Posted on July 14th, 2008 by dhirender
Taking the plunge in providing online-only banking to India’s 49 million netizens, ICICI Bank has launched “B2-Branch-free Banking“, which offers information through a single interface to facilitate banking transactions over the internet.
Not a bad option to save real estate costs, which are causing an increasing dent in the profit margins for most companies - in […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by dhirender
Defined by Wikipedia as the criminal practice of using social engineering and Voice over IP (VoIP) to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward, vishing (a combination of “voice” and phishing), is the latest threat to hit the mobile phone users, and India, adding almost […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by dhirender
Google has released a Google Talk client for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers that allows instant messaging as long as the browser is open. Since it runs off the browser, Safari in this case, it means the user does not have to download or install anything, but it also means that navigating away to […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
At its meeting in Paris, ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that oversees the naming scheme for Web sites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names ending in whatever they like.
So, for example, instead of being restricted to sites ending in .com or .org., eBay could have a site […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
The dream of an iPhone at $199 seemed too good to last, and so it ends. According to Reuters, U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T Inc will eventually be able to buy it for an extra $400.
Those who do […]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by dhirender
According to a recent blog post in VCCircle, Expedia is rumored to have have picked up a majority stake in TravelGuru for $17 Million, a deal that values the travel website at $30 million.
Considering that Travelguru is one of the bigger players in the online travel market in India - a market expected to contribute […]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by dhirender
Online free classifieds website Kijiji India has been re-branded in a new avatar - ‘Quikr‘.
Kijiji, now Quickr, is backed by Matrix Partners India and invested in by eBay Inc., and was meant to serve as a free, city based, community classifieds website allowing people in the same city to meet, trade, share ideas, and in […]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by dhirender
Gaming has more to it than fun. In a corporate social responsibility (CSR) endeavour, Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, has joined hands with a Mumbai-based NGO, Population First, and has created a game called ‘Laadli’, - a game, that via a question-answer format, seeks to sensitise the player to female foeticide and sex identification practices.
Gaming is […]
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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by dhirender
With it’s international International Flight Search, Cleartrip now allows its users to search for flights from India to any of the world’s destinations.
Interestingly, how they have done it, is by removing the drop down in the destination field, and adding an autosuggest feature, because of which the user no longer has to choose between domestic […]
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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by dhirender
To position itself effectively in the rural market, Nokia plans to offer internet based services in micro-finance, distribution, agricultural services and after sales and support services for the non-urban markets. Nokia considers micro finance as a major initiative to increase mobile penetration in India from the current 26%.
“The company is planning to come up with […]
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