Preshit is our social media celeb with one of the most active Twitter profiles in India. However, his Macaddiction (Apple Fanboy for those who thought that was a typo) is legendary and conveniently spills on to watblog as well. Preshit's the guy who scouts and posts news and runs the technology side of WAT

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 [...]

Idea Cellular, one of the major telecom companies in India led by the Aditya Birla group have announced that they have begun their operations on Mumbai. The company so far has heavy presence in the Northern and Southen parts of the country.

We have 3 different, each with its own set of views and claims about the issue. RCOM claims that as per the license issued to it, it is allowed to offer both GSM and CDMA services in the country. Although TRAI is mum on RCOM’s claim, it maintains that the COAI is required to provide inter-link, failing which would be against the licensing agreements they agreed upon. COAI on the other hand claims that re-negotiations should take place since RCOM’s GSM services require a new network and hence should be considered a new service.

It would be interesting to see who bows down to whose demands

Keyboard App Launchers are amazing little applications. They calmly wait in the background, peacefully keeping an eye on your movements. As soon as you hit the magical global keystroke combination, they reveal themselves and then quickly bring you the application that you intended to use? Awesome, isn’t it?
Keyboard App Launchers are those software that let [...]

After over two months of testing the program through select feed publishers, Google has now opened the flood gates for the public to enable Adsense Ads for their RSS feeds. Google, which bought the Feedburner network back in 2007, has now enabled anyone to integrate Google Adsense ads into their feeds and benefit from their program.

UTV Interactive, the gaming division of UTV software has acquired a 80% stake in True Games Interactive, a gaming company based in California. True Games Interactive is known to focus on the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) model, which is fast becoming popular these days.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today released recommendations on what could change the future of Internet Telephony in India. According to the recommendations released, the regulator claims that the Indian Government should remove all restrictions that have been imposed over Internet Telephony in India.

It’s the turn of Wikia Search to try and take on the giant. Wikia is the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, the founder of, unarguably the largest collection of information in one place, Wikipedia. Wikia Search is a human powered search engine that was launched in Alpha back in January.

iPhone 3G - This is undoubtedly the only gadget, ever released by any company in the market, that has managed to generate so much hype that users all over the world are desperately awaiting the launch of the phone in their respective countries.

So, amidst all the speculations in the market, how much is the iPhone actually worth?

Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d have imagined that a research project in the Stanford University would actually go on to become on of the Internet’s most essential products?

If John Davies, the Head of Next Generation Web Research at BT, is to be believed, Semantic Web may be commercially viable sooner than you think. Does this mean that the days of Web 2.0 and the community gone by?

The term ‘Semantic Web’ was derived from W3C director, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Semantic Web is seen as the development of the World Wide Web where the content of information and services are defined to make web content more searchable and useful.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian (TRAI) is in the news again. This time, the regulator is neither giving any recommendations to DoT or releasing guidelines for MVNOs in the country. Instead, TRAI has its eyes set on one of the leading sports channel provider in the country, ESPN Software.

Apparently, the sector regulator is planning [...]

It seems that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Department of Telecom (DoT) are all pumped up with their workings, so much so, that all the activity in the telecom market just refuses to die down. Barely a week after DoT released the guidelines for the auction of 3G spectrum in India, allowing even international players to participate, TRAI has now released guideline recommendations for allowing Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in the Indian Telecom Market.

Google has added one more Indian Language to its localization options for its News and Blogger services. Apart from English, Tamil has now been officially added as a language to these services from Google and the third being Hindi, which was added back in May 2008.