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You might have heard the song,
ठंडे ठंडे पानी से नहाना चाहिए…. गाना आए या न आए, गाना चाहिए…!!
Don’t be a bathroom singer any more, Get an audience at Muziboo.com. Upload your songs, comments on others, listen to radio & build your online band .etc.

Traditional Web Companies or for the use of a more cliched term Web 1.0 companies like jobs, matrimony and travel in India have become the big boys of the web in the last three years with many of them raking in funding close to tens of millions and one of them reaching valuation worth billions [...]

RealAcres.com a Red herring Asia 100 finalist has launched an interesting initiative. It has launched an online video show featuring interviews of Real Estate Industry builders and head honchos (i.e. A WATShow for the Real Estate Industry :D).

 
The video interviews has features builders and developers and other real estate experts sharing their views and insights [...]

I hadn’t heard of Mr.India Haywards 5000 till I read this press release on him launching his own website. While it may seem a trivial news it does make me question whether online is the best way for bollywood/fashion aspirants and fame seekers to achieve what they want?
 
Though Mr.India’s website may not be the best [...]

Jivox is a newly launched do it yourself online video advertising solutions company that recently raised 2.7 million dollars in the US from Opus Capital. As per international reviews Jivox offers “tools to create online video ads, including templates and a library of still images, video clips and music and then target customers through a [...]

Well with 280+ million mobile phones in India one can expect this device to be a centrepiece of most business strategies when it comes to paperless transactions and access oriented businesses. So a company named Siemens Airport Systems Laboratory in Bangalore is working out a technology which would replace the physical boarding pass with 2D [...]

Dhoom:2 got talked about a lot in the online media, creating curiosity. There were speculation about the story, character, even actors. People were already discussing a guest appearance by John Abraham in Dhoom:2. Multiple theories were being discussed in the online world to justify John’s probable appearance in Dhoom:2. Some said, John Abraham will be doing a guest appearance. Some said, Hrithik is John Abraham, albeit post plastic surgery. Others wrote Hrithik is John with a mask (like in Mission Impossible). And while some wrote that Hrithik is John’s brother out to avenge his brother’s death, still others wrote how Aishwarya is John’s sister who hires Hrithik to do the robberies

We had blogged about the fact that the first wifi city could be Jaipur in India also the fact that builders themselves are looking at installing wifi in their new buildings is heartening for anyone who wants the internet penetration in India to grow. Now Jaipur has finally got its first wifi hotspot at the [...]

Local language is hot right now be it social networking, local search and now even sms group messaging service. MyToday (which also powers watblog’s sms alerts) has tied up with OneIndia. (one should note that Rajesh Jain of EVentures has invested in both Netcore which owns Mytoday and Greynium which owns OneIndia). This tieup would enable MyToday to start providing [...]

The International social networking scene just refuses to die down. After the astronomical valuation of facebook by Microsoft another social network bebo.com which we had covered earlier here has been bought over by AOL in an all cash deal worth 850 million $.Lets put this deal into perspective with whats happening in the social networking [...]

MIX is a Microsoft event for developers. Held each Spring at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, MIX sees Microsoft showcasing its Web technologies to an audience full of designers, software architects and prominent speakers.
 
Last year’s MIX saw Microsoft launching Silverlight platform for delivering breathtaking web experience to the end user. Touted as a competitor [...]

WATShow is back and this time we are doing something different. We are showcasing a startup founder instead of the bigwigs of the industry. This week we are in conversation with Nautanki.tv founder on the issues concerning online video its monetisation, mobile video and whether or not like facebook they plan to have an application [...]

We had recently blogged about the live streaming of ICL Videos on WatchIndia.tv. Also there has been tremendous buzz on the IPL front and teams and players being bought for astronomical sums of money by filmstars and corporate czars alike. Now it seems the same trend has rubbed off the to what seems to be [...]

Remember those small screens placed inside the bookstore Crossword? Yes, the ones responsible for distracting you with Baywatch-like scenes when you are really trying to focus on that fourth paragraph from An Autobiography of a Yogi. Yes that is Out-of-Home advertising.

Now, Infosignz Technologies, a digital signage and narrowcasting solution provider has launched a free version of their digital signage management system

Indian telecom market is hot favorite among the investors right now. Plenty of international companies have stepped into this market. Earlier, we had blogged about Virgin entering the Indian telecom industry in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Before Virgin coming to India, Orange and Hutch had already visited the telecom industry and were lapped up by [...]