Archive for the ‘Milagrow IT Planet’ Category

Damn! The Big SME Opportunity that Technology Entrepreneurs Ignore

Posted by Arsh Kabir We came across this great article at Pluggd.in. It is very apt. SME Market in India is too big to be ignored. And while Indian entrepreneurs are chasing the big enterprise market (and consumer segment), here are a few data points for SME opportunity • India has the second largest population [...]

How to Save Lacs by Investing just Rs 1500 per year

Posted by Neha Bhatia, Portal Buddy In December 2009, Milagrow launched the SME Portal. It is commonly referred as “One Stop Destination” in terms of unique service offerings to the SME sector. Given its unique nature, Milagrow SME Portal is getting members from across the country, and from different segments such as industry, institutes, individuals [...]

Open Source, Social Media and Why We Love Both.

Posted by Rajesh Kumar Last week my personal blog set up on WordPress seem to give some strange error messages on a white screen instead of the regular post. These messages had no reason to be there since I had not touched the code for ages. All my efforts seem to fail and I almost [...]

Messaging & Collaboration: 10 Google Chrome Extensions…

Google Jan. 25 launched its extensions gallery for the stable version of Chrome for Windows, bringing 1,500 extensions to the masses. Extensions are programs developers create that let users customize the Web browser to hook into third-party applications or send readers alerts. eWEEK posted a cross-section of Chrome extensions here last month, including the Google [...]

How can Small Medium Businesses utilize Social Media

I was at the 4th Indian Marketing Summit today on a panel discussion with luminaries like Mahendra Swarup who founded Indiatimes.com, Bikky Khosla of Tradeindia.com, Prof. Govind Hariharan from the Michael J Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University and Rajeev Karwal, Founder and CEO of Milagrow. The presentation I made is here: How can [...]

Google Strikes Again !

-contributed by Ankit Google is best known for two reasons. Firstly because they have an uncanny ability to come up with totally new and innovative products such as Google Earth which none of its competitors would have even contemplated about.Secondly because they are motivated enough to come up with much more efficient replacements of existing [...]

New search engine ‘Cuil’ plans to break Google monopoly

The hunt for information on the internet has been synonymous with Google. The search engine has maintained a clear lead over Yahoo and Microsoft, the number two and three players, respectively, in web search. While earlier attempts by Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc to join forces against Google failed, a team of former Google engineers [...]

New Rules of the Game

New rules for domain names could open up the internet it was a simple matter to announce but probably too complicated to implement. Which was why the new rule took six years of negotiations. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California-based body that regulates the internet, announced last week that it [...]

The Third Option

Companies are moving towards third-party Data Centres Every day, thousands of companies generate digital landfills of data as they cater to new customers and generate sales through the internet. All this requires vast data centres to adroitly — and safely — manage and store digital information. India, an IT hotspot, is destined to bite off [...]

IT consulting: Five opportunity areas in retail

The Indian economy has been on a high growth trajectory the last few years. Indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, per capita income levels, consumer awareness levels and the regulatory environment present a positive outlook for the nation’s development. GDP is growing at 8-9 per cent per annum and is expected to continue [...]