09
May

Every age teaches mankind a new lesson, and the age of Web 2.0 has taught us that the consumers can get involved on the internet too.
But somehow, the Indian Web 2.0 has become synonymous with free sites using Ajax. Everybody is asking for our opinions and reviews and words.
The internet is going to come back [...]

Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended that all ISP’s should route their traffic through the under-utilized National Internet Exchange. TRAI is hoping that this would bring down internet and broadband charges in India.
In a recent survey by TRAI, the overall customer satisfaction level was 5.42%. Only 7 of the 129 operators met the [...]

Goldstone Technologies Limited is shortly planning to launch India’s first IPTV(Internet Protocol Television). The company would be using a patented technology, which uses a set-top box connected to a TV to make available live channels, and would deliver quality video at 600 kbps.
The company has also tied up with channels including Zee TV Asia Pacific, [...]

Reliance Money has just launched Internet based Share Trading via 10,000 kiosks that have been set up across the country. The kiosks would be like ATM’s where users can buy a whole lot of financial products like equities, commodities, offshore instruments, IPOs and mutual funds.
I don’t know about the rest of the people, but I [...]

Sujai Karampuri, writes on Sramana Mitra’s Blog, about the cost per line of broadband in India. He says
The decrease in cost per line will come from two factors- decrease in the cost of equipment and from the inherent advantage of wireless when adding new lines. The base stations which cost $3000-$5000 now will start costing [...]

Indian websites are knows for their sad design.
Except for a few isolated cases, most of the Indian websites haven’t been updated since the last web bubble. Web Design 2.0 is still more of an Indian concept. When you consider design, I fail to understand why Indian designers should be anywhere behind those in the US. [...]

Rajesh Barnwal, from Aloo Techie.com has a really long post on the topic ‘Internet Businesses : Is the Boom real this time. The post lists the points which were discussed at the recent Venture Intelligence organized round table event called ‘Internet & Mobile Connect’ on venture capital investing in the internet-based services and the mobile [...]

Recent issues regarding the Domain Name registration company RegistrFly.com has raised new security concerns when people buy new domain names.
The nine year old company, which has over 200,000 users, recently came to a standstill, when founder Naruszewicz and another company director fired founder Kevin Medina for stealing from the customers to buy luxury cars, a [...]

India is evolving. So are it’s movie releases.
The latest hindi flick ‘Hattrick’ was released simultaneously in theatres and on the internet. Earlier in the year Vivah had also been released on Rajshri.com.
At a time when new movie records are being created (’300′ made $70 million on the opening weekend), releasing movies on the internet might [...]

18
Mar

An interesting debate seems to be going on the courts. One woman put up some text on her website and claimed that the people entering the website were agreeing to the contract that people who visited here website would pay huge amounts of money to her if they copied content off the website.
What happened next [...]