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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 music had been shared among communities via the p2p softwares. But, it seems the times have been changed [...]

This post had been written by an intern at WAT, Chinmay Sane, who also runs a personal blog 24 hours Masti.
 
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, which kicked-off on June 7th, is amongst the most viewed sporting events of the year with millions of viewers following their favorite teams’ progress.
 
I’m sure, the fans outside Austria [...]

Opera Miniâ„¢ 4.1 browser for mobile phone released with the following features:-

1. up to 50% faster
2. Find things faster
3. Automatically suggest URL completions
4. Web pages can be saved for later off-line viewing
5. content can be downloaded/uploaded without leaving Opera Mini

Watch the guided tour & other cool videos & try it before download.

Cinthol, a Godrej brand, recently revamped its brand identity for itself. Taking a U-Turn and gong back to the alpha-male image that was popularized by the TV commercial featuring Vinod Khanna in the older days. The new TV commercial features Hrithik Roshan performing extreme sports stunts. The idea is to connect with the youth

The United States based makers of the CDMA platform, Qualcomm said that it plans to offer chips for 3G telecom services at ultra-low prices in India. The company plans to offer the Internet Access Device at Rs.8000 and a USB port-device priced at Rs.3500 for accessing high-speed wireless broadband Internet on PCs and laptops.

As a part of its endeavour to emerge as a thought leader in the New Media space, NDTV Convergence is organizing the New Media Congress in New Delhi on 8-May-2008.

On this, Sanjay Trehan, CEO, NDTV Convergence Ltd, said,

19 years after Tim Berner Lee at CERN created the Internet, another innovation is in the making there that could once again completely revolutionize the way we access the information. CERN has been. Working on Grid Computing, CERN, the particle physics laboratory has tested speeds which are around 10,000 times the broadband speeds of today. The new Internet has the ability to deliver mammoth amount of data within seconds.

Airtel has launched its 3G mobile services in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore on a test basis.
Seems like after a really long wait Indian subscribers will get to see the benefits of 3G services. However, as we speak, operators in some countries are already testing the 4G services. China has decided to move to 4G, bypassing the 3G completely. And there is a looming question that should India move to 4G networks ?

Wikimedia Foundation has said it has received a $ 3 Million the New York based The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The funds will be utilized to enhance the quality of the content and support the expansion of outreach events.A part of the funds will also be used to expand Wikipedia Academy, designed enhance Wikipedia’s quality by teaching how to contribute and to support efforts to disseminate collected knowledge through traditional media like DVDs and books.

 
Cyber crimes are increasing but today we gonna talk about cyber crimes that has an ill-effect on the society. Kids and the teenagers are most likely to get influenced by the negative things. Children are likely to perform things that they are unaware of and hence fall into some troubles. To make life simpler and [...]

 
Reality major DLF has said that it will be providing WiFi access across its buildings. The WiFi connectivity will be provided by O-Zone.
 
The Internet is a necessity now for many professionals. I have been wondering for long about the builders providing the Internet connections along with the electricity and water connection. This makes a lot [...]

The Internet will become truly ubiquitous in India when the ones living in rural areas can connect with it. Agreed it has the ability to offer a host of extremely useful services from weather forecasts to commodity prices, but unless this information is delivered in a format that’s compatible to them, it won’t serve its [...]

On my last trip to Delhi, in the Rajdhani Express, I saw a couple opening up their laptop and watching a movie within the train. Another one there was using his Reliance data card to surf the Internet. It was too tempting; I almost felt like opening up my laptop and start doing any damn [...]

 
Previously we have blogged on travel social networking site WAYN coming to India and on the Travel + Web 2.0 strategy of other travel sites.
 

 
Now, another player Travelobuddies has entered with Social utility service + Travelers community as the theme with a purpose to offer a platform for the users across the globe to share [...]

Contextual ads are hot on the internet. Hot enough for Microsoft to shell out close to $ 45 billion to acquire Yahoo and big enough to do whatever it takes to stop this acquisition.
 
The next logical step is, well the mobile phones. There are more cell phones than there are computer screens. And there is [...]