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  <title><![CDATA[Yahoo! India launches social network SpotM]]></title>
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Yahoo! India has launched a social network only for the Indian market called <a href="http://in.spotm.yahoo.com/">SpotM</a>.<br />
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SpotM plans to target users in the 16-24 age bracket. ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:03:53 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[MySpace launches in India]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The world's most popular social-networking site, MySpace, was officially launched in India last week with a rock show.<br />
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<img src="http://asia.cnet.com/u//011/041/d8785ab24814cd8790x90.gif" border="0" align="right"/> <a href="http://in.myspace.com/">MySpace India</a> has around half a million ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:01:53 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[India second-largest in mobile userbase]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:27:42 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[YouTube blames Pakistan network for outage]]></title>
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Pakistan's attempt to block access to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> inadvertently caused a system-wide outage of the service. Many YouTube users around the world could not ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:43 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[IIT courseware on YouTube]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Taking a cue from <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/">MIT's Open Courseware</a> initiative, India's most reputed education institutions--the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology">Indian Institutes of Technology</a>--are planning to offer their course material online.<br />
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Over 20 video courses ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:50:35 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indians are talking and texting less]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The latest data from <a href="http://www.trai.gov.in/">Telecom Regulatory Authority of India</a> shows that on an average Indians are sending lesser numbers of SMS messages and talking less on their cell phones. According ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:22:40 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[IPTV yet to take off in India]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Poor broadband penetration and high priced set-top boxes are delaying the rollout and uptake of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services in India.<br />
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<a href="http://business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?tab=r&autono=303765&subLeft=2&leftnm=8">This article</a> gives an industry sources estimate, ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:07:59 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Genius of the Web awards]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/member/vcbothra/blog/?v=post&id=63000949]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[The "<a href="http://web18.in/geniusoftheweb/">Genius of the Web</a>" awards was announced by the Web 18 group recently to recognize outstanding industry achievements by companies that have done commendable work in the Indian online ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:52:55 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[VCs disappointed with Internet and mobile VAS opportunites in India]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/member/vcbothra/blog/?v=post&id=63000715]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[According to data from research service <a href="http://www.ventureintelligence.in/">Venture Intelligence</a>, Internet and mobile VAS companies in India accounted for only 13 percent of the venture capital investments by value in the first ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:23:24 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[India reaches its Internet goal before time]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Now the fine print.<br />
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<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2341785.cms">This story</a> makes a striking claim that India has reached its Internet subscriber target more than three years ahead of time.<br />
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India's Department of ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:34:15 +0800</pubDate>
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