Tag: INDIA

By harnessing the power of the cloud, HP Labs India has just revolutionized Internet access for some 300 million mobile phone users. It's called SiteonMobile, and as the name suggests, it's all about compressing the Web experience into simple SMS- and voice-driven interaction. It works by 'packaging' popular interaction on websites into 'tasklets' that can be executed via SMS or interactive ...

Online mapping sites have pretty much changed the way I get directions. I don't take an atlas with me when I hit the road. Instead, I print out some directions and take a sheet or two of paper with me in the car. And I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. Step by step directions make it incredibly easy to get from place to place without trying to follow a line on a map. But the whole system ...

Local search needs a lot of help, and it's only begun its long journey to power local searchers to find their destinations. There is Google Local, Ask Local, Yelp, and Yellow Pages. Now India joins the game with a new social search platform called AskLaila. The name might not be striking for residents, but the startup is currently focusing on dishing out local searches for Bangalore citizens, ...

Hospitals are willing to upgrade systems and spend revenue on software applications and Big Blue is never too shy to come to the rescue. Mid-size hospitals in India are now seeing new IT initiatives as a way to gain a competitive advantage against the larger more well known facilities. It's suggested that there was a $300 million untapped hospital service market available for the taking when IBM ...

India is ramping up a 10 year analog to digital project that is estimated on hitting over one billion dollars. The process will be to convert all analog transmissions to digital across all of India. It will include everything from tv's, transmissions, cable services, radios, and wireless telephony. With this new digital plan, we are sure to see the number of internet users, and downloader's ...