had great students and professors and the IIT’s and IIM’s of this country have made a name for themselves in the world. But if there is one thing that Indian institutes have lacked is the research that is carried out in the western institutes like Stanford and Harvard especially in the technology field. To plug this area of concern and to initiate innovation within Indian campuses Yahoo India research and development has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) to provide a cluster of servers running Yahoo’s open source Hadoop software, and web data for research to the students.
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Yahoo India To Power R&D At IITB
Naukri had launched a new research centric monthly update on the hiring activity in India early last year called Jobspeak . It did get them coverage in the media and it seems Monster is set to follow the trend soon with their own employment index . To be fair to Monster they already have such a service running in US and European markets and this is just a geographical extension for them rather than a case of following Naukri’s footsteps.
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Monster To Follow Naukri & Launch Employment Index For India
DoP (Department of Posts) for a long time has been trying hard to lure back citizens back on to its fold through initiatives like ‘ePost’ in this digital age. This facility allowed individuals to send messages as a soft copy through internet and at the destination it was delivered to the addressee in the form of hard copy
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DoP To Open Up ‘EPost’ – Print And Deliver Facility To Corporates
Virtual interviews seem to have become a hit with recruitment managers across India as it is turning into a cost-effective and smart medium to attract quality candidates. A recent piece in Businessline highlights the growing importance of this segment among the recruitment activity in India.
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Virtual Interviews Finds Rapid Adoption In Indian Recruitment Space
We had reported that Sunil Nair – CEO of Nautanki.Tv had resigned and now we have official confirmation from Hungama Digital Media that indeed Sunil has moved on. Hungama has sent us the following updates on his reasons to exit. Commenting on his decision, Sunil Nair said, “Over the past few years, we have created some exciting propositions for Nautanki.tv on the video platform business.
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Hungama Confirms Sunil Nair’s Exit – Siddhartha Roy To Manage Nautanki.tv
Vdopia the video ad network which was last in the news for its live streaming success story in relation to its live streaming monetization contract with Cricketnirvana has now announced a new product on the same. Vdopia has launched VLIVE which is a Dynamic Online Live Streaming Ad Insertion Technology Platform that will enable Media Companies & TV Channel owners to monetize their live feed online. Vdopia is currently working with cricket nirvana on their live stream monetization and this new technology allows the ad display to be dynamic as well
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Vdopia Launches Dynamic Ads For Live Video Streaming – The Web Goes Live?
Hey, we have not started blogging about Digital TV or Satellite TV. Its the same free voip calls blog. Its just that the new offer by Airtel Call Home is kind of a double offer – talktime (call minutes to India) combined with the Digital TV.
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Airtel Call Home : Free Digital TV connection with calling minutes to India
As per the media reports, the mobile number portability is delayed because BSNL and MTNL were not ready for it. In any case, I am toying with the idea of filing a second RTI application but my attention is fixated on academics and it would be impossible to keep a track of the same. In case anyone among the readers feels motivated enough, please let me know through feedback on drapuri (at) gmail (dot) com and I would happily guide the way out including help with drafting of the application.
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Mobile number portability and TRAI: Suckers
Are you fed up of Betamax increasing India calling rates every other month? Then you might like to checkout this awesome deal to make cheap calls to India at only $0.007 cents per minute, thats less than a cent. Most of you already heard of IndiaLD .
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Cheap Calls to India at 0.007 cents per minute
If you’ve always craved for a low cost BlackBerry then here’s some good news. Since BlackBerry released its Curve 8520, many out there can now easily make this black beauty their own. This lightweight (only 106 g) smart phone with its glossy finish and touch-sensitive trackpad makes scrolling smooth (mind your fingers, at times it becomes difficult to keep a tab on the navigation keys and the QWERTY keypad) for an easy navigation experience
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BlackBerry Curve 8520
Thank you all for participating! 400+ entries! Awesome stuff! Children are just so adorable that its really hard to compare and pick the best one! We, @ c2w, had a tough time deciding the best of the lot.. So here it is – The Winner of the Canon A430 Digital Camera is samsmie View Image The Winners of 2 GB Pendrive are parul18 View Image Neha2414Bhavesh View Image drcns View Image naughtysanjay View Image kapsvashist View Image Congratulations to the winners! And for those cute entries which didn’t win this time, don’t lose hope. Christmas is around the corner & there are loads of goodies to be won.
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Winners of Just Kidding Contest
Here is the text of the email, fax and the registered post sent to TRAI regarding various issues related to Broadband. To, The Central Public Information Officer Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Mahanagar Doorsanchar Bhawan, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Old Minto Road, New Delhi-110 002 Tele: 011-23211622 Fax: 011-23213294 E-mail: ap@trai.gov.in Sub: Application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 for information relating to Broadband Internet, Fair Usage Policies and pricing mechanism.
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TRAI: Filed for RTI application regarding Broadband
Airtel Callhome brings more cheers to Indians living in the US. For Indians who want to call back family and friends in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and also Mumbai, Airtel Callhome has launched the Mharo plan which will make calling cheaper, yet again. Some highlights of the Mharo plan from Airtel Callhome are as given below: Now, on the Mharo plan you can call Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra at an effective rate of 1.25 cents/min on local access! The $14.99 plan has an administration fee of $6.00, on the balance $8.99 you get the rate of 0.75 cents/min on local access.
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Airtel Callhome announces Mharo plan for calling Gujarat, Rajasthan & Maharashtra