“Launching Urdu and Punjabi has been a true labour of love for our team. Urdu brought with it some unique challenges: since it is written right to left, we needed to ensure that editing functions such as backspace, tab, etc all work as expected… ” says this post on the Google India Blog. And with [...]
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A study by Microsoft and Sophos, shows that the world center for SPAM has shifted from Russia to the United States, with 16.5% of all spam mails sent in the second quarter of this year coming from the United States. Terry Zink, Microsoft program manager and anti-spam researcher, said that 30.95% of the spam that [...]
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Thursday night, and Firefox clocked 1 billion downloads – earlier than expected. Admittedly this tracks the downloads from 2004 and across versions, but it is still impressive (and if you want some random stats to wrap your head around the figure of 1 billion, the guys at Mozilla, have provided us with some rather dandy [...]
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Looks like e-filing of income tax is taking off in a big way. Not surprising given the ease that it allows. While I am not sure how many people actually have a digital signature, no doubt the acceptance of it will make it even more popular, since it eliminates the need for physical verification of [...]
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As much as 18% of India’s mobile subscribers are waiting to change their operator once Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is launched, says a mobile consumer study by the Nielson Company, with one in four Reliance and Tata Indicom subscribers keen to change their operator, followed by a close one in five of BSNL subscribers. The [...]
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Quikr Mauritius, the holding firm of horizontal classifieds portal Quikr India, has raised Rs 20 crore in second round of funding led by Omidyar Network says VC Circle. Matrix Partners India, an existing investor, has also chipped in in this round. A classifieds website targeting local communities in 18 cities across India to buy and [...]
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