Facebook Gets A Facelift On 6th Birthday

Facebook Gets A Facelift On 6th Birthday

Started in February 2004, Facebook is one of the largest social networking communities on the internet, second only to MySpace in terms of traffic. With expansion to both English speaking and non-speaking countries since its inception in the States and nearly 400 million active users worldwide, Facebook is a growing phenomenon. Some interesting statistics on [...]

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Indian Teledensity - The Goose Laying The Golden Egg Needs To Be Kept Alive?

Indian Teledensity – The Goose Laying The Golden Egg Needs To Be Kept Alive?

The Indian telecom space has seen over one decade of private enterprise spurred on by rapid advances in the telecomputing arena . The tele density having grown from a mere 2 percent has risen to over 47 percent as we speak in just over 12 years. The miscalculations about the purchasing power of the huge [...]

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Mobile Number Portability To Be A Reality From The Forthcoming April Fool's Day

Mobile Number Portability To Be A Reality From The Forthcoming April Fool’s Day

The talks about implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) have been in the air for quite some time. We have already told you about the lack of execution on the Service Providers’ part and extended deadlines for implementing MNP. Both BSNL & MTNL are ready to implement the mobile number portability (MNP) service by the [...]

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Mobile Social Networking: Opportunities & Challenges for Indian Market

Mobile Social Networking: Opportunities & Challenges for Indian Market

Mobile is always seen as a front runner in claiming India’s position in digital landscape. The mobile density in India is in upwards of 48 %  whereas Internet penetration continues to lag between 4-6%. Mobile internet usages is also on upheaval trend worldwide due to increasing sales of iPhone and other high end phones. The [...]

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The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites

The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites

The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s paper to find out what happened. Today, people want news to be delivered to [...]

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Yuvraj Follows Dhoni, Sehwag, Bhajji & Ishant - Launches Online Presence

Yuvraj Follows Dhoni, Sehwag, Bhajji & Ishant – Launches Online Presence

We had recently reported how top cricketers in MS Dhoni, Harbhajan, Virendra Sehwag and Ishant Sharma had launched their online presence. Following their footsteps is the Prince of Punjab Yuvraj Singh who has gone ahead and launched his official website too.

While his team mates decided to rope in Techshot Digital. Yuvraj has opted to partner [...]

DailyMotion Partners Yahoo! - Bullish On India

DailyMotion Partners Yahoo! – Bullish On India

Another online video streaming company (besides for Youtube) which seems to be getting in aggressive mode for the Indian space is the French limited company Dailymotion.

Dailymotion entered India in 2008 and had taken the stance of inviting original content creators to its platform. That move seemed to have worked as over a year Dailymotion claims [...]

Youtube Launches Bollywood Channel - UGC vs Exclusive Content?

Youtube Launches Bollywood Channel – UGC vs Exclusive Content?

YouTube has launched a Bollywood channel where full length Hindi movies like Raja Babu, Nauker, Bawarchi, Shaan and Mumbai Salsa are available for free online viewing. This move comes after the announcement of the release of movies like 3 Idiots and premiere of movies like Striker on its platform.

Youtube had started forging partnerships with bollywood [...]

Are You A Web Developer? Head Over To Google D3VF3ST!

Are You A Web Developer? Head Over To Google D3VF3ST!

If you are a web developer or someone who is excited to see new and cutting edge technology on the web, then D3VF3ST is what you should be looking at. DevFest 2010 is a developer conference organised by Google to be held in the month of February and March in Pune and Hyderabad.Location and event [...]

A Peek Into 'Peek' - The Email Device In India

A Peek Into ‘Peek’ – The Email Device In India

After its fast-growing popularity in the United States, Peek, the mobile email device is expanding its user base and has set sail for Indian shores. Touted as a simpler and more reasonably priced Blackberry substitute, this device is designed primarily for quick, simply access to email with a few other features like text messaging added [...]

The Google Cyber Attacks: Teaming Up With US Intel To Fight Crime

The Google Cyber Attacks: Teaming Up With US Intel To Fight Crime

The creation and phenomenal growth of the Internet has spawned the emergence of a global information society. Businesses possessing highly distributed information assets can function internationally with great efficiency, exchanging information quickly and seamlessly among their divisions, partners, suppliers, and customers. However, all the benefits provided by the Internet are subject to disruption by cyber [...]

WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 1st - 7th Feb 2010

WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 1st – 7th Feb 2010

The week started off with us sharing the opening of WATMedia’s Office In Mumbai with you. On the major news this week internationally is was Monster Worldwide Acquiring Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Millions, Facebook Getting A Facelift On Its 6th Birthday and Telegraph Looking Beyond Traffic Numbers. On the Indian front it was a bunch [...]

Paypal India Block Leaves IT Guys High & Dry - Need For An Indian Paypal?

Paypal India Block Leaves IT Guys High & Dry – Need For An Indian Paypal?

Paypal the online payments system has stopped working for India payments to and from. This has caused a lot of issues especially for IT developers who used to freelance for foreign markets and charge purely via the use of Paypal. Reports have been pouring in of several users whose transactions have been reversed.

Following is the [...]

Facebook Gets A Facelift On 6th Birthday

Facebook Gets A Facelift On 6th Birthday

Started in February 2004, Facebook is one of the largest social networking communities on the internet, second only to MySpace in terms of traffic. With expansion to both English speaking and non-speaking countries since its inception in the States and nearly 400 million active users worldwide, Facebook is a growing phenomenon. Some interesting statistics on [...]

Vodafone's Indian Arm Posts 13.8 % Growth In Revenues; Expects Fierce Competition

Vodafone’s Indian Arm Posts 13.8 % Growth In Revenues; Expects Fierce Competition

Vodafone,world’s largest mobile phone operator by revenues has posted 13.8% revenue growth for its Indian operations. The revenues increased to £767 Million from £674 Million in a year ago period. Vodafone worldwide revenues rose 10.3% to to £11.5 billion.

Vodafone’s Indian operations recorded revenues of £1485 Million for half year ended Oct-2009 whereas the EBITA was [...]

The Tablet Revolution Is Coming!

The Tablet Revolution Is Coming!

It has been a little over a week since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s latest innovation. The iPad. The Tablet that was supposed to change the world. Now, Tablets have been around for quite sometime. Apple is not the first to make a foray into the market. But it is looking to revolutionize the Tablet world [...]

Symbian OS, Now Fully Open Source

Symbian OS, Now Fully Open Source

As of 4th February, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS will be offered as a free open source download for anyone wanting to dabble with it. Nokia, which in 2008 had acquired Symbian and established the independent non-profit Symbian Foundation, has decided to publish the source code under the [...]

Some Thoughts on Using Google Wave Better

Some Thoughts on Using Google Wave Better

Understand that it is meant for collaboration. Also it would be handy to keep in mind that too many cooks spoil the broth. Knowing these two things in my mind are the most effective ways to make use of Google wave.

TTSL & RCom Launch 'Push 4 All Mail' - Affordable Mail Solution For Masses

TTSL & RCom Launch ‘Push 4 All Mail’ – Affordable Mail Solution For Masses

India’s mobile growth continues to see large scale innovation in Mobile VAS offerings.This time Telcos wants to bring affordable mail solution to every modest featured handset in India.Tata Teleservices and RCom has announced the launch of ‘Push 4 all Mail’ on their telecom networks in association with iseemedia.

This service will allow users to get Notification [...]

Google Diminishing Support For IE6

Google Diminishing Support For IE6

Search giant Google has announced that as of March 1, two of its web services (Google Docs and Google Sites) will stop supporting IE6. The company is urging users to switch to IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+ or Safari 3.0+ so as to ensure that they are able to use the latest web applications [...]