Indian matrimonial portals booming

The fusion between tradition and modern technology in India is nowhere more apparent than in the growing popularity of online matrimonial websites, which are booming, according to new research.
Empower Research’s latest report, A Web Partner for Life: Indian Matrimony Web Sites are Modernizing Matchmaking for the Offline World and Positioning to be Lifelong Portals for [...]

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Reliance offer Free Netbook-laptops With Datacard Contract

Reliance Communications will offer free netbook(mini laptops) with their WiFi Internet Service NetConnect Datacard for a two year contract.Reliance has roped in Intel, Acer, Asus, HCL and Lenovo to provide their netbook with this free netbook give away offer.That is the buyer will have option of not only one but many netbooks offered by these [...]

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History of Indian Rupee (De)Valuation

In previous week I was thinking that soon one dollar would become equal to 50 rupees. Just after one week, my prediction became correct. Now one US dollar is around 50 rupees. Now I think it is right time to tell you the history of Indian currency, rupee. The origin of the word “rupee” is [...]

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Price hike after Diwali from Mobile Companies

Mobile companies may opt for price hikes post-Diwali with the dollar touching a high of Rs 49.95. Among the handset marketers, companies like Spice Mobiles, Meridian Mobile and HTC confirmed of 15% price hike after Diwali.Leading mobile phone manufacturers like Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung are watching the exchange rate closely to follow suit.Handset manufacturers [...]

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Nokia Launches N79 in India

Nokia has launched the N79 in India with a special offer of preloaded ‘Anthems 1998-2008′, a compilation of 19 all-time favorite classic club songs and 17 new age music videos, presented by the Ministry of Sound.

The Nokia N79 comes with a 4GB microSD card, features an FM transmitter and offers music playback time of [...]

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Airtel enters the elite club of top 25 telecom companies

Diwali went well. We might have contributed to the global warming in a significant way, but who is checking? Muhurat trading went very well with Sensex regaining 9000 levels. That is the good news. Though it is not the topic of this discussion. Bharti Airtel has entered the elite club of top telecom companies. [...]

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Reliance Telemedicine Venture- Reliance Healthcare Magic

Is there a business in which Reliance is not in? I can’t think of any. BUT …. Now, Reliance has tied up with Bangalore based HealthCare Magic to provide tele-medicine and mobile health consultancy. “There are some businesses which doesn’t make money. For everything [...]

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5 great gadgets to buy this Diwali!

With Diwali around the corner, this is a great time to shop for gadgets what with discounts available at most stores. Gadgets make great gifts too; if you choose well they will be used often and for a long time by the lucky recipient. So here are five great gadgets for this festive season.
Canon [...]

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30% of New Mobile Users from Rural India

TRAI’s last quarter report has an interesting stat that is an eye opener to many of the telecomplayers

- Of the 25 million customers added in the Apr-June quarter, 8 million are from rural areas!

70 million mobile users in villages (out of a total 300 million) compared with 40 million in September 2007 (out of 209 [...]

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Indian Infotech companies on shopping spree – No credit, all cash!

Nasscom forecasted a 21-24% revenue growth for IT industry till April 2009. This is valued at $50 billion. Not the expected 30% growth, which the industry saw for the past 3 years. I think the final figure would settle down at 20%. Satyam has fired 4500 employees and the same news is expected from other [...]

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Sensex breaks 12K, ends down 725 points

The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 242 points at 12,284 on the back of negative cues from the global markets. The NSE Nifty is down 216 points at 3,602.
The US markets on Friday tumbled despite the House of Representatives clearing the $700 bn revised bailout package. As a result of which Asian markets [...]

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Gmail – Email Sending Limit of 500!

Gmail, is among one of the best free e-mail services available on the Internet. Right from the day of its launch on April 1, 2004, people started appreciating it. If you remember, not so long before, to open Gmail account you needed an invitation from existing Gmail users. According to a Wiki entry, Gmail invitation [...]

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Group SMS with Google

Did you ever wish for an SMS service similar to Yahoo Groups or Google Groups???

A service that you could help you send your one SMS to all your friends and if any one of them reply to it… the reply goes back as an SMS to mobile phone of all you friends in the group.

Well [...]

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Make and receive calls over internet free using TringMe !

a few days back TRAI announced that it will soon allow internet calls to be terminated on fixed and mobile networks and vice-versa, and we are immediately seeing companies taking advantage of it.

Although not on a fixed line, the calls can be made and received through internet enabled phones using Tringme .Tringme also has an [...]

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www.in.com- a new venture of moneycontrol

So Network 18 is trying to cash in on social networking and email site business and so they created a new site called WWW.in.com , wow a 2 letter website name god they would have paid heavily for this website , not sure when they had started this website but i came into touch with [...]

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