http://www.indiawiz.com Candid Views, Opinions, Comments and Reviews Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:57:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being a cricket fan and an Indian, I could not resist sharing this video with my readers. This also proves the power on internet video. How fast the news can travel and its video. I hope you will excuse me for this off topic video news article here, but you ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/20/yuvraj-singhs-six-sixers-in-six-balls-video/ After many days of silence (as there was nothing major to write about), here I am. Just read a news article about a company in India launching a service which pays you to open and read an email - RupeeMail. Basically, I would say this service is just like any ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/19/get-paid-to-read-your-mail-rupeemail/ One more Indian company has jumped into me too Indian mentality. ZEE networks digital media convergence limited has launched another site on similar name as Reliance BigFlicks by the name Page3Flicks.com. Satyabrata Das who is the head of this projects quotes : "Currently we are testing the waters for a niche ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/14/page3flicks-bigflicks-metooflicks-how-does-it-matter/ This is called return of the dotcom bubble (atleast for India). I remember the old days when Netflix had just started and I became an early member. But sadly there were no Hindi movies on the store. Then came sites like Indofilms based in San Diego, I went to meet ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/11/reliance-to-buy-online-dvd-rental-website/ How many news sites do our country India needs? I can easily count atleast 20 which are out there, and probably 100s other which I cannot name, but know exist. Today's headline is that Reuters is jumping into advertising supported internet domain website portal business inIndia with their new site ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/11/one-more-news-portal-now-by-reuters/ Its not like Blackberry service was not available in India, the news is that Reliance in partnership with Research In Motion is bringing blackberry services to India thru CDMA network. Blackberry service existed already thru Airtel and Vodafone, which are GSM operators.  Also Reliance is the first to launch the ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/10/blackberry-by-reliance-in-india-balle-balle/ I was reading this news yesterday somewhere (probably on some other blog, actually on IndiaPRWire), that SimplyMarry has claimed themselves the 1st Web 2.0 company in India, what a joke !! Just because they use tools like AJAX, JSP and XML and oh yeah, the profiles on their website gets ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/09/asok-of-dilbert-indias-first-web20-matrimonial-site-simplymarry-just-kidding/ Updating the blog on weekend and that too at midnight, as just came across a good news article, worth mentioning and worth praise. So here it is.  The contact details of the police stations and officials across India are now just a click away, the first time in the history of policing ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/08/policeman-made-easy-to-find-and-trace-wah-wah/ Ok, I understand, everything must start from somewhere. I appreciate our government starting National Do Not Call Registry for Indian mobile users, here : http://ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/index.jsp But couldnt our government be a bit more proactive and also take a dotcom name to redirect users to this page ? It would have made ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/07/national-do-not-call-registry-in-india-my-my/ Suno Suno Suno, gaaonwalon suno, ab desi plane pe milega internet, kyaaa.... ? are baba internet !! 'Kingfisher - Fly the good times' is planning to provide internet service on board their long haul routes. In partnership with SITA and Airbus, OnAir is the company that kingfisher has chosen for providing ... http://www.indiawiz.com/index.php/2007/09/06/browse-the-good-times-kingfisher-plans-internet-service-on-planes/