Chief Justice of India : “Block Porn Sites” – Easier Said Than Done?

by | posted: February 4, 2010
WATBlog has kept a close eye on cyber crimes and the evolution of cyber laws in India. The urgent need for improvement in the current state of affairs is felt very strongly. The need for stronger cyber...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Award To The Internet?

by | posted: February 4, 2010
The Nobel Peace Prize is undoubtedly one of the most reputed international awards. Over the past few years, it’s been awarded to a lot of people and organizations. I was hitherto under the impression...
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Wikipedia to Open India Chapter?

by | posted: February 3, 2010
What’s the first result you find when you Google something? More often than not, it’s Wikipedia. It caught on in 2002, and from there it has become the textbook definition of the success of...
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Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far

by | posted: February 3, 2010
The huge Google Books fiasco began in 2004, when Google ambitious tried to recreate a digital Library of Alexandria. The aim, to scan and place on the Internet, every book that they could have access to,...
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The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites

by | posted: February 1, 2010
The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s...
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6 Hours A Day Spent On Social Networking Globally! What About India?

by | posted: January 27, 2010
Social Networking has become such an essential part of people’s lives that it seems difficult to imagine how people actually managed to keep in touch without the Facebook poke or that once-in-a-while...
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WATTech – Quantum Computing

by | posted: November 3, 2009
In my school days, I was quite fascinated with physics as a whole. What started off with an explanation of heat, light, apples falling from trees expanded to an understanding of atoms, electrons, and subatomic...
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Punishment For Cyber Crime – Life Imprisonment, Facebook Makes Millions In Compensation

by | posted: October 30, 2009
At WATBlog, we’ve commented quite a few times on cyber crime and how the fast changing face of the Internet has a lost of scope for misuse. A while back, we covered the amendments made to the IT...
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3G Netbook At Rs. 10,000 – Qualcomm’s Kayak To Sail In India

by | posted: October 29, 2009
Qualcomm, the US-based mobile chip-maker announced in November that they were working on a low-cost PC, codenamed ‘Kayak‘. A ‘Kayak’ for all those who don’t know is a small,...
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Gift Music On Facebook – Virtual Gifts Extravaganza

by | posted: October 26, 2009
We recently wrote about Google launching Music Search and I admit, I added that little cliffhanger about Facebook at the end for kicks. The news was out long before. Facebook will also be tying up with...
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Google Music Service to Launch (Apparently) – Impact on India?

by | posted: October 23, 2009
The tech world is all set to get a make-over. We just covered Bing announcing that they’ll be indexing Twitter and Facebook, with Google  hurriedly yelling, Me Too! Then Google kicked it up a notch...
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Facebook Overtakes Orkut in India!

by | posted: October 20, 2009
Orkut and Facebook  has been a favourite topic for most of us here. Who’s winning? Who WILL win? What’s the future of social networking in India? Recently, there was a huge furore over Facebook...
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UID Mandatory, Online Authentication – Updated News

by | posted: October 20, 2009
We’ve covered a lot of UID-related news in the past. Check them out here. We’ve been touting UID as the next big thing, why? Because personally I feel that it’ll help a lot with the streamlining...
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Track Your Mail Via SMS

by | posted: October 20, 2009
The Indian Government seems to be taking to technology pretty quickly. We’ve covered some of the initiatives to incorporate current easy-to-access technology like email and SMS to further their outreach...
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Government Snooping On Missed Calls?

by | posted: October 13, 2009
Around 6 months ago, we’d blogged about how your India’s New IT Act revision allowed the Government to go through your email. Now, we know that if required, the telecom provider will have to...
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WATTech – 3D Flat Panel Displays

by | posted: October 6, 2009
The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley — Robert Burns. The idea of WATTech was conceived a long time ago. However, despite my best intentions and forewarnings by a lot of people, the...
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