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Ok i read this news via my feed reader and im a little amused. Mint reports that Desimartini is bought by HT media. The article claims that Desimartini has 2.5 lakhs registered users (many of which signed up due to the TV ads we disussed here) and also 2.5 million page views per month. Now [...]

WiMAX is on the international radar ever since it first made news. Using the technology, upto 30 km of wireless connectivity is possible. Reliance, Intel and a host of others have been testing WiMAX for some time now. The promise that WiMAX makes holds the key to development of India. Rural India, to be specific. [...]

Earlier we blogged about Yahoo! tying up with major Indian telecom companies for its OneSearch technology, We have just heard the news that MSN has launched India centric MSN Mobile services very recently and is also tying up with major Indian telecom companies for developing location-based search.
 

 
MSN has recently launched a new mobile client which [...]

 
For those who are unaware of the terms black hat and white hat – a black hat hacker is one who does or is interested in doing bad things. They are the so called bad guys as they make people’s life difficult by breaching the security codes or corrupting the integrity and reliability [...]

Microsites seem to have become a trend among companies. Microsites are quickly catching up with companies and media agencies and seem to be the need of the hour. even at WATBlog we tend to blog about a new microsites atleast twice a month.
 
Why Microsites?
 

They are easier to promote and as a great supplement to [...]

 
We have blogged earlier about international advertising companies looking for acquisition in India. As a follow up to that, there is news that WPP, the second-largest advertising and marketing company in the world is to buy Mumbai-based Quasar Media. Quasar Media is an online digital advertising and media company.
 

 
 
 
The internet has opened up a new [...]

When you might have just thought my mobile phone is much safer than pc which is very often attacked by viruses, this may make you think twice. After PC the hacker’s new playground has been mobile phones for some time.
 
 
India being an emerging market for mobile industry, services like sms has become very popular among [...]

Microsoft, the global software giant, launched the upgraded version of its Windows LIVE Services recently in India. Windows Live Services comes along with a set of online tools and desktop applications which include Windows Mail, Messenger, Toolbar, Events, Photo Gallery, Writer and OneCare Family Safety.
 
The upgraded version of Windows Live is designed to synchronize [...]

Nokia has plans to enter the internet service space. The revenues will be generated from advertisements. The service will offer songs, video clips, games and other downloadable stuff. Some of the “premium” content like new songs will not be free and Nokia India is structuring the pricing strategy for it. Under the brand name “Ovi”, [...]

Sanjib Mitra, an Indian blogger based in Bangalore, has just recently exposed the bugs in the UK visa application website. The bug was recently found by the enthusiastic techie while filing an application for a friend and he found out a way to view the personal details of more than 50,000 applicants who have [...]

NDTV relaunches its revamped site cricketNdtv.com. But we do have lots of other cricket sites that updates us with the scores.Then what will make
cricketNdtv.com survive in the market?
 
Is cricketNdtv.com different from other cricket sites?
 
Not much, cricketNdtv.com has a few features like Instaspeak which allows the users to share their views instantly by chatting and [...]

 
I guess the contest fever is really catching on. After “Google Offering $10 Million To Mobile Application Developers” Now Reliance communication is running a nation wide contest for developing rural mobile applications.
 
Whats The Contest?
Contestants/Developers will have to create applications which suit the rural mobile market and will focus on transportation, m-commerce, health care services, [...]

Anyone who has ever given the CAT Entrance exam for MBA in India knows that once the exam is over there is tremendous chitter chatter, excitement for some and disappointment for some after discovering whether they cracked or didn’t crack one of the toughest MBA entrance exams in the world. But all of this is [...]

 
Though we had earlier blogged about Google confirming the existence of Gphone which sources such as WSJ and CNET suggested, Google is not announcing its Gphone as yet amidst lot of speculation. Google has setup an alliance of 30 leading technology and mobile companies to develop “Android”, an open source based operating system for mobile [...]

NDTV Convergence the digital arm of NDTV is all set to launch its first mobile portal (in beta) this December.
NDTV Active will be packaged with various mobile sites consisting of text-based content like news, movies, astrology, music, lifestyle and stocks. All the content would be coming from their online portal which has truck loads of [...]