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Creating an EPIC!

Brainchild behind India's first web browser EPIC, Hidden Reflex has within months created a uproar in the world wide web. If Karl Marx was to appear in Cyber era, his saying would have gone like this Workers of the Cyber World Unite! You have nothing to lose but the world wide web. The importance of Internet has grown manifold over the years with several new actions happening. Dataquest recently did a story on how Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is losing its market share to Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox. Now the competition gets more tougher with several new browsers making their appearance that too with really interesting add-ons. Start up companies are doing several activities in the mobile content and the Internet space, and STPI has encouraged small and start-up companies to use their infrastructure to build new and innovative applications. For example, Tachyon Technologies introduced their transliteration tool, Quillpad for mobile applic...
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IMO: Do we need acronyms for official communication?

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