Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Airtel Free Twitter Access
Airtel Offers Free Twitter AccessRealizing the increasing popularity of social networking, Airtel offers free access to Twitter for the first time in India. Airtel users can now access twitter free of cost from their mobile phones.
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Online Shopping is Increase in South Asia
Online Shopping on the Increase in South AsiaThere has been a steady rise in the number of online shoppers in South Asia, particularly in mainland China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand, reveals Visa eCommerce Consumer Monitor 2010.
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Google Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally
Google Chrome Overtakes Firefox GloballyGoogle Chrome launched in 2008 overtakes Firefox for the first time to become the second most popular web browser after Internet Explorer globally, reveals StatCounter, a web analytics company....
Microsoft, Google and Facebookrecruiting students IIT
Global Tech Titans Hunt for IITiansBangalore: The titans of technology, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are recruiting students from the Indian Institutes of Technology across the country, for their headquarters, reports Times of Ind...
Event of the Year
Event of the Year: Cricket World Cup 2011
Without doubt, the Cricket World Cup wins this one.
Co-hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the World Cup eclipsed every other event between the 19th of February and the 2nd
of April this year. The fact that India won the Cup on home soil was
the perfect icing on the cake. Images...
Word(s) of the Year
Word(s) of the Year: Lokpal Bil
Anna
Hazare, anti-corruption and the Lokpal Bill – three words that have
been synonymous with each other this past year, and three words that
have been on the lips of every Indian.
The Lokpal bill targets the corruption that has permeated all ranks
of government, and aims at addressing citizen...
Sportsperson of the Year
Sportsperson of the Year: Sachin Tendulkar
Is
there any surprise here? Sachin might well be the sportsperson of the
decade, if not the last two decades and indeed, for a better part of
this millennium for India. As compatriot and starry-eyed fellow player
Virat Kohli put it, for the better part of 20 years, Sachin has carried
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Person of the Year: Anna Hazare
There was one man who dominated headlines this year - first for
bringing an able (if one could say that) government to its knees, then
for getting the nation to take to the streets to lament the inability of
the government to do anything right, then for rifts in his paradise,
then for - you get the drift.
Anna Hazare was to the nation what not many have been since...