Samsung and Aamir Khan Launched 5 New Handsets
	Samsung released 5 new mobile phones in India and at the same time it announced the appointment of Aamir Khan, the famous Indian actor, as its brand ambassador for the South Asian country. The new handsets released by the South Korean company are Samsung SGH-G ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 12:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Longest Ear Hair!
	You may have heard about many freak records (and the Guinness Book of World Records is full of them) and now you can add another one: Radhakant Bajpai, a grocer from the city of Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has the world's hairiest ears. Bajpai's ear tufts were already 13.2 cm (5.2 in) when he broke the record in 2003 and now the man is really unbeatable: his ear hair has grown to almost 25 ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kerala's Schools to Use Only Linux
	Kerala will become the first state in India to completely switch from Microsoft Windows to only GNU/Linux free software to be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations. Until last year, the students could take the test either by using Windows or Linux. From now on, the use of GNU/Linux free software w ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virgin Mobile Brings India its First National Mobile Service for Young People
	Virgin Mobile, a global mobile communications brand, recently entered the Indian market with Virgin Mobile India, said to be the country's first national mobile service focused on teenagers and young users. Since Virgin Mobile doesn& ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Oldest Bunny: It Lived 53 Million Years Ago!
	Bunnies may look like fluffy eared rodents, but they are not. They have their own zoological order called Lagomorpha, which comprises hares, rabbits and a Guinea pig-like family of mammals called pikas. Now, scientists have found what appears to be the oldest remains of an ancestor of today's rabbits and hares. The 53-million-year-old fossils are made of small ankle bones and they were uncovered in Gujarat (central Indi ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Guru100, the New Affordable Candybar
	Samsung Electronics announced a new mobile phone for the Indian market, Samsung Guru100, an entry-level handset that brings a set of useful features at an affordable price. The new phone offers a CSTN display with a resolution of 128×128 pixels and 65,0 ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MWC 2008: The World's Cheapest Mobile Phone Comes for Less Than $20
	Spice Corp Ltd., a leading Indian telecommunications company, showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the world's cheapest handset, dubbed the "People's Phone". This new device comes without a display and it's clearly targeted for those who only want to make phone calls and do not care for other features. The People's Phone is "just a phone", similar to a landline ph ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7 Amazing Issues About Indian Civilization
	1. India was one of the cradles of the civilization. Here emerged two religions of high philosophical and moral content: Buddhism and Brahmanism. Indian literature started over 3,000 years ago with the sacred books called Vedas and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata; it was profoundly religious and poetic, and comprised various genera: theater, tales, novels, poetry. Kama Shutra was written 1,500 years ago by the Indian scholar Mallana ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IBM Extends its Business In India, Opens Two New Development Centers
	IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge. The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new global delivery center in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Moreover, the "Big Blue" also plans to open another facil ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 12:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Will Pour Yet Another $Billion Into the Indian Economy
	Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will invest ove4r $1 billion in India during the next three years. Intel is willing to manufacture here its low-cost personal computers in a joint-venture with Indian and offshore hardware companies. "We have committed to spend over a billion dollars spread over next three years plus. We are focusing on a number of new initiatives for enabling easy availability of personal com ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 10:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

India, Google’s Haven and Heaven
	No need talking once again about the way Google dominates the Internet with its services and about the tremendous effort that its employees have to put into that. That’s being paid for and very well, but what’s interesting to observe is the nationalities that contribute the most. Microsoft was asked at a time to learn how to say "Thank You!" in Romanian, because it was the second most spoken language in the company, whi ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 18:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cisco Will Certify 360,000 New Network Engineers in India
	Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financial difficulties and ceased any employments. According to Cisco representatives, the company has already establish ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Man Has a 32.5 cm (1.1 ft) Long Tail!
	If you do not have a proof of our evolutionary past, here comes this tea estate Indian worker: Chandre Oram, from Alipurduar of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal has a 13 inch (32.5 cm) long and one inch (2.5 cm) thick tail. Far from being frightening, this tail attracts thousands of poor people worshiping him as a human incarnation of Hindu monkey god Hanuman. The 5.6 ft (1.68 m) man enjoys climbing trees and eating bananas fo ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

India Launches Israeli Spy Satellite
	The launch that took place from the Sriharikota space station, at 03:45 GMT, was carried by the Indian authorities in the greatest secrecy, as the vehicle carrying the satellite has not been publicly announced or scheduled for launch. This represents the second successful launch of a foreign satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation, after the launch of the Italian satellite back in April last year. India has as priority to join ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 10:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Brings Women in Engineering Award
	Many women have come up with wonderful inventions throughout the history and mythology, but their work was recognized way too rarely. Google decided to set things straight and launched in December its India "Women in Engineering Award." It decided to let the whole world know about it now on the Official Google Blog, because the last day for applying is drawing near and it looks like the project is a success already, judging by th ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Had Its DNS Stolen?
	Wouldn’t it be shameful for a company the magnitude of Google to be forced to admit that somebody stole its Domain Name System (its most basic task is to translate hostnames to IP addresses, in case you didn’t know that)? Yes it would, don’t even try to think about another answer, because it’s just no point. Yet that’s what it seems to have happened last night in India, where typing Google.com would redirect users to SoGoSearch, ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cricket for One and All from Google
	All right, old chaps! Time to gather round ye old Internet and jot down the scores ye find there, be it that you will not miss one single run. Or, however they might have said it back in the days, I wasn’t there to listen to it, so I’m just guessing. This is a 20 percent project, meaning that it has been worked upon in the one day a week that the Google engineers are allowed to spend working on projects that are not necessari ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IBM to Get $1 Billion from the Indian Business
	India has become more and more appealing for big hardware and software corporations that raced in setting development, research or manufacturing units on Indian territory. AMD has recently opened a new research and development engineering facility in Bangalore, while IBM got quite a ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Shuts Down Hardware Facility in India
	Dell made the news of closing down the Bangalore hardware division official at a meeting with the company employees. The Bangalore center will remain active, but will shift its operations from hardware design to software development. The company will contract other manufacturers able to do designs for the company's products. Hardware design will be shifted from the old Bangalore facility to other design centers located i ... [read more >>]
	08 December 2007, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Metal 5, the Thinnest 5 Megapixel Mobile Phone
	Samsung Electronics just announced the release of Samsung Metal 5, presented as the world's thinnest 5 Megapixel camera cell phone. Created to offer high quality photography and multimedia features packed in a stylish metallic case, the new Samsung is the latest pho ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Three Issues About HIV
	1. AIDS is a huge menace for the public health, but in Africa it also has a deep impact on the economical side. With about 28 million cases of HIV positive and 2 million annual deaths, HIV epidemic in the sub-Saharan Africa is going to cancel the progresses registered in social and economical development. African companies face the increasing employees' absenteeism and death caused by AIDS. A national railway company lost to AIDS ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Going from Internet to Paper
	I read a book a while ago about the importance of the positioning of the ads, be it at eye level, higher or lower, and the way the positioning on skyscrapers influences the targeted public in looking that product up. In the case at hand, as it can be viewed in the picture on the left, I’d say that the ad should be placed slightly below eye level, in order to maximize its impact. Without passing any judgment, various people worki ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Ponders Over New Chip Plant in India
	AMD has begun to munch over strange ideas lately. First, the AMD guys considered that it would be at least nice to grab Ageia and their PhisX engine for their own graphics technology, but things have gone in a nasty direction, so they postponed it. Threatened by the idea of being kicked out of the world’s top 10 chip manufacturers, AMD are now thinking that a new Indian plant to spit chips would suit them perfectly. This woul ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Did Gypsies Come From?
	You come across these people in many countries; they do not have a national territory or their own government. Legends describe their arrival from Egypt, but these are only fairytales. Ignorant people in the west associate their origin with Eastern Europe, like Hungary and Romania. That's false, even if indeed large gypsy populations are to be found there (in Bulgaria they represent 15 % of the population, 10 % in Hungary and 7 % in R ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia 5610 and 5310 XpressMusic Hit India
	Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and Nokia 5310 XpressMusic will be available from now on in India as well. With this, the handset producer makes a strong push on the market, as it already has the leading position. The Indian market keeps receiving a great number of evolved music phones. Nokia's latest releases in this line of devices will also be out in stores, ready to start playing Indian music as well. Both mobile phones have ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Spice S-7 Music Phone Unveiled in India
	One more mobile phone from Spice has just been introduced to play Indian music at best quality from now on. The S-7 handset is low end, but this could turn out as being just one more reason for it to reach high-sale figures. Spice S-7 is part of the producer& ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Nseries Brings Digital Playzone in India
	Nokia Nseries is about to bring Digital Playzone on Indian grounds. The challenge is being held in seven countries across Asia, including India as well from now on. Digital Playzone is the place where potential Technoholics compete for the top place as being inseparable from their mobile phones< ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson W910 Hits Indian Market
	Sony Ericsson W910 just got a new release, this time on the Indian market. The device has already been available in UK stores for quite a while now and it was time for it to start going global. The W910 music phone coming from Sony Ericsson had a bumpy release up to this point. The first shipment that hit UK stores has been ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

India's Odd Drug
	Radio advertising encourages people to use it. On TV, magazines and newspapers, cinema stars present it as a product that makes you live an exciting and honorable life. Only an announcement written with small letters warn the consumers that its use affects their health. It's about a substance that produces dependency. Paan is consumed in Southern Asia, especially in India and Myanmar. Its traditional formula consists in ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Guilty of Free Speech Infringement
	Back in August, a citizen from India was arrested and charged by the local authorities with posting insulting images of Shivaji (also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle) an important historic figure on Orkut.com. That was the beginning of a very interesting yet very unfortunate chain of events that summed up to be an innocent man’s nightmare. Phillip Lensen of blogoscoped.com details: "What the Indian authorities di ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 08:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Worst Caste: Born to Collect Excrements
	Your flushing toilet makes you almost unaware of the fact that your body produces dejections that must be drained somewhere else. But in the overcrowded and largely undeveloped India, 700 million Indians do not know what a flushing toilet is. A combination of under development and abject caste system condemns about 800,000 Indians to this: manual scavenging. All scavengers belong to the lowest caste, "untouchable" (called now ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Not Aiming to Censor Indian Imagery
	Since Google Earth is able to show all the details discoverable from satellites, some of the countries which are supposed to get updated imagery raise privacy concerns because the Google tool might show too many photos to the Internet users. But India is not one of those countries, Google's officials sustained. According to NDTV.com, Michael T Jones, chief technologist, Google Earth, stated that the Mountain View company tal ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 07:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hi, Google, I'm AOL. This Is How You Should Conquer The World!
	Following the recent releases of the AOL portal in multiple European countries including Sweden, Italy or Spain, the parent company continued its expansion with some new improvements added to the Indian side of the firm. AOL announced today that it rolled out new languages for AOL India as well as the availability of Truveo, a video search engine, in eight new countries. Basically, AOL comes with some new content channels in Hind ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Brings Mail Services in Hindi
	"Yahoo! is the first Internet company to introduce Hindi language services in the country", said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Inc. Good news for the 200 million Indians who are expected to come online in the next few years and even better news for the advertisers who will want to reach out to the non-English speaking Indian population, according to Pranesh Anthapur, chief administrative officer of Ya ... [read more >>]
	30 October 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson Comes With Saawariya Special Edition Handsets
	Sony Ericsson launches a limited edition of special Saawariya handsets, to celebrate the coming of the long-awaited movie with the same title which will have its release in November 2007, via Sony Pictures. The Saawariya promotion allows lucky buyers to participate in ... [read more >>]
	22 October 2007, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One More YouTube Version To Debut in 2008
	YouTube is currently cooking another local version of the online video sharing service, especially addressed to Indian users, which is supposed to join the other 10 regional versions already released. According to the Hindustan Times, the Indian YouTube might be rolled out at the beginning of 2008, the YouTube officials confirming they plan to debut it until March. Just like the other versions of YouTube, the Indian flavor will b ... [read more >>]
	16 October 2007, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Stylish and Powerful HTC P3300 Available in India
	HTC announced the launching of its HTC P3300 GPS smartphone (also known as Artemis) on the Indian market, after a year since its first official ... [read more >>]
	16 October 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Debuts Free SMS Service!
	Google fans in India are now able to use a new technology powered by the Mountain View company which allows them to get information from Google wherever they are. The Google SMS technology enables consumers to get business listings and other details provided by the search products straight on their mobile devices by sending a message to 54664 from their handhelds. According to Sify.com, the service is currently available only for ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Indian Safari
	The elephant was called "hatti", the bear "balu", the deer "sambar" and the tiger "bagh". Even if in his political and social writings Richard Kipling proved pejorative and even racist towards the Indians, he had as a source of inspiration the Hindu names of the beasts to create a universe that turned on the imagination of generations of children worldwide. You can hear these names repeated by th ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Realistic Mobile Game from India
	India's first mobile and on-line game developer and publisher, Indiagames, announced the launching of a new game for mobile phones, Cricket 20:20, presented as the most realistic and advanced cricket game ever made. Cricket is a very popular sport in countries like India, En ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vodafone Brand Enters India
	Vodafone will be using its own name across India and continue its expansion in the country. This comes as a follow-up to the company's interest in the area and its purchase of an Indian cellular firm, Hutchison Essar from Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Software Compulsory in India
	Free software in India is from now on mandatory for IT practicals of SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) examination planned for March 2008. Orders making free software compulsory have been issued by the Director of Public Instruction (DPI), considering Linux Operating System should be used for IT education in 8th, 9th, and 10th standards. The DPI will also start various programs to popularize the free software. Until ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Ericsson K850i Takes a 5 MP Shot at India
	Sony Ericsson K850i brought its evolved camera performances to India. The mobile phone was unveiled during a ceremony that also included two International WTA players, Mario Kirilenko and Marto Domachowska. This Cyber-shot mobile phone is among the few ones capable of packing a 5 megapixel camera. This should enable it to take captures at a fairly high quality, the best that handsets can provide. It's even more than the capture [AD ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Indian Government Bans Mobile Phone Use for Children under 16
	Mobile phones are a negative distraction for children, considers the Karnataka government. Children aged under 16 and living in this Indian southern state will be banned to use handsets from now on, in the attempt of protecting their health. Karnataka's government also addressed cell phone companies not to sell handsets to children. It sounds like the same prohibition that is applied in the case of cigarettes and booze an ... [read more >>]
	12 September 2007, 10:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Prism Collection Hits India
	The two handsets, part of the Nokia Prism collection, will be available on a new market from now on. Nokia 7900 and Nokia 7500 Prism have just been launched in India on the occasion of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. This collection shows the daring side of Nokia and looks to break the lines set by its classic phone models with a fresh and modern look. In fact, the design is what makes these two ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Is Interested in the Indian Market
	Some of the most important computer hardware manufacturers in the world like Intel, AMD and others have design, testing and production facilities both in the United States and Europe as well as in Asia where the work force is much cheaper allowing companies to build a higher profit. While the vast majority of the Asian states are simply rolling the red carpet for every new company that thinks about a new computer manufacturing plant, there ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Poor People Get Monitored on the Web!
	Have you noticed how some laws affect only the poor? Or how law enforcers' actions seldom affect the rich? Well this is just another one of those cases, but it's regarding cyber-security now! Recently the site of the Bank of India has been hacked (the Russian Business Network is said to have done it). Since that attack, the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) Police has decided to monitor Internet cafes, because that's whe ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

4 Billion World Phone Subscribers
	The fact that the telecom industry has been blooming over the past period is nothing surprising, but the U.N. telecommunications agency has reached a round number. There are currently 4 billion world subscribers, as a result of a huge increase over the past period. Back in 1996, there were fewer than 1 billion fixed-line and mobile phone subscribers in the world. The number of mobile subscriptions has gone sky-rocket over the ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Indians on Top Again!
	I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that the site belonging to the Bank of India has recently been hacked and infected with a lot of malware. It has been said by Sunbelt experts that the Russian Business Network is behind all this. In any case, the attacks have ceased, the page has been "repaired" and is now back up virus-free. So, it is now safe to navigate there... The site was taken down on Friday, as ... [read more >>]
	04 September 2007, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia