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BharatMatrimony delivers SoulMates through RSS
BharatMatrimony (Consim Info Private Limited) delivers the list of brides or grooms as RSS Feed. This feature is available on the regional sites of BharatMatrimony like Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati and 12 other regions. The regional sites provide RSS feeds based on Religion, Caste, Country, State, City, Education, Occupation and Marital Status.
Takers for RCom’s Educational Portal; Exam Guru
Reliance Communications is cashing on the fact that India has more mobile users than internet users. It recently launched IVR based Education Portal named Exam Guru. It was already in the business of sending exam results by SMS. Information associated with education is very basic, and it will always be in demand. Such information should be made available for the lowest cost, if not free.
Take your CAT Online; Choose your Date
5 years after the first ever fraud in CAT exams, IIMs have finally decided to change the exam format to online from 2009. Every year thousands of candidates take the exam to get into IIMs and other business schools. Initially there will be around 100 centers and candidates will have to to take the exam in batches on different dates.
Airtel uses GoogleApps for Email (and Portal)
I took some time to understand what Airtellive was all about. Finally, I figured out what had happened. In this webpage, Airtel asked its customers to upgrade to the new email service by Feb 29th, 2008. All the features they claim in the website like 6GB space, customizable web page, chatting/emailing from mobile, and spam filtering are provided by Standard Edition of Google Apps, which is free. After almost a month they have a portal (part of Google Apps) AirtelLive for the customers. The users are redirected to AirtelMail site, which is the so-called portal.
Fully functional website for BCCI in July
Today there was an article in Hindu about a deal between BCCI and an American firm for developing and maintaining websites for the next 10 years for $50 million. The website for Indian Premier League will be launched on April 7th and that for BCCI by July, 2008. There are some interesting facts about BCCI website.
Getting employees for Indian startup
A job fair with difference. Startup Lunch is a unique initiative from Proto.in, where it plans to provide a platform for a face to face conversation between start-up employers and prospective employees. The earliest one would be in Delhi on March 27th. They plan to have such a meeting in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad.
Oxyshopping has exceeded its bandwidth limit
It looks like lot of customers are using this site for shopping. Oxyshopping provides a platform for an online shopper to compare price of a product with a number of online retailers.
Indian IT majors cashing on global presence
Last week, TCS has started North America Delivery center called TCS Seven Hills Park (Cincinnati), located in Milford,Ohio. This center will be creating more than 1000 job offers, there by becoming largest U.S. development centre by an India based IT services company. TCS wants to serve North American customers through innovation and recruiting more from local universities.