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Indiatimes.com had a busy couple of days if their latest announcements are anything to go by. Singing the same tune as we did here at WATBlog on Friday, when the air was filled with more mobile industry stories than any other, Indiatimes has launched three mobile enabled services catering to different needs and projecting different business streams that mobiles are capable of. I guess this only adds to our assertion that mobile is moving ahead and moving ahead big.

Indiatimes.com has a history of some pretty badly failed launches in the webspace. For starters think of Phatchicks (Sleazy chat service), o3 (The lost blogging service) and iTimes (bad social networking)! But the times group never gives up does it? So they have gone ahead and cloned Digg.com to launch HotKlix.com (What’s with times and sleazy names?)

If you are like me who seems to have reached the fatigue level when it comes to identical featured social networks then you will surely identify with the YAWN at the end of the title. If not then please ignore the YAWN.. But there is one more reason for the YAWN than just the [...]

 Indiatimes.com, has come up with another innovation on the VAS front. After providing news, ringtones, astrological predictions, enquiry and the likes, India can now actually listen to all those services and more. Thanks to the service provider independent platform, mobile subscribers from all around the country can now dial just one single number 58888 and [...]

The new year is here and the Indian Internet space has grown by leaps and bounds over the past one year. Heres a look at the activities of some of India’s Portals
 
 Rediff
 
Rediff has had an elusive and progressive new year, with new introductions to its services and tie ups alike. The portals revenues have [...]

Rediff.com strategy with IShare (its flickr + Napster + youtube site) has always been one of tying up with various exclusive content producers. So whether it was their tieup with a music show like Saregamapa or non commercial music promoters AnEcho or later during gandhi jayanti where they had another tie up or special microsite [...]

if Delhi traffic rules could change, Courts decision on mumbai’s dance bar could change, google personalised page could change to igoogle…then why not indiatimes? we have all know this site for long, we have all had our first or second email Id on this site…most of us have bashed this site for the insane number [...]

Well.. well.. well.. Talk about a 360 degree turnaround.. Within just two days since the anti blogger’s article "Blogger’s Rubbish" was released by TimesofIndia and a reply was blogged by us another article "Blogger’s Park" has been published in Indiatimes. This article could be seen as a move to pacify the blogging community as it [...]

I just read an article in the Times of India and online on Indiatimes as well which is titled "Bloggers Rubbish". I am going to quote parts of the article in this blog but if someone wants to read the full article click here.
This article is written by Shobhan Saxena of TimesofIndia according to whom [...]

Website makeovers seem to be the most happening thing on the web these days so after Yahoo India, Rediff and Indiatimes its now MSN India’s turn to have a makeover.

Well this makeover is nothing special in terms of design as it is completely based on the international msn.com but what is interesting is the [...]

Cleaner, whiter, greyer - three words the sum up the indiatimes new look!!!. A saner left navigation bar, a little more organised way of presenting all that they have to offer…and believe me there’s LOTS!!!
New additions on the page are a Markets box, which offers a summary of the capital markets. and quick access to [...]

Star has launched a new mobile IVR service " Star 7827 Voice" which offers TV content on mobile phone in an audio format.
Wondering what it means? well…it means if you dial 127827(Bsnl users) or 5057827(Hutch users) and say "Star",you would be able to hear to your favourite Tv soap or even movie content.(now comeon [...]

The south east asian markets are have attracted the attention of the Indian internet companies. In two seperate developments Shaadi.com and Times Internet have both made initiatives to cater to the south east asian markets Shaadi.com has opened a regional office in singapore whereas Times Internet has has joined hands with Interactive Hub as its online [...]

Times Group probably the largest media company in India with forays into all mediums of communication be it print, outdoor, television and internet is now aggressively looking at the online classified space.
 
Though most of you might already be knowing about Timesjobs.com and probably about the not so famous Timesmatri.com (launched in November 2004) which cater to [...]

Financial Express: On July 14, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked a leading media organisation (TOI which recently launched Wallet365)  to “desist” from offering the e-wallet service. Currently there is very little regulation to keep a watch on this kind a service, afterall all you need is a credit or a debit card and an [...]