Posted on October 26th, 2009 by dhirender
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media yielded to a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions emerge now new media are taken [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2009 by dhirender
Steve Jobs, has applied for a patent titled ‘Advertisement in an Operating System’, and has listed himself as an ‘inventor’ of the application (US Patent Application 20090265214), says the Business Standard.
Is that the way that Operating Systems are going to go?
According to the application, the “the operating system can disable some aspect of its operation [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by dhirender
The convenience of paying utility bills online, is contributing to the increasing online transactions. Telephone bills, mainly mobile bills, are primarily driving the transactions, followed by insurance premiums and electricity bills says the Business Standard.
Online payments and transfer of funds from one bank to another also contributed to a 100% year-on-year growth in online transactions. [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
In yet another sign that the global economy may be on the mend, Google said that its net income rose 27% in the third quarter as brisker advertising sales lifted revenue 7%.
Google reported net income of $1.64 billion, or $5.13 a share, compared with $1.29 billion, or $4.06 in the period a year earlier. Revenue [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
It seems like everyone is jumping on to the social media bandwagon to target customers and engage them in conversations. But is there any way to measure the impact?
This whitepaper from Coremetrics will show you how to gain insight into performance and continually optimize the results of syndicated videos, blogs, user reviews, display ads, micro-sites [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
Tata Teleservices seems extremely bullish on India. Consider this, they had committed an investment of $2 billion for the GSM services when it was launched in June this year, which was supposed to be spent by the end of the current financial year, and now, they are planning to invest an additional $1 billion in [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
Matrix Partners has invested Rs 20 crore in Ver Se’ Innovations, a Bangalore-based provider of classified services on mobile phone says the Business Standard.
Ver Se’ Innovations, which provides mobile classified services in categories like jobs, matrimonials and real estate, was seed-funded by OnMobile Global, a mobile VAS player incubated by Infosys, India’s second largest IT [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2009 by dhirender
By the time of writing this, LinkedIn will have whizzed past 50 million users worldwide, with Indians chipping at 3 million – today LinkedIn is growing at about 1 member every second (I think that might just match up with the population growth worldwide).
What is even more interesting is this snippet from the blog – [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by dhirender
With an average internet connection speed of 1,100 Kbps for the second quarter of 2009, Karnataka has been ranked second in a study of the top 10 Indian states for their average connection speeds. The state has recorded a 32% increase in the average connection speed over last year.
In its quarterly “State of The Internet” [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by dhirender
Subcribers to GSM based mobile services grew by 8.59 million in September, taking the total GSM numbers to 344.4 million, or a growth of 2.6% over August, says the latest data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the apex body of GSM operators
According to COAI, Bharti Airtel retained its lead with 2.5 [...]
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