| Google offers faster, new Orkut | 30-OCT-09 |
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| Internet search engine giant Google has launched a faster and easier to use Orkut built entirely on the more efficient Google Web Toolkit. |
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| Detox centres come up to cure Internet addiction | 23-AUG-09 |
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| Mumbai-based 15-year-old Naresh (not his real name) sits at his computer for eight to ten hours a day playing games (massively multiplayer online games) with his cyberspace friends in India and abroad, most of those he only knows by their internet name. All this, of course, when he’s not networking online on Orkut, Facebook, playing video games or happily tweeting away on his mobile phone. |
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| Picture this - Orkut goes photo blogging | 15-JUN-09 |
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| Imagine you are having dinner with some friends, and in walks Shahrukh Khan or someone equally famous. You get a picture clicked with him and want to share it with the world instantly. But how do you go about it since you can’t possibly wait till you get home and transfer the pictures to home PC. |
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| Curbs on the Internet | 28-MAY-09 |
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| It is hard to fault a government when it tries to regulate the Internet in the larger interests of the country. |
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| Free for all | 24-MAY-09 |
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| Twitter lends another dimension to the 'share and watch it grow' culture. |
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| Orkut catches the election fever | 07-APR-09 |
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| As the elections fever grips India, we at Google™ India are geared up to bring to you the voice of the nation, through Orkut™ -- the leader in social networking. Orkut has launched an ‘official’ community: “The Voice of Youth (www.orkut.co.in/loksabha2009)” a fun and colourful hangout , where you will have the opportunity to express your opinion, and find out what others like you are thinking about, during these important elections. |
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| Battle for ballot in cyberspace | 30-MAR-09 |
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| Khadi-clad politicians queuing up on the world-wide-web, headcount of election rallies being replaced by hits on party dedicated sites, social networking forums are building opinion for candidates.....This is electioneering 2009, the signature impact of cyberage. |
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| Indians remain shy online social networkers | 20-FEB-09 |
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| An average Indian visitor to these social networking websites spent about 110 minutes in December 2008 (at work or home) against 277 minutes spent by a visitor in South Korea, according to a study on Indian social networking websites released by US-based marketing research firm comScore Inc. |
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