Webcam: Watch the comings and goings at the Nkorho Pan natural waterhole, at the Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve in South Africa. It is possible to see antelopes, baboons, wildbeest, giraffes, etc. depending on the time of day. The camera often follows the animals, while at other times you just get a general view of […]
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A video on YouTube recently resulted in a police-brutality investigation by the FBI. In recent months, videos posted on YouTube have rocked political campaigns, brought fame — or infamy — to previously unknown talents and cast unwanted attention on the gaffes of the famous. YouTube and similar video sites are also increasingly becoming repositories for […]
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Is a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising viable? Eric Schmidt, thinks so, even though he admits that they may not become totally free. Newspapers, for instance, as he mentioned, were still not completely free free even after a hundred years of advertising but were definitely […]
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GigaOM: Some figures from social networking company executives at the Web 2.0 Summit. Cyworld, with 20 million subscribers in Korea and 3 million in non-Koream countries and MySpace with 127,500,000 members are way above the competition.
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GigaOM: Brand name cellphone makers are finally beginning to realize that if they need to survive falling cell phone prices and declining margins, they need to start focusing on software and services. Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, all made moves last week, taking further steps in this direction.
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As the virtual world casts its net wider, various religious sites have sprung up to offer services such as live webcasts of the namaaz at Mecca, Ganpati visarjans at Chowpatty, chats with religious leaders, discussion rooms on the intricacies of the Bhagavad Gita, aarti rooms where you can sing along to Bhajans.
Religion after all, is […]
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I recently got my Digital Certificate from MTNL Trustline. This now opens a plethora of services that the Government could put online - registering your company, filing of taxes, etc. I later came across this article in the Economic Times which talked about the move towards a paperless world. As this other article mentions, the […]
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