Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Internet and Telecom India’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology

India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, Internet and Telecom India, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology

Here is a quick note about BlogHer 2008 interviews that I will post in the next couple of days.  I have two video interviews: the first is  with Lisa Stone, CEO and co-founder of BlogHer and the second one is a short highlight on what  is Open Source by Michelle Baker, CEO of  Mozilla Foundation. This  video […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0

I will be twittering about “The Mobile Future Conference,” organized by Carnegie Mellon University in Santa Clara, California. As the organizers described it, ” The Mobile Future brings together experts from industry and the research community to share and discuss their visions of the mobile future…” You can check out the program details of […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

In this Sunday’s column of Financial Express I continue my focus on how corporations are using social media tools to reach out to their workers, customers and potential employees. In my previous two columns I looked at corporate blogging in the USA and India and in this week’s edition I look at Facebook and how […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology

Melanie Phung’s blog post on 10 years of Viagra Spam was plagiarized by a writer from India Syndicate, which is a content vendor for MSN India. The plagiarized content was published on MSN India website, but has since been removed. I contacted Krishna Prasad, Executive Producer of MSN India and got his response on this […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Interviews, Technology, User Generated Content

Last night I came across a post that said MSN’s content partner India Syndicate posted plagiarized content. Melanie Phung of All About Content wrote in her blog post:
“My recent post on Viagra’s anniversary happens to rank well for a search on that phrase, but so does an article posted on MSN India.
This piece, “written” by […]