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On a humid friday evening, i ventured out to the Hare Rama Hare Krishna Temple in Mumbai to meet an interesting gentleman who goes by the name of Kal Raman. 
 
 
Kal Raman is the Indian Born CEO and founder of GlobalScholar.com  and hopes to establish the online education platform for teachers, parents, and students in the country of his birth. [...]

We wish you all a very Happy Holi! Play with colours but be safe! Also those of you who aren’t from India and have no clue what we are talking about read this wikipedia entry on holi the festival of colours and you will know.
Also Check out the WAT Team below in the holi pics!

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Youtube is one of the webs most well documented successes. It can be awarded the most revolutionary innovation since the invention of television given the sheer distribution of video that it has created and has feeded on the long tail of video viewers be it on blogs or on youtube itself.
 
Now one of Youtube’s co-founders [...]

IPTV has been in the news for some time and so has been MTNL’s association with the same. Now MTNL has finally launched IPTV service in association with Aksh Optifibre Ltd. They have launched a service called Aksh-Tel, an internet protocol television (IPTV) and V Spyk, (a video phone calling service) in partnership with For [...]

Google has launched a plugin which enables Google search on the Windows Mobile Phone. A few weeks ago they had launched a similar plug-in for Symbian devices.

The plugin effectively puts a Google search shortcut onto the phone’s home screen. This shortcut basically enables you to search the web right from your phone screen thereby reducing [...]

Number Portability allows one to retain one’s number while switching the operators. So, if your Reliance Mobile customer care is a waste, the billing is erroneous (to put it politely) and there are just no Nokia N-Series handsets available, you can happily switch over to a Vodafone network, while still retaining your three year old number, just in case you ex decides to call you sometime.

Well internet can be a medium that distracts as web surfing can lead to a non-focussed experience where a user moves from one page to another without really achieving what he set out to do in the first place. Also web though necessary in every office in today’s day and age has also been restricted [...]

A recent study by JuxtConsult reports 12 million users for Online Matrimony. There are a bunch of players in online matrimony covered in our matrimonial shootout last year. More statistics have been revealed in this report. Here are the statistics:

50% members of marriage portals live in the five metros.
79% of online matrimony surfers are well-qualified.
100 [...]

This news should bring a smile to the online advertising industry which was till date suffering due to its own USP of conversion and full response tracking which no other medium of advertising has as inbuilt as the online medium has and hence no other medium is held as accountable as the online medium.
So ineffect [...]

A friend of mine spoke about Punarbhava.in – a website for the disabled people by the Government of India. The friend described the site as “one of the the most well designed ’sarkaari’ website” he had eve seen. I could not agree more.
 
Run jointly by Rehabilitation Council of India, the website features a comprehensive resource [...]

Ever since Reliance ADAG group has started thinking “BIG,  Entertainment has been on the forefront of the strategy so be it movie rentals, downloads or streaming or radio or even DTH Reliance is trying to own everything that even spells e of entertainment. Also its not only movies its gaming as well where they have pumped in more money than [...]

Just read an article in ET where Senior VP of R&D of Oracle Corp has some interesting insights into the future of the world and devices. In answer to a question on What will be the future of technology? Kevin has the following to say:
 

“the next thing we may see is that everything is ultimately [...]

Imagine that everything you are is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Cleartrip recently got funding of 18.5 Million Dollars but just before they got that we were lucky enough to catch up with Hrush Bhatt for an exclusive interview with WATShow.
We questioned Hrush on the following:
1) What’s the differentiation between Cleartrip and other Online Travel Portals?
2) How important is logistics in online travel business?
3) Why did Cleartrip launch Rail Search?
4) What’s the idea behind the blog?
Wanna see this WATShow?
Click the link below: http://www.watshow.com/2008/03/18/exclusive-interview-with-hrush-bhatt-founder-cleartripcom/
You can also drop in your comments at WATShow.com

The highest priced sale was the art piece “An Actor at Play (Cuckoonebulopolis)” which fetched around Rs. 2.12 crores at saffronart.com