Video on Demand is inherently an add on service of a TV service provider. As TV services started traversing over IP, the telecom and Internet service providers became TV service providers as well. So they also started offering VoD as a value added service over their IPTV platforms. But as the broadband speeds are shooting [...]

We visit so many websites everyday. To read, to write, to learn, to listen, to watch, to know, to buy, to sell and what not. We do bookmark, follow RSS, twitter, etc. to go through all of them eachday. But it is not that managable. We have to go through so many clicks and it [...]

Have you ever wondered what is happening in the background when you are scrapping on facebook, orkut, etc; when you are uploading pictures, sharing music and videos and all that what you do? Apart from letting our friends know, we are creating pages and content for the service provider. The service provider fills the rest [...]

Securing our private spaces over e-services we have subscribed to is everybody’s concern. We use e-services for emails, messengers, calls, watching videos, reading content, doing financial transactions and other several things. At present, the best we can do to keep them secure is keep on changing the passwords after some regular time period. We can [...]

Well this is an old story now, but let me make a point about it today. Microsoft has been blamed by many that it is not giving its competitors a fair chance of competing. This is about mainly two products that Microsoft bundles with its operating system – Internet Explorer and Media Player. Another one [...]

Skype is one of the products that has contributed in its field and become an integral part of the industry. It is a global telecom operator in essence with most of its followers claiming to have become global players. The application is used by over 400 million registered users. The most recent update (Version 4) [...]

Many websites are using Google products to earn revenues. These products include Google search. By embedding Google search in the website, the owner gets a share of the revenue for clicks done on the search results (I have not followed the exact working). So whenever a surfer searches something in the search box of a [...]

Historically data vendors, like Cisco, have got an entry in telecom space mainly due to IP Telephony. IP Telephony did wonders and bad things concurrently for vendors in the communications space – be it a data vendor, voice vendor, video vendor, wireless vendor or wireline vendor. IP brought them all on the same table. By [...]

An ISP offers Internet services. In reality what is that service. It lays a wire or wireless network that connects your PC to the web. So they are the enablers of something that is not provided by them. Surfers access Internet for the content or services like a VoIP client, IM or an email service. [...]

Being a content generator or developer is not a big deal. You can share anything you like in any form. Be it text, audio or video you can share it with the people over Internet. The simplest way of sharing could be over a social networking and the more professionals are the websites. Somewhere, between [...]