Oneindia.in released its mobile apps for Samsung Bada & iPhone handsets. While Samsung Bada (Wave series of handsets) don't support Indian languages (yet), our iPhone app supports the 5 Indian languages Oneindia.com covers (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu). The app development on Samsung platform was seamless. We did not have any … [Read more] about Oneindia releases mobile app for Samsung Bada & iPhone
Family time taking a huge beating in India
With nuclear families increasing, single income parent decreasing in India you wonder how exactly people spend time. I read an interesting article in Economic Times (April 24, 2011) about this topic, it is about a survey done by Technopak Advisors covering 1,500 respondents from SEC A & B households in top 10 Indian cities. For a country which … [Read more] about Family time taking a huge beating in India
Internet and Digital Media Freedom: Where does India stand?
Internet has become a very important part of democracy across the world. We have seen social media put to peaceful use in Egypt and very recently in India for its fight against corruption. Many countries have put a leash on internet to suppress the democratic rights of their citizens. At the same time we must recognize how bad elements misuse the … [Read more] about Internet and Digital Media Freedom: Where does India stand?
Not just politicians, now offline & online stores target non-metros, villages of India
Our politicians often claim "I am a poor farmer", other than owning farm lands not sure how many of them have ever done real farming. Indian retail industry is about $43,500 crore, will grow to $84,000 crore by 2015 (Pitch Magazine, March 2011 issue). Offline retail stores like Marks & Spencer, which has an 'unaffordable tag', has been … [Read more] about Not just politicians, now offline & online stores target non-metros, villages of India
Only 2% of radio stations are dedicated to news
As kids, we grew up listening to just one radio station - All India Radio. The tone of every news bulletin, every jockey was the same - monotonous. It wasn't even clear if the news item was good news or bad news. With the airwaves opening up in India we finally got many radio stations. Bangalore got India's first private FM station, Radio City … [Read more] about Only 2% of radio stations are dedicated to news