Dial 54999 – Sing along, record and dedicate. Thats what the new “Karaoke Messaging service” from Loop Mobile promises. Subscribers can listen and select from a database of popular bollywood songs, sing the song along with the right music accompaniment and the exact lyrics, listen to their recording and then send it to anyone, anywhere [...]
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School children in Ahmedabad are the highest users of the Internet, Kolkata kids access the Web most through cellphones, and school kids in Bangalore are the most prolific bloggers, says a Web 2.0 survey in 12 major cities by TCS, which covered 14,000 school children between the ages of 12 and 18 to capture youth [...]
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Looks like Google is getting served one whammy after another. After the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, and the growth in Bing’s popularity, here comes another study, which states that people who land on sites from organic search results via Bing are 55% more likely to click on an advertisement, compared with arriving on the site from Google [...]
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According to the latest report by Hitwise, Google accounted for 74.04% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.19%, 5.25% and 3.15%, respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.36% of U.S. searches. Bing, has [...]
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The government inaugurated its first cyber regulation court in New Delhi to deal with cyber crimes earlier this week, and is looking to set up at least one cyber court in each region to handle cases related to e-commerce forgery, email and website hacking and identity theft etc. Cyber crimes involve activities such as using [...]
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According to this article, 41.6% percent of Internet users who used Twitter did so to keep in touch with their friends. In addition, 29.1% used it to update their status, 25.8% to find news and stay updated, 21.7% for work purposes and 9.4% for research. Men and women both used Twitter primarily to keep in [...]
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