Posted on October 31st, 2008 by dhirender
Knol, Google’s communally-constructed online encyclopedia which has been compared to Wikipedia has quietly launched versions in other languages – while French, German and Italian are official, as TechCrunch observes, a Spanish version and a Korean version also seem to be lurking around there somewhere.
Knol hardly seems to be making a dent in Wikipedia’s traffic. And [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by dhirender
At a time when pink slips seem to be making their way around (even ASSOCHAM expects a 25% job cut post this Diwali), US based job search engine Simply Hired, has launched its Indian avtaar at Simplyhired.co.in
A meta search engine, SimplyHired, which has also launched Canadian, British Australian versions, claims to have over 7 million [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by dhirender
Norway-based Telenor, the world’s seventh largest telecom operator with a subscriber base of about 159 million, has bought a 60% stake in Unitech Wireless for Rs 6,120 crore, valuing the company at Rs. 11,620 crores. Incidentally, the company which holds licenses for 22 circles, is yet to roll out its services says Business Standard.
Telenor has [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by dhirender
A new study, Harnessing the Power of Blogs, by BuzzLogic and conducted by JupiterResearch, revealed that blogs by creating conversations can have more impact on purchase decisions than social networks. The study also reported an overall 300% growth in monthly blog readership over the past four years. 49% read at least one blog per month [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by dhirender
Even as talks of a slowdown in the economy are doing the rounds, the wireless telecom subscribers surged by a staggering 10.07 million in September 2008 to reach 315.31 million. Of this GSM operators added about 7.69 million new subscribers.
The wireline subscriber base however decreased to 38.35 million in September – down by 0.30 million [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by dhirender
In a follow up to the Series D funding of $53 million raised by LinkedIn earlier on in June 2008 which valued the company at $1billion, this round of funding of $22.7 billion brings in Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and SAP ventures to LinkedIn and includes a re-investment by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Probably the first [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by dhirender
What does it involve to enter the state of play? How games and other playful phenomena stand out among other everyday experiences, and can playful experiences be designed? Is there a way we can learn to understand games better by looking at phenomena that are not games, but where playful behaviours are common? How are [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2008 by dhirender
According to the NYPost, Mark Zuckerberg is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com, and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, while Facebook executives have been busy meeting major record companies about the strategy.
Apparently unlike MySpace, which traded [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2008 by dhirender
Broadband services continue to be in high demand, attracting millions of new subscribers worldwide each month, reports In-Stat.
Over the past 12 months, approximately 80 million new broadband subscribers signed up for high-speed access to the Internet, the high-tech market research firm says. In terms of broadband access technologies, digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies continue to [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by dhirender
Whether you are doing research or home work, or you just have a plain old question, SnappyFingers has the answer.
Founded by Chirayu Patel, who earlier co-founded Span Across (think TaxSpanner), SnappyFingers is a search engine that indexes FAQs across the Internet, and attempts to provide results in a FAQ format.
Still in Beta, the database seems [...]
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