August 2009

Swine Flu Symptoms: The Difference between Regular flu and Swine Flu

Published on: 12th August, 2009

Swine Flu is a number one health concern not just in India but the world over. The HI1N1 flu or Swine Flu was first detected in US in April 2009. The worst affected areas initially were Canada and Mexico before swine flu cases began to emerge in other areas of the world. In a short [...]

Latest Swine Flu Cases and Swine Flu deaths in India

Published on: 9th August, 2009

Two more people were killed by the infectious H1N1 virus on Saturday: a 33 year old Mumbai teacher and a 42 year old man in Pune. These deaths come five days after the death of the first H1N1 Swine Flu victim Reeda Shaikh from Pune. The latest person who died in Pune is Sanjay Tukaram [...]

Agyaat movie review: A sad Predator copy

Published on: 7th August, 2009

With a movie like Agyaat, we doubt if there will be any Ram Gopal Varma fan left. He is hell-bent in spoiling his reputation as a maker with difference. Agyaat has a clichéd story line, borrows most of its ‘unknown’ angle from Predator. Dialogues are stupid and repetitive of the past RGV films, screenplay is [...]

Social Networking Sites, Friends and fake profiles

Published on: 5th August, 2009

There are some social networking myths that need to be cleared. A lot of people are of the opinion that social networking users like the ones in Orkut and Facebook are interested in befriending strangers or creating ‘fake friends’ or even ‘fake profiles’. According to the Anderson Analysis, 45 percent of social networking sites users’ [...]

Social Networking Sites Impact Purchase Decisions

Published on: 5th August, 2009

How do users of social networking sites perceive brands? Here is some interesting information on how social networking users interact with brands. Here are the study findings (Courtesy: Anderson Analytics and Read Write Web): Interacting with Brands 52% of social networkers had friended or become a fan of at least one brand, 17% felt positive [...]

Social Networking Sites and user preferences

Published on: 5th August, 2009

A study on user preferences for social networking sites was conducted by Anderson Analytics to find out the personality traits, user preferences and vocations of various people who adhere to social networking sites. Facebook: People who use Facebook are mostly above 25, well-settled in life and have the second highest purchasing power, next to LinkedIn [...]

Mobile Gaming Industry in India

Published on: 5th August, 2009

Indiagames has come out with a report on mobile gaming in India. Let us find out the statistics of mobile gaming industry in India. Here are the findings: The mobile gaming industry is valued at $29 million and it is expected that it will grow to a whopping $250 million by the end of 2010. [...]

India to be the third largest internet market in the world by 2013

Published on: 5th August, 2009

India is poised to be the third biggest Internet market by 2013. USA and China will be the biggest Internet markets in the world while India will take the third place. These findings are documented in the “Global Online Population Forecast, 2008 To 2013”, a report by Forrester Research. Forrester has stated that the current [...]

Internet habits of high school children

Published on: 5th August, 2009

A survey of online habits of high school children between the ages 12 and 18 were done by Tata Consultancy Services, India’s number one IT solutions provider. Here are the online surfing habits and modern aptitude of high school children in Indian cities. 93 percent of high school students are aware of social networking. You [...]

Health Myths and Health Facts

Published on: 5th August, 2009

Health Myths are old wives’ tales that do not have a grain of truth in them. However most of us have lapped up on these health myths and some of us even believe them. Here are some health myths exposed and debunked: 1. Sugar makes kids hyperactive: Tests have shown that sugar levels have not [...]

Bollywood and Digital Marketing go hand in hand

Published on: 3rd August, 2009

Bollywood has come out of its traditional approach towards marketing and has opened doors to digital marketing. Since an average movie-goer is between 20s and 30s, the age group that is always on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut, digital marketing is one field that is going to be targeted by movie producers and [...]