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It is that time of the year in India - it is legal for every political party to make false promises. General Election 2009 is heating up. Political parties have started releasing their manifesto. BJP was the first party to announce their intention to make broadband available to "everyone" at Rs 200. This means there isn't going to be any quotas … [Read more] about Elections: New Mantra – Roti, Kapda, Makaan aur Broadband
Yesterday (March 21, 2009) I attended the final round of Bizcomp.in - organized by SJCE - Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park (SJCE-STEP). I being an Alumni of Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) look forward to some excuse to visit my alma mater - not that I visit them all the time, it took my 21 years after graduation to … [Read more] about Bizcomp.in: What should be expected out of a business plan competition?
Recently Idea Cellular carried campaigns in Karnataka to familiarize people with their brand name which changed from Spice to Idea. Their brand ambassador Abhishek Bachchan was all over Karnataka (hoardings, newspapers) and most importantly online, that too in Kannada. Oneindia Kannada carried this campaign from Ozone Media. We have always … [Read more] about Online Advertising in Languages performing better than English
The revamped BJP.org portal was released yesterday, even though the infighting has started hogging the limelight. The manifesto mentions their plan for promoting opensource software. They have walked the talk by hosting their site bjp.org on one of the popular opensource CMS - Joomla. According to me there are two popular CMS - Joomla and … [Read more] about BJP.org moves to Joomla, to promote Opensource
We all have grown up hearing promises of "Rs 2 per Kg of rice" type goodies. Not sure how much of it gets implemented as you often see TV reports which show tons of wheat rotting with the govt :-( BJP is the first national party to have announced some "new goodies" in their IT vision document, National Digital Highway Development Project to … [Read more] about Election Promises: Broadband for all at Rs 200