The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), and its broadcast partners had shut down close to 700 unauthorised websites (more…)

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A blog post on mobocube alleged yesterday that Cleartrip.com was faking information about the scarcity of tickets. For searches done at 11.40 am IST on Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, the site posted screenshots of Cleartrip flight search results indicating that 1 ticket was left, and then when the number of passengers was increased to two, that two seats were left, and when increased to four, that four seats were left. (more…)

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Contrary to what Mr. Sibal’s recent hand-wringing at objectionable online material might suggest, under Indian laws currently in force it is far easier to remove material from the Web, by many degrees of magnitude, than it is to ever get them removed from a bookstore or an art gallery. (more…)

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BSNL has extended its Hello TV mobile TV offering to its data card users. The service, deployed by Percept Knorigin or PK Online, will be accessible via a web browser to all data card users, who can subscribe to the service through their prepaid or postpaid account. Interestingly, the service will also be available for non-BSNL users who can subscribe to the service by buying the Trust Card , which is a co-branded prepaid payment product offered by ITZ Cash and BSNL. (more…)

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Telemarketers and bulk SMS companies have begun sending promotional messages as transactional messages, in direct violation of the TRAI’s SMS Spam regulations MediaNama has learned from sources. The SMS Spam regulations from the TRAI differentiate between transaction messages – those sent by a company to its customers related to either alerts or services they’ve subscribed to – and promotional messages which are essentially commercial communications. (more…)

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Twitter has made changes to its policies and technology, such that it allows the company to showcase different content in different countries, keeping it in the clear with the laws of each country. The company states, in a post titled “The Tweets Must Still Flow” that it hasn’t done anything yet, and intends to be transparent with users: (more…)

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Nokia continues to report losses in quarter ended 31st December 2011. The company reported net sales of EUR 10 billion for the quarter, down 21% year-on-year but up 11% sequentially, and its operating losses were at EUR 954 million in contrast to operating profits of EUR 884 million, that it registered in Q4-2010. (more…)

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Rediff.com reported a loss of $1.20 million for the quarter ending 31st December 2011 (Q3-FY12), a decrease compared to Q3-FY11′s loss of $1.80 million. At the closing of the quarter, the company’s cash balance stood at $25 million, and it intends to continue to spend $2-$2.5 million per quarter for the next few quarters for investments in product development, sales diversification and the entrance into new markets. The company’s revenue decreased about 18% from $5.90 million in Q3-FY11 to $4.81 million in the present quarter. (more…)

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Freecharge.in today announced a fund raising of Rs 20 crore from Sequoia Capital India. The company allows customers online to recharge their mobile phones, DTH services and mobile data cards. In addition, it monetizes by marketing coupons to those customers who have recharged using their platform. (more…)

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The telecom regulatory body of India, TRAI, has announced that all machine to machine and person to machine messages will be exempted from the daily limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM and has issued directives to access providers to implement this directive.

This essentially means that a user will be able to send a message to a server for a service request such as requesting for an OTP or checking the status of his flight, even after sending 200 messages in a (more…)

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