Archive for the ‘News’ tag.
Film restoration technology developed in Pune
The Indian Express has an article about film restoration studio, Cameo, with technology developed entirely indegeneously: Gujar, a graduate in engineering from VIT College came up with concept of developing an affordable film restoration software and studio when he was in college. “The requirement of film restoration was found out when we were studying imaging. [...]
McAfee to Buy Data Protection Vendor Reconnex
Security vendor McAfee has just announced that it will data leakage prevention startup Reconnex. McAfee expects to close the US$46 million cash acquisition by the end of September and will roll the products into its data protection business unit, where they will be sold under the McAfee Adaptive Protection brand name. Source: McAfee to Buy [...]
PubMatic Launches Default Optimization Service to Recapture $1 Billion in Lost Advertising Revenue
A large number of websites rely on advertising as their primary source of income. Typically the ads are served by third party ad networks (for example Google’s adsense). When an ad network is unable to find an appropriate ad for a specific page being served to a specific reader, they put in default or public [...]
Monkiri adds Blogger/WordPress support – becomes more useful
When Pune-based social web-clipping service Monkiri had launched a couple of weeks ago, I had complained that it’s utility is very limited because it does not allow posting the clips to the user’s personal blog. They have moved quickly, and fixed the problem. They now support Blogger and WordPress blogs. That should certainly increase its [...]
A Vision for e-Governance in Pune
In an earlier article, I wrote about how Pune now has a CIO, who is pushing various initiatives to make Pune the city with the best use of technology for governance. At my request, Dr. Anupam Saraph, the CIO of Pune, has written two articles about this aspect of his work. The first one is [...]
xG Technology, Inc. Selects VoIP Software Solution From Trinity Convergence for New Wireless Handset
xG Technology, Inc., provider of low-power, long-range wireless communications technology, has selected its VeriCall Edge embedded VoIP software for xG’s new xMax TX60 wireless handset. VeriCall Edge software will provide a complete embedded VoIP software solution for the TX60 handset, including all of the signaling and media processing (codecs), and quality of service technology required [...]
PMC to re-charge Pune wi-fi project
From ExpressIndia.Com With private company, Microsense, “struggling” to implement the Unwire Pune project a year after its launch through out the city, the Pune Municipal Corporation is planning to rope in multiple agencies to provide the (Wi-Fi) wireless internet connectivity facility. [...] “Four more private agencies have offered to provide the wireless internet connectivity service [...]
(!)Yureekah – the Google of Online Advertising
(!)Yureekah is a Pune+New York based company which is aiming to become the Google of online advertising information. They feel that information about ad campaigns, competitive analysis, lead generation, which used to be the domain of highly-paid experts, should be accessible to anybody at the click of the mouse. Here’s their pitch: Today millions of [...]
Blog Posts from: InfoSignz, Druvaa, Pubmatic
This is a quick round-up of some interesting posts on blogs of Pune-based companies recently. InfoSignz InfoSignz is a Pune-based company which offers digital signage as a service. Digital signage refers to the video screens you see in malls, grocery stores, department stores, airports, train stations, elevator LOBBIES and so on. InfoSignz reports that the [...]
PubMatic releases AdPrice Index: Sensex for Online Ads
Pune based online advertising optimization startup PubMatic has announced the availability of the PubMatic AdPrice Index – essentially a sort of an Sensex (or S&P 500 Index) for the online advertising world. The AdPrice Index essentially reports on the average online advertising revenues earned by 3000 web publishers worldwide who are PubMatic’s customers. And it [...]