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.
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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
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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.
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Tech/Startup Event Guide for December 2009.
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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.
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“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 ) Lame excuse? Because if it’s real, then it shows how unprepared the CAT organizers were! Machines running CAT exams...
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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...
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List of plugins that will will help you build mobile version of your wordpres blog in a few minutes.
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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 have mentioned that exams at few centers(Blore, Chennai, LKO and Bhopal) were...
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Mumbai Angels has invested an undisclosed amount in Bangalore based Insta Health Solutions (IHS), a start-up company providing hospital IT solutions. The company had recently announced raising about $1 million from Inventus Capital Partners. Apart from two former Wipro veterans, Mr Ramesh Emani, former President of Wipro (Telecom & Production Engineering Solutions) and Mr S....
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Google has launched a new interface, which is being rolled out in phased manner. We tell you the hack that will help you get the new interface. Other news include: Twitter's monetization model.
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Indian government’s site getting hacked is not a news, but 692 of them? Well, that’s a news and is representative of the sad state of technology in government sector.
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Post 26/11, Government is planning to setup a centralized system to automatically monitor communications on mobiles, landline phones and Internet. A pilot project of the central monitoring system (CMS) is likely to be launched by June, 2010 subject to clearance by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Minister of State for Telecom and IT Gurudas...
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In addition to generating financial returns for the investors, VC investments contribute significantly to the economic growth as well as creation of new industries. In fact many industries such as Information technology, biotech, medical devices, clean tech etc have been created through VC investments. This post makes an attempt highlight the contribution of VC...
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UK based Legatum Institute conducted an annual prosperity survey of 104 countries and measured countries on prosperity – not just wealth, but factors such as health, education, safety, governance, support for entrepreneurship/innovation etc. The nine sub-indexes/parameters are: Economic Fundamentals – a growing, sound economy that provides opportunities for wealth creation Entrepreneurship and Innovation – an environment friendly...
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The board meeting at the startup was underway and the CEO proudly highlighted what he considered to be the most successful initiative of the company. The initiative had been embraced by customers and partners whole-heartedly and the signs of continued growth were very visible. The head of business development, present in the meeting and responsible...
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DFJ plans to raise$400mn by next year, out of which the company plans to invest 15% in Indian market (i.e. $60mn). DFJ’s last round was $650mn, i.e. the fund raising this time is 40% lesser than the earlier round (source). Since 2005, DFJ has invested over $75 million in 18 firms in India and some of...
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PC sales has shown signs of recovery in Q2 2009 and July-Sep quarter has reflected the consumption growth. Overall sales in the quarter witnessed an increase of 24% (as compared to last quarter) 2.19 million units in the July-September quarter, Desktop sales accounted for nearly two-thirds of total PC sales at 1.46 million units 15.2% increase...
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India has unveiled ambitious solar plans that sets to achieve parity with cost of electricity on the grid by 2022 and parity with coal-based thermal power by 2030. The plan is to produce 20,000 MW through solar power by 2022. This Mission is one of the eight key National Missions which comprise India’s National Action...
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All too often, companies spend their time not just looking inside themselves but in a manner of speaking, actually living inside themselves as hermits. They don’t engage with the market and customers. They are unaware of the goings-on in the world around them – new technology, new competitors, changing customer needs. Focused maniacally on...
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