The world's most popular social-networking site, MySpace, was officially launched in India last week with a rock show.

MySpace India has around half a million users. It boasts Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan as its registered member and is trying to position itself as an entertainment site.

MySpace's managing director (International) Travis Katz said:

"We will provide the necessary tools to the people of India to live their lives online and offer a launch pad to the creators from developers to musicians and filmmakers to showcase their talents on the global stage."

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India is set to become the second-largest mobile network in the world after China in April 2008. India crossed the 250 million mobile subscribers mark by adding 8.53 million mobile subscribers in February of this year. The total number of telephone user base stood at 290.11 million at the end of February 2008, taking the overall teledensity to 25.31 per cent.

US has around 256 million mobile subscribers while China's wireless subscriber base is over 565 million. India's monthly mobile subscriber addition rate of over 8 million a month is the highest in the world.
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Pakistan's attempt to block access to YouTube inadvertently caused a system-wide outage of the service. Many YouTube users around the world could not access the site for about 2 hours on Sunday.
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Taking a cue from MIT's Open Courseware initiative, India's most reputed education institutions--the Indian Institutes of Technology--are planning to offer their course material online.

Over 20 video courses in science and engineering of the IITs have been on free trial runs on YouTube since last month. As per this report, 110 video courses, spanning 40 hours, will be ready for online viewing in March this year.
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The latest data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India shows that on an average Indians are sending lesser numbers of SMS messages and talking less on their cell phones. According to the report, both SMS usage and minutes of cellular usage have fallen.

During the July-September 2007 period, the GSM operators witnessed an 11 percent drop in outgoing SMSes, while the CDMA players saw a 15 percent fall in this quarter. Nevertheless the absolute number of SMSes and minutes of usage must have gone up because of the increase in the number of subscribers.
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