The growing popularity of online bus ticketing web sites like Redbus.in, Tickevala.com, Yatra.com, Theluxurybuses.com, Abhibus.com, Indiabusticket.com and Checkouttrip.com is spurring online travel company Makemytrip.com to join the crowd. Makemytrip.com’s Chief Marketing Officer Sachin Bhatia told The Economic Times: The online bus-ticketing business is likely to witness robust growth in the coming years. We are aggressively planning to […]
Two male Indian Ph.D students were killed at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA. The students Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam were both shot once in the head. The double homicide took place on LSU’s campus late in the evening on Thursday, Dec. 13. The homicides are said to have occurred […]
Microsoft put out a public beta of its Hyper-V server virtualization tool on Thursday, well ahead of its original scheduled arrival date of Q1 of 2008. Hyper-V will be a feature of some versions of the upcoming Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is making the Hyper-V beta available with Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise for download […]
A new poll published after President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3, 2007 shows that two-thirds of Pakistanis want him to quit while 70% feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. Conducted by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute, the poll casts a harsh spotlight on Musharraf with 67% calling for the […]
Tiny Norwegian browser company Opera has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission charging Microsoft with abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted web standards. Opera wants the EC to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice […]
Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace social networking web site is chasing after Bollywood stars as it expands into new geographies. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that MySpace is sending its employees to meet with Bollywood folks in hopes of getting the stars to create profiles and share news and videos with fans. MySpace’s Bollywood mission […]