Sify, yesterday has become first commercial content portal in India to be IPv6 enabled making Sify first to leave 20 years old IPv4 technology and deploy IPv6 technologies and its associated services in India. Apparently in India before Sify there seems to be only one IPv6 enabled website which is - IPv6 test network at BITS, Pilani, though not being commercial, Sify now become one of the first such service for public. IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses along with other improvements such as routing, networking and auto configuration. From now onwards, Sify's entire suite of IP connectivity services, including Internet access to enterprise customers and MPLS-based IP-VPN services are IPv6 enabled. This ensures that Sify's customers can transition and migrate from a basic IPv4 based network service to IPv6 Next Generation Network with dual-stack i.e. IPv6 & IPv4 support.

Google Wave is upcoming product from Google which could be next big thing for Google after Gmail and Google Maps, being one of the most successful products from google. Google Wave is a new web application carrying true traits of Web 2.0 and for communication and collaboration on the web doing equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is expected to launch later this year and this is how it works - one can create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content, allowing for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved. Interestingly, Google Wave is HTML 5 app, built on Google Web toolkit and one can even embed Waves ...

Microsoft Corporation today launched Microsoft Mediaroom with virtualization, making Mediaroom the first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform to offer virtualization support. Mediaroom with virtualization can deliver up to a sixfold reduction in the number of physical servers required to support a full-featured IPTV service, significantly reducing hardware and management costs and speeding time to market for Mediaroom customers by up to three weeks. Mediaroom with virtualization is designed to provide a cost-effective yet full-featured IPTV platform for smaller operators, for operators launching new services as they scale their subscriber base, and for operators who want to extend an existing service into new markets to serve lower-density communities. Microsoft Mediaroom amplifies TV experience and subscribed customers get Mediaroom-powered TV service, favorite shows, channels, movies, and sports – all in digital and High-Definition (HD) picture quality. Combine that with an easy on-screen guide and advanced features like a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Video On Demand (VOD), lightning-fast channel change, the ability to watch up to six channels at one time, and you'll see why Microsoft Mediaroom is the best TV experience – letting you control not just what you watch, but when and where you watch it. Plus, cool media-sharing capabilities let you share photos, videos, ...

BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones, noticeably for phones that are NOT smart phones, PDAs or Phones. Apparently the BOLT browser give as much high-end experience for lower-end phones as a Blackberry browser. Bitstream India Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Delhi, contributed substantially to BOLT’s engineering Two months after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc today announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types. Bolt has more active users in India than in any other country outside North America. Today one in six of BOLT’s active users reside in India where users have visited more than 4 million web pages and consumed more than 1,000 gigabytes (1 terabyte) of bandwidth using the mobile browser since it debuted in February of this year. Optimized to conserve data transmission, BOLT features unrivalled speed – routinely at least 25 to 50 % faster than competitors. The WebKit-based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics that enable people to view websites just as they do on a PC. BOLT’s feature set includes: Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on ...

Forbes has launched its online and print magazine for India this week, noticeably its online edition is named as business.in.com unlike to its Europe, US and Asia edition as Forbes.com. Forbes India has launched in association with Network18, India's biggest full play integrated media network. Forbes India will server as one of a destination for today's discerning business reader via both of its print and online editions, featuring news, views and analysis. Anyone can subscribe to the Forbes India print magazine at ForbesIndiaMagazine.com and can also have brief look at its latest edition of June'09. The online edition business.in.com is not as populated with content as it is supposed to be, though expectations from India's business reading audience will be obviously be high because of the brand itself.

For the first time outside US, Yahoo announces its Yahoo Buzz service for India with India related content and news. Yahoo buzz is news and stories aggregating service from yahoo where stories are ranked based on users' votes, comments, emails, and searches. At moment Yahoo buzz serve worldwide in India and US only. Yahoo has also partnered with top news based portals such as Times of India, NDTV, Zee and India Today group along with news/ stories submitted by users. Moreover, stories with most 'Buzz' may be published on the Yahoo home page i.e. yahoo.com which in turn will be viewed by millions. Yahoo seems to expanding its services with attention towards India in specific as Yahoo earlier launched Yahoo Glue for India and now its BUZZ service.

Along with Firefox upcoming update 3.5 version, Mozilla is doing an important update in its Logo and Icon,  we all recognize Firefox logo/ icon as a orange color Fox enclosing blue earth like globe which is actually a mozilla planet. The Mozilla team along with its Ux (User Experience) team member, Alex Faaborg has released few of its iterative drafts of new concept logo which will be updated and changes will be made continuously until the final one is achieved. Update - Latest Iteration 18th May The design is partially based on a conceptual sketch by Jon Hicks and rendered by Anthony Piraino. The icon/ logo design is more of improvisation to the fox's fur, and the flames starting to wrap around planet mozilla which significantly modernizes and streamlines the appearance of the icon.

Community News - Its a nice plugin if you want to infuse some sense of community for your readers, visitors to take part in sharing, submitting their own content. Also If your blog update is not so frequent then adopting this plugin can atleast bring you some 'new content' for your blog. The plugin comes with with moderation panel, a settings page and its own RSS. Media Burner - Its a cool plugin that extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts automatically by filtering post content on the fly and creates a site-wide player. Although it still to release full fledged its great to have it even if you seldom put videos in your blog posts. (Example Screenshot below) GooseGrade (Citizen Editing) - You might heard of citizen Journalism where visitors involve in publishing their own articles apart from it, this service cum plugin does Citizen Editing i.e. let you visitors do copy-editing your blog just by selecting the word(s). In other words it crowd-source any blog's copy-editing to readers and as a blog owner you get a notification for each edit, and you can then go in and see what the suggested change is and have it fixed ...

NearbySocial is new Facebook download application via one can track other people using facebook nearby him or her and here 'nearby' means geographical proximity for e.g. in cafeteria, in college library or in office premise. Its actually a software application that uses the ubiquitous Wi-Fi signal and show profiles of interesting nearby Facebook users, apparently in real time. Once you keep Nearby Social running all day and it will also allow you a summary view on people seen in the Nearby Social Facebook Application. In its own term the application can be described as - "bridging online social network plethora with presence to create serendipitous face-to-face encounters". By using the NearbySocial app one can see and get notified of near by Facebook users, get their current location and chat with emoticons. The downloadable app provide full support to Windows XP and Vista clients and moreover also anticipating different smart-phones porting to platforms like iPhone and Windows Mobile. View more presentations from shellylennon.

DataQuest, one of an oldest and most read magazine on IT, in association with IndianWeb2.com has created well created list of Hottest Web 2.0 Startups in India, thanks to DataQuest Research team and Editor Shyamanuja. The Dataquest team and editors included those startups in India which become operational on or after 1 January 2007 and then refined that list to come with this list of prominent ones. The interesting part of the list is that, companies and startups have been excluded where collaboration and user particiaption, which is a main trait and feature of any web 2.0 entity is not prominent such as PicSquare, Zoomin and iTasveer.com where hey do have features such as sharing photos but they more rely on parameters other than what "Web 2.0" concept is i.e. photo print quality, time of delivery of their products etc. The "India's 25 Hot Web 2.0 Start-ups" is a cover story published in May issue of Datquest published by Cyber Media publication and circualted nationwide. You may get the the copy of Dataquest from any nearest book seller and get more insight of the story along with deatails of 25 hot startups with founders of respective startups throwing more lime-light on same. Update ...