Why Google Wants The White Space Between Your TV Channels (Spectrum)

by | posted: August 19, 2008
After reaching 70% market share for Internet search, what else can you ask for? Well, more. Recent reports say that Google now wants to free the usage of white spaces within the TV spectrum. White-what...
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Zapak’s Downloadable Games Model Failing? New Focus on Selling Discs ?

by | posted: August 18, 2008
Is Zapak.com, the online gaming portal owned by the mighty Reliance ADAG group, failing in its plan? Downloadable games, that is? This report by Business Standard hints something towards this. Reportedly,...
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Reliance ADAG’s DTH Service To Be Launched On Tuesday

by | posted: August 18, 2008
The long awaited Direct-to-Home service from Reliance ADAG will be launched on Tuesday, reports Afaqs. Reliance will be starting with a basic offering of about 200 channels. The price will be an aggressive...
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Microsoft LIVE Search : Will It Steal The Show ?

by | posted: August 14, 2008
WATBlog was invited to a selected screening of some of the new features on Microsoft LIVE Search today. I went hoping to find something interesting. More interesting than the algorithm-tweaks itself....
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Know Where That Friend Of Yours Is Located. Now! Presenting Yahoo Fire Eagle

by | posted: August 13, 2008
Fire Eagle is a technology from Yahoo that lets you update your info about your location through your mobile or web, and share that information with many other web/mobile apps. For example, you can update...
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Zapak Launches Zapakworld.com, Turns Aggregator

by | posted: August 12, 2008
Reliance-ADAG group’s Zapak has launched what appears to be an aggregator of Flash games online. The website, Zapakworld.com does not contains games from Zapak.com. With reportedly more than 12000...
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Airtel Has 2.6 lakh mCommerce customers. Launches Independence Day Offer

by | posted: August 12, 2008
In this release, Airtel claims it has 2,60,000 subscribers for its mobile commerce services. Airtel now plans to use the eCogNito end-to-end mobile commerce platform by XIUS-bcgi. This will be on a...
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Radiocity Launches Social Network For Musicians

by | posted: August 8, 2008
Radio City, the FM radio channel has forayed into the Internet business with the launch of Planetradiocity.com, a social network for the musicians, reports Afaqs. Radio will still be the core business...
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OOH Media Gaining More Digital Presence

by | posted: August 6, 2008
  Out of home media has been experiencing a blow recently. After Delhi and Chennai, Bangalore became the third city in India to put a ban on hoardings. At the same time, we are seeing more and more...
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Voice Technology Company Ubona Gets Funding From Capital18

by | posted: August 5, 2008
  Ubona is a Bangalore based company which has developed a patent-pending technology in voice recognition. The system recognizes what the user is saying and taking it as an input, triggers...
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Event Review: Barcamp Ahmedabad 2

by | posted: August 4, 2008
  After Barcamp Ahmedabad 1 Ahmedabad saw its second Barcamp on Sunday. Barcamp 2 Ahmedabad was sponsored by SUN Startup Essentials and had a few startups showcasing their products there.   The...
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Airtel To Embed Its Icon In Nokia Handsets. All Nokia Handsets

by | posted: August 4, 2008
India has the world’s lowest call rate, that’s pretty much known now. So, service carriers are now banking on other services for revenues. Value Added Services or VAS, as they are...
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‘Scrabulous’ Returns As ‘Wordscraper’

by | posted: July 31, 2008
Yesterday, we wrote about Scrabulous being pulled down from Facebook. The popular game on the social networking site was an online adaptation of the classic offline game. Seems that Hasbro, the...
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The Need For OLPC In India. Is Anil Ambani Joining In ?

by | posted: July 29, 2008
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...
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OnMobile Inks Deals For Mobile Music With South Indian Music Labels

by | posted: July 28, 2008
OnMobile has entered into exclusive content deals with over 40 music labels from South India, reports medianama. The labels will offer music to be used as mobile content by OnMobile. It is claimed...
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Jeevansathi.com Lets You Chat With Other Users Over Google Talk

by | posted: July 25, 2008
Just received this tip. 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....
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