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The mobile technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. A host of new features are being introduced into your average mobile phones. A simple mobile with a color screen, which was not possible for less that Rs. 10,000 is now made available for a mere Rs. 3000. Other features too have seen plethora of improvements in the recent years. One can find that manufacturers are trying to add more and more ‘computer’-istic features to a mobile phone.

The Indian news vine seems to be full with the Indian government’s decision to keep a closer eye on the cyber cafes, thanks to recent terror attacks in the country. Already, a lot of cyber cafes have been asking for photo-id cards before you can go in & surf. Now come a few more regulations. In this post, we try to find a more approachable solution to problem that the authorities face, track every single cyber step of yours!

DoT’s recently announced 3G policy comes as a ray of hope, bringing the technology even more closer to reality. However, not everyone is happy in the telecom land. It seems that the major GSM players will get to dance in the sun, while the CDMA operators wait in the dark alleys. Preferential treatment by DoT?

It was just today that we brought you the news about Zapak launching a mobile gaming site at http://zapak.mobi. Now, we have just been told that NDTV Active, the mobile portal from NDTV now brings your mobile Java based games, courtesy of Hovr.

A lot has been happening between India’s GSM players, foreign players interested in the growing Indian market, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the CDMA players. DoT has already had to take some important decisions related to the 3G spectrum auction. It has already allowed international players into the auction and doubled the reserve price for the WiMax auction, which we have already covered earlier. Now, the department is eyeing the recent Idea-Spice Mobile deal.

Experts from the Land Down Under, Australia, claim to have developed a new technology that will apparently revolutionize web-surfing for the internet users. They say that the technology is capable of making ‘web surfing’ a 100 times faster, than what it is right now.
The technology, the experts say, makes use of ‘a small scratch on a piece of glass’, to enhance the performance given by traditional fibre-optic media.

A few days ago, Apple released a whole lot of new goodies that we covered here. Among them, hidden, was a surprise for us Indians. Apple finally released the iTunes Store for India and other neighboring countries. This was mainly done so that the iPod Touch users in these countries could upgrade to the latest [...]

Panasonic, one of the market leaders in LCDs and other electronic devices, has today announced that it plans to set up new units in India, modernize its facilities and effectively try brand positioning over the course of the next 3 years.
 
 
 
The company, which is owned by the Japanese manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., [...]

 
Apple, the company which is known for its Mac ( Macintosh ) range of computers and particularly for the iPod, had the whole of the Internet at the edges of their chairs. Every single soul, with even the slightest idea of what an ‘iPhone’ might be, was hooked to their computer screens, desperately waiting for [...]

 
Professional and “hardcore” gaming seems to have gone off in a big way, in India. WATGame.com had taken an exclusive interview with Sanjit Daniel, CEO of Rocking Pixels, that’s responsible in creating a 3D game on the recently released Priyanka Chopra starrer, Love Story 2050. While going through, I realized that Indian companies are finally [...]

Webdunia, the portal with multi-lingual content, plans to attract the youth by announcing new interactive features on the site.

 
The company, which plans to spend Rs. 25 crore over the next 3 years, has now enabled features that let its users to email in 9 different languages from their mobile phones. One of the most important [...]

 
MSN Israel, one of Microsoft’s suite of web portals, will now be independently handled by Microsoft.

 
Microsoft today announced that the MSN Israel web portal would no longer be co-managed by Microsoft and Internet Gold, a leading communications group based in Israel. Microsoft had a 49.9 percent share in the portal, with Internet Gold having the [...]

Here comes the news that would surely give all the iPhone enthusiasts huge adrenaline rush. Yeah, as the headlines suggest, Vodafone has, today, opened up registrations for the brand new iPhone 3G. Although the phone hasn’t been officially launched in India as yet nor has any date been officially announced, the very fact that the registrations have been thrown open is an indication of this beauty’s arrival in the Indian market, very soon.

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

If you look at the Indian scenario, there seems to be many blogs starting day by day. There is a huge possibility for an India centric ad network system coming out with their their blog advertising system.