Daily Archives: December 4, 2009

Pre Natal Sex Determination Ad on Google India – Brinda Karat wants to ban Google in India

By manish 11 Comments

CPI(M) leader, Brinda Karat wants Google India chief to be arrested, for showing sex determination ads on Google India searches. Earlier supreme court issued notice to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for displaying ’sex determination’ ads and the issue has resurfaced, … Read More »

 

Why the Newspaper industry feels it can take on Google

By Guest Author 7 Comments

At the World Newspaper Congress at Hyderabad this week Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton ?took on Google and used some strong language to stir things up. He called Google a digtial vampire and a parasite. He goes on to further bash the internet content Kleptomaniacs whose business model depends on purloining the expensive journalism of mainstream media. Read More »

 

More WTF Tech Moment of 2009 [India]

By sinha 2 Comments

Continuing with Tech Flop Shows in India, Few WTF Moment of 2009, here are some of WTF moment that’d put a lot of us to shame: CAT 2009 CATastrophy is the right word to describe the online CAT 2009 saga. … Read More »

 

Tech News Roundup – Google DNS, Facebook Beacon Settlement..and more

By Team PI 2 Comments

Google has launched it’s Public DNS service that, as Google claims will provide you faster speed and more stable browsing experience.
Twitter has launched a fresh mobile client that will replace the existing one. Read More »

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20 Million Poor Men’s Mobile Crucified in the Name of Security? [IMEI Saga]

By arvind 25 Comments

Kamlesh a carpenter in Delhi scratches his living out of the dry wood. He complained this morning that his cell phone was not functioning properly for last few days and was unable to reach most of his clients. Normally people … Read More »

Uninor in India – Seven Circles, 29 Paisa a Minute [Predatory Pricing?]

By manish 146 Comments

Telecom tariff war is in and as we mentioned earlier, Uninor has launched it’s GSM service in India (they are the 8th GSM operator in India). The launch, as the company claims is the largest single day launch in telecom … Read More »