Bermuda just lost to Bangladesh by 7 wickets and India is now completely out of the World Cup 2007.
Due to rain, the gain was reduced to 21 overs, in which Bangladesh had to 96 to win.
Bermuda did have a good start, when they got the first wicket with just 7 runs on the board. The [...]

Recently a lot of ISP’s in India have started advertising their 2-4 Mbps internet connection for the computers. Tata Indicom and Airtel have already started it, and a lot of people are already moving to higher and higher speeds. Moreover, the number of Indians who are online has been increasing at a rate faster than [...]

Starting yesterday, NDTV has made it’s streaming videos freely available on it’s website. They had been charging about Rs 250/month for the service. Following in the footsteps of the ex-employee’s CNN-IBN, which already provides their videos free of cost on the internet.
Even though the videos still cannot be embedded into blogs or other such media, [...]

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AOL, the largest ISP in the US, is ready to launch it’s portal in India in the next couple of months. Maneesh Dhir, executive VP of international operations is leading AOL into India.
AOL’s entry in India had started with the Bangalore Service Centre in 2002. It was followed by a software development center in 2003. [...]

Yatra.com, the latest travel portal in the Indian market has claimed that it is generating sales of close to $5 million a month. These are generated by selling almost 2500 tickets and 150 rooms a day. At this rate, the company hopes to break even by the end of 2008.
Yatra.com has also recently announced a [...]

So you are launching your website and have looked at all available resources but still need an extra push for the traffic. Look no further than the very auto wallah that stands outside your house.
MounthShut.com was the one who started advertising on auto rickshaws, during the dot com bust. And so far, they have covered [...]

The sony play station 3 would be officially be launched in India on April 27, 2007 and would be priced at Rs 39,990.
I was talking about the wonders of the Grey Market in my last post, and here is another thing which was available in the Grey Market, since it’s release in Japan and US.
more [...]

Digg Clone ‘SuperGu’ has sent a cease & desist letter to open source digg clone ‘Pligg’ stating that Pligg is infringing on it’s copyrights. The infringements includes Ajax effects, sidebars, login boxes, ‘read more’ links, navigation tabs, ‘powered by’, rss amongst other things.
And well that’s not it, techcrunch gives out the bummer here
SuperGu founder James [...]

The Freakonomics Blog points out how some marketers take a book to the top of the Amazon Rankings.
For $10,000 to $15,000, you, too, can be a best-selling author. New York public-relations firm Ruder Finn says it can propel unknown titles to the top of rankings on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble with a mass email [...]

Ryan Carson of dropsend has a post on TechCrunch today about how to make your web application successful.
Building a web app is no different than launching any other product - it needs to be backed by solid business principles. You’ll need funding, a real audience, a solid monetization model, a marketing plan, quality support, and [...]