Monthly Archives: November 2009

20 million handsets to go defunct from Dec 1[IMEI]

By manish 1 Comment

Tomorrow is December 1st and as we covered earlier, close to 20-25 million handsets will go defunct from tomorrow as DoT has instructed operators to block cellphones without a valid IMEI number. Read More »

 

5 personal finance mistakes that first time entrepreneurs must avoid

By Guest Author 22 Comments

Entrepreneurship is hard. First time entrepreneurs make it harder for themselves by making some basic mistakes regarding their personal finances. Here is a quick guide on what these common mistakes are and what one can do to avoid them Read More »

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InfiBeam : Amazon – Is Something Cooking?

By sinha 12 Comments

We have been hearing ‘some’ rumours about Amazon acquiring InfiBeam to enter the Indian ecommerce space. Leaving the rumor aside, InfiBeam’s new logo/interface speaks of a potential dance. Read More »

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Tech & Startup Event Guide [December 2009]

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Tech/Startup Event Guide for December 2009. Read More »

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Domain Names in Hindi by June 2010

By sinha 5 Comments

ICANN launched Fast Track process on November 16th, enabling countries to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name – and made up of characters from their national languages. India will be ready to to have internationalized domain names in Hindi by June 2010 and will expand to other languages in a phased manner. Read More »

 

CAT Fiasco and Rise of Smart Managers!

By manish 3 Comments

“Unfortunately, the particular viruses and malware that attacked the test delivery system were not detected by the anti-virus software at the testing centres” – Prometric on CAT fiasco (CAT Servers Fails to take the Load [Server Crash]) Lame excuse? Because … Read More »

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Weekly Recap – CAT Server, Government Sites Hacked, Telecom Tariff War..and more

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An interesting week – India unveiled it’s ambitious solar plans, and sadly, 692 Indian government websites have been hacked just in one month! To top this all, Indian government now plans to setup a centralized system to automatically monitor communications on mobiles, landline phones and Internet.

CAT aspirants faced severe challenges as CAT servers crashed on the very first day of exam, questioning the preparedness of authority and ofcourse, their partners.

In technology front, PC sales in India showed signs of recovery (PC sales in India – 24% Growth Recorded), while Microsoft launched it’s transliteration tools and plans to launch Windows7 in 14 Indian languages.

As far as Telecom Industry is concerned, 3G Auction to be Delayed [Again?] and SMS is Telecom Operator’s next Turf for Price War – now that Reliance has started the sms turf war, do expect others to follow the herd. Question for you – are you talking more owing to the recent tariff war? Has it really impacted your billing? (or you spend half the time saying ‘Hello! Hello?’). QoS,i.e. Quality of Service has taken a hit owing to the tariff war, but then who cares (16.67 million subscribers were added in the month of October!) Read More »

 

Free WordPress Plugins to Build Mobile Friendly Blog [WordPress Weekend]

By manish 7 Comments

List of plugins that will will help you build mobile version of your wordpres blog in a few minutes. Read More »

 

CAT Servers Fails to take the Load [Server Crash]

By manish 17 Comments

We raised the question earlier ‘Online Exams – Can they Survive the Load?’ and there are reports that CAT servers in few centers faced overload problem and even though CAT Convenor do not want to accept the word ‘crash’, they … Read More »