Two proposed bills in the US have ruffled the feathers of most internet users in the US – SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act). There are innumerable articles on this controversial topic, I will list just a few points from various articles. I have referred only to SOPA in this posting. […]
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What in a domainname works with a user? Keywords or Trust?
Recently I read an article “Domain Name Matters: Searchers Pick Brand Over Quality, Study Finds” which talks about what kinds of domain name works well with a user (and possibly search engines). Is it important to have keywords or should the brand be trustworthy to make a domainname work? For many years we heard it […]
Should social networking be BLOCKED on the 6.8 million govt sponsored laptops?
In the recently held elections in the state of Tamil Nadu, we internet companies had a lot to cheer about – major parties in the state promised to give laptops for free to students [Govt could face legal action]. So irrespective of which party would win our industry had to gain, this rarely happens. The […]
India is all set to have 121 million internet users by December 2011
The growth of the number of internet users in India is still very slow. Still a long way to go
God, uh I mean Google says internet usage in India to explode
Lately, Google has been talking a lot about mobile internet and internet usage in India. According to Google-India, India will have over 200 million internet users by 2013. Other points from the report, India has 100 million internet users now (September 2011) – only 8% of 1.2 billion are online in India. India will add […]