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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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 registered [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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. [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
