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Bharti Airtel to Launch 4G LTE network in India this Month
Forget 3G, Airtel is planning to start the roll out of its 4G LTE network in India this month, starting with Kolkata on 20th March 2012. Airtel has appointed Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson to build and operate its 4G LTE network in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab respectively. Airtel also holds BWA licenses…
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Digital Cable Subscribers Will Have the Right to Demand Any Channel
With the government regulation requiring all the Cable service providers in metro cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai & Kolkata) to go digital by June 2012, subscribers of digital cable will soon have the right to demand any channel available in India. “In the present case the analog cables can carry a limited number of channels. Therefore,…
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TataSky Launches Paid Video on Demand on its HD+ Platform in India
As reported by us last year, TataSky has launched a Netflix like streaming service in India which offers paid Video on Demand delivered to your TV over broadband for the first time in India. TataSky has been testing the service by offering free Video on Demand to all its HD+ users for the past few…
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Flipkart Launches “Flyte” Digital Store
As reported by us a few days ago, Flipkart has launched their “Flyte” Digital Store today in India. The store currently offers legal MP3 downloads at extremely reasonable prices. This move is a potential game changer in the way Indians buy music. Indian consumers have been waiting for such a service since quite some time.…
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Flipkart’s Digital Media Store Might Be Called “Flyte”
We have reasons to believe that Flipkart’s digital media store in India will be called “Flyte” and might launch shortly. Earlier today, between 730pm & 8pm IST, when I opened flipkart.com, I was able to see a new category titled “Flyte Digital Store”. It looks like someone opened the flood gates a little too early, but…
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Flipkart acquires Letsbuy
PluggdIn is reporting that India’s leading ecommerce site flipkart.com has acquired letsbuy.com. Letsbuy was Flipkart’s biggest competitor in the consumer electronics space. Flipkart has seen tremendous growth in online sales of books & media sales. However, letsbuy has enjoyed a much better place in online sales of consumer electronics with a much larger catalog and…
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DishTV does it right, upgrades its STB software to let users record TV on a USB hard disk drive
After coming up with India’s first Conditional Access Module cards to let any DTH user to migrate to DishTV whilst keeping their set top box from another operator, reports are coming in that DishTV is launching Dish trueHD+, an innovative way to enable all their existing subscribers to upgrade to DVR (Digital Video Recorder). Instead…
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Amazon launches in India as junglee.com
After much speculation, Amazon has launched in India as junglee.com – a shopping service for Indian customers. Contrary to what people had been hoping for, Amazon is not directly selling products in India. Instead, they are maintaining a catalog of about 1.2 crore products being sold online in India by multiple e-retailers and lets users…
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Facebook files for US$ 5 billion IPO
Facebook has filed for an IPO of US$ 5 billion. The whole process is expected to make many Facebook employees millionaires. In his letter to the SEC, Mark Zuckerberg states that Facebook was not created to be a company, but to serve the “social mission” of making the world more open and connected and that they…
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It’s time for headphones to be smart now!
Everything is getting smart these days. So, why not your good old headphones? Parrot (a company which makes awesome bluetooth gadgets & the famous parrot AR drone) has introduced a pair of over the ear headphones which are smart. The headphones, named Zik, have bluetooth, accelerometer & NFC chip on board which can be used…
