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Entertainment, India »

[31 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Anil Ambani’s Reliance entertainment limited(REL) has launched a new online video on demand service called bigflicks.com. Bigflicks.com claims that they are offering 1000 titles in languages including Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi. Selected movies are available for free viewing and all movies are available for download after purchase and the pricing ranges from $4.49 (~= Rs. 200) to $19.99 (~= Rs. 800). Movie rental option is also available by which you can download the movies for a much lower price but the playback validity will exists …

Events »

[28 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

DCampBangalore is a design camp in the unconference format planned on September 15th between 10AM to 2 PM at Yahoo India’s office, Bangalore. The entry is free and you are expected to register yourself here. The topics listed are very much interesting and 40 registrations so far is an excellent count. A must attend event for designers and web developers

India, Internet, Travel »

[28 Aug 2007 | 70 Comments | ]

Arzoo, the travel portal well known for its founder, Sabheer Bhatia, comes up with an excellent service called ‘Book a table‘. In metropolis, especially during the weekends or the festive seasons, one of the major problems is getting a table in the the popular restaurants.
Arzoo’s ‘book a table’ service will reserve a table for you in your favorite restaurants. All you need to do is call this toll free number, 1-800 22 21 20 and inform about your requirements to the Arzoo executives and they will do the reservation …

India »

[28 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Indian railways which faces a heavy competition and loses a huge market share of business travelers to the low cost airlinesĀ  is working on attractive plans which would help them to retain the business travelers. Railways has already started the initiatives of offering internet services on selected trains.
Now they are working on the feasibility of installing Flat panel touch screen television channels on Shatabdi trains. Passengers can watch live as well as recorded entertainment and movie channels while travelling.
According to Business standard , media and entertainment giants like Adlabs and …

Google »

[25 Aug 2007 | One Comment | ]

Highly expected Orkut’s redesigning is out but unfortunately there seems no big changes except some rounded corners, lighter shaded pages and new icons. Currently only few profiles has been updated to the new design and the new change will be reflected to all users in a couple of days.

Bottomline: Disappointing redesign

Events, India »

[25 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Chennai has been in the headlines in the recent times for the number of technology related events and the major credit goes to Knowledge foundation, a passionate group of technological enthusiasts. These folks comes up with yet another interesting unconference concept and this time its an exclusive event for Search engines . Searchcamp, this is how the event is named, is a is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds of Search Engine Marketing space to talk about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. …

Wordpress »

[23 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

So far, everytime when a wordpress update is released, it will then become a biggest challenge for every wordpress user to upgrade his blog to the latest version. Manually Backup the existing files, deactivating all the plugins, upload the latest wordpress files then reactivate etc etc is a big strain and single mistake in any of the above steps may lead to costly loss of data. I was really longing for one plugin which can do all these process automatically and thereby avoid any humane errors.
Today i came …

Google, India, Internet »

[23 Aug 2007 | 7 Comments | ]

For those who heard about Google labs for the first time, Google labs is the place to checkout and test Google’s new ideas (Beta stage). Google labs, now has an Indian version and at present it has two localized product including Indic On-Screen Keyboard iGoogle Gadgets and Google Indic Transliteration. Indian online market is quite hot in the recent times and by moving local , all the players are trying to acquire the large stake of regional language market. An Indian centric Google labs is a good indicator for how …