With Christmas around the corner and the 3G auction date being announced again, let’s just shift the gears and talk bout some commerce in the digital space. Telecos are looking to build up their revenues with goodies that 3G would offer. For now, there are pretty interesting events lined up in the next couple of [...]

If you have been tracking the social media scene globally then its very likely that you might have heard of Foursquare which is a location based game and social network mobile app. International blogs have been going gaga over this new app and some have even gone to the extent of labelling it as the [...]

Last week, there was a well sourced news that Google could be launching a part of Chrome OS. On 17th November, they announced an event to be held at their headquarters, Googleplex, Mountain View, California, to give a ‘technical background’ and some demos.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google Engineering Director [...]

Indian Telecom sector has seen tremendous growth in past few years. The growth has largely been concentrated in urban areas where Tele-density has almost reached 100 per cent. The rural telephony although still lags far behind the urban telecom circles.

USO (Universal Service Obligation) funds were raised by the government through a [...]

Another news comes from the IndiaMART camp, they have launched a portal for SME in partnership with NDTV – NDTVSME.com. Objective behind this portal creation is to address the information, transaction & service needs of SMEs. This portal contains trade shows, leads, tenders, travel, IndiaMART Success Stories, IndiaMART clients, and HP Smartbiz as well. This [...]

The news of discontinuing services from Yahoo’s fold is no surprise as the company gears up to cut its cost and drive all its energy in its core segment i.e. Portal. This time Yahoo has decided to pull the plug from ‘Yahoo Go’ its mobile application.

Yahoo has notified its users that ‘Yahoo Go’ [...]

Speak about women empowerment, and the woman of substance, of course comes to my mind. If you’re a woman, your words, your deeds, your interests and passions proclaim you as such. So for a while let just few autocratic men fight their battles of caste and creed, while you await to be freed from the [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Coming soon — Hopes pinned
The largely awaited Office 2010 from Microsoft has hit the torrent and is anticipated to be made available for beta users very shortly. Microsoft for long has pinned hopes on Windows 7 & Office 2010 to drive revenue growth in two major cash cow segment of its [...]

Its east meets west as far as this story is concerned. Tripadvisor which is a global review sites on travel has tied up with Indian travel giant IRCTC (which powers a large chunk of travel ecommerce in India) for  content collaboration in the online travel space in India. This is a big deal for Tripadvisor [...]

We spoke to Amit Mehra this week who apparently looks to build his enterprise along with the growth of telecom in the hinterland. He joined Reuters in Nov 2001 in the London office as Manager, New Business Development and was the Vice President – Content Operations till he became the MD of RML. At Thomson [...]

Microsoft has launched social networking features on XBOX Live allowing users to multi-task their playing along with social interactions. Microsoft perhaps feels that Facebook & Twitter syndrome could easily help it to win console war.
Subscriber of XBOX Live services will now be able to update their status on Facebook & Twitter regarding content they are [...]

If you hate reports on website hosting or if you’re one of those anti-Google souls, I guess today is not a very gratifying day for you at WATBlog. Not even 24 hours since we published about WebsiteForever.com hosting sites for Airtel, Google comes up with another revolutionary service for their the web world to  endure. [...]

If you are a mobile payments solutions provider then the key for you is distribution. Distribution can be achieved by partnering with several players. This is the exact strategy that Atom Tech a mobile payments and m-commerce enabler seems to be following since 2 years now.
In recent times it has announced two major deals.
RCom Deal [...]

After informing you about the grand announcements made by Google last week, here comes another product from the Google factory, only this time its an improvement over its previous edition. Google recently launched a new look Google Translate with a few additional features. But again I guess Google has still not been able to decipher [...]