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| Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| VSNL launches next gen global ethernet service |
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 Videsh Sanchar Nigam LTD [VSNL] announced the launch of its DGE service for the Australia market. The company's DGE Service is a global Ethernet Private Line (EPL) service that allows Australian enterprises to flexibly and cost effectively connect with 120 cities in India plus 20 major business destinations throughout Asia, Europe and North America.
The company's DGE service employs an ethernet over SDH / SONET platform to ensure low latency and jitter, and high reliability. This scalable, high performance service enables enterprises to economically extend their local area networks to support global video, voice and data transport and to securely and seamlessly send point-to-point traffic between destinations across the world.
DGE offers bandwidth between 2-100 megabits using a Fast-E interface and 50 - 1000 megabits using a Gig-E interface with the flexibility to upgrade the bandwidth on an as-needed basis without service interruption. The Service is supported with a single, end-to-end service level agreement and dedicated global support in every country served.
VSNL is a Tata group managed company and sometime down the line all the telecom entities of Tata group - Tata Teleservices, Tata Indicom and VSNL will be merged. |
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| Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| Retailers Love e-Commerce |
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Retail is the buzzword in India today. Retailers are not far behind in embracing e-commerce. FutureBazaar, a Pantaloon Retail India Ltd brand is already selling merchandise online. FutureBazaar has tied up with Contest2Win and has setup an exciting contest - FutureBazaar Shopaholic Contest. Good thing for a Weekend!
Subhiksha Retail also has plans for e-commerce through which it will sell Groceries, Mobile Phones and OTC Pharma products. Reliance Retail hopes to have at least 10% business Online. Wadhawan foods hopes to have 15-20% of its revenue from e/m-commerce.
If you are looking for a custom printed t-shirt and apparels, then you need to check out Webvastra.in [We are not really sure about the quality of the material, however, if you have a review on the quality of their products, you can leave your comments] |
| Published on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:11 AM |
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| Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| Patents and TradeMark filing goes Online |
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In an effort to boost e-governance, the Ministry of Commerce has taken the process of filing Intellectual Property Rights - Patents and Trademarks online. The Ministry of Commerce was the first one to introduce e-filing of Company related activities.
To e-file your Patents and Trademarks, you first need to obtain a digital signature. More details on e- filing of Patents and Trademarks is available. The system also has an online payment gateway powered by the State Bank of India.
Union Minister for Commerce, Mr. Kamal Nath said,
Indian Patent Office has been dramatically transformed in recent years. New building, an effective and well supportive new IT system and an enthusiastic and well qualified staff provide the essential base for a high quality examining office.“India is also at an advanced stage of joining the Madrid Protocol on Trade Marks. Please don't set very high expectations as these systems will take time to stabilize before the operations are seamless. |
| Published on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 8:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
| ASSOCHAM Recommends Cheaper PCs |
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 ASSOCHAM has recommended Cheaper PCs and use of existing infrastructure like Power Lines to increase the broadband penetration in the worlds second most populous country.
TRAI & DoT's target for Broadband Subscribers in India for 2007 is 9 Million. At the end of 2006, India had just 2 Million Broadband Subscribers. So this target seems very ambitious. They also recommend that PCs should be cheaper than Rs 10,000 to have mass penetration along with substantial localized content.
ASSOCHAM accepts that India does not have a comprehensive wired infrastructure in place and thus WiMax and 3G are the only solutions for deploying Broadband in Rural and Semi-Urban areas. The study further reveals that, one of the major issues facing broadband networks is the congestion created by peer-to-peer traffic on those networks. So what is NIXI doing ?
Related Reading:
Former IT and Communications Minister, Maran declared 2007 as the year of Broadband. |
| Published on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 4:37 AM |
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| Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| F-Secure Package with Reliance + Tata Indicom Internet |
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 After tying up with PC vendors, security firms are selling subscriptions of Anti-Virus Packages and Firewalls through Internet Service Providers in India.
F-Secure leading Security Solutions company has tied up with Reliance Broadband and Tata Indicom Broadband to sell subscriptions mainly targeted at the booming Small and Medium Enterprise Market in India. Mr. P Venugopal Raja of F-Secure said,
Telcos are offering security not only as a revenue opportunity but also to reduce the churn.
However, in India the churn is inevitable because of lack of customer service. At least I am not happy with Tata Indicom's service in Bangalore. |
| Published on Monday, July 16, 2007 at 12:11 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| Click-To-Call / SMS Catching up in India |
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 Google was the first one to introduce Click-To-Call based advertising in India. Tyroo Ad Network first introduced the concept of Click-To-SMS. Now portals like Sulekha are borrowing ideas from them. Sulekha introduced Click-To-Call on their Yellow Pages a direct copy of YellowPages.Com. However, when testing Sulekha's service, the call never got connected. Caller-Id is masked and is a potential security threat to National security. India doesn't have laws for Private Listing or Masking of numbers without written permission from the City Police Commissioner.
Click-To-Call can be widely misused especially in India. If you check out Orkut, their are so many disgruntled fellas handing out phone numbers. So this is just another means for them to play the prank. Click-To-SMS which is really cheap can survive as people tender to ignore if its a spam. |
| Published on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 12:35 AM |
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| Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| Live Bangalore Traffic Info |
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 Polluted and Dirty Bangalore which adds more than 1,000 vehicles a day is now having Live Traffic info online and also on Mobile.
To your left you are seeing the Live Map of traffic conditions. Color Code.
Green - Clear
Orange - Slow
Red - Delay.
The project [BTIS] is funded by the State Government with network support from Bharti Airtel, which is collecting data from thousands of Cameras and Sensors. The information is compiled at a central database which you can query using Airtel's 54321 SMS service [I am not sure if this SMS service is FREE]
However, you need to know short codes to query the database which is a tedious process if you don't have GPRS / WAP enabled. For example, we sent an SMS to 54321 with body NGBR HAL. The distance between Nagarbhavi and HAL is 21.3 Km and estimated travel time with live traffic conditions is 62 minutes was the reply. BTIS also provides carpool information.
Also read how Internet and SMS help Car realize carpooling on Demand in Mumbai. |
| Published on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 12:37 AM |
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| Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
| Reliance Broadband Plans, Tariffs and Review |
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 Reliance has officially launched its WiMax Broadband in Bangalore today for Business and Residential users as well. goBroadband had broken the news about Reliance WiMax Broadband exactly a month ago.
Reliance Broadband Plans for Residence: [Wireless Broadband]
Speed 150 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 750 / Month
Speed 300 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 999 / Month
Speed 600 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 1,799 / Month
Service Taxes + Installation Charges are extra.
Pre-Paid Residential Reliance Broadband:
Speed 150 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 3,750 for 6 Months
Speed 150 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 7,500 for 12 Months
Reliance Business Broadband Plans for SME/SMB: [Wireless Broadband]
Speed 100 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 1,250 / Month
Speed 300 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 4,000 / Month
Speed 600 Kbps + Unlimited Download - Rs 11,100 / Month
Service Taxes + Installation Charges are extra.
Business customers also get the to add the following packages,
- Anti Virus Software Subscription + Firewall security
- Business E-mail + Domain Name Services
- Wireless Networking within Office or Wired LAN
- Static IP
We don't recommend Reliance Business E-Mail and Domain Services. Our Broadband Analyst recommends use of Google Apps for Domain Names.
Initial Reviews of Reliance Wireless Broadband are here.
Reliance WiMax / Wireless broadband is currently up and running in the cities of Bangalore /Bengalooru and Pune. To get more info on Reliance Broadband contact the following
Reliance : 3033 8787 or SMS BIS to 7333 e-mail: broadband@relianceada.com
Bangalore contact Numbers: 99800-62800 or 98863-49624
Do send us your feedback on Reliance Broadband to feedback @ BroadbandIndia.Com |
| Published on Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 12:02 AM |
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| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| Auto+Home+Personal Loans on Loanwala |
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 ICICI Bank may have the best initiative to offer pre-approved Home Loans and Credit Cards to their existing customers from their online banking interface. But their are Millions of Indians who don't have well established history and to cater to them we have Loanwala.Com - an online interface to apply for Auto, Home and Personal loans.
Loanwala is a BharatMatrimony group company. They fulfill all your loan needs, making your search convenient and effective. They will match your requirements with the right banks, that is only the banks that are keen to offer a loan to a customer of your profile would approach you and you can get the best terms and conditions. Loanwala has tied up with various Private Banks and NBFCs to offer this service.
Other players in this space are - ApnaLoan and Personalfn
Do send in your experience to - feedback AT broadbandindia.com |
| Published on Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 12:27 AM |
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| Sunday, July 01, 2007 |
| Delhiites in quest for sex on Google |
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 According to Google Trends, Delhiites occupy the top slot on the basis of number of search queries made on Google for the word "sex".
The ranking is calculated by taking the ratio of number of queries on "sex" divided by total number of queries from a particular city. On your left is the list of top 10 cities in the world where its citizens are in quest of online s*x.
Overall India occupies the third place behind Pakistan and Egypt. India does have strict cyber laws in place banning obscenity at Cyber Cafes and Public places but you can still see the facts yourself . |
| Published on Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 11:10 PM |
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