Wikipedia To Remain Free, As Indian Cities Gear Up For Its 10th Anniversary!

If you had visited Wikipedia anytime in the last few months, there’s no doubt you would have seen Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales’ Appeal. And even though a section of the Internet ridiculed...
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Tata DoCoMo Unveils 3G Services – Free For A Week!

First place in the 3G race(among the private telcos) can now officially be given to Tata DoCoMo. The company unveiled ‘Tata DoCoMo 3G Life’, its 3G service. And in what can be described only...
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The ‘Free’ and ‘Fare’ Internet!

Over the years we have gotten very used to a very ‘Free Internet’. Free as in, don’t pay for what you use and don’t pay for what you say! Free Content and Freedom of Content are perhaps the main...
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Indyarocks Opens Advertising Revenues To Users: Social Money, Honey!

India’s leading entertainment based social network Indyarocks.com has made a very customer friendly announcement according to which all of the advertising revenue of Indyarocks.com will now be shared...
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Is It A FREE World? Heterogeneity Begs To Differ

When the WiReD magazine editor and author of the spectacularly successful ‘Long Tail’ book takes a radical approach to promoting his latest book, people like me sit up and listen. This time around,...
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Will The Web Cease Being ‘That Free Source’ or Has ‘Free’ Seeped Too Much in to its DNA?

I had once read a tweet, though I don’t remember the guy who tweeted (during one of my many experiments with Twitter back when it was smaller). Though not verbatim this is what he had tweeted –...
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What If Dial-Up Internet Connections Were Free?

  What was your first reaction when you read the title of this post? Was it elation, wishing it were actually free? Or was it contempt wondering “Who the hell uses dial-up these days?” According...
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OnYoMo.com Gives Away Cash to WATBlog Readers – Now Another Reason to Keep Reading WATBlog

      Have you ever wanted to be the local reporter for your local radio station who always keeps the junta updated on the latest happenings around your city? Did the nearest pizza station...
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Music Bands & Artistes Are Using Internet Platforms To Release Their Latest Tracks & Albums

This is a guest post by Darshit Mehta, one of the interns at WAT.   Today, internet has been turned into a haven of files that can be downloaded and distributed for free. It has been ages since pirated...
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Entrance Tests And IIT Lectures Goes Online

  In my earlier posts I have discussed about the virtual school that has been started between India and UK. This step showed that the educational system in India is planning to improve. With this...
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The Best Things In Life Are Free, at least on the Web!

I was talking to a not so net-savvy group of friends yesterday and was really surprised at their ignorance. As the conversation shifted to the internet, I got complains like – checking e-mail is...
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