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We have had a lot of stories doing rounds about Yahoo Buzz since its launch in early 2008. And now with buzz opening its gate to all sets of publishers, it has started creating some buzz of its own. The traffic that it sends to those who crack it to the Yahoo homepage is dizzying and well documented by now. However, as a regular publisher and Indian at that, I have some doubts about the benefit Yahoo Buzz can provide me.

Get ready to dial a new set of numbers in near future. he earlier announced guidelines had specified that spectrum for broadband wireless can be used only for data services. However, the Telecom Commission, in its meeting on August 21 has taken a decision to remove the restriction.

Sify Technologies Ltd., one of India’s largest companies providing enterprise data services, which also provides consumer internet services and has an online presence in the form of a Portal Sify.com, has today announced a tie-up with internet search giant Google to power the company’s Email and Chat services. According to the announcement, the Sify’s offerings [...]

NEN (National Entrereneurship Network) and TATA have launched hotteststartups.in a platform where one can nominate and vote for the hottest startups of India. WATBlog is happy to be a associate partner of this initiative and would recommend all the startups to list themselves and also participate in voting for the other startups.

Besides for TATA and [...]

Google has launched its Map Maker services in india which allows users to add or edit geographical features such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities among others in the existing maps. There has always been WikiMapia which follows the crowdsourcing model of street level mapping and there have been quite a few [...]

open2save.in a retail aggregator of deals and discounts which we have covered earlier here has announced a tie up with Zook a mobile answer engine of Ziva Software which is funded by Ojas Ventures whose Managing Partner Mr.Rajesh Srivastha was interviewed by WATShow recently.

open2save which started in January 2007 and based out of Bangalore now [...]

Even as reports keep coming up regarding the issues that have plagued the iPhone 3G ever since its launch, a British Advertising Agency has ruled that iPhone’s advertisements are misleading the users and they should be immediately taken off air. The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK has ruled that the iPhone 3G does not deliver what is being conveyed in the ad.

After announcing new versions of its traditional image and video editors, Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7, Adobe also announced a new flash based mobile application, the Photoshop.com Mobile for Windows and Palm based smartphones.

WATShow interviewed Dr Rajesh Shrivathsa of Ojas Ventures when we went shooting the Startups at Proto 4. We had recently covered Ojas Ventures’ acquisition of mobile tech startup Mango Technology. And as promised then, we now have an interview with Dr. Rajesh.

The government has now given its nod to make necessary changes to the current downlinking guidelines for television channels. This has now eased off the commercial rollout of IPTV services in the country.

Presently, MTNL, the state-owned entity having presence in Mumbai and Delhi are already providing their IPTV services with a bunch of Free-To-Air channels. [...]

Now that all the hoopla surrounding the Apple iPhone 3G launch in India is finally settling down, people are finally beginning to convince themselves that laying hands on the iPhone 3G is not going to be easy. Although Vodafone has reduced the prices down to Rs. 28,000 in the stores according to some reports, the [...]

The IAMAI-IMRB Report on ‘Online Banner Advertisements‘ was released today. According to the report online banner advertisement market would grow at 40% to reach 350 crores by 2008-09 from its current size of 235 crores [2007-08].
The study also stated that top 3 spenders on the online banner ads would be from the segments Banking and [...]

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.

This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.

The drama around the 3G rollout in the country hardly seems to be over. However, the pre-bid conference has been deferred till August 27 and the opening of bids has been deferred to September 22 from September 3 as decided earlier.

As an initiative to build on WATblog as a resource center for anyone involved in digital media and new media marketing, we present an almost complete list of all the platforms available for your social media plans. This post aims to provide you a place to start of with in terms of the back end of your web 2.0 plans. So if you are surprisingly late to get on the neo web bandwagon and build a web home that leverages on the wisdom of the crowd funda, this post is for you