Tag Archives: india online

04 Aug

News Roundup: Zapak Partners with 6Games, RCom: Universal Music

By Team PI No comments

Zapak has partnered with Hong Kong based 6Games to bring latter’s social games to the Indian market. Zapak will bring all 6waves’ games, including Mall World which has attracted over 5 million users globally, to the Indian users. RCom: Universal … Read More »

 
14 Jun

IRCTC Solves a Customer Pain – Will Operate 23 Hours a day

By manish 9 Comments

No-brainer that IRCTC won’t allow you to book tickets from 11:30 in the night to 5 AM. While there could be several reasons (batch processing?), the largest ecommerce site in India will extend its’ online booking service for 23 hours … Read More »

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04 May

Orkut Integrates Maps with Scraps – Share Location with Friends

By sinha 1 Comment
Orkut Integrates Maps with Scraps – Share Location with Friends

Orkut has announced integration of Maps with scraps, enabling Orkut users to share maps in their scraps. To add a map to a scrap, first click the text box to write and edit a scrap. You’ll then see customization options … Read More »

 
29 Apr

Coming Soon: Domain names in 7 Indian Languages – Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati

By sinha 3 Comments

ICANN approved the International Domain Names and 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. Read More »

 
22 Apr

Most Searched IPL Player is..Sachin Tendulkar [Google’s IPL Zeitgeist]

By sinha 1 Comment

Now that IPL has been rechristened as Indian Political League, Google has released the Zeitgeist 2010, even before the finals (why so soon?) Read More »

 
19 Apr

Average Internet Speed in India is 849KBPS [Global average is 1.7 MBPS]

By sinha 6 Comments
Average Internet Speed in India is 849KBPS [Global average is 1.7 MBPS]

Akamai observed a 4.7% increase (from the third quarter of 2009) globally in the number of unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai’s network. India witnessed a marginal increase in the total number of unique IP addresses. Ending 2009 at 465 million unique IPs, the metric grew 16% from the end of 2008, and nearly 54% from the end of 2007 Read More »

 
12 Apr

.IN Domains Hacked Ruthlessly, Overall 1900+ Indian Websites Hacked in 2010

By manish 5 Comments
.IN Domains Hacked Ruthlessly, Overall 1900+ Indian Websites Hacked in 2010

As per data by CERT-in (Indian Computer Emergency Response System), a total of 1981 websites were hacked in India (in the first 3 months of 2010), out of which 64% had a .in TLD. Read More »

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06 Apr

Internet in India – 52 Million Active Users in India, 37% Internet access happens from cybercafes

By sinha 7 Comments
Internet in India - 52 Million Active Users in India, 37% Internet access happens from cybercafes

The total number of active Internet users in India is a big mystery (see the top confusions in digital space in India) and the number ranges from 25 million to 50 million; and the latest report by I-cube pegs the … Read More »

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14 Mar

For Google, IPL 2010 is Damn Important [Starts Promoting from Homepage]

By sinha 3 Comments
For Google, IPL 2010 is Damn Important [Starts Promoting from Homepage]

For Google, IPL’s YouTube partnership is so important that they have started promoting a specially created page for IPL. Worldwide, Google has promoted a few products (like Droid) on the homepage, but I believe this is the first time, Google … Read More »

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