Month: June 2007
Google to Fund Your Dream Projects
If you are a Web 2.0 startup and building services around the Google Platform or something that’s really cool, then their is Good news waiting for you. Google just a while ago announced – Google Gadget Ventures. Through this venture, Google proposes to write a check of $5,000 for every…
OnYoMo – Local Search on WAP
The next time if you are lost looking for a Pizza Corner or a ICICI Bank in a new neighborhood, just think of OnYoMo – On Your Mobile. The local directory search engine of India and probably the best has unveiled a WAP portal. You can access OnYoMo’s WAP Portal…
BSNL Slashes International Roaming Tariffs
Former IT and Communications Minister, Mr. Maran had called upon all the GSM operators to reduce international roaming tariffs during 3G conference in Delhi. In this direction, State owned BSNL Mobile – Cellone has slashed international roaming charges for visitors in India. According to a release by BSNL, International visitors…
Tata beats Reliance in Mobile Advertising
In race for Telecom bucks coming from Value Added Services, Tata Indicom is launching services ahead of Reliance Communications in the CDMA space. We saw Reliance Communications following into the footsteps of Tata Indicom on Monday when they launched Mobile Streaming Radio as well. Just a while ago, Tata Indicom…
Intel and NIIT launches multi-core training curriculum
Intel and NIIT announced the launch of multi-core training curriculum that has been developed jointly and will be deployed by the company, globally. The company, in association with its training partners will offer the Intel multi-core training curriculum to the software developer community, globally. The multi-core training curriculum offers basic…
Reliance Communications Local Radio
Reliance Communications is competing hard with Tata Indicom. Exactly a week after Tata Indicom introduced streaming radio service, RCom announced the launch of Mobile Radio in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarat and Punjabi. The idea of Mobile Radio is to attract customers who don’t have a FM enabled…
Interactive Avenues – Lack of Online Metrics
Mr. Ratish Nair, CEO of Interactive Avenues a year old online Advertising startup, expressed his displeasure over lack of metrics to promote online advertising. He is concerned about varying figures of Internet numbers in India 12 Million to 52 Million and asks who is right ? According to TRAI, at…
Is it time to shut down Naukri.Com ?
The Photo on your left is of a lesser known personality, Mahendra Swarup, who is truly pragmatic in his approach, especially on Broadband and Internet in India. He was the former head of Times Internet and laid the foundation stone for Web 2.0 in Times with his O2 initiative. In…