Indian Online Bookstores Growing And How!

by | posted: March 31, 2011
What’s the first place you would go to buy a book? As an ardent book lover, it’s never been easy to get a nice big bookstore to browse. No bookstore can actually be big enough to appease someone...
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ICANN for New .xxx Domain – India Against It

by | posted: March 31, 2011
The members of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) approved the addition of the .xxx domain to the ‘generic top level domains’ (gTLDs) , including .com .org .gov , etc recently....
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E-book Adoption And The Indian Public

by | posted: September 22, 2010
E-readers and the Indian Public There was an article in the Business Standard yesterday that got me wondering. Will e-readers improve the adoption of e-books in India? While the answer might seem an inevitable...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo Anymore?

by | posted: August 26, 2010
Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular...
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The Verdict – Facebook Overtakes Orkut In India

by | posted: August 26, 2010
It may seem slightly childish to start a blog  post in this fashion but… We Told You So! –  Of course, it wasn’t just us, and I certainly took my clues (and data) from a lot of other...
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STAMP – $50 Tablet Prototype From Indian Company

by | posted: August 25, 2010
Whoever recognized the concept of Reverse Innovation and emphatically stated that development would initiate from the Third World countries and propagate was not kidding. Though this isn’t a clear...
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Are Smartphones The Future of Mobile?

by | posted: August 25, 2010
Check out any new mobile that’s just out in the market. What are the chances that it lacks the ability to access Facebook? Close to zero. What are the chances that it doesn’t come equipped...
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Gmail Labs – Sound Familiar?

by | posted: August 24, 2010
I was browsing the news yesterday when I came across a series of articles on “How to Undo a Sent Mail”. What I found surprising was the feedback. Apparently, this tidbit of fact was unknown...
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Facebook Will Dominate Orkut In Social Networking In India – Was There Ever Doubt?

by | posted: August 19, 2010
It’s been well known across the web, that no matter how popular Facebook is, there are two countries where Orkut still dominates – India and Brazil. Around a year back, WATBlog had posted an...
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Indian Company Onward Mobility Has An Offline App Store

by | posted: August 17, 2010
Apple’s famous “There’s an App for that” does not seem to have penetrated the Indian mindset. In spite of the great strides India has made in mobile penetration, both rural and...
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Enabled BEST Buses – Coming Soon!

by | posted: June 2, 2010
BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport) buses have seen a drastic improvement over the last few years. There are several who don’t mind the extra road journey for the comforts of the new...
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In-Game Advertising : The Potential

by | posted: June 1, 2010
Social gaming is all set to make its place among the  most important developments in the history of the Internet. Today, FarmVille is one of the most popular game applications on Facebook. It has 82.4...
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Google’s Pac-Man Just Cost the World 4,819,352 Hours of Time

by | posted: May 26, 2010
WATBlog covered Google’s addition of Pac-Man to the list of their famous Google moments. After having made the game free for all (and having me play it for over an hour), the verdict is out. As awesome...
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UID Round-Up: All The News on AADHAAR : For IT, Against It?

by | posted: May 26, 2010
It’s been quite a while since we wrote about the latest developments on the UID front. The Unique Identification project might just be the biggest changer in the way we lead our lives. Recently,...
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Impact Of Facebook Feature Changes & India Tie Ups

by | posted: April 23, 2010
According to Facebook, Public will be the New Private. Goodbye Privacy, Social will now be the default status of the Internet as dominated by Facebook. At the F8 conference, Facebook released stats of...
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India Ranks 3rd in Censoring & Removal Requests To Google – A Detailed Look

by | posted: April 23, 2010
Google’s always stood by their stance of “Don’t be Evil“, which apart from their policy on software, also covers basic human rights. The recent Google China controversy brought...
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