BharatMatrimony Success Stories a Lie
BharatMatrimony.Com had claimed in a national newspaper that it had 8 times more success stories than its nearest rival [Obvious reference to Shaadi.com]. Shaadi.Com contested Bharat Matrimony’s claim in the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission[MRTPC] where the ruling was in favor of Shaadi.Com. The ruling said, Petitioner has made…
TRAI Recommendations on Wireless Infrastructure Sharing
You are reading this First here:The TRAI just a while ago released final recommendations on Active and Passive infrastructure sharing for Wireless service providers in India. Passive Infrastructure involves Real Estate Space for Tower, feeders, Transimission Equipment, Power Backup units etc. The Active Infrastructure constitutes antenna systems, cables, filters, allocated…
Yahoo! Maps – A hasty launch ?
Yahoo! India announced the launch of Maps Beta. Wait a Minute, if you have ever used Google Maps in the US, then you can skip reading the next part as Yahoo! India maps needs a lot of work.I tried testing the service since they have launched it for polluted Bangalore…
BSNL MultiPlay IPTV in Pre-paid and Post-Paid segments
Last month, goBroadband reported about the launch of BSNL’s MultiService – IPTV in Pune. It is reliably learnt that BSNL will roll out this service in different cities by Mid-2007 and hopes to end the year with 300,000 subscribers. BSNL is negotiating with various TV channels and content providers. BSNL…
Canaan Partners won’t fund Web 2.0 companies
Valley Based VC, Canaan Partners has no plans to fund any Web 2.0 companies in India. Canan had invested in BharatMatrimony.com 9 months ago and since then their haven’t been any big ticket investments. Deepak Kamra, Partner at Cannan said, Yes, there’s a frenzy in the US over these models…
Online Book Sales – Hotel Reservations Increase
Indians are increasingly becoming Net Savvy even with poor Internet penetration in India. In a recent study, it is found that Indians are purchasing books, travel tickets and hotel reservations online. According to Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India’s (FHRAI) hotel industry survey, the percentage of hotels (only…
Hutch Customers beware of Fake Offers
You are reading this first here: Telecom India has got to know about a fake call center racket that operated from South Delhi offering Hutch customers upgrade to their existing plan. Modus Operandi, the fraudsters have procured Hutch subscribers database [Stolen ?] and they would call the consumers offering schemes…
StopBadware inducted in Google’s Engine
Google Inc, the company which openly mentioned its corporate punch line as “Do No Evil” is fighting the Evil companies by Issuing a Warning as shown above in its search results. Now if you still want to access the website thinking your Windows Service Pack or Anti-Virus will protect you,…