| | Nokia sells Qt business to Digia, Finnish software solutions company Following the acquisition, Digia will be responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. These include product development, as well as the commercial and open source licensing and service business. | | | Internet access gets costlier, Government decides to levy 8% AGR on ISPs Owing to addition of 8 percent extra tax through AGR, Airtel has already revised rates for its broadband DSL plans and will impact both existing and new users. | | | How mobile phones killed the landline business in India! India had 14.54 million landlines in 1997 and the number has grown to only 32.17 million by 2012. On the other hand, the country had only 0.34 million mobiles in 1997, which has now grown to 919.18 million by 2012. | | | Experiences and Expectations: Design philosophy 101 When users interact with our products they experience how it works. The users will find the commitment towards the product if it fits just fine with the user expectations while they are trying to achieve their goal. | | | MapmyIndia makes CarPad sibling. It's smaller, cheaper but keep your eyes on the road MapmyIndia's Android based navigation tablet, the CarPad has gotten itself a tinier and cheaper sibling-- the CarPad 5. The digital maps and location based services provider on Wednesday announced the launch of CarPad 5, one of the the company's next generation of connected car products. In an earlier post, Pluggd.in had asked if the price was too high to pay for a similar device by the company? While the company is eager to dub the devices a success, we are still waiting to hear from them on the numbers. | | | Eventifier helps event organizers make sense of social media chatter generated during the event Eventifier (automatically) collates all user generated media for an event from various social streams like Twitter, Facebook etc. and makes an archive page for an event. | | | Telecom Roundup: airtel crosses 200 million customers, Unitech files contempt of court case against Uninor Real estate major Unitech has filed a contempt of court case in the High Court against Uninor.The petition has been filed on alleged contempt by Uninor of an earlier order by the Company Law Board upholding the articles of association | | | Exclusive: UrbanLadder raises funding from IndoUs Venture Partners Online furniture store, UrbanLadder.com, led by Ashish Goel, (ex – McKinsey, ex-COO of ACK Media); and Rajiv Srivatsa (ex-Yahoo) has raised its first round of funding, led by IndoUS Venture Partners. | | | Dear Entrepreneurs : It's Your Facebook profile, Not Your Startup's The point is: there is your profile and there's your start-up's fanpage. Your friends/networked connections are connected to your profile - because they want to keep up with you: your life, not with your start-up. If they want to keep up with the start-up, they have the option to follow your start-up's fanpage, which some of them would have already done. | | | | More to read:
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