WSJ reported the other day that India’s Department of Telecom is now testing Blackberry monitoring in the country. Which means that all content, BBM, BIS and emails on all Blackberry’s in India would be monitored and tracked by the Indian Government. The report says that this is a measure to curb terrorist groups making use of encrypted messages. India’s government has been concerned about corporate email services such as those… Continue reading

If you’re a tech guy, there is no chance you could’ve missed the name – Huawei. Right from my first CDMA cell phone to the internet modem, these guys are everywhere. Well now with the new smart phone Huawei IDEOS X5, they just completed the spectrum. Huawei’s smart phone runs Android 2.2 Froyo and boasts of premium top of the line form factor and features. It has a rubberized back… Continue reading

For a moment I thought its the UAE. I’m a premium member on Rapidshare and today it turns out that the website is blocked completely in this part of the world ! Upon accessing the site you get a notice from the Department of Telecom – India. Checking again, I found that all major file sharing websites are blocked the same way. Apparently all ISPs have blocked the following file… Continue reading

In the latest in India – Pakistan cyber wars, a group claiming to be “Urdu Hackers” have hacked into the BSNL, Punjab official website, which is India Governments official Telecom services agency.

Its a state-owned telecommunication enterprise in India. BSNL is the third largest cellular service provider, with over 66.88 million customers as of June 2010 and the largest land line telephone provider in India.

The… Continue reading

This is an embarrassing case for Dell. Tara Fitzgerald, a Sacramento based woman trusted the Dell technician in India, when she called up the customer support – that’s the mistake she did. When some pictures was missing in her computer, she called up the Dell technician in Mumbai, India for help and granted him remote access to her PC. And while he was trying to help her, she claims that… Continue reading

And I’m quite sure you didn’t know. After all, only a few people knew the blog existed besides the folks at Google India office. But it wasn’t that bad a blog, they had 44 posts altogether and scanty plenty of comments from users. The last blog post said – Thanks to everyone who has been a loyal reader of this blog over the past few years. After some consideration, we… Continue reading

In fact, you can contact any Engineer from Google, chat to them and get your doubts and questions cleared in moments. Tomorrow the 22nd of October, at 9:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco) , Google is organizing the so-called “Google Webmaster Tricks and Treats” event where you can get your questions answered from a Google Engineer through the Google Moderator tool. You got to register for the… Continue reading

Appealing and impressive – That was my first thoughts on trying this guy out.

Psst..(Social Median, was opened to public today)
Socialmedian is a social news network that focuses more on
personalized news and information. And I think they’ve very much used the “personalization” thing to delightful levels. (Details on how Social Median works)

I’m doubtful if I’ve experienced a good social media networking like this… Continue reading

If you are on Stumbleupon, there’s no chance that you missed Babychen Mathew a.k.a Dancewithshadows. He is the only Indian to reach the top stumblers list yet. He’s from Delhi, and lives a life completely online. Dancewithshadows.com is his website.I managed to catch up with him on chat to interview finding out his experience with stumbleupon, tips and tricks he’d like to share with us and help in ensuring a… Continue reading

Link building has always been associated with link exchanges, link request emails, link buying etc. Not any more. They’re all old-school stuff people try and waste their time on. Now since the social media revolution, there’s a whole new array of sites available that allows SEOs and webmasters to get some link juice from them for free. Now, these features will be taken for a ride, if given out freely… Continue reading