Ankit is a true techie blogger at heart, and loves Microsoft, of course the irony doesn't end there, for his true calling is Bollywood. Anyway, Ankit specializes in tracking news and is our connect with the whole blogosphere.

Mauj Telecom has inked a deal with Radio City, the FM radio channel to power all mobile activities of Radio City. The deal is for 2 years. This includes Mauj managing the 57007 short-code mobile service of Radio City, through which, the audience can take part in various contests and programs. Also, Mauj will be [...]

( The following Startup Review is being done with help from Harshal )
What is it about?
Well, Uhooroo describe itself as :

A platform for musicians to show case their talent & get feedback from the music community on their auditions,
A platform [...]

Amidst news of companies launching iPhone and Nokia getting ready to combat that, how many of us actually take into account that we do not actually have a 3G infrastructure in place, yet, to take advantage of the goodies these Super-phones have to offer? Well, ofcourse we do have our Bluetooth enabled handsets and our [...]

Nokia will be adding Microsoft Mail for Exchange in its E and N Series of phones. The series runs on Nokia’s S 60 platform. It has added the software to almost 80 million mobile devices already, reports ET.
Mark Louison, head of Nokia’s North American operations, said,
“Microsoft Mail For Exchange is the world’s most popular e-mail [...]

So all you TV junkies out there (I am one!), Endemol must be a familiar name among you. No, those who still can’t remember this name, are just not watching enough of television.
So let me tell you about it. Endemol is the International company behind the shows like Fear Factor, Big Brother (Big Boss in [...]

Google has joined hands with HSBC to provide high-speed Internet access to the people of Africa and other emerging countries, reports Forbes. Along with cable operator Liberty Global, Google has joined hands with a group calledO3b Networks to contribute in the project. O3b stands for the “other 3 Billion”.
The project aims at providing the backend to [...]

When you have a 60% market share of a rapidly increasing mobile handset market in India, what else can you ask for? Well, more. And for Nokia that’s the Mobile VAS, another rapidly growing market. In India.
It was almost one year back, when Nokia announced. Described as an integrated services platform Ovi was a platform [...]

Sometime back, I received an invitation from Diditz.com, another of such sites. The site is in its alpha stage right now. Here is what I thought of it…

LIVE Search is gaining importance in Microsoft’s online strategy. Microsoft announced new features, last month.
WATBlog interviewd Ravi Datanwala, Group Manager- Live Search and questioned him about the new features in LIVE Search.
Here are the excerpts.
Q-  Google failed to monetize the MySpace search earlier. Now, Microsoft is putting LIVE [...]

Here it comes, the much awaited Google Browser. They call it Chrome. Google announced it in its official blog.
Interestingly, they have described the entire technology behind Chrome in a comic. Here it is.
Google Chrome, from what I have seen till now, is not just another regular browser, built on top of an existing base. The [...]

A report by the television rating agency TAM says that the viewers of digital TV spend more time watching Television than those having analogue TV. Digital TV includes DTH and the Conditional Access System (CAS).
TAM data shows that digital TV watchers also watch more number of channels compared to the analogue TV audience. 186 minutes, [...]

Google has announced the Google Developer Day in to be held in Bangalore on 18-October-2008.  The event is free to attend by anyone and is intended for software developers and students. The event will focus on Google API in specific and web applications in general.
Prasad Ram, head of engineering and R&D at Google India said,
“It’s [...]

Atom was an important announcement from Intel, back in March. The possibility of a chip, based on the same architecture as the desktop computers could have meant a new era in cross platform applications altogether. When announced, Atom was thought of powering the mobile internet devices (MID). The chips can however also be used in [...]

September seems like a month of events. Hell, it seems like there are more events than there are speakers. Let’s see what all is coming our way in September.
IAMAI Mobile VAS Conference
Delhi. 2-Sept-2008
The VAS conference of IAMAI will be held in Delhi. Prominent speakers include Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Guruji.com; Prasad Narasimha, [...]

Microsoft announced its Photosynth project long back. A lot of people had seen it already. Even I had blogged about it a year back.  Two days back, Microsoft released the Photosynth for the general public. The project is now out of the beta.
What is Photosynth?
Well, here is how Microsoft describes Photosynth -
“You can share or [...]