Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Mumbai has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. I am talking about Raj Thackeray. This all started with the Railway exams being held in Mumbai and his party MNS cadres attacking Biharis. I am sure TV channels were thrilled as they had one more issue to ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
The cost of the PC is one of the reasons for the low penetration of internet. Note, you don't hear about the cost of software being a hurdle for obvious reasons.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Last numbers from TRAI for September 2008,
10 million mobile users added in Sept (7.69m GSM, 2.34m CDMA)
Total number of mobile users: 315 m (slurp!). In August the user base was 305.24 m.
India is the 'fastest' growing wireless/mobile market and the second largest market after China.
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Airtel is the latest entrant in the DTH space. Recently Reliance Communications's Big TV made an entry. Few basic DTH numbers
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
India's mobile user base has been growing at such an mouth-watering-impressive pace that it even Google cannot ignore it.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
I came across iminta, a social networking aggregator few days back. Actually it is not a very new site, it was released in Feb 2008. Never heard of it before.
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The third South Indian language, Telugu, has been launched by Google News. The only one pending from the South is Kannada.
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