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India is going through a consumer centric face lift. The old shopping areas are being replaced by gleaming air conditioned malls which look and feel like good old American malls. To add a dash of American authenticity there are some Pizza Huts, Subways and TGI Fridays, which try and pass themselves off as high [...]

Saturday night, Delhi border… Odyssey night club… the music is clearly local - bollywood and bhangra hits mixed with some popular songs from the 80s and 90s. Beer is flowing, bodies writhing and people generally seem to be having fun. The night club which is in one of the newer malls that have come up [...]

It is only in India kind of news. Anyone using VoIP services in the southern Indian state of Kerala can be busted by police, according to this report.
bq. The Central Bureau of Investigation carried out raids at several places in the city yesterday and seized two personal computers which were allegedly used for making international [...]

I had installed XTen Lite on my Powerbook and coupled it with a Vonage service. I had been using that service for a couple of weeks in San Francisco, but when I came to India, I decided to try it out over the “almost 3G” data connection I have been using to check my email [...]

Towerstream, one of the WiMAX companies I had written about earlier is continuing its march into new markets in a slow and methodical manner. After taking Manhattan the company, earlier this week announced the rollout of its service in Chicago.

Nokia’s loss is proving to be Samsung’s gain. My yesterday’s post about how Nokia was losing out in the emerging markets to folks like Samsung and LG elicited a lot of reaction. Samsung put out a press release and confirmed it. The company expects handset sales to be better than expected in the first quarter, [...]