Despite having the infrastructure for video chat since 2008 (at a time when android was in its infancy) google never really capitalised on this advantage by introducing video chat in smartphones before...

Google has quietly launched Google Talk Guru, an instant message chatbot that can deliver search results and answer queries such as sports scores. Once a user adds Google Talk Guru to his or her Google...

Don’t you just love it when a company sets out to do business with a noble cause in mind. Nivio, a Switzerland based tech company wants to educate 100 million children. The funny thing is, depending...

Technology never ceases to surprise the most of us. Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been without mobiles phones, or these days smartphones. With the advent of new technology almost every...

As a viewer of the epic TV series Mahabharat, you would have heard the word ‘Tankaar‘ emanating from Arjun’s mouth quite a number of times. This word refers to the sound a bow makes when...

Does your office block chat messengers? Now there’s a way to get away with it. There’s a web browser that helps you get access to whichever messenger you’re crazy about. That’s...

I have been a huge fan of the IM world. It has sped up and simplified our way of communication in such a way that even the long distance between Kolkata and California seems so small. Personally I have...

Just recently cleatrip announced its chatbot based search feature and now Naukri has joined the fray with its own chat bot for jobs. Now people looking for jobs can chat their way to a new job opening...

  The buzz continues around the Yahoo-Google advertising deal. It was a few days back that Google had signed an agreement with Yahoo, according to which, Google shall be expected to provide advertisements...

I use the GTalk client everyday to communicate with fellow WATBloggers and other friends and for a few days I’ve been noticing something very queer.   When I type within GTalk, I get links to other...

This comes in via Mashable - Google has introduced a new widget (its more like a GTalk feature) and its called Chatback. Its function is pretty simple – it lets you embed GTalk into your blog...

I recently discovered that Facebook has added an application which can be used as the GTalk chat client.     After spending some time trying to figure out the interface and how to go about adding...

Social networks are almost like living legends now, only if some of them could sustain around 10 more years, i would actually be able to tell my kids something like – "oh! OrkuT – son...