Further to the seed capital of $75,000 that PicSquare had raised in 2006 (part via the TiE-EAP program, and part from other investors), it has now raised an undisclosed sum from Bhola Digital Lab, a photo/printing company with branches across Karnataka. Incidentally, the two have already been working together, since Picsquare uses Bhola Digital Lab’s […]
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After picking up a stake in Indiagames, UTV has now has picked up an 80 per cent stake in California-based gaming company True Games Interactive through it UK-based subsidiary IG Intercative Entertainment.
Founded in January 2008, True Games is a multi-player online game publisher involved in developing, licencing, aggregating, publishing and distributing of online games, […]
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Borrowing a page from Lulu, comes Pothi.com, from Bangalore based Mudranik Technologies.
the site serves as an online self publishing platform that helps writers self publish their books in print without any upfront cost.
Authors can upload a soft copy of their book, which then gets listed in the online store at Pothi.com from where readers can […]
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“It is envisaged that customers will ultimately benefit from cost effective and innovative internet telephony service. These recommendations will put Indian telecom sector in tune with global trends. The grey market tendencies shall be curtailed,” - TRAI.
In a decision, which could have a far reaching consequence in future, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India […]
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“Culturally, we seem obsessed with immediacy. Time is not to be taken but crammed to bursting point.”
Attempting to change this, comes Real Snail Mail, part of a “slow art” project at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Here’s how it works:
Snails, each fitted with a tiny capsule which holds a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that allows […]
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Entertainment, gaming and music websites rank among the top five categories visited in all four BRIC countries, unlike the mature markets like America and Europe, where information and news draw the most mobile Internet browsing according to a report by The Nielsen Company. In the US for instance, entertainment, music and games place eighth, ninth […]
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Looks like The Google Andriod phone might just become a reality by as early as October according to the New York Times, and would be made by HTC.
Apparently, the phone would have a touch screen like the iPhone, but would also include a screen which slides out to expose a full five-row keyboard (if you […]
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Online ad spend in the U.K. overtook advertising on mainstream commercial TV last year, according to Britain’s Office of Communications, with paid search garnering over half of online ad dollars spent in the U.K. in 2007.
U.K.’s online advertising market grew by 40% in 2007, and by 70% in each of the past five years, reaching […]
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iJETS is a multi-disciplinary journal, focusing on the complex relationship between science and technology and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Perhaps more importantly, iJETS is designed as a forum for informed discussion and debate about the role of technology in society, drawing on a variety of viewpoints from all branches of the social and behavioural sciences […]
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Given the lukewarm response to the online version of its games, Zapak is releasing its games On CDs, hoping to drive traffic from there to its online platform.
Over 150,000 CDs across 47 titles in the action, adventure, sports and classic genre, priced between Rs 49 and Rs 99 have been launched with a revenue target […]
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