Ibibo, an Indian social network, along with fashion and entertainment channel
FTV, has launched a contest targeted at fashion photographers in India.
The contest named iFashion Photographer Hunt, is open to all fashion
photography enthusiasts.  Under the contest, photographers will upload their portfolio on ibibo website which will then be rated jointly by the […]

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I decided to write this post, even if it looks unrelated to this blog, to share some of the aspects of hiring practices followed by Indian companies as well as the multinational companies operating in India.  Companies should respect potential new hires and value their time, effort and monetary contribution involved in the entire process […]

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AOL India has launched its Video portal focused on Indian audience.  The portal is powered with AOL’s video search technology, Truveo.  As per AOL, Truveo has indexed over 170 million videos from 16 countries across the world.
The content on AOL India Video site is more aligned towards movies, music and celebrity news.  There is no […]

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Indian Railways, after seeing an impressive growth in the number of online ticket
reservations, is about to launch “Dial-a-Ticket” service.
People will be able to book tickets by dialing a short phone number which will be provided by
IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation).
There is no surety about the payment mode to be used […]

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AOL Indian has launched a service which allows for sending free text message to any mobile phone in India using the AOL IM as well as AOL Mail.  The people to whom the text message has to be sent need not be registered users of AOL.
The process of sending SMS from IM is simple.  All […]

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Yahoo India is testing a new search feature called “Glue Pages” which shows results from various sources alongside the classic search results.  Glue Pages look more like a universal search and shows content related to search terms from various sources like news sites, Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube and Yahoo Answers etc.
Here are the results for “movie […]

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YouTube has launched its localized version for Indian users.  The Indian version of the video sharing site is hosted at
http://in.youtube.com.  Though the Indianized version will have video content from all over the world, the difference lies in the “Videos being watched right now..” and the “Featured Videos” section.  These sections will feature content catering […]

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UTV has launched a website for its business channel UTVi.  The
UTVi website is a finance portal providing news and information about stocks, markets, businesses etc.
The UTVi website has all the regular finance portal features like the
Messageboard,
Expert Columns and
UTVi School for learning to invest.  With all the common features, the site does […]

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Both Google and Live have an entertainment angle to the search.  While Google lets you find movie information, reviews, trailers, show timings and locations where the movies is playing; Live Search lets you find information and news about celebrities.
First let’s see the latest service announced by Live Search named xRank Celebrity which provides real-time rankings […]

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IBM is up for taking the web to the common mobile users and has announced various
applications and services related to communication, mobile-commerce, mobile social network and healthcare.  On the 10th anniversary of the IBM India Research Lab, IBM has announced its Mobile Web initiative which will be led by India Research Lab and the […]

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