Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
Adding the 10.16 million wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL) subscribers in March, India overtook USA to come in at second place after China. The total number of wireless subscribers now stands at 261.09 million.
A total of 10.40 million telephone connections (wireline and wireless) have been added during March 2008 as compared to 8.49 million connections added […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
The website for the UTV business channel has finally launched at UTVi.com, albeit in beta.
The site has news, market updates, industry-wise updates, opinions, UTVi School, along with a community. There is also a section called Guru Blogs, which currently however has only two bloggers - I guess we can expect this to increase.
Surprisingly, there is […]
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by dhirender
Based on primary research from WPP’s BrandZ, and other data from Bloomberg, Datamonitor, and Millward Brown Optimor’s own research, Google has once again topped the list as the the world’s number 1 brand, up 30% in brand value from $66 billion last year.
The rankings try to measure the intangible value of a brand using customer […]
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by dhirender
According to statistics of the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) which handles computer securities incidents in the country, 612 Indian websites were defaced in March compared to 214 websites in February. Of these, 313 were ‘.Com’ domain websites and 178 were ‘.In’ websites.
A form of malicious hacking, website defacement usually involves breaking into the web […]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by dhirender
Looks like social networking for business may finally be getting its 15 minutes of fame. According to a research by Nielsen Online (figures via TVWeek), LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking website grew by more than 300% this March over last March’s unique audience numbers.
While the number place MySpace at the top of the list followed […]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by dhirender
No doubt at the cost of Internet Explorer, who’s market share seems to be treading a downward path, Firefox is gaining in usage, reaching 29% in Europe in March 2008, with Finland, Poland and Slovenia leading the pack at 45.9%, 44% and 43.7% respectively according to a XiTi Monitor report.
The report also notes that usage […]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by dhirender
With both Internet users in India, currently estimated at over 50 million, and Internet banking on the rise, the the online ad spend for the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment seems to be moving online. At 35% of the total online ad spend in India it now ranks seocnd to travel, which is […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by dhirender
In a rather odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of articles from the German Wikipedia is being produced in the printed form by publishers, Bertelsmann. Estimated to be priced at 19.95 euros,the book, “The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia,” is expected to go on sale by September.
While I have heard of books putting their content online, […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by dhirender
By creating online games around ShahRukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders, Zapak is probably hoping to do a Sony SetMax - the night ShahRukh’s Knight Riders demolished Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in Bangalore, Sony SetMax catapulted to the number one channel in terms of viewership across all genres, including those of the saas bahu variety, during […]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by dhirender
To mark Earth Day, the Environment Ministry has launched the first digital State of the Environmental atlas of India at Soeatlas.Org which provides a visual interactive interface for users to visualise environment spatial data using geographic information system (GIS) options. The atlas depicts forest and biodiversity in green, water resources in blue and air pollution […]
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