Telecom startup, Innoz has secured funding from Seedfund. Innoz’s product, the mobile search engine on the short code 55444 has now crossed the 1 million SMS searches a day mark with its partnerships on Airtel, Vodafone , Aircel, Tata Docomo and Idea. Innoz was started in 2008 by by four friends at LBS College in…
Zenith Infotech launches TigerCloud, the Tata Nano of Cloud Computing
Zenith Infotech has launched TigerCloud, a private cloud service aimed at mid-size organisations. TigerCloud is a high performance private cloud product that combines server, storage and network virtualization technology and allows customers to build and have their own sophisticated private clouds at costs lower than public clouds. Based on Intel Xeon E3 processor family, TigerCloud…
Karbonn brings Dolby sound to your mobile on KT81 device
Karbonn Mobiles has partnered with Dolby Laboratories to bring Dolby Sound to its mobile phones. The first device, post this partnership is Karbonn KT81 Karbonn Mobiles is a joint venture between Delhi-based Jaina Group and Bangalore based UTL Group. Karbonn already has over 650 service centres established across the country. “Dolby’s collaboration with Karbonn Mobiles…
PriceCheckIndia Brings Price Comparison (API) to Publishers
If 2011 was the year of ecommerce, 2012 is the year of meta/aggregator services and while most of the services are focusing on a plain vanilla price comparison model (driven by SEO), PriceCheckIndia is taking a platform approach. Bangalore based PriceCheckIndia has launched a price comparison site and an interesting aspect of the comparison engine…
Klouzly: Your Intelligent Online Closet that Will Crowdsource Trends
There has always been a conventional approach of looking into catalogs before buying some products. With the ecommerce boom, this is getting difficult. The tons of sites selling their wares online do little to help the customer, even if they have a list of bestselling items. The fashion-conscious buyer has to visit all those sites, and…
News Roundup: Aadhar, PAN databases to be merged together
In order to weed out the problem of fake PAN cards and to ensure an accurate biometric data, the Government has initiated a project to bring together both the Aadhar and the PAN databases.
IRCTC Air: Book Flight Tickets on the Railways Site [Review]
A couple years ago, a Spice Jet ad displayed on the IRCTC site went viral. It was wondered if promoting air travel was in the best interests of IRCTC, given that its core business was a competitive means of travel and no-frills airlines sold rather inexpensive air tickets. At least then. Indian Railway Catering and Touring…
Weekly Recap–April 29, 2012
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Video: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed [Inspiration]
Imagine yourself sitting in the front-row seat of a flight and suddenly, the pilot announces ‘Brace for Impact’. You are right there, witnessing the plane going down.
News Roundup: Airtel launches an online store
Telecom operator Airtel has launched an online store (http://shop.airtel.com), powered by Infibeam’s BuildaBazaar solution (Infibeam also powers online stores of VijaySales, TheMobileStore, VIP, Prestige and Crossword etc). The online store offers mobile handsets, digital TV, broadband connections and even airtel’s cloud based ERP solution as well as storage on-demand. The delivery of devices is handled…