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Why Work for a Startup? Are you bribed to work or is your work a bribe? [Featured]

Mentally you are trained like a ninja. Ready to take on any surprise and turn it into a victory. Fighting till the end. That training at a very formative stage is very important in long-term career success. I meet lots of ‘Corporate Suits’ who have no edge of being able to take hits and downsides.

W3C Extends Speech Framework to Asian Languages

W3C recently opened its India office, in order to accelerate the development of local web and has now announced extending SSML to Asian languages. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML…

Tech WWWorld – Google Launches Instant Search, Yahoo Adds Handwritten Queries

Google continues to innovate in search business and has launched ‘Instant’ search experience that throws up the search results as you type. Notable features of Google Instant are: Dynamic Results…

Opera Mini 5.1 improves web experience on Windows Mobile devices

Looking for a better Windows Mobile browser? Opera today released the improved Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile. The new update brings better support for high resolution handsets, accelerometer support…

Salesforce.com Introduces Chatter Mobile

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprisecloud computing(http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today introduced Chatter Mobile, empowering every employee with social, mobile and real-time collaboration. With Chatter Mobile, users will be able to monitor their…

Instablogs Raises $4mn From Times Internet, Launches SAAS Based Content System

Content network, Instablogs has raised $4mn investment from Times Internet Limited, a subsidiary of The Times of India Group (no, we aren’t talking about BCCL). Instablogs earlier raised seed investment…

Forum Discussions–Why am I an Entrepreneur, Non Dotcom Startups [and more]

Roundup of latest activity on the startup forum at Pluggd.in. Despite the no of eating joints in the city, would another cafe startup work? Unlike technology and services ventures, I…

Infibeam Phi Review–Tablet for Those Who Consume Media

We earlier shared pictures of Infibeam’s Phi and here is first part of the review [after playing with the device for 3 days]. I will stick to a very basic…

Who is Selling it for Cheap? Flipkart or Infibeam? Find it out at MySmartPrice

Now that we have quite a few book buying sites in India, it’s quite natural that there would be a need for aggregator play and bring in the much needed…

News Roundup: Telenor Not to Exit India, MTS Launches Smartphones

Denying the rumors about Telenor exiting from India, the Group has announced that they will stay invested in Indian market and plans to get the Indian venture, Uninor operationally positive…

Tech WWWorld–Funding in Pure-play Twitter Startups Down by 50%, Firefox 4 Beta 4 Released

Investments in Twitter startups come down Now that Twitter is launching its own tools and in a way, competing with the very own app developers who helped the company in…

Akai enters India mobile handset market

Japanese consumer electronics brand Akai has entered the mobile handset business in India. Global Brands Enterprise Solution, which has a licensing and marketing arrangement with Akai, will retail the dual…

Announcing UnPluggd Second Edition! [Oktoberfest]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to announce the second edition of UnPluggd, an event meant for entrepreneurs. The first edition was phenomenally successful and it was the first ever…

Grexit Lets you Unleash the Knowledge Hidden Inside Your Email

Email is still one of the most monetizable category in Enterprise space and Google Apps provides an apt platform for startups to build interesting services around the same. Grexit, Delhi…

How to Handle Email Overload? Clever Tips that Works

If I don’t check my email a single day, I will spend the next day climbing Mt. Email, replying to queries/sorting out (un)important emails etc. etc. Google recently launched Priority…

Nokia Launches X2 Launched in India for Price of INR 5999

Nokia has launched X2 in India at a price of Rs. 5,999/. Nokia X2 is built for music lovers everywhere with its FM radio, music player and powerful speakers. The…