Shayon is our resident editor and feels compelled to post everything that comes his way. Of course, exercising his power as an editor, a "Shayon Adds" usually finds its way to quite a few of the posts at WATblog. Web and related technology is his forté and also does a good job managing a bunch of lazy bloggers when he is done with his set of daily posts.

Microsoft and Nikon on Thursday announced that they have signed a cross-licensing patent agreement on Nikon’s digital camera patents as well as consumer electronics patents from each company. The two parties did not disclose specifics of the deal, but Microsoft said that it will be receiving payment from Nikon and that the deal will be related to its digital imaging software.

Get ready to dial a new set of numbers in near future. he earlier announced guidelines had specified that spectrum for broadband wireless can be used only for data services. However, the Telecom Commission, in its meeting on August 21 has taken a decision to remove the restriction.

After announcing new versions of its traditional image and video editors, Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7, Adobe also announced a new flash based mobile application, the Photoshop.com Mobile for Windows and Palm based smartphones.

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.

This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.

The drama around the 3G rollout in the country hardly seems to be over. However, the pre-bid conference has been deferred till August 27 and the opening of bids has been deferred to September 22 from September 3 as decided earlier.

It was the search for a better platform that offers quality cooking blogs for his mother that led Mr. Christopher John Osbourne to the idea of FeedZa. WATBlog decided to catch up with Chris, Founder of FeedZa, and shoot him a few questions to fend.

ESPN.com and Orbitz.com, a leading online travel agency, launched ESPN Sports Passport powered by Orbitz – an online community tool that gives sports fans a place to catalog and share their sports travel trips, game memories and milestones. ESPN Sports Passport fans will be able to create and share an online catalog of their sports history, travel experiences and memories via blogs, photo and video sharing, stadium collections and more…

People Group’s Mauj Mobile, a digital solutions and services provider, has unveiled mobile content for the Shiney Ahuja - Esha Deol starrer movie Hijack across the country. The movie is scheduled to hit movie theatres on Teachers’ Day, September 5th.

Yahoo Pipes is a powerful mash up tool that allows you to aggregate, manipulate and compose content from around the web. Looking at the growing popularity of Yahoo Pipes’ usage and popularity among developers, WATBlog decided to scout around a few Yahoo Pipes applications that might help ease your online life a little.

Despite all the ogling over the desktop version of SilverLight, Microsoft doesn’t plan to stand still and is all out to conquer the mobile internet market too. After reports of developing the mobile version of Internet Explorer, it’s time for SilverLight to delve into mobile phones.

Mahanagar Telphone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigal Limited (BSNL) have come up with more aggressive pricing for their broadband offerings, starting from August 15, 2008. Yes, MTNL has cut its broadband charges by almost 50% in its bid to boost its user base in Delhi and NCR.

Last Friday, the government had announced its plans to auction 3G licenses, including the 2.1 GHz band spectrum, in the coming months. However, according to the policy, although the GSM operators need to bid for the 3G spectrum, CDMA operators can seek only one spot in the 800MHz, which is the most efficient and cost-effective frequency band for 3G services.

Welcome to the world of Spam 2.0 and in the attempt to curb this menace, Twitter has come up with a pretty stringent solution. First, Twitter started to weed out the bots’ accounts on its own, sparking up rage and frustrations in the blogosphere with people complaining about losing their followers! Then, Twitter has this brilliant idea of limiting the maximum number of feeds an user can follow.

We are sure you must have noticed the fresh and cute avatars that feature beside your name, in new WATBlog’s comments section, below every single post. We incorporated this feature so that we could map images to the names of our beloved readers. Yes, we know you must be wondering how to customize the avatar that appears beside your name and we are always there to help.

Caferati, a forum of writers in English, and LiveJournal, world’s leading community blogging site, have joined hands to present a contest named “The LiveJournal - Caferati Fiction Flash Contest”. The idea does seem very novel. The concept of blogging still needs to catch up in a big way, in a country like India.