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Now this will leave all Microsoft bashers red faced [especially in India]. According to a survey by global market and insight group TNS, US software giant Microsoft has topped the list of most reputed companies in India! Although what’s surprising is that this comes on the back of repeated protests against both, Microsoft and Bill Gates for being socially irresponsible

Here comes a national award for creating computer games. No more shall your mother stop you from playing games on the internet neither shall she freak out when you tell her that you develop computer games for your living. Why? Well, now even the United Nations has recognized the impact a little flash game can [...]

Hail the latest development deployed by the Google search team. While digging for some information on Adobe AIR using Google search (yes, WATBlog too relies on Google for searching), Ankit spotted a brand new feature. It seems Google has started to place cookies in the users’ computers to let them know if they had already visited a link from the search result, when it was last visited and also how many times was it visited.

Its very important to look at your investor as a member of your own team who is working late nights to achieve your dream, than only will you be able to run faster towards your goal. Do a complete research on the Venture Capital fund you approaching and the director of that fund. As a first step its best to attend conferences and hear them out, talk to them in a informal setting and try building a rapport.

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

For all the Sanskrit enthusiasts out there, it’s going to be shubh prabhat, every day. An online digest called ‘Sanskrit Voice Digest’ can give you a taste of Sanskrit with articles written by qualified writers.

I had written before that in one of my article that for a web 2.0 model to survive , there will be a model which will be customized for it and there will be companies which will be built on that model like the Google Adsense model had SEM specialist companies. One [...]

After lying low for months, here comes a killer blow from Network18. It seems that the media and entertainment conglomerate Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is venturing into film exhibition. And if you think that it’s all hogwash and the rollout may take ages, sample this – It is opening its first multiple-screen [...]

The PS3 had an extremely shaky start, launched prematurely to compete against the rival Xbox 360, it suffered major losses. The Sony gaming division lost close to $2.15B in FY07, since they were selling double the number of PS3s but at a loss.

Gone are the days when you visit YouTube and then keep wondering what to watch next. The homepage of Youtube has been completely revamped and now YouTube suggests you the videos you might like to watch, on the basis of the previous data and your viewing history.

The last P.G Wodehouse book that I read inspired the title for this post. The connection pretty much ends there as we talk about paid membership sections on popular Social Networking sites and if someone would pay to get more in what essentially is a platform to keep in touch. Placing my arguments on how they can and why they should.

Well they say if you can’t beat them then join them! CareerbuilderIndia seems to be taking that approach in India where it is possibly the latest big player entrant in the cluttered job site market where every one from startups to big media houses have their own job sites. So given the situation the path that CareerBuilderIndia seems to be taking is the one where tieups with large portals and online properties which have good traction seems to be the strategy. So they have gone ahead and tied up with sulekha.com to power the jobs section at Sulekha.

If you look at the Indian scenario, there seems to be many blogs starting day by day. There is a huge possibility for an India centric ad network system coming out with their their blog advertising system.

Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners/players are more likely to say they cannot live without magazines and video game consoles, and less likely to say they cannot live without television and computers than the average new media respondent. They differ somewhat in their necessity for books, radio and newspapers.

We had blogged about the broad mobile advertising models before and have also done a round up of various sms advertising players out there in the market. Currently, this market is very nascent. Its pegged at just 40 crores, which is almost the same size at which online advertising was pegged at way back in 2000’s, even with the nascent internet penetration at that time.