Posted on August 12th, 2008 by dhirender
To expand it’s avenues of interaction with consumers, Radio City, has launched a social networking site, Planetradiocity.com, aimed at people associated with music, be it musicians, artists or even music lovers.
The site will invite users to register with the site, create profiles, network with other members, form groups and interact with RJ’s of Radio City. [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by dhirender
Travel search engine Kayak.com, recently launched its Indian avtaar at Kayak.in, which currently offers flight search and fare alerts facilities. The international site also has search across Hotels, Cars, Vacations, Cruises, Deals etc. so you can expect at least Hotels to follow soon in the Indian avtaar. Seems Kayak.com was already receiving significant traffic, about [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by dhirender
Aksh Optifibres in association with telecom firm MTNL launched country’s first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) which could be viewed without any high speed broadband connection.
Aksh, a manufacturer of cable and optical fibers would start service under the brand name of ‘icontrol‘ in Mumbai and Delhi, where the state-run telecom firm MTNL has a strong base.
The [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by dhirender
With the aim to build an online entertainment resource for India comes LetZgoparty, a social nightlife networking portal dedicated to nightlife, parties, events, fashion, music and networking.
The site covers nightlife news, events, club listings, music reviews, DJ interviews, celebrity interviews, quiz section, poll, and a space for people to upload party pictures.
According to the release, [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
MapmyIndia has launched iNav, a GPS (global positioning system) based navigation solution that offers maps and navigation software for mobile phones in India – a service that was available on internet, car devices and Blackberry phones earlier.
The service helps locate where the user is, where he is headed, provides turn-by-turn graphical map guidance and also [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2008 by dhirender
At a time when niche sites are shining brighter, comes Web18 with its horizontal portal In.com. Given that for the quarter ending March 31, 2008, Web18 made a net loss of Rs. 14.3 crore, inspite of registering a year-on-year revenue growth of 112%, is this the right move? Moreover, take a look at these facts: [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
The website for the UTV business channel has finally launched at UTVi.com, albeit in beta.
The site has news, market updates, industry-wise updates, opinions, UTVi School, along with a community. There is also a section called Guru Blogs, which currently however has only two bloggers – I guess we can expect this to increase.
Surprisingly, there is [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by dhirender
Expecting to make a windfall from the country’s cellphone addiction, Twitter, the service that launched the micro-blogging movement, has launched an edition in Japanese – which in a first for Twitter will also carry advertisements.
Despite the site’s popularity in the United States, an estimated one-quarter of the people who accessed Twitter in February originated from [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by dhirender
To mark Earth Day, the Environment Ministry has launched the first digital State of the Environmental atlas of India at Soeatlas.Org which provides a visual interactive interface for users to visualise environment spatial data using geographic information system (GIS) options. The atlas depicts forest and biodiversity in green, water resources in blue and air pollution [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
Microsoft has launched a new test program code-named “Albany” that will provide a subscription based model for Office 2007, instead of the more traditional one-time license fee.
Subscribers would also get Windows Live OneCare, a Web-based security software, and online applications including Windows Live Mail and Office Live Workspace as part of the bundle.
This seems to [...]
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