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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

Canaan Partners the Venture firm that has funded the likes of BharatMatrimony (Now Consim Info) and techtribe is now looking towards the VAS space with high expectations with its new fund ready for investment. The mobile space has seen some action lately with the likes of  Mkhoj, Smsgupshup raising funding.
Canaan raised about 650 Million $ [...]

It was the search for a better platform that offers quality cooking blogs for his mother that led Mr. Christopher John Osbourne to the idea of FeedZa. WATBlog decided to catch up with Chris, Founder of FeedZa, and shoot him a few questions to fend.

As time changes, people find out new ways to express love and also add a pinch of Web 2.0 to the ritual of marriage proposal. In short, life is taking the shape of Life 2.0 and for those who believe in reincarnation, let’s see what web 3.0 brings to them!

Just came across this ad while accessing an article from Moneycontrol.com. Click image below to view the ad:

We had recently blogged about the revamp of Moneycontrol and the in.com widget placed prominently on the homepage of the new revamped moneycontrol. Now it seems the Web18 guys are taking this a step further and using the [...]

Google has finally started pumping in the google muscle behind Jaiku which it acquired last year to take on the micro blogging leader and today’s buzz platform twitter head on. According to this post by Jaiku invites Jaiku has now been shifted from their earlier finnish servers to the Google App Engine. For those who [...]