Gmail deny access to my own mails

Last week I was trying to go through my old attachment in gmail, since their online scanner failed it denied access to my own mail data. That's when I realized that though Gmail is public email service provider. If they approve access only you can read your own mails. I really couldn't accept the fact that someone can deny access to my own data.

I just want to learn from other is there any one undergone same problem?

I am afraid that all of us opening doors and giving access to others to control our own data. Also, when our regular site is down, we realize the importance of having those online fed data in our desktop.

Though our broadband penetration is growing, speed is going up and rates are coming down. I personally feel there is always a need to access offline as well.

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Google make money by killing your privacy!

Google grown phenomenally last few years; I don't know how many people know how Google make money?  Google's drive revenue through advertising and licensing; Advertising alone contributes approximately more than 95% of company's annual revenue. Remaining less than 5% revenue comes from licensing & others. Advertising revenues includes from Google Web Sites and Google Network Web Sites.

• Google AdWords is an automated online program that enables advertisers to place targeted text-based and display ads on Google web sites and Google Network web sites.
• Google AdSense refers to the online programs through which they distribute advertisers' AdWords ads for display on the web sites of Google Network as well as programs to deliver ads on television.

                 Google AdSense programs include AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content.

• AdSense for search is their online service for distributing relevant ads from advertisers for display with search results on their Google Network web sites.
• AdSense for content is their online service for distributing ads from advertisers that are relevant to content on our Google Network web sites.

Google AdSense encourages everyone to display targeted text and image ads in their content/search/feeds and earn revenue out of it.

Most of them not aware that Google buries your privacy in this revenue and it also make money out of it. Google develop every products to accelerate their revenue stream as every other company does. As a layperson, we need to be aware that using every Google product & services is giving an opportunity for them to make money by killing our own privacy. How many of us knew that by using Google Chrome/ GMail / Blog, we are giving extra mileage to share our data with advertisers? Google will now have total control over our web experience from the time we open Chrome to time we shut down.

Looking at this I feel Microsoft is far better by selling proprietary software at higher cost and least bother to intervene in our privacy. I don't think we need to give up our privacy in the name of collaboration.

Guys, be aware of it!

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Blast

After Jaipur blast, I thought our state government and central securities will be tighten to safe guard the people of India. But we haven't seen any increase in security measures which can be clearly shows off by continuous serial bomb blast in various important cities in India. Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi, & Surat are victim of these serial blast. Though the government officials are working hard to secure the people of nation. We got to think for a second why all this happening? Is there any force against Indian democracy? Why the target only common man? If they really want to threaten the Indian government they should go and drop the bombs in corrupted politicians home.

Now there is serious thinking in every Indian common man's mind is Whether we have bandwidth to fight against this evil spirit? Religious terrorism in growing day by day. Spreading across the location and trying to separate the Indian minds? Is it something did by someone who does not have interest on Indian's growth? I think entire security and police personnel should be changed in their way of action. We need to have control or track on each streets or lanes of Indian cities to have a secure environment. Will it happen. The fast we act, the fast we can secure our growth. Will Indian government officials turn this 'B' blast to growth blast? As a Indian I feel bad when our own innocent country men were killed for no reason.

As a growing economy we need to get our act together to fight against this evil. I am sure there is huge challenging against us to change the way people thinks but at the same time if we work collectively I am sure we can.

 

Jai Hind!

RTVL Invested in Suvidhaa Infoserve

Reliance Technology Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners India have invested an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd, which has a technology that helps people make daily transactions such as railway ticketing, mobile recharge, air ticketing, insurance payment, bill payment, bus ticketing, movie ticketing and so on.

Sequoia Capital Invests Rs 29 Crore In SatNav

Hyderabad based SatNav Technologies has received $7 million (Approx Rs 29 crore) in a first round of funding by Sequoia Capital.

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• Cumulative Aggregate Growth Rate (CAGR) of revenue growth of the telecom business is approximately 94%.

 

• During FY 2007-08, Telecom Revenue increased to about Rs 90 Crore for 9 months ending December, 2007 from Rs 51.

 

 

• Orders of about Rs 300 Crore have been booked till 3rd quarter of current fiscal.

 

• Games2Win tied up with Indiagames to launch CT Racer Online, a community based online racing game they’d launched recently, available on Indiagames’ Games on Demand Service,.CT Racer is a Hyundai Digital Entertainment game, published by Sega, which had been launched by Games2Win in November last year.

 

• The total number of Wireless Internet (GPRS + CDMA Internet Access) users, at the end of September 2007, was 46.37 million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• NDTV Convergence, a  NDTV Networks Plc company, which develops content for cross media platforms, has promoted Rajesh Kumar as National Head of Sales. Kumar will be responsible for driving sales and establishing long-term revenue streams in the rapidly growing Indian and international market. He will be reporting to Salil Kumar, COO- Business, NDTV Convergence.

 

• Arvind Mahendru has joined Interaction, the digital agency of Group M, as managing partner in New Delhi in the first week of December. He replaces Tushar Vyas, who was national director at Interaction. Mahendru was earlier involved in content acquisition as deputy general manager at Bharti Telecom (2005-07). He has managed cable operators and subscription operations at STAR TV (1995-98). He has also worked with Turner International (1999-2002) where he was part of the team which launched HBO channel in India. Mahendru has more than 14 years of experience; he started his career in 1993 with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline(GSK). Tushar Vyas and Sanchit Sangha (ex-business director) have joined SureWaves, a media convergence company, as vice-president for business solutions and associate vice-president for business solutions, respectively. Anuj Dahiya, also an ex-business director with Interaction, has joined ValueFirst, a mobile data services company, as its country head.

 

• Sameer Sikka has been appointed the National Sales Head of India Today Group Digital. He joins from Monster.com, where he was head of the North region. In his new role, Sameer Sikka will report to ITGD’s CEO Sanjoy Narayan.

 

• Nokia Siemens Networks has got a multi million euro contract from Bharti Airtel Ltd for deployment of a single interactive voice response (IVR) platform across 23 circles. The three-year turnkey contract includes designing, planning, systems integration and optimisation services to enhance overall customer experience. The new IVR solution will enable Airtel to deliver services such as voice SMS, televoting, call management services (eg missed call advisor), caller ring back tone and voice portal on a faster time-to-market basis and, therefore, reduce OPEX costs.

 

• Reliance Communications has paid up Rs 48 crore to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd as an interim payment to restore interconnection between the two operators in Kerala. BSNL has alleged that RCom had illegally routed international long distance calls and has evaded payment of carriage charges. It had disconnected the interconnection with RCom following which the company filed an appeal in TDSAT.

 

 

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• Viacom has formalized its joint venture with Network 18 - Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd. The 50:50 joint venture will receive around $90.5 million in investment from Network18 over the next three years, which will be through Network18 group company Global Broadcasting News ($40 Million), and wholly owned subsidiary BK Holdings Mauritius ($50.5 million). GBN has acquired warrants convertible into equity shares of Viacom 18, and has the option to acquire the entire shareholding from BK Holding Mauritius.

 

• Six long-distance telephony operators, including Sify, Rail Tel Corporation, Power Grid Corporation, Tulip IT, HCL Infinet and Dishnet Wireless, have deposited outstanding payment as access deficit charges (ADC) to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd following orders from the telecom regulator.

 

• The acquisition of leading animation company Anirights Infomedia - Reliance Entertainment has decided to focus on regional language films for film production.

 

• Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt Ltd, one of India's largest aggregators of movies for broadcast, has entered into a 10-movie deal with Zee TV worth Rs 260 million ($6.6 million) for satellite broadcast. Zee TV will telecast these movies on its satellite channel over a period of five years from 2008.

 

 

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• Spice Communications is planning to sell 875 telecom towers of the company to a tower operating company and to avail the borrowing facilities of up to $400 millions from Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and also to avail borrowing facility of up to $410 millions from China Development Bank (CDB) for growth and network expansion in the existing telecom circles.

 

• Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search engine Google to provide Internet search and e-mail services on the company's handsets .

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• Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Wednesday said it is constructing a $250 million (about Rs 988 crore) worth cable system for linking Mumbai directly to Paris, London and Madrid via Egypt.

 

• 9.9 Mediaworx has acquired Jasubhai Digital Media, the media arm of the Jasubhai group. The company will now be called 9.9 Digital Media. Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha, founder and Managing Director of 9.9 Media has taken over as the Managing Director of 9.9 Digital Media.

 

• ACK Media, which had bought rights to popular childrens magazines Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle Magazine with the agenda of monetizing the content across platforms has now acquired a Bangalore based animation studio - Quietmen Studios, which will now be called Katha Studios. Samir Patil, CEO of ACK Media has said

 

• Venture Fund ComVentures, which has investments in NDTV Networks Plc ($20 Million), the UK based subsidiary of BSE listed NDTV, and Rajat Sharma’s India TV ($11.5 million through Fuse+Media), has merged with the Velocity Investment Group to form Velocity Interactive Group. The Velocity Investment Group was formed just four months ago by former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller. VIG intends to raise another round of funding in 2008, and is looking to invest “as little as $100,000, as much as $30 million.”.

 

• Venture Fund ComVentures, which has investments in NDTV Networks Plc ($20 Million), the UK based subsidiary of BSE listed NDTV, and Rajat Sharma’s India TV ($11.5 million through Fuse+Media), has merged with the Velocity Investment Group to form Velocity Interactive Group. The Velocity Investment Group was formed just four months ago by former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller. VIG intends to raise another round of funding in 2008, and is looking to invest “as little as $100,000, as much as $30 million.

 

• US-based venture capital firm Com Ventures will invest $20 million in NDTV Networks Plc, the UK subsidiary of NDTV Ltd. The company had recently received approval from Foreign Investment Promotion Board for an investment of Rs 5.85 billion or $133 million. Com Ventures’ is the first of a series of investments the company plans to rake in. NDTV announced that it has signed definitive agreements with Com Ventures for investing $20 million in the new company.
  NDTV Networks has wholly owned subsidiary companies NDTV Imagine and NDTV Lifestyle which would launch Hindi general entertainment and lifestyle channels.

 

• The latest company to get foreign investment is Hindi news network India TV (promoted by Rajat Sharma). The company received foreign investment of $11.5 million (Rs 50.96 crore) from FUSE+Media, an affiliate of venture fund ComVentures, according to a report in Exchange4Media.com. FUSE+Media will get 19.17 per cent for the investment. The CEO and MD of Fuse+Media is Keyur Patel, who is also a partner at ComVentures.

 

 

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• TV18 will be launching a business magazine in India in partnership with Forbes..the partnership will include a content licensing arrangement and could also mean the introduction of other Forbes products, TV18’s biz properties include CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz, besides Newswire18 and online properties like Moneycontrol.com.

 

• Ministry of Communications & IT, Department of Telecommunications on Friday has granted the PAN India GSM licence to Anil Ambani backed Reliance Communication to begin its GSM technology based service in the remaining 14 circle.

 

• Airtel, has launch of eight Mbps broadband service, becoming the first service provider in the country to offer such high speed broadband service to open multiple windows at the same time, download heavy files, view streaming video, enjoy online gaming, chat, email and other applications.

 

 

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• Nokia has announced that it intends to invest around $75 million in 2008, in its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur in Chennai.

 

• Inventus Capital, an Indo-US VC firm set up by Kanwal Rekhi, founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is in the process of raising $125 million for investments in tech startups that operate cross-border - in both the Indian and US markets. Inventus is targeting embedded software, mobile services, knowledge process outsourcing startups, as well as those creating Intellectual Property.

 

 

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• Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) (Hong Kong) which provides mobile value added services in India has appointment Satish Kejriwal as Chief Operating Officer for India. Kejriwal joins from Air2Web India, where he was COO. As per the he has around 19 years of experience in telecom, and in the past has been associated with BPL, Alcatel, Airtel and Data Access.

 

• Venture Capitalists invested over $777 million in 57 deals in India during the first three quarters of 2007.

 

 

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• Smile Interactive plans to set up 97,000 assisted e-commerce kiosks across India in the next three years. Through these internet kiosks, the company will offer music downloads, airline and railway tickets and other products available on the Net.

 

• Times Financial Services (TFS) has tied up with Reliance Communications International (RCI), the US based subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM) to offer mobile remittance services.

 

• Hyderabad-based digital marketing company Ybrant Technologies is acquiring Israel-based online advertising company, Oridian, for $13 million (approximately Rs 52 crore).

 

• US-based digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive has launched its operations in India. The Indian office, led by Pradeep Vegunta (managing director), is located in Hyderabad and has a staff strength of 140 employees. The company offers a wide range of services including email and search marketing, website development, creative, and business intelligence services.

 

• SureWaves a new generation media convergence company, has appointed Sanchit Sanga as AVP - Business Solutions. Sanga was earlier national director at GroupM Interactions, the digital media planning and buying arm of GroupM India.

 

 

 

 

 

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• Apnaloan.com (ALC India), a Sequoia Capital funded personal finance site is in talks with Chrys Capital, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and Sequoia Capital to raise up to $15 million.

 

• UTV Software has informed the BSE that they have called off their “discussion” with Malaysian DTH and Pay TV co Astro for a TV joint venture in India; that venture was supposed to be UTVs youth focused business Bindass, which was launched earlier this year.

 

• The number of internet users in India in the ever user or claimed user category has increased by 40 per cent at 46 million in September 2007 as compared to 32.2 million in September 2006.

 

• Nitin Desai's ND Studio, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment has sealed yet another 50:50 joint venture — with London-based Great Wheel Corporation (GWC), the IPR holders of iconic viewing and observation structures such as the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer.

 

• Filmy, the Hindi movie channel from the Sahara stable, has elevated Nilesh Bhanushali to national ad sales head.Bhanushali was regional ad sales head for the western and southern region.

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• Sun TV Network's FM station 93.5 SFM is all set to launch in Pondicherry on 4 December through its subsidiary Kal Radio.

 

• The Bloomberg television service has been named the 2007 International Television Channel of the Year by The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).

 

• Dell, the personal computer makers, has awarded its worldwide marketing, advertising and communication operations to WPP Group PLC, a holding company that owns almost 250 smaller agencies. The account is worth $4.5 billion and will last for three years.

 

• Nazara Technologies a company focused on creating mobile content around cricket, is reported to have received around $7 million (around Rs. 28 crores) in its second round of funding.

 

• Radio One 94.3 FM, a BBC and Mid Day Joint Venture has set up a voice portal for Bangalore, reports exchange4media. The portal gives access to comedy programs like Rajni Sir, K T Kunjumon and Chamrajpet Charles, answer a quiz, and also leave messages that will be aired on the radio station.