Are you fond of sending text messages via SMS? Well, sad to say that our friends from India won’t really have a choice, because theTelecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) plans to regulate sending of SMS for everyone. According to Indian tech blogTech2, starting Feb 1st 2011, all telecom operators will be forced to restrictover700 million mobile phone subscribers to only 100 SMS sent per day. Being an industry-wide regulation, consumers won’t be able to avail of more SMS, even if they are willing to pay....

Indian Authorities are contemplating a ban onTigerText, a multi-platform private messaging app, according to a report fromThe Hindu. TigerText which was launched in Feb 2010, allows users to send destructible text messages i.e. messages which get automatically deleted from both the sender and the receiver’s phone after a certain period of time. Further, these messages aren’t stored on any server and hence can’t be retrieved once the message expires. This feature has stumbled Indian security agencies as it can be easily misused by terrorists or anti-social elements and there is no mechanism in place to retrieve these sent messages or photos, thus posing a huge threat to Indian security....

According to a survey by market research firmJuxt, India is now home to over 65 million Internet users, 61 million of whom describe themselves as “active” users of the world wide web. Amazingly, about 30% of these netizens are totally diggingthis whole online shopping thing. With a 28% year-over-year growth in the number of Internet users in the country, it is not surprising that e-commerce should gain wider acceptance here. However, the fact that over 17 million people feel comfortable shopping on the Internet in a country that has historically been shy of online spending is quite an amazing statistic indeed....

The Indian Embassy has taken toSina Weibo, the popular Twitter-like microblogging service from China, in an attempt to portray India’s modern image and promote Indian culture and tourism to Chinese youngsters. Explaining this new campaign toThe Hindu, Indian Ambassador to China, S. Jaishankar said: We are trying to maximise our outreach, and this is a new mode of communication to reach out to more young Chinese people. He said that Chinese youngsters are still operating on old perceptions, which had emerged from Indian cinema way back in 1950s and 1960s, despite the tremendous growth India has experienced over the past few decades....

India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs hasannouncedthat it is simplifying the procedures involved in incorporating a company, in order to help budding entrepreneurs across the country. According to the ministry, entrepreneurs will now be able to incorporate their companies within 24 hrs, which previously took anaverage of 29 days, starting August 11. The Ministry said it has already implemented the online approval of a Director’s Identification Number (DIN) from June 12 and name registration for the proposed company was made available online from July 24....