Rediff iLand, the blogging and social networking site of popular portal Rediff.com has introduced transliteration tools for 8 Indian regional languages. Languages includes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Gujarati. Users can now type in their normal English keyboard and get typed in their preferred regional languages by typing phonetically. Rediff expects that this kind of removal of language barrier will increase the number of blogs and bloggers in India to a considerable amount. Rediff iLand claims that currently it has a user base of 5.6 millions, which …

TV 18, India ’s fastest growing media conglomerate , has been rebranded as Network 18 effecting from today (incidentally on 09-09). A new logo, which looks very close to youtube’s logo, is also introduced. From now on, all the entities of the group will also have the suffix 18 with their name to have unified look and feel. Network 18 group currently includes IBN 18, TV18, Web18, Homeshop18, Viacom18, Studio18, Newswire18 and Events18.
Network 18 group currently has a market capitalization of more than $2 billion and spans across …

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 …

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 …

Indian railways which faces a heavy competition and loses a huge market share of business travelers to the low cost airlines  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 …

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. …

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 …