Apple has quietly started shipping it’s most celebrated tablet device – iPad to India. However there is a catch to it – you have to be a corporate customer and buy the iPads in bulk.

A global study conducted by software major Microsoft recently points us to the fact that more than 86 per cent of Indian customers purchase genuine software even if they retail at sky-high prices. Microsoft also said that more than 6000 Indian customers have reported incidents of pirated or illegal software to Microsoft India in the last two years.

eMudhra has launched a personal finance management tool for Indian users in association with Microsoft. eMudhra feels MyMoney’s ability to help consumers to make informed decisions without sharing any confidential banking information is the tool’s unique selling point.

The Instant Mobile Payment Service is already rolling out to seven Indian banks. Here are a few important things which you must know about the Instant Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) in India.

Reliance Communications (RCom) has tied up with Twitter to make the microblogging website available to users via SMS. RCom has also launched a social voice blogging service which will make it easy for users to become a follower of famous Indian celebs on Twitter.

Microsoft has launched Kinect for Xbox 360 in India. Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360 will sell at Rs. 9,990 and Kinect with Xbox 4GB console will sell for Rs. 22, 990. Users will also get the “Kinect Adventures” in the above mentioned price.

InMobi, a mobile advertising network reports that over 72% of Indian consumers are comfortable with mobile advertising and over 50% of the users are ready to receive personalised advertisements.

Tata Consultancy Services recently conducted a survey about the internet usage among the indian youngsters and has found out some good statistics which can help rising internet startups in India to understand their consumers in a better way. According to the survey 85 per cent of the Indian youth uses Google as their only search engine and are also active on social networks.

Discovery Networks has tied up with Apalya Technologies to provide content from all it’s five channels – Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Turbo, and Discovery Science to it’s Indian viewers on the mobile platform

Of late, I have been finding ways to monetize unsold inventory and have been looking for some decent Ad networks in India. That is when I landed up on Komli (http://www.komli.com) which is a premium ad network for Indian users.

Google has opened an all new help centre at Hyderabad, India where Google’s support team will provide assistance to Google AdWords customers in person. This help center aims primarily at helping customers in four regional languages — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.

Facebook Places, a service from Facebook that lets you tell your friends on Facebook about your current location has gone Live in India.

Internet giant Yahoo! is planning to publish content in six Indian regional languages apart from Hindi and English, by next year. Currently Yahoo is looking for content partners who can create content for Yahoo! in these 6 regional languages.

Twitter has finally rolled out Location Based trending for India. Some India specific topics that are trending for the day include Eid Mubarak and Ratan Tata.

Personal computer manufacturer, Dell overtook all other big brands to become the No. 1 in the desktop PC segment for the first time in India with a market share of 9.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2010.