MapMyIndia has launched LX130 (nicknamed MapmyIndia Light), a sleek new GPS navigation gadget targeted towards the youth. MapmyIndia Light is essentially a on-the-go device which you can simply carry
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Indian Army has asked it’s men to not post their employment information on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook. In a recent circular, the Army instructed its personnel to immediately
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Picture is worth a thousand words. Have a look at the latest comscore data for the top content sites in India.
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Indiatimes’ Mocolife has launched web to mobile greeting enabling users to send their pre-recorded voice greetings to mobile. There are prerecorded greetings available
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Monsoon Ads has launched MonsoonConnect, player independent online video advertising plugin that eliminates the need to use a custom online video ad network player. Online video portals can now simply add the MonsoonConnect plugin to obtain video ads regardless of what player they use on their online video platform. Monsoon Ads is also integrated with other...
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Chandamama, the comic magazine has partnered with Toonz Animation to make TV serials, studios, make films and develop TV programmes. Chandamama faces still competition from TV channels like Pogo/Cartoon Network etc that have lot more mythological stories and are a super hit among Indian kids. Chandamama is trying to be more contemporary with the newer titles....
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Microsoft India recently launched map product (supports driving directions, business listing/PoI searches as well as local search) and Microsoft has now announced that
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Mumbai attack terrorists used Google Earth to memorize digital satellite images of the city in order to find their targets and coordinate their attacks. A PIL has been filed against Google asking them to remove India from Google Earth, as their product helped terrorist in planning the attack. The petition filed by Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis...
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Indian railways has launched online hotel booking service powered by Cleartrip (they are the exclusive provider of hotel content, availability and pricing to the Indian Railways) This is quite a big win for ClearTrip as Indian Railways is one of the most successful e-commerce site in India and the partnership itself will give Cleartrip a...
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Opera has just released it’s market wise report on usage of mobile browser and here are a few interesting findings for India: Around 48.9% of traffic from Indian Opera users goes to social networking sites and the top 10 sites Indians visit on their mobile phone are: www.orkut.com www.google.com in.m.yahoo.com www.peperonity.com gallery.mobile9.com www.mocospace.com www.160by2.com www.mobango.com www.itsmy.com www.indianrail.gov.in Mixed trend, right? Worldwide trend is pretty much...
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As per Google’s zeitgeist, the top 3 searches from India in 2007 were Orkut, YouTube and Gmail (though there is no official list in Zeitgeist site, but the list was confirmed by CNN/IBN which had an official from Google India to discuss the online search behavior of Indians.) Top political search was Mahatma Gandhi and...
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Another day and another number. As per IAMAI and I-cube, the number of active Internet user (i.e. ones who logon to Internet atleast once a month) is now 32 million and numbers who have used Internet atleast once stands at 46 million. Earlier report by JuxtConsult (in the month of June ‘07) pegged...
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First of all, sincere apology for the bad frequency of posts over the last 2 weeks. I was traveling extensively and am just back to the country. Here is the mid-week coverage of interesting events in the Indian digital/mobile industry. Significant development this week is Google’s local search initiative and launch of Zoho’s...
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30 million Indian netizens on the Internet. What binds them together? A few keywords: “Indian Independence day“! Yes, ladies and gentlemen – 2.6 million Indian netizens were searching for news/content related to Indian Independence day on August 15th. ‘Indian Independence Day’ was on top of mind for more than 2.6 million times on August...
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Indiatimes, on the eve of India’s 60th Independence day has launched myIndiatimes, a personalization service that enables users to personalize their home page (by content of their choice, be it their indiatimes emails/feeds from other news sources/blogs etc) – quite similar to myYahoo/iGoogle. How does myIndiatimes work? Login to myIndiatimes (using your indiatimes...
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Wikipedia defines Permission marketing as : “Marketers will ask permission before they send advertisements to prospective customers. It is used by some Internet marketers, email/ telephone marketers. It requires that people first “opt-in”, rather than allowing people to “opt-out” only after the advertisements have been sent.” Couple of days back, the ...
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I wrote about the launch of OneBookmarks, the regional language bookmarking service from OneIndia and what I really liked about the service is it’s focus on the vernacular content. Here is presenting our interview with P V Harikrishnan, Senior Editor of OneIndia. In this interview, Harikrishnan talks about the rising number of vernacular content, on...
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The online travel market, as we all know is overcrowded. Here is a quick recap of the existing players, what they do and their funding status: OTA (online travel agency) Funding Investor Extra plugs FlightRaja (now called Via) $5 million NEA Indo US ventures (owned by Vinod Dham) Domestic + International flight ticketing, bus ticketing, hotel reservations. MakeMyTrip $10 million SAIF Capital...
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iXiGO, the newest kid in “Indian Travel Search” town launched yesterday. It is a travel meta-search engine that aggregates content from 14 airlines and 3 travel search websites (makemytrip, yatra & indiatimes), and brings them to you in a pure Web 2.0 experience. But, do I need another travel search website? Aren’t there too...
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Local search market is on the boil, and so is the local content creation. The Indian search space is coming a full circle. First we witnessed a deluge of local search engines; and now, the local content players. Here is a quick roundup of current players in the local content market: Y! ourCity An automated ...
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