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Guest post by Dilip of Inolyst, IP consulting and IP monetizing firm. In this post (published in two parts), Dilip demystifies the entire patenting process and what does it mean for startups. Basics of Patenting Patents : Protect an invention in any area of technology which is new, useful, capable of industrial application, and represents [...]

Bharti is planning to soft launch it’s DTH service in the first week of October (once FIPB approval comes through) – government had earlier asked Bharti group to seek a separate FIPB approval within three months for it s upcoming DTH services – source DTH Market Size Current user base stands at ~6.5

RCom has soft launched it’s GSM service and has provided GSM phones to it’s employees for testing the service. Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Surat, Lucknow and Ludhiana circles went live on Sunday afternoon with close to 10,000 test SIM cards being issued to its employees. In the next stage of launch the company will get associates

Jivox (earlier raised $10.7mn from Opus Capital and Helion Ventures) has partnered with BigAdda and will enable BigAdda video publishers to monetize their video assets with its online video ad service. Jivox’s self-service advertising service (called AdSlate) enables businesses to create

Good utility for all ye music buffs. Songreference is a newly launched music utility that helps you automatically find the video of the music playing in your playlist. Launched by Toufee founder Sanchit (3-day weekend

Startups Profiled: Taroby : Email Dashboard for Enterprises CashUrDrive – Get Paid to Display Ads on Your Vehicle Entrepreneurship Related: Outlook for Indian Corporate Venture Capital Demystifying Dual licensing with GPL

The metallic browser war is in and comes Iron, after Chrome. A german company has used Google’s Chrome (which is open source product) to launch their own browser, Iron. So how is Iron different from Chrome? It offers the same features as Chrome minus

Recession Joke

Funny email forward that’s doing rounds: “The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China. If we spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs, If we purchase a computer it will go to India, If we purchase [...]

Permission Marketing is in and will very soon hit the road. CashURDrive is an on-vehicle advertising company that enables vehicle owners to putup ads on their vehicle and get  petrol redemption coupon in return. Once a vehicle owner registers, cashurdrive ‘pumps’ in vinyl-wrapped