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Well everybody in the WAT (Web, Advertising Technology) Space seems to be going regional so whether its  web portals,  im chat, search engines or mobile players everyone is after that regional customer down south. The next one to soon join the foray into the “we are regional” gang is MGinger the sms advertising company that [...]

India has a rich content pool of software programming talent. To recognize young India’s software prowess the corporate India keeps on organizing events. The Great Indian Developer Ecosystem is one such event, to be held in May 2008.
The summit will Summit Features Co-located Conferences on Bleeding-edge .NET, Rich Web, and Daring Java. Organized by Saltmarch Media, the summit will have speakers and sessions by eminent members of the Indian IT industry

I guess internet is the next destination when it comes to TV and Print media companies. Many of them have already launched a plethora of portals and are using their TV and print networks to promote the same. So the herd mentality seems to have set in and its no surprise that more media companies [...]

Now with fame come its pitfalls be it facebook or be a celebrity. Recently facebook was in the news with regards to Sonam Kapoor the newbie bollywood actress who made her debut with the much criticized Sawaariya. Sonam’s facebook pictures which were meant to be private got leaked. And even now are all over bollywood blogs across the web. The story goes that she called her brother harsh to get the pictures removed from her profile.

And its not only our Indian Celebrities even Paris Hilton is facing the same issue with facebook

JuxtConsult has released many reports before as well and this time they came out withe a ‘Website User Friendliness and Usage Satisfaction’ Study. The survey was conducted by JuxtConsult through an online poll on the basis of 19 criteria.
 
The websites were evealuated on the following accessibility, likeability, relatability, navigability, interactivity and task accomplishment’. The sample [...]

The Cyber Security Wing of DIT has identified the following websites as the ones spreading the malicious code and have asked the users to block these websites.

* www8 DOT update microsoft DOT com DOT sec94 DOT in
* update DOT microsoft DOT com DOT cfm48 DOT com
* update DOT microsoft DOT com DOT asp63 DOT net.

Ranked fourth in the world, CRL’s supercomputer, known as EKA has 14,400 processors with 28 Terabytes of memory and 140 Terabytes of disk space. With a peak performance of 18-trillion calculations per second (180 teraflops), the CRL’s computer will be providing the cutting edge computational power to the researchers from Yahoo

I could not make out the specialty of the offer after going through the complete news and even after checking out the website.
They ask you to point your GPRS-enabled phone’s browser to wap.emailtomobile.com and acces your emails. Well, can’t I do it already with my Yahoo! Mail ? I think I can. Most of the popular portals have their WAP versions (Although WAP is hardly popular) and I can anyways access my Internet from my existing emails if I have a GPRS-enabled phone.

Well India is soon going to take over the US numbers as far as mobile subscriber base is concerned. That would put India in no.2 position in the world by April according to TRAI which will be behind the mobile giant China which has 560 million subscribers which is more than double of what India [...]

After a looong weekend WATShow is back! We caught up with someone who would primarily be associated with the offline media industry but who is well versed with the online video and its potential.
 
We spoke to Jai Maroo the Director of Shemaroo and posed the following questions to him..
1) Do you think video entertainment is [...]

Recently I read an interesting article on Crenk which states that Firefox user numbers are largest in the Oceania region. The Oceania region includes Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
 
 
Almost one in three web users in the Oceania region – 31 per cent – were using Firefox, compared to 28 per cent in Europe [...]

Proto.in the startup event that’s in its fourth edition now which is due sometime in july in Delhi has launched another innovative exercise which is trying to address the problem of startups i.e. hiring! Startup Lunch is a programme which is aiming to get prospective startup employees and startups together. They also have put up [...]

Sulekha.com which was funded last year for 10 million dollars by Norwest Venture Partners has now aiming to go IPO by next year. We had earlier covered similar plans of travel portals and also other classifieds players who are also looking at going IPO.
 
Sulekha is expecting to do revenues of $30 million (about Rs 120 [...]

FutureBazaar.com which is the Future Group’s e-commerce venture has raised funding for which it has given 15% of equity to Sherpalo Ventures and KPCB (Kliener Perkins) which is headed by Ram Shriram. As this report suggests that the Future Group was looking at raising $20-30 Million For Futurebazaar.com and diluting 10-15 percent stake. So the [...]

Games on celebrities have been in vogue since sometime now. But now the action has moved from male celeb oriented action games to female celeb oriented action games (possibly the lara croft effect?). So recently it was malaika arora for whom FX Labs had come out with Agni a PC Game and now its actress [...]