Category: News

  • Buy Ayurvedic Products Online from Times Group’s Satvikshop.com

    Times Group has launched an online shop offering Ayurvedic and organic products for sale in India. Aptly names Satvikshop, The site stocks products from Dabur, Organic India among other brands and aims to offer over 2000 products by the end of this year. The current objective of the site is to offer the convenience of…

  • Amazon Officially Launches Kindle in India

    Amazon has officially launched their kindle e-reader in india. The base model is priced at INR 6,999 and is available exclusively at Croma retail stores throughout India and also online at cromaretail.com. In order to facilitate Indian readers buy kindle ebooks, Amazon has also launched the India kindle store which offers over a million ebooks…

  • Aircel Offers the iPhone 3GS for INR 9,999 in India

    Aircel is offering the iPhone 3GS in India for INR 9,999. This is the lowest price we have seen for the device in India. People planning to buy the phone should rejoice. However, lets take a look at all the bells and whistles the operator is claiming to offer. The above mentioned low price is…

  • The Next Generation of Macbook With Retina Display is Here

    In addition to announcing iOS 6 at yesterday’s WWDC keynote, Apple also revealed their next generation of Macbook featuring the awesome retina display. The machine is a powerhouse. Lets take a look at its features: 15.4 inch retina display with a resolution of 2880 by 1800 pixies (thats 5 megapixels. Full HD is 2 megapixels)…

  • Get ready for iOS 6

    Apple announced the 6th version of their iOS mobile operating system at the WWDC 2012 keynote yesterday. The update brings a lot of new features to thrash the competition. Let us look at some of the key new & improved features: Maps: The biggest change in iOS 6 is going to be a totally new,…

  • TataSky Now Offering 10 HD Channels

    Last year, we informed you that TataSky is maxed out on its capacity of HD channels and that we should not expect any new HD channels from them until they get more transponder space or figure out a way to overcome the technical limitation. Turns out, they chose to go with the latter (as getting…

  • National Telecom Policy 2012 gets Government Nod

    The National Telecom Policy 2012 for reforming the Indian telecom space has been approved by the union cabinet. The policy aims to: Achieve Mobile Number Portability (MNP) across telecom circles. Currently, it is only possible to port your number within the same circle. Achieve free roaming throughout the country. Redefine broadband to a minimum of…

  • Tata Docomo Launches Service to Let Customer Activate/Deactivate Value Added Services via Twitter

    Tata Docomo has launched an innovative way for activating & deactivating value added services via twitter. Here are the steps one needs to perform in order to use the service: Tweet #reg <Mobile Number> to @tatadocomo You will receive a pin code for verification through SMS Tweet #code <Pincode> to @tatadocomo Tata Docomo will retweet…

  • Letsbuy.com Shuts Down Operations Following Acquisition by Flipkart

      Following acquisition by Flipkart.com in February, online retailer letsbuy.com has shut down its operations in India. Users landing on the home page are being shown a message stating that letsbuy has merged its operations with flipkart – the largest player in the category. All the links in the header now point to corresponding categories…

  • Reliance & Idea Reduce their 3G Tariffs

    Following Airtel’s move, both Reliance & Idea have reduced their 3G tariffs by 70%. As always, in the Indian market, one player has to buckle up and do something competitive and everyone follows. The revised tariffs from both the providers rival that from Airtel. Reliance’s revised 3G tariff: 3G Data Usage Billed amounts (Rs) Up…