Orkut has launched its app on Android, that is well integrated with one’s contact book. The app syncs your phonebook with Orkut friends’ phone numbers as well as status messages.
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The Tata DOCOMO Daily Plans are based on the insight that the consumers who choose prepay as the means to go mobile, seek flexibility. Therefore they have the choice to choose a daily pack that suits their immediate calling need, on the fly without being locked into a longer term pack.
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Paypal earlier reported that merchants would need Export code to resume withdrawal, but the latest blog mentions the need to fill ‘Purpose Code’ for the withdrawal.
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Google has decided to sunset Google Gears, as the company has shifted attention to HTML5. ‘If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We’re not there yet, but...
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IRCTC has clocked a total of 6547581 number of successful transactions in the month of January 2010. In total, there were 77%  successful transactions across all the payment categories. As far as total transactions are concerned, 23% is a huge failure rate and questions the efficiency of payment gateways. 73% success rate for credit/debit cards, 71% success...
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Marketplace company, Elance has come up with it’s report on freelancers (Online Talent Report) that has couple of interesting findings India tops the Information Technology category (expected), followed by US, Pak, Russia and Ukraine. Top 5 Skills are PHP, HTML, MySQL, CSS and Wordpress! Demand for Mobile development...
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Today, there are 36 hours in a "network day." There will be approximately 48 hours in a network day by 2013.
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Tata Teleservices is on a partnership spree and after partnership with Virgin and DoCoMo, the company has entered into an agreement with retail giant Future Group to offer GSM mobile telephony services under a new brand T24 to tap the customer base of the Kishore Biyani firm.
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Indian startups are witnessing exits and M2Junction, Hyderabad based SMS advertising startup has been acquired by US based SinglePoint, a mobile messaging software company. M2Junction provides SMS advertising platform, Ad-Junction that allows publishers and advertisers a collaborative solution to meet the marketing demands through the mobile medium. The Ad-Junction platform consists of a small group of...
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This isn’t the first time, Bangalore based TweetKnot (read our review) has been in Tweet controversy. Earlier, they faced issue with Twitter running after them for using a similar background and now, Twitter has been after them to stop using ‘Tweet’ in their name. This is the email they got from Facebook team, regarding their Facebook...
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Airtel has launched an App store, which boasts of 1250 Apps across 25 categories (both free and paid applications). Airtel users can navigate to the app store via Airtel Live app and there are quite a few interesting apps – for instance, Gilli Danda, and apps based on festivals like Holi, Diwali.
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Bangalore based Jivox, an online video advertising company, has introduced custom interactivity features to make online video ads hyper-interactive. Using the Jivox platform, creative agencies and advertisers can now add their own custom Flash or HTML applets to video ads so that users can interact with the ad without ever leaving the video player....
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Paypal is facing severe outage and all payments to/from India are being reversed. This is an email I received from one of the payment service We were just alerted that PayPal India is experiencing some challenges and stopped allowing payments to be sent to or from India. Funds requested through PayPal India are being reversed to...
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BSNL, in partnership with Novatium has launched slew of interesting products targeted towards Rural India (currently only for Uttar Pradesh). Novatium has launched three new products, Nova Navigator+, Nova Neon and Nova cNergy to increase the broadband adoption in rural area. Nova Navigator+ Built with a 160GB internal hard disk, Nova Navigator is the desktop version ...
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After all the farming you do at Farmville, the tired Facebooker in you can now listen to bollywood music, thanks to Hungama’s MyPlay app. Hungama MyPlay app features more than 200,000 music tracks from latest Bollywood releases, regional content in languages such as Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Tamil & Telugu, Ghazals, Devotional and more. The...
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Firefox has launched the mobile version of the browser (right now, available only for Nokia N900) and few features of the mobile browser include: Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of...
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IMImobile, the global service creation partner for operators, media providers and enterprises today announced the launch of DaVinci Social, a white-labeled service that will enable people to easily manage their mobile digital social-life.  Users will have immediate access to all of their communications, social networks and communities and ensure their content and contacts are...
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Today is India’s Republic Day and an ambitious attempt has been made to rekindle the Mile Sur Mera Tumhara magic. Even though the lyrics of the song has been kept intact, the music has been ‘badly tampered’ with. The Original Mile Sur Mera Tumhara Techno-beats or Simplicity? You Decide.
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Gartner has published a list of top consumer mobile applications that is worth looking at. Though this is a global list, it’s pretty much application to India and other emerging markets. No. 1: Money Transfer This service allows people to send money to others using Short Message Service (SMS). Its lower costs, faster speed and convenience...
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Mumbai Angels has announced an investment in AIOCD Pharmasofttech AWACS Pvt Ltd – a company that’s creating an electronic infrastructure across 550,000 pharmaceutical retailers & wholesalers across the country. This network will churn out a series of information products at different geographic levels, and also service the supply chain and internal sales compilation of...
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