Series of public multimedia projects next on C3CUBE’s agenda

C3CUBE plans to launch a series of public multimedia projects in the Indian market. The Dilli Dil Se kiosk network was conceived and developed by multimedia producer Raja Choudhury and his digital agency, C3CUBE Multimedia for Coca-Cola India as part of its integrated marketing program to leverage its sponsorship of the Delhi Daredevils during the DLF IPL 2009. This program also included a website, www.DilliDilSe.com, designed by C3CUBE.

Series of public multimedia projects next on C3CUBE’s agenda

Series of public multimedia projects next on C3CUBE's agendaexchange4media.com, India“This is a first-of-its-kind entertainment kiosk network,” said Choudhury, who has been building award-winning kiosks, websites, videos and TV programs in the US, UK and Indian markets since 1993. “We believe such a network that integrated Web 2.0, ...

Word tag eludes Jai Ho

Word tag eludes Jai HoCalcutta TelegraphNor did slumdog, the other Indian word vying for the slot, a US-based language monitoring group said today. Both lost out to web 2.0, a tech jargon that was ...and more »

Dhingana adds Facebook like Community IM feature in its Portal

Dhingana, a social networking portal around musical entertainment has added a Community IM within its portal similar to facebook, visible at bottom. This feature will allow users to chat in real time with their friends on Dhingana. Apparently, its a first Indian social platform to launch the community IM feature in first week of May [...]

Taxi Auto Fares And Train Schedule On Tata Mobile SMS

If you are a Tata Indicom customer and have been commuting daily in Mumbai, you might find this service userful. Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited has launched a value added service for its subscribers in Mumbai. They can now access taxi, auto fares and the local train timetable on their Tata Indicom mobiles via sms.To avail of this service subscribers simply have to type ‘TAXI’ /‘Auto’ followed by the ‘meter reading’, and send it to 58282 for e.g. ‘TAXI 1.20’, to get the correct day and night fare. For the next available train schedule one has to simply type ‘TRAIN’ followed by the ‘(source & destination)’ and send it to 58282 for e.g. ‘TRAIN Andheri Dadar’. 

Trillian Astra Opens Up Public Beta – Multiserver Chat Client Is Back

How many of you remember Trillian Chat Client? Its been a while Trillian came up with something amazing. Now is the time. Trillian Astra which has been in development for nearly three years, is now available to users as a public beta. You won't need to register for a private key to download it. If you have been using it since its early beta, you might have to upgrade it. 

Make Your Firefox Look Like IE8

If you are a PC like me and want to make your Firefox PC'ish.. here is an extension for you. Internet Explorer 8 theme for Firefox makes your Firefox browser look like IE8.The theme can be customized from the item "Theme Settings..." in Tools Button. You might not get the complete look and feel of the IE8 with this theme in Firefox but it does a decent job.

Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund Invests Rs 25 Crore In Anjan Drugs

Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund (EILSF), a fund focused on investing in the life sciences space in India, has invested Rs 25 crore in Chennai-based pharmaceutical company, Anjan Drugs Pvt. Ltd. The company specialises in medicines used for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders. It is one of the largest US-FDA approved producers of Divalproex Sodium and various other salts of Valproic Acid. The fund has assets worth $150 million under management and provides growth capital to Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Last the year, the fund had invested $30 million in the Hyderabad based advanced drug delivery mechanism company, Gland Pharma. EILSF has also invested about $5 million in Bangalore-based cancer centre network, Health Care Global. EILSF is a fund sponsored by Evolvence Capital. The fund aims at investing in companies in the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS), disease management and CRO spaces. In the current times, healthcare is one of the few sectors continuing to get significant amounts of investments from the private equity and venture capital community. About two months back, Indian Angel Network invested $500,000 in Karmic Life Sciences, Mumbai based oncology focused contract research organisation (CRO). Similarly, Rx HealthCare Magic, which runs a healthcare portal HealthcareMagic.com, raised Series A funding of $2.5 million from Accel India in February this year. Despite the slowdown in the economy, there still is a continuous flow of M&A activities in the healthcare sector, largely owing to the investor belief that this is one of the less-recession impacted sectors. Earlier this year, diagnostic chain Metropolis acquired two pathlabs in northern India. Yash Birla Group acquired a majority stake in Kerala Vaidyashala, an ayurvedic therapy centre chain, through a joint venture, in January. Recently, Sabre Capital too set up a company called Spring Healthcare Ltd through which it plans to make investments of around Rs 250 crore in the Indian healthcare space.  

‘Web 2.0′ bests ‘jai ho & slumdog’ as 1 millionth word

WCBD'Web 2.0' bests 'jai ho & slumdog' as 1 millionth wordEconomic Times, India'Slumdog' refers to those residing in the slums of India while 'cuddies' used to refer to ladies' underwear or panties. The Indian terms - Jai ho and Slumdog - finished no. 2 and no.4 respectively. The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula ...Web 2.0, sexting, or... a millionth word question! CIOLWeb 2.0 crowned one millionth English word Reuters Indiaall 78 news articles

Indian internet startups fail to meet VCs expectations

"With broadband penetration and PC affordability still an issue, internet companies have not met the expectations we had set two years back," said Sachin Maheshwari, Principal at Draper Fisher Jurvetson [DFJ] India. DFJ has funded many Internet ...