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In this piece on UID, Pratyush & I discuss on some Hygiene issues that would make or break the UID system. And we will definitely refer to the Technical Scope of the recent tenders as well. In our last post, we had someone from the UID team telling us about the sarcasm in the post against .. read full article »

Twitter statistics have kind of become a rage – We already have feature more than couple of studies and research on this. Now Barracuda Labs has released the latest Twitter Report which shows that only 21% of all twitter can be termed as real active twitterers.So how do they define an .. read full article »

IPL will begin from tomorrow and if you are a gamelover specially cricket then you must play this new official IPL T20 game. Developed by Indiagames. To play this game online, you just need to have IE6 (or higher) or Firefox 3.6 (or higher) and a Facebook account. After login through Facebook .. read full article »

HSBC Global hosted a Con Call with Terry Rhodes, co-founder of Celtel International acquired by Zain. Mr. Rhodes was of the following opinion On Diversity and Cultural spread in Africa, As Africa consists of 53 countries, to operate successfully it is important to understand the dynamics of each .. read full article »

In an exclusive interaction with BNP Analysts, Mr. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications said 3G auction is on schedule for 9 April 2010. The dispute between defence and telecom ministry over spectrum has been resolved and 3G rollout is expected 3-6 months after the auction. Expect .. read full article »

ClipWeave.com is a Noida based video analytics startup that helps extract information from videos so that it can be used for better targeting and monetization. Clipweave claims to use proprietary technology to extract text (credits, ticker, subtitles etc), convert speech-to-text, detect a change .. read full article »

Are you looking for good discount offers to shop, spa or place to hang around with friends? It seems the web would be the perfect place to find out about such discounts. There have been almost half a dozen group discount sites that have been launched in the last 6 months. We feature some of them .. read full article »

Good hiring is always a tough task for any startup. And receding recession could mean even more challenge in the situation, when talent within starts looking at options outside. For greener pastures or simply for the sake of change. Operationally speaking, the cash pay-out of hiring goes way too .. read full article »

SMSGupshup recently announced the formal launch of its Appstore, Appshup and since we have been receiving a few queries from our readers, we just passed on the questions to SMSGupshup team. Here is a short QnA with the team on Appshup: Qn: What is the revenue share percentage between SMSGupshup .. read full article »

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,To bring in more transparency in the .. read full article »

It is always inspiring to read stories of people who may never have had an Internet connection but are still using the power of Internet to find clients from across the globe. Meet Samson – he drives an auto-rickshaw in the Souther Indian city of Chennai and has a proper website where his .. read full article »

WoW ! Just spent half an hour at Google marketplace, added 5 neat free application to my Google Apps account – Cant tell you how thrilled I am with the ease of use and the kind of functionality enhancements it brings to Google Mail, Docs, Calendar etc.We have been reading & hearing about .. read full article »

Finally, the placement season of ‘Top’ Indian MBA grads has begun (or, shall I say, ended the way it’s been projected that all have been placed already?). And with the placement seasons come eye-popping Salary figures as headlines in major newspapers. I never could understand the real .. read full article »

Chicza chewing gums, who claim to be the first ones to manufacture biodegradable chewing gum ever sold, went on sale in Waitrose stores in Britain. It is organic and biodegradable chewing gum pitted against highly-adhesive chewing gums which get stuck on roads and streets making life tougher for .. read full article »

Pantaloons – India’s largest cloth retailer – leveraged the power of the Facebook Platform to take it’s top class fashion show live on the internet. The Panatloons’ Fashion Show had top business honchos walking the ramp. The live web cast on Facebook was available on the Pantaloons .. read full article »

Apps marketplace seems to be the new fad be it mobile apps or web apps. The latest one to join this bandwagon is none other than Google Apps for enterprises. Google Apps  in the last three years has reached over 2 million businesses across the globe and hence this new app marketplace is an .. read full article »

It looks like almost every other cellular operator is launching their own AppStore these days. Thanks to Steve Jobs (of Apple and the iPhone fame) who has led to the rise of a new standard in the mobile industry – The Coveted AppStore. According to reports, Telecom major Vodafone Essar has .. read full article »

Yahoo! has decided to go the old way of promoting itself via outdoor advertising. It recently installed 12-meter-long, larger than life 3D Yahoo! icon made out of ACP (aluminium composite panel) just near to the Bengaluru International Airport. The icon is not just a piece of metal, a .. read full article »

We had blogged about earlier on how Youtube had roped in HSBC as the main sponsor for the IPL. Now it seems the laundry list of sponsors just grew by half a dozen. Leading the line-up of Premium sponsors are Royal Challenger’s IPL team, HSBC India, and HP India. Among other top brands taking .. read full article »

Google has launched Apps Marketplace, an app store for Google apps users. The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps. Installable apps are easy to use because they include single sign-on, .. read full article »

Dunnitt is a micro collaboration tool. It lets you create threads with a micro message (140 chars) and share it with a collaboration group. Each thread could be Text Only, YesNo, Question, Sign Up Sheet, Multiple Choice or Meet Up. And with proper input fields for each of them. Dunnitt- Micro .. read full article »

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. .. read full article »

Just yesterday we told you about Minglebox Launching an MBA Colleges Application Platform somewhat similar to a product that Pagalguy already has. And now ItzCash – a multipurpose prepaid cash card has launched a similar service for online application form filling of colleges based in Delhi .. read full article »

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – Even a 64 Gigabyte Hard-Disk is now looked down upon.30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at Hard-Disks that are 30 Terabyte in size (that is .. read full article »

It is always a delight to come across this kind of news – India’s capital city, Delhi, will see country’s first remote-controlled street lights operational that will be use Internet & Mobile technologies to function !Most of the Street lights in India are either manual or they use timers .. read full article »

Despite having a lions share in the video business, youtube still is not a profit making business for Google with an estimated loss of $1.5 million per day for the service and It is quite imminent for Google to try hard to make sense of this investment to it’s share holders. In this pursuit .. read full article »

Okhey, this post is a little off-beat. Women’s Reservation Bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies has been passed in the Rajya Sabha with 186 ayes & 1 noes about an hour ago! Yet another historic & welcome development in the Indian politics scenario .. read full article »

Next time when you decide on a Bollywood flick, do not refer to just one or two reviews here and there. Drop in at ReviewGang and see all major reviews by all the stakeholders of Bollywood. Better still, contribute with your own reviews on movies as well for the general benefit of population. .. read full article »

Tata DoCoMo does not want to trail behind in providing industry innovative plan offerings and as such is keeping the ball rolling. This time Tata DoCoMo has decided to bring ‘Rollover plans’ to sight which allows telecom subscribers to carry forward their unused talk-time and SMS packages to .. read full article »

There was a time when web services was the scourge of national airline carriers. Faced with stiff competition from the private airlines and with the advent of the internet in every sphere of life, Air India introduced online booking services some time back. But the services failed to take off, .. read full article »

Headstart the startup event is being conducted for the last 2 years. This year it comes to Hyderabad where in it ties up with ITsAP. Details Event: Headstart 2010 Venue:  Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Novotel Date: 12th March About event ITsAP (formerly HYSEA) & HeadStart .. read full article »

We have just started playing with InfiBeam’s PI Ebook Reader [PI@PI] and here are a few pictures PI Specification Internal Memory of 512MB RAM [SD slot up to 4GB] Reads all your PDF/Word doc/HTML Files Currently doesn’t supports WiFi All books bought from InfiBeam are DRMed PI .. read full article »

Latest Jobs from our job board Sr. Flash/Flex Developer We are looking for an expert flash developer, who must have an experience of at least 1-2 flex projects. Ideal candidate should have worked on some good products and should have few impressive flash applications beforehand. You must be .. read full article »

The CEO of the startup was conducting due diligence on a potential acquisition target. The Board (including him) had prepared a list of questions they wanted detailed responses to. These answers would then need to be cross-verified by the appropriate experts, lawyers and accountants. The .. read full article »

It might be the first case of offline advertising for a google product/brand and it comes through via its unique partnership with IPL to live stream matches on Youtube. Check the picture below which was taken at Dadar station in Mumbai: Besides for the above we are told that an entire train is .. read full article »

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application StoreIt was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom .. read full article »

In a very shocking announcement, The Depertment Of Telecom (India) has asked Sivasankaran-backed S-Tel (a joint venture between the Siva Group and Bahrain Telecommunications Co) to shut down it’s network and operations in all the three regions where it is currently operating – just after .. read full article »

Did you know that MSN India has the most active company Twitter account, while MTV is the most followed brand. This is what iffort survey – Indian Companies on Twitter: A Usage Study – has to say.The study conducted by iffort, took into account tweets between period of November 2009 and Feb .. read full article »

Telecom operators are under a peer pressure to launch App stores. After Airtel’s app store, and Aircel’s announcement of an about to be launched App store, comes an App store from Vodafone. Vodafone Essar has rolled out its app store and can be accessed by sending a message APP to 111 [toll .. read full article »

The Common Aptitude Test 2009 – 10 which is a gateway to some of India’s finest B-Schools has already failed it’s organizers big time. All the fuss is now finally over as the results have been declared and fates of many aspirants have been decided. Prometric – the test agency that did .. read full article »

If you have been visiting WATBlog for some time, you must have read our time to time coverage of Cloud Computing. In our previous coverage we told you about Google’s views on Cloud Computing and also how this cloud computing could prove to be detrimental to IT jobs. Well, lets keep all this .. read full article »

Reportedly, DMRC and Google India announced their partnership through Google Transit, to provide complete information on Delhi Metro schedules and routes. Google transit, launched in 2007 is a service integrated with Google maps helping users find out the directions by  public transit. .. read full article »

It is largely argued that women are heavy users of online social networking and now that theory seems to overtake the mobile social networking scene as well. A recent nielsen study reveals that women constitutes majority ( almost 55 % ) of mobile social networking audience . Nielsen study also .. read full article »

Backdrop: For the long pending Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33% seats in the state legislature and in Parliament for women, the Rajya Sabha is due to vote today for enacting a law reserving a third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislators for women. Earlier the Union .. read full article »

July Systems which recently announced its series C funding has gone ahead and roped in the biggest cricket tournament of the year for a mobile internet deal. IPL 3 has tied up with July systems to power IPL 3 on the mobile Internet The Indian Premier League (IPL) and its licensing partner .. read full article »

You know a web service is popular in a certain geographical location when there are users of the service wanting a physical presence of the web service in their country. Such is the case of Facebook in India. Facebook did over 5 million users in December 2009 but is yet to see an official office .. read full article »

IPL is seeing massive commercial success in India and the same is being heavily monetized by the cricket board. So after giving away the online streaming streaming rights to Youtube, IPL has now allotted mobile rights for SMS, MMS, 3G and IVR related services to vRock Mobile for a period of 5 .. read full article »

Minglebox the social network which raised 7 million from Sequoia and then shifted its focus from being a youth social network to a education centric social network has now introduced Online App 2010 which is an online platform that enables students to apply to more than a 100 MBA colleges all .. read full article »

I remember when I applied for my passport some 15 years back – it was an excruciating wait for close to 5 weeks before I got that navy-blue colored booklet. It was as if I had crossed a huge hurdle in my life!To be honest not much has changed sine then and now – even today it takes minimum .. read full article »

Marketers in the digital space are constantly grappling with the issue of selling digital to advertisers and getting more monies into the digital media industry. The real challenge is the value promised and the price charged for such value. The value mostly has been numeric in nature i.e. .. read full article »