Technology Bites

Rediff.com, one of the popular Indian portal has launched a music streaming service called Rediff SongBuzz quietly. The service allows users to stream the music online, although Rediff’s primary audience are Indians it is not restricted to Indian music, you can also find international artists as well.

Yahoo home page redesign is working for Yahoo after all. Some people didn’t like it so much and preferred old Yahoo home page over the new one, switching to old Yahoo home page is not so difficult either.

According to a report from ComScore, Google sites account for nearly 30% of the online time spent in India and Brazil. Worldwide time spent online on Google sites accounts for only 9.4%.

Google announced a Doodle 4 Google contest for school children in India. School children in between 1st and 10th standards can participate in the contest, these children have to design a doodle for Google which Google will put on it’s home page on Children’s day (Nov 14th).

Last week Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched Bhuvan, a much anticipated Satellite Mapping solution similar to Google Earth. Bhuvan is currently in beta, but they would have relapsed as pre-alpha to only few users for testing. Because I am using the application it is unusable at times, the site itself is confusing and there [...]

Windows Live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India. The details about the site like when it is launched are not available at this time but Liveside readers spotted the site from MSN India pages.

The media in India is reporting that $10 Laptop in unveiled today, but i couldn’t find a picture of the same. I was not sure whether this is real of some fake news, building a $10 Laptop is not an easy task. The specs according to media reports is, it features 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi and [...]

Royal Pingdom has some analysis on most searched social networks in various countries using Google Insights. The analysis is based on keywords, so it doesn’t actually tell the popularity of a social network in a country, as search volume doesn’t correlate well with the usage of the site. The analysis shows some interesting results. Facebook [...]

Lifeblob is a life streaming app that allows you to post (import) pictures, blog posts, videos and text messages. The posted messages or photos are arranged in a timeline so you or your friends can see your lifestream.

Yahoo India Search is now displaying a mashup of search results combining, text, image and video results in one search results page (Screenshots at the end of the post). Yahoo News Release says that they have chosen India for the beta test for search results. These new mashup search results pages are dubbed as “Glue [...]