Pranav Agarwal
Now Google Expresses Interest In UID – How Will The Project Benefit From This?
Just yesterday, we saw Yahoo being interested in the Unique Identification Project. As quoted by Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz, “We met the Prime Minister today and discussed among other things, how Yahoo can help the Government in the project.” Looks like several more giants will be coming in soon.
As said in our last post, under [...]
Content Sharing Deal Between Facebook And MySpace – Can They Make It Work?
Just in the morning, we covered as to how Google stopped the migration of email-id’s from Orkut to Facebook by excluding the email-id’s from the CSV file, in order to preserve the privacy of their consumers. All that meant was that Google doesn’t want its users to go away with Orkut completely. As the statistics [...]
Bing’s Visual Search – Now Search Information Graphically!
Do you ever feel if the fight between Proprietary software or Freeware will ever end? I guess not. Similar is the case between Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Bing has been introducing various new features to lure the web searchers towards them from time to time and Visual Search is no different.
Now, the search engines would [...]
MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat To GPS?
Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added Service “Location Based Application Services” for its Postpaid & Prepaid GSM subscribers (Dolphin/Trump) from Mumbai. The LBA service [...]
India Gets Its First 3G Netbook Courtesy Haeir & TTSL
It started off with just a single processor to perform simple tasks. Then it evolved to do some complex tasks. Later a shorter form of the same box came in with network connectivity and now its the new 3G enabled notebooks. Evolution of technology and adaptation to it is what this is. On Sep 08, [...]
MNP Not Before 31st December – Is This Wait Meant To Make It More Exciting?
At WATBlog we’ve constantly kept you updated about the latest from Mobile Number Portability. We were able to answer several questions as to -
How VAS players will play a huge role in the industry as soon as the idea is implemented?
What would be its impact in India?
How would the operators bear the cost?
But the [...]
Does The Government Realize The Importance Of 3G Technology?
It was August 15 2005 when the Press Trust of India came up with a report saying “3G Launch in India early next year“. In this report, BSNL & MTNl were supposed to rolled out services by January 2006 while the private companies would also have launched the services by around the same time. Now [...]
Yahoo’s Homepage Reloaded – Makes Web-Surfing Simpler
First of all, for all the readers who do not know the full form of YAHOO, its Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (though no confirmed sources but that’s what they say in IT Quizzes).
Yahoo’s new Homepage is out. The new page was made live in the US along with few other countries like India, UK [...]
Microsoft Enters The Open Source Arena
Let me first tell you about the Open Source strategy of Microsoft. It might sound absurd but its true that Microsoft has an Open Source strategy Labs for their Consumers. The main cause of the formation of such a Lab was to make sure that their customers, who are struggling with running Open-Source software’s along [...]
Another Delay In 3G Spectrum Auction
In the earlier posts, we covered the delays in 3G auction due to conflicts between the Telecom Industry and the Finance Sector in fixing the Reserve Price following which our finance minister Pranab Mukherjee formed an Empowered Group of Ministers for issues relating to the 3G spectrum auction. Well, here we are again. A bad [...]
Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India – Opportunity For MVAS
Mobiles in recent days are not just a symbol of urbanization. Its also a necessity today in rural India. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there has been a rise of 18% in use of the mobiles by rural subscribers. Rising from 93.2 million users at the end of last year, India [...]