ET: Microsoft unveils updated search engine Windows Live Search engine for all but Windows Live Local Search and mapping service only in the United States and Britain. technorati tags:search, microsoft, google
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Policy Principles for Media Regulation
One has to rue the woefully inadequate debate on media policy in India. There aught to be serious effort at organise public opinion on issue such as the Broadcast Bill. Statements have been made that all “stakeholders” will be consulted. But the public doesn’t seem to figure in the list. Here’s a link to a…
Nimble and new
Star, Nimbus ink sporty deal To launch cricket-centric sports channel, NEO Sports, by year end. It make big news when Nimbus got the cricket telecast rights. Next , Murdoch buying a stake in Nimbus was hot too. But Nimbus joining Star to launch a cricket-centric channel. Man, that’s boring. technorati tags:cricket, broadcast, nimbus, star, murdoch,…
Desktop sales strong, notebooks increasing too
Business Line : Desktop sales may cross 56 lakh units: MAIT Desktop sales in fiscal 2006-07 are expected to cross 56 lakh units, according to a report by Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT), an industry body. Desktops and laptops taken together crossed 12 lakh units for the quarter April-June of FY2006-07. But another important…
Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm
Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm | The Register technorati tags:internet, technology, bubble, web2.0
Google: To give or not to give?
Increasingly new media companies have to confront this: “A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google to disclose the data of users of Google’s social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.” The choice is not so easy but the issues at stake are.
Hope, and more hope
Tanuja Chandra’s Hope, and a Little Sugar is a thoroughbred Net flick. It “has been produced almost entirely on the internet, from location hunting to costumes and script changes.” So it qualifies as India`s first web film to hit screens. technorati tags:cinema, movies, internet
Election Commission an’ open office
The Indian Express reports that our own Election Commission is going to go with openoffice. That’s goods news. Let’s hope the trend continues and more and more organisations in India go in for open source software. EC opens window to free softwareÂ
TRAI's undercut on CAS
TRAI fixes Rs.5 a month for pay channels Broadcasters have to offer pay channels on an a la carte basis — stupendous Maximum price of FTA for 30 channels fixed at Rs. 77 plus taxes — not new Two compulsory schemes for set-top boxes also announced — good But the broadcaster are set to go…