 | India to use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube to reduce fatal accidents The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and International Road Federation (IRF) are planning to use social networking websites like Facebook, micro-blogging site Twitter and video sharing site YouTube to spread awareness about road safety and help reduce fatal accidents by 50 per cent in the next three years. |
 | SabSe Technologies (SabSeBolo.com) acquires Mobivox US-based SabSe Technologies, which operates SabSeBolo.com, has acquired Canada-based voice-activated services and solutions provider Mobivox. According to SabSe, the acquisition, coming only two months after its acquisition of Jaxtr.com, will enable SabSe’s global network of carrier partners to rapidly deploy voice-activated services to their customers. |
 | LinkedIn gets 2.5 million users from India US-based professional networking site LinkedIn.com is believed to have attracted over 2.5 million users from India. On a year-on-year basis, the number of Indian users has increased by almost 180 per cent from less than a million. The company is now planning to hire an India country head, according to Dipchand Nishar, vice president, products, LinkedIn. |
 | StarTV.in to air advertising roadblock for Tata Photon Plus Star Network’s online video Gallery Star Player (StarTV.in) and Tata Teleservices have signed an advertising roadblock deal under which STAR Player will air a pre-roll ad for Tata Photon Plus wireless broadband internet service on all the videos played on StarTV.in from September 22 to September 26, 2009. |
 | Scareware Scammers hijack Twitter trending topics Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter’s trending topics. |
 | Picasa adds face recognition, geotagging, albums Name Tags are the feature Google wants to you notice this time. It seems dumb, but there’s a hook. Picasa wants to become your de facto address book. You’ll have to prime the pump by tagging individual people in your photo collection. But as shown here, it can pull matches for your friends from your photo collection by matching their faces. |
 | Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support Using Google Sync, you can now get your Gmail messages pushed directly to your phone. Having an over-the-air, always-on connection means that your inbox is up to date, no matter where you are or what you're doing. Sync works with your phone's native email application so there's no additional software needed. Only interested in syncing your Gmail, but not your Calendar? Google Sync allows you to sync just your Contacts, Calendar, or Gmail, or any combination of the three. |
| | MySpace Taps Into the Power of Twitter With Syncing MySpace said today that it’s rolling out a new feature in beta that lets U.S. users sync status updates in their Twitter feed and profile page on the social network, symbolizing MySpace’s efforts to piggyback off of the micro-messaging service’s growing popularity. The syncing function will let people cross-post their status updates from either Twitter or MySpace. When users post their status updates to Twitter, a link posted alongside the tweet will direct people back to MySpace. |
 | Microsoft's Bing search share up to 9.3 percent
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| | How to extend the community- tips from Facebook and Twitter In community based sites, the site is only as big for the user as the number of friends they have. It really doesn’t matter if Twitter has 100 million users or Facebook has 300 million. My page views will be directly related to number of transactions (wall posts/tweets ) i make and this would be dependent on number pf connections i have. Since the monetization will take place on the page view or the transaction so your real rise is going to come from increasing the number of friends they. |
| | Facebook to Let Users Log In With Vanity URLs Facebook on Friday announced that members will be able to log into the site using their usernames, or vanity URLs, instead of e-mail addresses. The new log-in feature works for the Web and mobile versions of the site, as well as any Facebook Connect-enabled sites, Facebook said in a blog post. For those who really like typing the @ sign into fields, the e-mail address log-in is still enabled on the site.
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 | MingleBox launches e-CAT Prep to help MBA aspirants prepare for Common Admission Test MingleBox.com has launched e-CAT Prep, an online CAT preparation platform that aims to help MBA aspirants better prepare for the Common Admission Test (CAT). According to the company, MingleBox e-CAT Prep content covers the complete syllabus with refresher material for each lesson following which students can take the refresher and the practice tests. |
 | 160by2.com launches mobile app to let its users send free international SMS from mobile Hyderabad-based free SMS service provider 160by2.com has launched a downloadable mobile application that would allow users to send free SMS to mobile phones in India, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. |
 | Orkut has launched Video chat Orkut has launched Video chat that enables one to chat with their friends (download the plugin). When you find a friend you want to chat with, open a chat window and click on the "Start video chat" link in the "Actions" menu. |
 | Mobile Numbers Starting with ‘8’are in – Reliance launches 8010 series India’s mobile growth story has remained intact, and the biggest testimonial to this is exhaustion of mobile numbers starting with ‘9’ (took 15 years) Reliance has launched GSM numbers starting with ‘8’ (series numbers of ‘8010xxxxxx’) that will be available in NCR/Delhi region – the company has also applied for approval in Mahrashtra and Goa.
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| | Facebook allows users to update their status through SMS Networking site Facebook has launched Facebook Mobile Texts, an SMS-based service that allows registered users of the site to update their status, message friends or send a poke through their mobile phone. The service will also allow users to receive messages, pokes and Wall posts from their Facebook friends through SMS. |
 | Rogers Wireless Launches Its 21 Mbps HSPA+ Network Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless announced today the commercial availability of its High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) network in five of the country’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. According to the company, the new network is able to deliver maximum speeds of 21 Megabits per second (Mbps), and can be accessed via the new 21 Mbps HSPA+ Rocket Mobile Internet Stick, which is available for pre-order starting today on the carrier's website. |
 | Did AT&T Just Start Rolling Out MMS For The iPhone? A few hours ago, we got a tip from one of our readers that they’d popped into their iPhone messaging app this morning, only to find that they’d suddenly gained the ability to send MMS. We chalked it up as a fluke – AT&T promised it would launch on September 25th, after all, and they haven’t exactly been punctual about this whole thing thus far. Two whole weeks early? It seemed shaky. |
| | Use Facebook Chat Facebook includes an awesome chat feature that lets you instantly start conversations with your Facebook buddies without installing any IM software but the only small issue is that you need to be on the Facebook.com website in order to use Facebook chat. |
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