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India which was always working with coding and decoding have finally woken to realise their capabilities in developing of new products.  India has launched a new browser called Epicbrowser. A bangalore based startup HiddenReflex has launched a browser epicbrowser primarly aimed at the Indian IT Market which has been growing exponentially since last 10 years. Experts regard this browser as a browser in stealth and capable of delivering the leading browsers like chrome, mozilla and lets not forget Internet Explorer a dent into their market share. Well lots of optimism here to be followed so guys keep watching as the Indian IT market emerges onto a new sphere.

Google chrome the leading browser unleashed by Google Corporation to take on the giants like Internet Explorer and mozilla firefox has won the war in the US Market. There is a battle royal going on between Google and Apple in the Internet browser space (Chrome vs. Safari) as well as in the mobile market (Android vs. iPhone). Chrome had 8.97 percent of the US browser market in the week that ended Sunday, topping Safari’s 8.88 percent, StatCounter reported.
More needs to watched and seen what will happen in the coming days in the this market economy of Internet. Who will dominate whom.

Cisco, the leaders in networking seems to have struck upon a plan to power the Indian cities, As the politicians would say roti, kapda aur makaan, Cisco seems to have got a new mantra technology. Cisco wishes to power the next generation with seemingly high networks and powered that would enable the indians to a world of high powerful networks. A article in economictimes.com gives us the indepth as what cisco is behind in creating a collaborative systems that can unleash a plethora of opportunities for the Indian IT service providers who are looking at opportunities when its present in the country itself. It seems that cisco is creating a trillion dollar opportunities for itself and Indian IT counterparts. Keep watching abhi to khel shur hua hai

AOL the leader of Internet has sold off Bebo, the leading social networking website in UK for a undisclosed amount to Criterion Capital Ventures reports from economictimes.com and cnet.com . AOL had bought bebo in the year 2008 for a whooping amount of 850$ million. AOL which has been struggling to keep its customer base updated seems to realise that it needs to shrug off its bad asset and seems to have sold off Bebo.

Tech Giants come together in a legal feud with Google.The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library, according to BBC news.
Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are joining a coalition that hopes to rally opposition to Google’s digital book ambitions and ultimately persuade a federal judge to block or revise the Internet search leader’s plans.

The group, to be called the Open Book Alliance, is spearheaded by the Internet Archive, a longtime critic of Google’s crusade to make digital copies of as many printed books as possible.Both Microsoft and Yahoo have confirmed their intention to join the alliance. Amazon declined to comment because the group hasn’t been formally announced yet. The Open Book Alliance also will include an assortment of nonprofit groups.
Google plans to offer free access to some books through its search engine and sell others as part of a registry that will share revenue with authors and publishers if the class-action settlement is approved.Opponents of the deal believe it will give Google too much pricing power, and have raised concerns about the company’s ability to stockpile more personal data about the users of its search engines by tracking what they’re reading.Microsoft and Yahoo could be hurt if Google’s expanded index of digital books propels even more traffic to its search engine. If that
were to happen, Google might process even more search requests than it already does, allowing the company to show more of the text ads alongside search results that generate most of its revenue.Hoping to siphon advertising away from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo last month announced a planned partnership in search. The proposal, which still must be approved by the Justice Department, calls for Microsoft to run the search engine on Yahoo’s web site in return for 12 percent of the revenue generated by accompanying ad sales.
“The Google Books settlement is injecting more competition into the digital books space, so it’s understandable why our competitors might fight hard to prevent more competition,” Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said.Stricker also took a stab at Microsoft, which abandoned its efforts to make digital book copies to focus on more profitable online opportunities.

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Travelguru that was recently buzzing with activity has been acquired by online giant travelocity. According to the latest news travelguru was acquired by the US based online company. Travelocity has a online booking of more thant 10$ billion dollars. Travelguru has more than 4000 hotel bookings in its capacity in the sub-continent. Travelguru has a large customer database. The deal size is still not disclosed but it needs to be seen what would be impact of a such major acquisition in the market. Some of the other competitors of travelguru are makemytrip.com,yatra.com, cleartrip.com… Well whatever the acquisition could give a better valuation for the dominant internet space and it may add some value proposition in the Internet segment.

Written by Anand.G
The writer is founder of a cricket website Crickick.com, a IT-ITES Professional, an startup enthusiast 

Gmail the mail service started by the Internet Gaint Googlein year 2004  is all set to take on the yester days darlings of the Internet Hotmail and give a stiff competition to yahoomail. According to comscore It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL. It seems gmail seems to becoming the preferred email service across the world.  Google seems to be heading to topple the king of mail services Yahoomail in the long run. But it all depends as how strong the brands could emerge out from the shackes of the ever changing internet.

Written by Anand.G
The writer is founder of a cricket website Crickick.com, a IT-ITES Professional, an startup enthusiast 

Facebook the social networking website that started as a project from Harvard dormintory by Mark Zuckerburg seems to be interested in taking a new twist as reported in Economic times. The socio-net gaint aims to take on leading internet gaints like yahoo and google in their own play yards. With more than 250 million members, Facebook was the world’s fourth most visited website in June, according to comScore. It is on track to bring in more than $500 million in revenue this year, most of it from advertising sales.  Facebook in its new initiatives represent the natural evolution of the service, said Facebook Vice President of Product Christopher Cox. He downplayed the increasing overlap between Facebook’s new search engine and Twitter’s search engine, or Google’s dominant Web search engine.  Facebook has recently acquired friendfeed where  it lets people search across networking sites and social blogs.  Facebook is very interesting to know about the new avatara it could take on its global gaints.

Written by Anand.G
The writer is founder of a cricket website Crickick.com, a IT-ITES Professional, an startup enthusiast