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An operational guide to CoD for eCommerce companies in India

by Paul Joseph May 19, 2011 Featured
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T-series Launches A Devotional Mobile Phone, Bhakti Sagar Phone [Is This The Future of Apps?]

by Paul Joseph May 17, 2011 Featured

Religious ringtones are a super hit phenomena in India and given the mad rush we are witnessing in the telecom industry (everybody is launching a me-too device), T-series has come up with a very unique device, Bhakti Sagar phone. This phone is loaded with religious features such as Aartis, Bhajans, Shabads in multiple languages, Tirath Yatra apps, yoga tips, unique SOS function and much more. The dual SIM mobile phone handset, Bhakti Sagar comes equipped with a 2.2” screen and bright phone display which enhances the user interest while watching video and images

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Samsung Galaxy Ace : Hands on review

by Paul Joseph May 15, 2011 Featured

Samsung announced a new range of android 2.2 powered handsets in January this year, and all those phones have now hit the stores.

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Malicious Mobile Threats Report [ 85% of smartphone users do not have any antivirus solution ]

by Paul Joseph May 13, 2011 Featured

The evolution of our phones into the smartphones will eventually replace our desktop PCs to a great extent. A few years back, the idea of a mobile device with a dual core processor was just a dream but now you can probably buy one off the shelf. The growth of smartphones has been phenomenal and there are no signs of it slowing down

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Participate in Brand Engagement Quizzes And Win Goodies – BrandAndMe

by Paul Joseph May 12, 2011 Featured

User engagement and social media marketing are driving any marketer to spend millions out of the marketing budget. Most CEOs who do not even understand social media are heard asking their CMOs “What is out social media strategy? What are we doing to engage the user”

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The Business Model of Paying users Vs Paying-users

by Paul Joseph May 11, 2011 Featured

One of those ‘paying users’ is the ‘conventional’ user who pays for your service. The other, though is just the opposite – you pay the user as a part of your business model! And by ‘user’ I mean the ‘C’ in the typical B2C business (rather in this case –a C2B business )

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Payment Gateway CCAvenue Hacked (?)

by Paul Joseph May 5, 2011 Featured

Payment gateway, CCAvenue it seems was hacked by hackers via exploiting SQL injection vulnerability. As per this site , Hacker identifying himself as d3hydr8 has shared the hack report with them and it seems that ccAvenue stored the password in plain text! Below is a report belonging to this compromise —————— [ + ] USER ()                         : iusr_ccavenueiusr_ccavenue [ + ] S_USER ()                    : iusr_ccavenue [ + ] DB_NAME ()              : gateway [ + ] HOST_NAME ()         : AV-2 [ + ] SERVER_NAME ()   : AVDB-3 [ + ] SERVER_TYPE ()     : Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_jk/1.2.28 [ + ] X-POWERED-By ()    : Servlet 2.5; JBoss-5.0/JBossWeb-2.1 [ + ] IP_ADDRESS_INFO  : 124.153.83.27 ———————————————————————————————————- [ + ] Displaying list of databases on this MSSQL host ! [ DATABASE: 0 ]        : gateway [ DATABASE: 1 ]        : master [ DATABASE: 2 ]        : tempdb [ DATABASE: 3 ]        : model [ DATABASE: 4 ]        : msdb [ DATABASE: 5 ]        : Reseller – Storing password in plain text – and that too by a payment gateway?

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Fear of Location Based Services & Tracking [Mobile User Privacy]

by Paul Joseph May 3, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: Recently, we shared a report on LBS industry and Mobile User Privacy , which raised an important concern regarding how mobile OS companies store location data and the privacy threat associated with it. Arjun Ram, founder of Taazza , a LBS app startup shares his take on this issue.] We felt the need to write this post after the well advertised fiasco for iPhone and the mis-information that is being spread about LBS. Our app is a LBS app and we take privacy very seriously.

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HDFC Bank ranks No.1 online followed by ICICI Bank and SBI

by Paul Joseph April 19, 2011 Featured

ViziSense, India’s leading online audience and ad measurement platform has released a custom research report on Online Banking in India. The report analyzed the user activity on the websites of both public and private sector banks

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Cloud Computing Platforms Compared [Amazon web services v/s Force.com v/s Google app engine]

by Paul Joseph April 12, 2011 Featured

We earlier shared the evolution of Cloud Computing and here is a guest article on comparison of three cloud platforms, i.e. AWS vs

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