Posts Tagged with ‘India’

Google has been ordered to reveal real identity of a blogger using the company’s Blogger service in a lawsuit filed against the internet giant by a local Indian company. Unlike what you would expect given all the news that we hear from countries like Egypt about bloggers persecuted because of reporting on the news and events their governments were unhappy about (or in a manner that did not meet the expectations of those governments), this has nothing to do with [...]

When I first saw Mike Arrington's post about Google revealing the identity of an Orkut user to Indian officials (leading to an arrest) hit Techmeme yesterday, I knew it was going to stir a bunch of people up. Until the Monday morning Twitter stream started going full-blast, however, I didn't know how vocal the Google detractors were going to be. Google's alleged mantra "Don't Be Evil" gets used quite a bit whenever people don't agree with one of Google's moves, [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Last month, the world registered a rather noticeable rumbling made at a technology conference in Bangalore. A rumbling having to do with the development of India?s own silicon-based industry. A rumbling in the way of a collective challenge posed by influentials in attendance at the gathering.
The challenge was a simple one, but no doubt momentous, too. It was, in effect, to spur technological growth in cities and towns all over India from a current point of $1bn gross revenue [...]

The world of computer software is still largely dominated by localized offerings. You know, the stuff you put on your hard drive. The Microsoft Offices. The Adobe Creative Suites. All those handy utilities. And it?s understandable why they continue to command a great majority. They tap the processing power of our hardware systems very well; they?re there whether or not we have a connection to the Web; and, of course, there?s the very basic element of habitual familiarity that they [...]

Yaari is Hindi for friendship and Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Yaari.com and co-founder Parag Chordia, are playing heavily on that key word to create a social network for the Indian youth. Their goal is to go head-to-head with Google?s Orkut for the Indian market.
In an interview with Kiruba Shankar at PodTech India, Ms. Gupta born, raised and still living in the USA had this to say, ?Well, I first came up with the idea in June of [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

Good old AOL just launched a Web portal in India that combines IM, email and local content from Bollywood and other media. AOL has set its sights on the ad revenue being gobbled up by competitors Yahoo! and MSN and India's local companies. The online ad market in India is only a fraction of the $3 billion dollar total advertising market there but is growing at a geometric rate.
According to AOL's President Ron Grant, AOL will pay close attention to customers and [...]

With the current estimate of 37 Million and 200% increase of new Internet users annually, it is the right time for India to have their own indexed search engine, the ByIndia.com. ByIndia is a search engine made specifically to cope with the emerging IT industry in India. With the Indian government’s open policy to Internet access, the possibility of ByIndia to bypass the success of Baidu is expected to be a breeze.
If you take a good look at their logo, [...]