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Public sector telecom major – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. has joined hands with Chennai-based IT solutions company Novatium in order to provide cheap and better broadband internet services in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. BSNL chief Om Vir Singh says “The broadband penetration in UP is quite low and lower still in rural [...]

The Nobel Peace Prize is undoubtedly one of the most reputed international awards. Over the past few years, it’s been awarded to a lot of people and organizations. I was hitherto under the impression that the Nobel Peace Prize was intended for individuals and for organizations. In the past, various arms of the UN (ILO, [...]

Indian Railways is gearing up the IT infrastructure of it’s facilities big-time. The Indian Railways Online Website is one of the most busiest websites in India and they have such a powerful architecture that you will hardly see a downtime in the Online Services. From Web World, Indian Railways has now stepped into some real [...]

In 2003, when Apple did the unimaginable and decided to make iTunes for Windows, they ran a poster campaign saying ‘Hell Froze Over’. It looks like another Cold day in Hell (no pun intended) could be around the corner. BusinessWeek has reported that Apple and Microsoft may be in talks to close a deal that [...]

Two years back when I saw my 9 years old neighbor chatting away on MSN, I was shocked. She also had a profile on Orkut! I didn’t know whether to complaint to her mother or just sigh and think that technology has grown seemingly. I had no clue whether about computers. Well that was then, [...]

The recession might have bottomed out, but the cost cutting measures of the companies are still in place. Video conference and webinars have replaced the in person communication. In such a scenario, the most important resource becomes the high speed internet. So, how does the software hub of the east measure up to the world?
The [...]

With the ever-improving telecom infrastructure, can it ever happen that one fine day people stop text messaging once in for all? Vinay Goel, Head of products, Google India certainly thinks so. In a recent interview, Mr.Goel predicts that people are moving more and more towards e-mailing via their mobile phones that SMS may become obsolete [...]

For quite some time, the net was ablaze with how Bing was trying to one-up Google. Then there was Wolfram and other “decision engines”, then there was Collecta and a huge list of other real-time search engines who would one-up Google. Twitter came on with the hope to be the pulse of the planet, and [...]

India, over the past decade, has become a test bed for innovations in information and communication technologies. Various reasons explain this emergence. Some of the reasons clearly lie in some of our earlier posts. Her Excellency the President of India Pratibha Patil inaugurated the Rashtrapati Bhavan Helpline Portal at Rashtrapati Bhavan recently.

The common man has [...]

There’s a raw craze in many parts of the world about Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as ‘tweets’. It may restrict its posts to 140 characters, but the British Cabinet Office needed 20 pages to explain the microblog to its civil servants. [...]

Inaccessibility to fast internet is probably the greatest problem faced by Indians. Cheap, easily accessible, fast Internet connections are a rarity in India. An associate of mine was boasting how he had downloaded around 200 GB in 4 days, all due to Wi-Fi and a dedicated internet connection of 16Mbps. This was in the USA. [...]

Google is expanding its Internet Bus project, which tries to educate the rural masses about the Internet. After Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, its Andhra’s turn now.
The one and a half month long journey kick started from Ananthapur a few days ago and will finally ends at Chittoor (on 30th August). At the end of it all [...]

Apple made the news recently by hitting 1.5 billion downloads at it’s app store. Quick to catch on, Google at the recent MobileBeat 2009 Conference said that App stores weren’t really the future. Sour grapes? Not quite. Google has long since focused on the importance of the web. From promoting Android to its latest venture, [...]

Companies looking to reduce their IT costs and complexities are tapping into cloud computing. Ask any five IT specialists what cloud computing is, and you’re likely to get five different answers. So it is pretty evident that Cloud Computing Services means different to everyone. Patni Computers are one of them who are planning to set [...]

WATBlog spoke to Vikas Saxena, India Head, Nimbuzz on Skype, Voip and 3G in India.. Here is the interview:

1. Tell us something about Nimbuzz

As I said Nimbuzz is a Rotterdam based company, and we are backed by some of the most successful VCs in the business like Naspers Group and Mangrove Capital Partners. Nimbuzz predominantly [...]