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Why Browser Is The Future Of Computing?
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, [...]
IT Companies To Go Cloudy – Or Is It All Just The Computing Rage?
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 [...]
Vikas Saxena, India Head, Nimbuzz on Skype, VoIP and 3G in India
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 [...]
The Changing Trends in Online Advertising
If you are a netizen, then it is assumed that Online Advertising has played a major role in all the activities that you have performed on the web. One shouldn’t be a scientist or a researcher to understand that there has been changes in the form online advertising has taken place over the last couple [...]
Dark Knight – Viral Marketing Campaign
In May 2007, 42 Entertainment began a viral marketing campaign utilizing the film’s “Why So Serious?” tagline.
This video is a must watch:
A transmedia experiment with over 10 million particpants in over 75 countries that played across hundreds of web pages, interactive games, mobile phones, print, email, real world events, video and unique collectibles! The internet [...]
Will Mobile Internet Users Surpass The Number Of Traditional Internet Users In India?
If you had asked me this question around 3 months back, you would have got an emphatic no!
It doesn’t seem logical! Internet itself is in its infancy in our country with just a 3% penetration. PC penetration itself will take time to hit 20%. How possibly can mobile overtake the traditional form of accessing the [...]
ConnectedIndians.com – Finally a Collective Effort to Boost Internet Penetration in India
I read the ET today (well I do it everyday, but that’s not the point) and saw this piece of news as an ad along with the knowledge forum article. Intel has launched a campaign to boost Internet penetration in India called ConnectedIndians.com. The effort named of course at the idea of connecting a billion Indians. The initiative has the biggest stakeholder’s in the Indian telecom and computing industry as sponsors and perhaps might be ‘the’ initiative to get the Internet moving beyond the metros in India.
Tagging It Online: Will TAG Heuer’s Plans at Online Retail and Advertising Give the Industry a Fillip
Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer has announced of its plan to retail its luxury products including mobile phones and other high end gadgets online. The idea certainly seems to be to make the most of the economical and marketing advantages that the web provides in terms of selling online. Besides the obvious retailing costs it also helps in carving the perfect brand identity and catering to a targeted niche, which sometimes is lost in the real world market.
What If Dial-Up Internet Connections Were Free?
According to Hindu, BSNL has made its dial-up connection, NetOne, available for free. Such a move by BSNL spurred a thought in me. What if dial-up connections are actually made free in India? Will that see people making bee lines outside land line operators’ for new connections, all year round? How can an operator leverage on such a scenario. Let us try to analyze how life would be, in a world of free internet (dial-up, of course).
Google To Provide Satellite Internet Access To The “Other 3 Billion” in Africa
Google has joined hands with HSBC to provide high-speed Internet access to the people of Africa and other emerging countries, reports Forbes. Along with cable operator Liberty Global, Google has joined hands with a group calledO3b Networks to contribute in the project. O3b stands for the “other 3 Billion”.
The project aims at providing the backend to [...]
Events Update : Eventful September
September seems like a month of events. Hell, it seems like there are more events than there are speakers. Let’s see what all is coming our way in September.
IAMAI Mobile VAS Conference
Delhi. 2-Sept-2008
The VAS conference of IAMAI will be held in Delhi. Prominent speakers include Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Guruji.com; Prasad Narasimha, [...]
Government okays Commercial IPTV.. But Will It Pick Up?
The government has now given its nod to make necessary changes to the current downlinking guidelines for television channels. This has now eased off the commercial rollout of IPTV services in the country.
Presently, MTNL, the state-owned entity having presence in Mumbai and Delhi are already providing their IPTV services with a bunch of Free-To-Air channels. [...]
Yahoo-Intel Channel – Coming Soon To a TV Near You
The big news today is that Intel and Yahoo have partnered to launch a new interactive TV channel. I went WoW after reading the news. I have always believed that TV, as a consumer device has a lot more potential. Whenever I hear companies (or people) doing some innovative stuff for TV, I am hopeful [...]
TRAI’s Newest Recommendations Suggest Unrestricted VOIP
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today released recommendations on what could change the future of Internet Telephony in India. According to the recommendations released, the regulator claims that the Indian Government should remove all restrictions that have been imposed over Internet Telephony in India.
How Google Always Gets it Right
Google is, undoubtedly, the ‘Giant’ of the World Wide Web. What originally began as a research project back in 1996 by two Ph.D. students has now grown into a full-grown enterprise. Who’d have imagined that a research project in the Stanford University would actually go on to become on of the Internet’s most essential products?