India News
Google Chrome And Google+ Hot In India?
6th September 2011
Recently released data shows that Google software and services are becoming very popular in one of the World’s largest consumer markets, India. Both Google Chrome and the Google Plus network are seeing rapid adoption in the sub-continent. More »
Indians Stop Wasting Time Online
9th August 2011
It has been found that unlike in the past, Indians are now spending less time surfing the net in a meaningless or aimless manner. Instead, most of their online activities are now well thought out or pre-planned. More »
Mobile Web Grows 218% In India
30th June 2011
Along with being one of the biggest developing economies in the world, India has also become one of the fastest growing countries, where mobile Web traffic is concerned. More »
Piracy Problems Not Just Big In Asia
18th February 2011
While a lot of negative media attention around the issue of piracy is focused on Asia, that is by no means the only continent where piracy is rampant. More »
Facebook Bumps Orkut From Top Spot In India
31st August 2010
Facebook was on its way to overtaking Orkut to become the most popular social networking site in India. Recent research from comScore has revealed that Facebook managed to bump Orkut off the top spot in July 2010. More »
Mobile Is The Best Route To Some Markets
25th August 2010
A recent report on the Nielsen Blog indicates that the growth of the information and communications sectors is showing a changing trend across the world. This is especially true in countries with a growing middle-class population such as India, China, Russia, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt. More »
Facebook Overtaking Orkut In India
19th July 2010
A few days ago, comScore released a report that shows that Facebook is fast catching up with Orkut in India and Brazil. More »
Social Media Dominates Asian Internet Use
8th July 2010
Nielsen has recently released the findings of their study about the use of social networks in the Asia Pacific region. As expected, the use of social media is growing in popularity in that region. More »
India To Block 25 Million Mobile Handsets
2nd December 2009
With the rise in terrorist activities and threats across the country, the government of India has passed a directive to block all mobile handsets that do not have a valid identity number. More »
Google AdWords Driving Export Business
23rd July 2009
Google is driving AdWords advertising revenues by exploring some decidedly different markets. Last week we noted that they were offering Google Webmaster Tools users in France 100 € free credit on AdWords. This week they’re emailing small and medium enterprises offering advice on entering the export market. More »
Yahoo! Buzz Launches In India
29th May 2009
Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. More »
What’s New With AccuraCast?
15th April 2009
A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. More »
Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News
28th November 2008
Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts. More »
Yahoo! Glue Mimics Ask Universal Search
12th May 2008
Yahoo! India has launched a new feature last week known as ‘Glue’ pages. They are special pages with attached visual inputs alongside the regular search results, that show up for specific types of searches. More »
Interview With Matt Colebourne, CEO of coComment
10th March 2008
Farhad Divecha, Director of AccuraCast interviewed Matt Colebourne, CEO of coComment to find out more about his company, the advantages of unified conversation management and the future of blogging worldwide. The conversation took some very interesting turns, especially when the discussion turned to censorship and how services like coComment could help or hurt vulnerable groups in third world countries. More »
India Debates Whether Blogs Should Be Regulated
16th January 2008
A current topics discussion program aired on a national television network in India kicked off a lively debate about whether the government of India should regulate blogs. The program not only offers insights into the state of the blogosphere in India but also broaches a topic that has increasingly cropped up as an issue in a number of developing countries including China and Russia. More »
Ziva Software Launches Mobile Content Search In India
12th March 2007
Zook will be the first SMS, WAP and GPRS based mobile content search service to come out of India. The service has been launched by Ziva Software, a start up based in Bangalore. More »
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