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.

As an initiative to build on WATblog as a resource center for anyone involved in digital media and new media marketing, we present an almost complete list of all the platforms available for your social media plans. This post aims to provide you a place to start of with in terms of the back end of your web 2.0 plans. So if you are surprisingly late to get on the neo web bandwagon and build a web home that leverages on the wisdom of the crowd funda, this post is for you

FeedZa is a social opinion site where people can read snippets of different RSS feeds based on various categories like lifestyle, entertainment, sports, technology, regional and many other sub-categories meant to specifically capture the users’ fancy. It also has a voting system where users can vote in favor of a RSS feed or against it.

Everyone seems to be cursing twitter due to database mishaps which occur frequently resulting in irreparable losses but wouldn’t it be great if you could backup all the data from Twitter profiles then here is the solution for you.
Tweetake:-

This site lets you back up your Twitter profile data in few minutes offcourse that would depend [...]

Microsoft announced its Photosynth project long back. A lot of people had seen it already. Even I had blogged about it a year back.  Two days back, Microsoft released the Photosynth for the general public. The project is now out of the beta.
What is Photosynth?
Well, here is how Microsoft describes Photosynth -
“You can share or [...]

The big news today is that Intel and Yahoo have partnered to launch a new interactive TV channel. I went WoW after reading the news. I have always believed that TV, as a consumer device has a lot more potential. Whenever I hear companies (or people) doing some innovative stuff for TV, I am hopeful [...]

WATShow got Quentin State-Polet, the CEO of Kreeda Games to talk through the idea of their latest launch , MMO game - Dance Mela. We discussed the following questions with Quentin:

Ever since Preshit wrote about iPhone on WATBlog, everyone at WAT had been speculating about the prices at which Vodafone and Airtel would make iPhone available in India. Out there, there were many who were just waiting to lay their hands on the iPhone as soon it appears in India.
Well, a lot of them have [...]

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 reaching 70% market share for Internet search, what else can you ask for? Well, more. Recent reports say that Google now wants to free the usage of white spaces within the TV spectrum. White-what ? Within TV-what ? OK, let me explain.
We receive the TV channels through broadcasters (FOX TV, Star TV, Zee TV), [...]

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.

The August event of Mobile Monday Mumbai was held yesterday to discuss the consultation paper released by The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on mobile value added services (VAS) recently. WATBlog was at the event to see what the esteemed panelists had to say about TRAI’s recommendation on regulating and licensing mobile value added services and other services to be provided via 3G and Next Generation Network (NGN).

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.

The long awaited Direct-to-Home service from Reliance ADAG will be launched on Tuesday, reports Afaqs. Reliance will be starting with a basic offering of about 200 channels. The price will be an aggressive Rs.200-250.
Reliance will be using the MPEG-4 technology for compression in their DTH platform. MPEG-4 is an advanced technology that allows upto 30% [...]

Much like the early part of this decade MT has come up with the direction for blogging platforms to move ahead. Yesterday the MT blog announced the launch of Movable Type 4.2 and Movable Type Pro. While ver. 4.2 claims to have cured MT’s chronic slowness and offers easier customization it the Pro that really means some serious business.