Internet users count in India is Skyrocketing and according to a recent statistics 60% of the online Indian population prefers to read (&write) in their native language. So every web services want to capture their share in the rapidly growing Indian regional language market and AOL is not an exception.

AOL, who already marked their presence in India with a India specific AOL portal, today launches news portals in Hindi and Tamil languages. The portals currently has four major verticles including News, Entertainment, Astrology and Literature. Surprisingly sports is missing …

BSNL has launched a Mobile TV service called ‘Tiny TV’ by tying up with an UK-based mobile applications developer ROK Entertainment Group. Initially Six channels will be offered in the service and the channels includes EMN (English Music Channel ), Geet (Hindi music), Bindaas (Hindi), Zoom (Hindi), a live Hindi news channel and a regional channel of ETV depending upon the Zone.  technologies allow streaming videos to mobiles at up to 14 frames per second over GPRS and up to 24 frames per second over 3G and Wi-Fi. Subscribers need …

After Google, now Yahoo India lauches SMS search facility in the country where the number of mobile users are witnessing an exponential growth. The service, One Search enables users to search business and local listing through an SMS. Users has to send an SMS to 58242 along with Yahoo’s short code. An SMS to 58242 with the city name returns the local weather details while an SMS with the business category and location will give the details of the business category in the particular location. Say, an SMS like “Restaurant …

India has already lost their ODI series against Australia. but still cricket fever is on in the cricket loving country.  If you are one among the die-hard cricket fans, but forced to work away from watching the cricket match on TV and getting the updates on net, here is a third option to not to miss the cricketing action.  You can get ball by live cricket commentary of final ODI between India and Australia in your mobile, if it is internet/GPRS enabled, for Free of cost.
World’s popular cricket portal Cricinfo has …

India’s largest eCommerce company, mJunction services limited has launched a path breaking automobile portal, autojunction.in through which it plans to sell Cars online for the first time in India. The portal aims at making the car buying experience hassle free by providing complete end to end car buying options in the Internet itself. mJunction is a joint venture between SAIL and Tata Steel.
mJunction services has tied up with Electric car manufacturing company Reva Electric to be its first Auto eRetail partner to sell the Reva i electric car. …

Broadband Internet services in India is gearing up for another revolution. Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, launches 8Mbps broadband service in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi, and the NCR region, with a subsequent roll-out planned in Mumbai and Hyderabad. Though the tariff details for the offering is not available, company sources says the pricing would be around Rs.2000 for 7 GB-8 GB download limit. With 8Mbps speed, Airtel network is getting ready for the proposed IPTV services.
As most of the customers do not need 8Mbps connection speed …

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s one of the biggest telecom operators, plans to bundle broadband with all the new lines which it will install hereafter. Existing landlines will also be bundled with broadband and this conversion will be completed before this month end. Customers will not be charged anything additional for this broadband enabled landlines and after this, any landline , non broadband customer can also login to the net for free. But the catch here is the available download speed will be restricted to 56 Kbps instead of …

Yes, soon official iPods, Mac computers and iPhones can be purchased from the Reliance retail’s  iStore in your hometown of India. Today one of the India’s biggest corporate house, Reliance retail landed an exclusive deal with Apple to clinch the marketing and distribution rights for Apple’s product in India. Mukesh ambani owned Reliance retail will launch 10  iStores, the exclusive retail store Apple products, in India before the end of the calender year. The first standalone iStore will be opened in Bangalore before the Diwali season, targeting the festive season buyers.  …

Google today launched a new service ‘Google SMS’ in India. No No ….  dont suddenly come to a conclusion that it is a service for the prolongly rumoured GPhone or a online service from Google for sending free SMS to Indian mobile phones. ‘Google SMS’ is an attempt from the global internet search giant to expand its search service to Mobile phones, which not necessarily an internet enabled.
Google SMS  service enables users to get local business listings, movie showtimes, weather, facts, dictionary definitions etc via text messages. User has to …

With Twenty20 worldcup , Cricket fever is very high and all the manufacturers and service providers ar trying hard to capitalize the market.  Search giant Google has introduced a simple but very much useful hack in its search engine - Cricket scores from Google search.
You need to just type ‘cricket’ in the Google search box and a brief scorecard of the current cricket match will be listed as the first result. A click on the result will give you the complete scorecard. To get the latest score of a particular …