Three new Zee Channels come online through Watch India

The Watch India portal has added three new Zee channels for free initially in an effort to boost traffic to their online video site. Content from Zee Cinema, Zee Punjabi and Zee Gujarati is now offered for free online. The long term plan of Watch India is to convert free viewing into paid viewing at […]

Google Labs launches Gadgets for Search in 14 Indian languages

Google Labs India has just release “keyboards” that allow one to search in 14 different Indian languages , using a graphical keyboard with alphabets to be clicked on to type search queries. Initial language include - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu.

JustDial goes mobile with wap site

HTe highly successful and popular model of JustDial (2888888 for mumbaikars) has finally gone mobile with wap.justdial.com . There is however, no SMS context to this offering, unless you place a call and ask for information - at which point you are offered to be sent an SMS with the number you were seeking.

Hindustan Times says Social Networking sites not just for fun and connections

Hindustan Times wrote an article that shows what else the power of Social Networking can be used, other than the obvious areas.

Reliance hires Youth Icons to attract more traffic on BigAdda.com

Reliance Entertainment has hired 5 youth icons to form and run exclusive Communities on its recent BigAdda.com foray into the Social Networking business. Atul Kasbekar, Shankar Mahadevan, Irina Brar, Madhur Bhandarkar and Dia Mirza are amongst the first icons. The President of Reliance Entertainment says that - “Music, Fashion, Movies and Sports are something that […]

Makaan.com launched

The company behind Shaadi.com, Fropper and Mauj has launched their real estate portal at makaan.com - following the strategy by other leading dot commers in India that run India centric real estate portals like - 99acres.com, MagicBricks.com, IndiaProperty.com and PerSquareYard.com. As an initial strategy, they will definitely try and cross-sell the new offering to their […]