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Last October, the Mozilla Foundation Announced that it would be setting its sights on Firefox Mobile.
 
 
Mitchell Baker recently told Technology Review that Firefox Mobile would be out sometime this year.
 
 
Baker said that Mozilla has been working on a module to make sure that the size and memory requirement of their code (for the Mobile Browser) [...]

In the picture Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation was giving a presentation on the projection screen through his laptop. But the laptop seems to belong to some other Steve – Steve Jobs from Apple.

We normally don’t take a look at offline Viral Marketing Campaigns on WATBlog but this one seemed too good to resist.
 
 
I was in Andheri (Mumbai) the other day on my way to the SMEI Summit. I was waiting at a signal (Mumbai Traffic – ugh) and to my surprise a young boy, about 17 years of age [...]

The United States based makers of the CDMA platform, Qualcomm said that it plans to offer chips for 3G telecom services at ultra-low prices in India. The company plans to offer the Internet Access Device at Rs.8000 and a USB port-device priced at Rs.3500 for accessing high-speed wireless broadband Internet on PCs and laptops.

We recently blogged about Live Mesh which is Microsoft’s Web Platform that allows multiple computers to be in sync. These ‘computers’ include applications and portable devices as well.
 
 
We were at Proto.in early this year and we stumbled upon Leaonard Badi, one of the creators of Yambi – a service similar to Live Mesh. Thought I’d share the intricacies [...]

 
According to a Wikipedia entry following RSS Awareness Day, It is the 30th birthday of annoying SPAM. As spam turns 30 on May 2nd I would like to share with you how it all started. Way back in May 1978, Kurt Kleiner of NewScientistTech reminds us that it was Gary Thuerk, a marketer at [...]

Microsoft walking away from the deal might seems like an ideal situation that Yahoo might have dreamt of. But it’s actually a nightmare. Let me tell you why. If Microsoft walks away from the deal, thousands of shareholders of Yahoo will be furious since they failed to get a justified price for their holdings in Yahoo. (Yes, many of the shareholders think that at $31 per share, Microsoft is offering a fare price to Yahoo). This, as we discussed in our featured post Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, could result in a shareholders’ rebellion

Wikipedia encyclopedia’s first volume to be published in Germany in September 2008. The book will consist nearly 1,000 pages with approximate 50,000 most widely searched words on German version.

Tech, sex and romance has a great bonding. In near future I won’t be surprised if tech companies send their executives to a sex or a romance conferences/gatherings rather than a boring client meeting. Sex conventions are always considered to be medicinal/clinical and pornographic in nature. Now, social-media has given it a new dimension. It has helped people to create smaller, targeted gatherings that treat sexuality and technology as inseparable. In near future such sex conferences would gain more popularity and will drive more and more people.

Browsing through the Internet today, I came across the news of the NGO Nanhi Kali launching its new website http://www.girlsmiles.org . And using Social Media over the regular media. On opening up the website, I was greeted by the same design that I was a few weeks back, when me, Rupesh and Rajiv were admiring that website. The website uses the same concept of design.

Jeevansaathi.com has introduced its brick-n-mortar retail store branded – Jeevansathi.com Match Point. It plans to open up 25-30 retail stores in 6 months. The first one has already come up in Lucknow.

As reported earlier, Mircosoft, with NDTV Media has started advertising on Facebook, in India. The Ad platform was launched in February 2008. Bolywood Humgama, Equity Master and HDFC Secutities were named as the publishing partners. Microsoft is already the ewxclusive advertising partner for Facebook in the United States. Of course they paid a bomb for this. But it’s a good strategy overall.
NDTV is the advertising partner and responsible for bringing the advertisers to the platform.

After being termed as “One of the most innovative companies in India in 2007”, by Microsoft, the Hyderabad based NetXcell has announced that it will be raising around $ 3 million through private equity. The fund will be used to expand its sales in India and the US, besides its product portfolio, reports BusinessStandard.
The company makes Value Added Service (VAS) products for mobile phones.

A couple of months back I did an entire series on Innovation of Products. This is in a similar vein; it is more of a continuation rather.
 
 
Today im going to try and look at the key principles of certain technological products relating mostly to their Use related features and attributes on an external level. So this part [...]

One often uses Google Trends to analyse the zeitgeist of our times. And no wonder. Google now reflects our tastes, preferences et al by examining our search queries and combining all search queries possible to give an indication of pop culture by region.
 
 
The service has been pretty handy and has inspired other networks where users pour [...]