Google joins SMS race in India
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.
India’s mobile user base has been growing at such an mouth-watering-impressive pace that it even Google cannot ignore it.
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.
The third South Indian language, Telugu, has been launched by Google News. The only one pending from the South is Kannada.
Can you believe the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) did not have a website till now? In Nov 2007 BCCI invited bids for building their website, Read the rest of this entry »
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