Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-13

Will 2009 be the year of Blogging in India?: 3 incidents mark 2009 and it is all set to become a year of bloggin.. http://tinyurl.com/n44z6t # Corus and Ranbaxy – Acquisitions gone wrong?: These two acquisitions were the cynosure of all eyes in the past y.. http://tinyurl.com/mh8ydn # Are bloggers entrepreneurs?: Dictionary.com has this definition for entrepreneur [...]

Check Out Top Internet History On Yearly Tabular Format

Did you know that the first network email was sent in 1971? Did you know that First TCP/IP protocol was proposed in 1974?Did you know that the now popular and essential internet (WWW) was first proposed in 1990?

Nokia Launches Life Tools, Commodity Prices From 291 Local Markets To Be Made Available

Handset maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today said it was rolling out its Life Tools product—designed for emerging markets—commercially in India. The service will be first rolled out in Maharashtra, where the service was being tested. The company today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board,a government agency. The agency will make available information on commodity prices from 291 local mandis (markets) under it. "MSAMB will also have the opportunity to deliver relevant news, alerts on schemes and other information directly to grassroots consumers," Nokia said in a press statement. "We believe this is the beginning of a historical journey that will take mobility to grassroots and make a positive difference to the lives of people in the areas that are crucial to them," Nokia India MD D. Sivakumar said in a statement. The service will be initially available on the just launched Nokia 2323 classic and Nokia 2330 classic devices, and will be later expanded to other Nokia devices, the company said. Nokia Life Tools comprises of agriculture, education and environment services. For the agriculture service, the company has partnered with Reuters Market Light, which has been providing agriculture-related data on SMS for a while now. Detailed information and pricing for the different services are here.

N97 Apps By Indian Media Co’s: India Today, Ndtv, Rediff, CNBC-TV18; Eterno & Galatta

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Media companies have flocked to offer mobile applications on Nokia’s N97 handset after the company invited developers to create and bring their apps to its marketplace Ovi. The Ovi store will allow Nokia users to purchase and download these applications. But have the news firms brought their existing mobile website designs [...]

The participatory web – new potentials for ICT in rural areas

The participatory web – new potentials for ICT in rural areasDigital Opportunity Channel, IndiaThe Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur describes its many year experiences to empower farmers through blogging. Debashis Pattanaik and Runa Sarkar describe their efforts to bridge the agriculture research in India with daily needs of farmers. ...

The death of Silicon Valley’s ’super uber connector’ leaves hole in tech ecosystem

Motwani was a quiet force behind innovation in Silicon Valley here, a man revered within the startup orbit, but largely unknown outside of it.

The death of Silicon Valley’s ’super uber connector’ leaves hole in …

It wasn't like Rajeev Motwani to be late without calling or texting. But here were Kaboodle's two founders at Junnoon Indian restaurant in Palo Alto checking their iPhones and looking over their shoulders as each person walked in. This is the chic ...

HP launches application security solutions

HP launches application security solutionsCIOL, IndiaThis new release delivers fast, accurate security testing and remediation capabilities for web applications, including those built on emerging Web 2.0 technologies. - HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Project Services for Application Security Center ...

News Roundup: iPhone 3G S; Iptv, NetPC Puducherry; Yahoo-ICC; STB; IBN18

iPhone 3G S in India; No iPhone Price Cut Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar are set to bring Apple’s latest iPhone, iPhone 3G S, unveiled in US earlier this week, to India in August. The exact date and pricing for India have not been mentioned. The iPhone is expected to go one sale in 10 countries [...]

What tweets tell us about the human condition

What tweets tell us about the human conditionRediff, IndiaBut like all other Web 2.0 or social networking sites, its business will depend on attracting advertisers who will unobtrusively peddle their wares next to the tweets. And I read that there is already talk of Google or Facebook wanting to buy off ...