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Citywide WiFi Planned by BMC in a 50-Crore Plan For Mumbai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has brought forward a plan, which, if implemented, would allow anyone to use WiFi on their compatible laptops or mobile phones. This initiative by the BMC is a public-private partnership of sorts, in which the BMC plans to cover the entire city with WiFi coverage, albeit not free.
Facebook ropes in Mozilla VP & installs Live Search, while clearing off a few Controversies
While still largely lagging behind Google and Yahoo with the market share and the search rankings, Microsoft yesterday announced that it had expanded its deal with Facebook and will now be integrating its Live Search right into the popular social network. Microsoft already has a 1.6% stake in Facebook which it bought at $240 million while valuing Facebook at a whopping $15 billion.
The Need For OLPC In India. Is Anil Ambani Joining In ?
I have always believed we need better, more affordable computing resources. OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) always looked like a good solution for this. That the project always ran into one problem or the other is a different story. Many people still question, the original idea of providing a laptop for $100. Even Intel, who was supporting the project at one point, pulled out few months back
DoT ditches the 3G Auction for CDMA Players, new policy to decide their future
DoT’s recently announced 3G policy comes as a ray of hope, bringing the technology even more closer to reality. However, not everyone is happy in the telecom land. It seems that the major GSM players will get to dance in the sun, while the CDMA operators wait in the dark alleys. Preferential treatment by DoT?
Mobile Subscribers Rise By 9 Million (almost) In June.. While Total Broadband Subscribers Only 4.38 Million!
Well if the latest TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) data is anything to go by than the monthly mobile subscribers are more than double of the countries total broadband subscribers! Well if there was any doubt left that mobile might just be the medium to reach out to an ever growing audience as compared to the internet these numbers are sure to clear your doubts away!
OnMobile Inks Deals For Mobile Music With South Indian Music Labels
OnMobile has entered into exclusive content deals with over 40 music labels from South India. The labels will offer music to be used as mobile content by OnMobile. It is claimed that the deal size is around Rs.8.5 crore.
Ex-Googlers Launch ‘Cuil.com’ – They Claim Its Bigger.. Better than Google!!
Well lots of attempts have been made including claims of making a search engine better than google. There have been startups like Powerset or Mahalo both of which use natural language or human powered search results as the ‘better than google’ factor to their advantage. But even after the hoopla about who will be the next google killer be none seem to have come even close to the search giant. A bunch of try the Bigger than Google route! Read on to know more..
RBI Tries to Introduce Norms for Mobile Banking – Cashless Society 2.0?
It all started with RBI suddenly realizing the importance & wide array of applications of mobile banking and planned to start working on operative norms! According to their draft, banks are supposed to get explicit written permissions from their customers and one time registrations to be done to take care of all formalities.
Reliance Communications laps up $ 500 million from EDC, Canada – Will it help improve their services now?
Reliance Communications has been upbeat about sprucing up its GSM services for a long time, now. After making SMART’s, its GSM network, presence felt in the eastern and central zone, Reliance has been looking to expand to the rest of the country in a big way. RCom receiving a loan of $ 500 million from EDC Canada, in addition to the $ 750 million the Anil Ambani firm had loaned from China Development Bank.
Accel Partners & Erasmic Ventures Merge To Launch Accel India Venture – Seed/Early Stage Venture Firm
The newly formed Accel India Ventures would also be managed by Subrata Mitra, Prashanth Prakash, Mahendran Balachandran and Gagan Kumar who were earlier the partners at Erasmic Venture Partners. Im assuming the current portfolio of erasmic would also be under Accel India Partners as erasmic seems to have done away with its own corporate site.
Jeevansathi.com Lets You Chat With Other Users Over Google Talk
Jeevansathi.com now lets you chat with other users over Google Talk. No IDs are exchanged, you can do it anonymously. Users can now chat with the users who are already online. All they have to do is add jeevansathichat@gmail.com to their Google Talk. Once done, you will be able to send and receive chat request from other online members.
Twitter Mania Or Twitter Maniac?
Yesterday seemed to be a doomsday for people in the blogosphere as their favorite messaging system Twitter had encountered with a weird problem. All of a sudden our hard earned followers had disappeared. As you all must be aware that this is not the first time that Twitter is facing problems. Previous issue was the [...]
Rediff India Q1 Revenues Up 42% – “We are looking At Acquiring Companies” – Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman Rediff.com
Rediff announced its first quarter results and things are looking bright as far as the Indian online business is concerned.
WAT was logged into the conference call and we have blogged some of the key statements that were made by Mr.Ajit Balakrishnan Chairman of Rediff.com
Read on to know more on rediff’s future strategy..
Social Gaming: Is it the Future of Gaming?
Social gaming is a new genre of gaming which adds the ‘Social’ factor to the games. True, multiplayer games have been played since a long time, but there is hardly any ’social’ factor to it. Imagine sitting with your family on a Sunday afternoon, and everyone decides to game. No, not the warfare kind. The one where everyone gets to take part, collaborate with one another or simply play against each other.
Malicious Websites on the Rise, Google’s Blogger the Top Target
How secure are you when you browse the internet from your computer? How secure is your financial data? Do you check what page you are going to visit? How safe is the page that you have just opened in your browser?
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