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Why UnPluggd? How is it different from other startup events in India? Well, I have been asked these questions quite a few number of times – so here is sharing the core concept behind the UnPluggd event. UnPluggd is not a startup showcase event where we are bringing in a few hot products and .. read full article »

Recently Nokia had announced a new version of OVI maps available for download at no cost & within few days of their launch only, Nokia observed a huge upsurge in their download numbers. Since the launch of the new version of Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been 1.4+ million .. read full article »

The following was narrated to me over the weekend by a Professor of Finance and a former finance industry executive with experience in well known multinationals. “Upon asking his supervisor about his not being promoted even after performing well at his job and being recognized for it as well, .. read full article »

We had recently reported how top cricketers in MS Dhoni, Harbhajan, Virendra Sehwag and Ishant Sharma had launched their online presence. Following their footsteps is the Prince of Punjab Yuvraj Singh who has gone ahead and launched his official website too. While his team mates decided to rope .. read full article »

1 item a day, everyday – well, that’s what Woot.com is all about and a Pune based startup has launched 24HoursLoot, an online store that sells a new item everyday at deep discounted price in limited quantity. A new item is released every midnight at 12AM Indian standard time, seven days a .. read full article »

TRAI To Start The Process For 4GYou have to give it to the telecom regulator TRAI for its ability to make headlines day in and day out.The 3G spectrum allocation is yet to materialize and is continuously getting delayed.Yes, the government is playing its true self too by poking its nose, but .. read full article »

Another online video streaming company (besides for Youtube) which seems to be getting in aggressive mode for the Indian space is the French limited company Dailymotion. Dailymotion entered India in 2008 and had taken the stance of inviting original content creators to its platform. That move .. read full article »

YouTube has launched a Bollywood channel where full length Hindi movies like Raja Babu, Nauker, Bawarchi, Shaan and Mumbai Salsa are available for free online viewing. This move comes after the announcement of the release of movies like 3 Idiots and premiere of movies like Striker on its .. read full article »

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a stream of status .. read full article »

If you are a web developer or someone who is excited to see new and cutting edge technology on the web, then D3VF3ST is what you should be looking at. DevFest 2010 is a developer conference organised by Google to be held in the month of February and March in Pune and Hyderabad.Location and event .. read full article »

Now this is definitely a first – Internet has been nominated for Nobel Peace prize for 2010. I am not sure how should I react to this particular news because in my over 10 years of being on Internet I have seen many things  – Peace is something I have come across rarely though !There is a .. read full article »

Bangalore based Jivox, an online video advertising company, has introduced custom interactivity features to make online video ads hyper-interactive. jivox online ad Using the Jivox platform, creative agencies and advertisers can now add their own custom Flash or HTML applets to video ads so that .. read full article »

Online videos can’t replace subscription based TVThose who are hoping that online television video services can replace Television, need to rethink. A recent survey in US tells that less than six million US households would consider canceling pay-TV service in favour of online video. That .. read full article »

Many declared that iPad would be a big failure, and it seems they were right on the money. iPad seems to have lost the buzz in very short period of time, and not only that, many are not at all interested in buying it – either now or in the future.Are you interested in buying an iPad?According .. read full article »

We all probably know a lot about HR management and the value of good team in a startup. To further help on the same issue we surveyed some startup employees and have compiled a list of most popular and significant mistakes committed by some well known Indian startups and their founders. For .. read full article »

After its fast-growing popularity in the United States, Peek, the mobile email device is expanding its user base and has set sail for Indian shores. Touted as a simpler and more reasonably priced Blackberry substitute, this device is designed primarily for quick, simply access to email with a .. read full article »

The creation and phenomenal growth of the Internet has spawned the emergence of a global information society. Businesses possessing highly distributed information assets can function internationally with great efficiency, exchanging information quickly and seamlessly among their divisions, .. read full article »

The week started off with us sharing the opening of WATMedia’s Office In Mumbai with you. On the major news this week internationally is was Monster Worldwide Acquiring Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Millions, Facebook Getting A Facelift On Its 6th Birthday and Telegraph Looking Beyond Traffic .. read full article »

It really struck me at the first time, but then when the whole world is online and e-commerce is entering our homes, what stops donations  going online too. Yes, we are talking about temple donations which to my knowledge amounts to a lot of money.The devotees of the Golden Temple Of Amritsar .. read full article »

Here is a quick round-up of some of the buzzing posts for Last week.BusinessMahindra Satyam Turnaround- The Phoenix That Rose From The Ashes StoryFuture of IndiaTop 50 Business Schools in India: Career360 ranking71% of Indian companies currently hiring – One of the highest in the worldIs the .. read full article »

This week, we opened the registration for UnPluggd, the 1-day Entrepreneurial Event and if you wanna grab the early bird offer, book your ticket now. Best of the week Paypal India Outage – No Payments to or from India The post has ~100 comments – showcases dissatisfaction of Indian users. .. read full article »

There are rumors that Microsoft will unveil the latest Windows Phone at the upcoming MWC (Mobile World Congress) event and here are a few credible details (via) that have come up on the web: UI will be very similar to the Zune HD User Interface with a complete revamp of the “Start” .. read full article »

Another hacking story and this time it’s not a government website, but TCS’s website, TCS.com TCS Website Hacked The hacker has even put up the whos.among.us widget to display how many people are on the site at any given point. Hacker has even put up his email id, in case you want to buy the .. read full article »

Paypal the online payments system has stopped working for India payments to and from. This has caused a lot of issues especially for IT developers who used to freelance for foreign markets and charge purely via the use of Paypal. Reports have been pouring in of several users whose transactions .. read full article »

Presenting a few insights shared by our reader-writers, who comment @pluggdin. Few comments need to reach out to wider audience and this is an attempt to do the same (without undermining the significance of several other comments we receive daily). — Entrepreneurship is very personal and if .. read full article »

Started in February 2004, Facebook is one of the largest social networking communities on the internet, second only to MySpace in terms of traffic. With expansion to both English speaking and non-speaking countries since its inception in the States and nearly 400 million active users worldwide, .. read full article »

We have covered quite a few online book stores in the past and while Flipkart leads the race (among the new entrants), there is of course space for new companies to come up with attractive positioning. SimplyBooks is a Gurgaon based startup that boasts of 10,000+ books across 600 categories. Buy .. read full article »

Indian healthcare companies have been seeing a lot of traction both in terms of international reach and increasing revenues.Indian companies have been making good revenues through the sale of generics across the globe and most of the biotech firms have been increasing their R&D investment.We .. read full article »

Vodafone,world’s largest mobile phone operator by revenues has posted 13.8% revenue growth for its Indian operations. The revenues increased to £767 Million from £674 Million in a year ago period. Vodafone worldwide revenues rose 10.3% to to £11.5 billion. Vodafone’s Indian operations .. read full article »

It has been a little over a week since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s latest innovation. The iPad. The Tablet that was supposed to change the world. Now, Tablets have been around for quite sometime. Apple is not the first to make a foray into the market. But it is looking to revolutionize the .. read full article »

As of 4th February, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS will be offered as a free open source download for anyone wanting to dabble with it. Nokia, which in 2008 had acquired Symbian and established the independent non-profit Symbian Foundation, has decided to publish the source code .. read full article »

SimplyBooks.in is a new book portal launched today in World Book Fair’10, New Delhi. As the name hints the portal is online bookshop targeting Indian customers initially and at moment in beta stage. Simplybooks is launched by startup based in Gurgaon, India that also runs a Finance community .. read full article »

One of the biggest challenges that startups face is undoubtedly – exposure. As a startup, you may offer great products and services but, unless people are aware of your offerings, it’s hard to gain any amount of business. Building a well rounded online identity can take your business to .. read full article »

Paypal is facing severe outage and all payments to/from India are being reversed. This is an email I received from one of the payment service We were just alerted that PayPal India is experiencing some challenges and stopped allowing payments to be sent to or from India. Funds requested through .. read full article »

Facebook turned 6 yesterday and the company claims to have reached 400 million users – with 200 million added just in the last one year. Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and understand one .. read full article »

India Growth Story Is Still On Track, says IMFEven with a back breaking food inflation and policy tightening from the government, the India long term growth story is still very much on the right track.The International Monetary Fund (IMF). Betting on the strong fundamentals of the Indian .. read full article »

Understand that it is meant for collaboration. Also it would be handy to keep in mind that too many cooks spoil the broth. Knowing these two things in my mind are the most effective ways to make use of Google wave. So first things first. Stop inviting anyone and everyone in to your wave, it .. read full article »

India’s mobile growth continues to see large scale innovation in Mobile VAS offerings.This time Telcos wants to bring affordable mail solution to every modest featured handset in India.Tata Teleservices and RCom has announced the launch of ‘Push 4 all Mail’ on their telecom networks in .. read full article »

Search giant Google has announced that as of March 1, two of its web services (Google Docs and Google Sites) will stop supporting IE6. The company is urging users to switch to IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+ or Safari 3.0+ so as to ensure that they are able to use the latest web applications .. read full article »

The Indian telecom space has seen over one decade of private enterprise spurred on by rapid advances in the telecomputing arena . The tele density having grown from a mere 2 percent has risen to over 47 percent as we speak in just over 12 years. The miscalculations about the purchasing power of .. read full article »

You may ask, did we ever stop growing that we have to talk about ‘India Shining’?No! Nothing has changed and we are on the 7 to 9% GDP growth trajectory since the last decade and will continue to do so as many experts and media have been talking about. However, due to the financial crisis in .. read full article »

Google Labs has launched an interesting product, People Hopper that lets you morph your picture into your friends. Given two images, it hops across millions of public images in orkut so that one image is smoothly transformed into another. Morph your Picture using People Hopper AppAdd the app to .. read full article »

“][Click to see Image SourceDon’t you think our country is at a very critical stage these days? Don’t you think it’s confused? On one hand it’s A.R. Rahman who is winning accolades across the world and we are happy that finally our artists are accepted across boundaries. On the other .. read full article »

To many this may come as a surprise that a lesser known company Micromax is the third largest mobile handset vendor in India by Sales behind Nokia and Samsung. Micromax followed a different strategy of hitting the bottomg of the pyramid and managed to make significant inroads riding on the .. read full article »

More events in the pipeline this month. Here are some you should look to attend.. SMM Bootcamp – 19th & 20th Feb Gurgaon After the  success of its 1st SMM (Social Media Marketing) Bootcamp, Digital Vidya, a delhi based Social Media training startups is going to hold it’s next SMM Bootcamp .. read full article »

The wait is over. And before we share the registration details, one major update on UnPluggd event. We have moved the event date by a week, as Feb 27th is sandwiched between two major holidays, Eid and Holi. UnPluggd is now happening on March 6th, 2010. Last couple of days have been crazy – we .. read full article »

Remember the Turing Test? A proposal to evaluate a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. Siri (now through private invitation only) plans to raise your mobile’s smartness to interactive intelligence. Born out of SRI’s CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) Project, .. read full article »

U.S economy is predicted to perform on a dicey ground for quite some time but the employment activity surely seems to be on uptrend worldwide.In a seconded move Monster Worldwide Inc has decided to acquire Yahoo HotJobs for $225 Million in cash making itself a formidable player in Online .. read full article »

BSNL, in partnership with Novatium has launched slew of interesting products targeted towards Rural India (currently only for Uttar Pradesh). Novatium has launched three new products, Nova Navigator+, Nova Neon and Nova cNergy to increase the broadband adoption in rural area. Nova .. read full article »

The talks about implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) have been in the air for quite some time. We have already told you about the lack of execution on the Service Providers’ part and extended deadlines for implementing MNP. Both BSNL & MTNL are ready to implement the mobile number .. read full article »