Recommended Reading: - Is It a New Tech Bubble? Let’s See if It Pops - Dealbook - Tim O’Reilly on Piracy, Tinkering, and the Future of the Book. Via Forbes - Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps? - Slate - What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots - Slacy.com - Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no - Ars Technica - The acceptance hurdles for QR codes - NevilleHobson.com News Digest - UTV has appointed Keith Alphonso as the Business Head for UTV Bindass. Alphonso will take over the reins of the channel from Nikhil Gandhi. - All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has launched a web based application that will provide for the information and data as filled in by the institutions to be available in the Public Domain. Press Release - As on 31.01.2011, out of 5,93,601 inhabited villages 5,74,673 villages in India have telephone connectivity through Village Public Telephones. Press Release - Bharti Airtel has no immediate plans to float an IPO of its Tower business. Read more at The Economic Times - The Telecom Ministry is likely to provide rural wireless broadband connections to over 5 lakh villages in one-and-a-half years and will provide a subsidy to both govt. and private operators from the USOF for this purpose. Read more at The Economic Times - Cyber Media Research has released a report based on its Mobile Handsets Usage And Satisfaction Study…
