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  • US and Japan lead the ‘Twitter Take Down’ Charts. India more passive.

    Taking a cue from Google, Twitter published their first transparency report today, which includes reports of government requests to release user information, gov. requests to withhold content, and DMCA takedown notices by copyright holders, segregated by country. Leading the pack is USA with 679 requests out of the total 849, in the first half of 2012. This is…

  • Lava, a cheap Indian mobile phone manufacturer, foraying into high end market as XOLO

    Just a month ago we got India’s first and world’s second Intel Smartphone. First announced at the Mobile World Congress in early 2012 , HTC , Samsung  and Sony are going on a merry ride with British ARM processors , swiping off Intel’s domain from mobile computing. Getting back , with no support from big guns…

  • Torrent sites go down in India. Anonymous takes government sites down, in revenge. [ updated twice ]

    If you try to access thepiratebay.se from India today, you might be greeted with the message Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders. I say “might” because at least my ISP ( MTNL ) is very inefficient at blocking sites. It is blocked some times, and then a minute later, it starts working…

  • Is an open web all that Sergey Brin wants?

    Sergey Brin recently blamed Facebook and Apple, among others ( including China / Hollywood ) for restricting the internet, and make their own empires within it. Regarding Apple app store, he said – For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it. He also showed concern over…

  • Microsoft makes fun of Google Apps [ Video ]

    This is certainly going to fun. Hope we do not have to wait long for Google’s reply. A few weeks back, Google and Microsoft had a public fight on twitter. You can read a summary of the recent Google vs. Microsoft saga here. Read it. It’s fun. BTW, What do you prefer? Google Apps, or…

  • Whatever happened to differentiation?

    Remember when Facebook was just that, Facebook. And twitter was twitter. And Google+ was, um, Orkut? Then Google+ came along, took everything that Facebook had, and added a bit of twitter [ one way subscriptions ], and a bit of google [ circles/hangouts ] to it. Then it was Facebook’s turn, so they added a…