Technology


Google India Targets Engineering and MBA Colleges, Launches Got the “App”titude Challenge

The Google Apps suite, which has been around for a couple of years now, is by far the most popular free application suite used by individuals and bloggers alike, globally. From the house of Google, Google Apps Suite is a collection of free to use tools that let you use and offer Google’s services, although [...]

Build-It-Yourself Telecom Towers From VNL help connect Remote Villages at Lower Costs

Build-It-Yourself Telecom Towers From VNL help connect Remote Villages at Lower Costs

VNL has managed to develop a simplified base station that is powered by solar panels and requires just a fraction of the electricity of typical base stations.

However, convincing telecom operators to buy a stripped-down base station made by a little-known start-up won’t be easy. VNL is among many companies trying to develop mobile-phone technologies for poor rural areas.

Mobile Services on WIMAX - Internet Telephony to lift off in a big way!

Mobile Services on WIMAX - Internet Telephony to lift off in a big way!

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.

Google Launches MapMaker In India.. Will Crowdsourcing Strategy Work?

Google Launches MapMaker In India.. Will Crowdsourcing Strategy Work?

Google has launched its Map Maker services in india which allows users to add or edit geographical features such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities among others in the existing maps. There has always been WikiMapia which follows the crowdsourcing model of street level mapping and there have been quite a few [...]

Government okays Commercial IPTV.. But Will It Pick Up?

Government okays Commercial IPTV.. But Will It Pick Up?

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. [...]

Namaste India: iTunes Store mein aapka swagat hain

Namaste India: iTunes Store mein aapka swagat hain

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 [...]

Ushering in the Era of Command-Line Applications with Mozilla Ubiquity!

Ushering in the Era of Command-Line Applications with Mozilla Ubiquity!

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.

Pune Slated to be The First 3G Enabled Indian City while DoT Delays the Bidding

Pune Slated to be The First 3G Enabled Indian City while DoT Delays the Bidding

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.

The WATBlog List of Top Social Media Platforms to Roll Out Your Web 2.0 Plans

The WATBlog List of Top Social Media Platforms to Roll Out Your Web 2.0 Plans

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 - A Platform to Search, Rate and Review RSS Feeds

FeedZa - A Platform to Search, Rate and Review RSS Feeds

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.

Backup your twitter profile data.. In few simple steps

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 Photosynth : Mind Blowing

Microsoft Photosynth : Mind Blowing

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 [...]

Yahoo-Intel Channel  - Coming Soon To a TV Near You

Yahoo-Intel Channel - Coming Soon To a TV Near You

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 Presents an Interview With Quentin States-Polet- CEO of Kreeda Games on Dance Mela

WATShow Presents an Interview With Quentin States-Polet- CEO of Kreeda Games on Dance Mela

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:

iPhone – At Rs.36,000 The Jesus Phone Costs Heaven. Will Nokia Emerge As The New God?

iPhone – At Rs.36,000 The Jesus Phone Costs Heaven. Will Nokia Emerge As The New God?

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 [...]