The Chrome OS Beta is a Fake, Don’t Download

If you read this like right now and head to Twitter and search for “Chrome OS”, you’ll find over a 100 tweets getting updated by the second that Google has released a Beta Version of...
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ICANN Sheds US Tag: Is it Just a Gimmick?

ICANN the non profit governing body of the Internet has ended its years old agreement with the US department of Commerce. The deal, part of a contract negotiated with the US department of commerce, effectively...
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Google Introduces Fast Flip And Shares Revenue With Publishers For The First Time

Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 summed it up the best, Google understands web publishing and the web better than publishers. So while the men in the business of news (and the women for that matter) are all...
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MNP Not Before 31st December – Is This Wait Meant To Make It More Exciting?

At WATBlog we’ve constantly kept you updated about the latest from Mobile Number Portability. We were able to answer several questions as to - How VAS players will play a huge role in the industry...
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RCom To Offer Mobile TV & Sachet Based Payment For VAS

Reliance Communications is on a roll when it comes to VAS and VAS related initiatives. They have recently announced their intention to launch mobile Tv offerings for their newly launched GSM Network. RCom...
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Twitter Officially Launches Verified Accounts – Mere Mortals and Businesses Need To Wait Though

A few days back we had blogged about Twitter looking at releasing a verified accounts feature. The reason being calls from celebs like Kanye West and La Russa complaining about their fake accounts and...
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Twitter Accounts Hacked

Twitter reported on its blog earlier today (Jan 5th US date) that around 33 accounts of prominent twitter users has been hacked. Hacked accounts included those of Barack Obama, Britney Spears among others....
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WAT a News Round Up

Browsing some of the popular news sources today, we found a lot of space occupied by dot commers in the press spread, here are some of the key developments in the Indian online industry that caught our...
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Contextual Linking and Ads – When the Algorithm Goes for a Toss

  Contextual Advertising is a huge market online, with more and more websites accepting the ad programs from various companies owing to the high returns from such ad programs. Google’s Adsense...
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WAT’s Up Online? – June 24, 2008

  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...
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Orkut Introduces Private Communities With Pre-Approved Email Domains, Also Incorporates With Customized News

Orkut developers seem to be on heavy duty mode, these days. First they come up with photo tagging and then within 2 days come up with another new feature, creating private communities on the basis of domain...
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CNN Worldwide Unleashes The Era Of User Generated News – iReport.com

CNN Worldwide news channel has launched http://beta.ireport.com/, an online community site that contains the uncensored, unadulterated and unedited material fully submitted by the users. The official launch...
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All-India-Radio Launches Multi-Lingual Website!

The statesman has reported that All-India-Radio, which is governed by the central government, has recently launched a multi-lingual website called News-On-Air. The site was launched on October 7th 2007.   With...
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Bloggers Say ‘No’ To Proposed Code Of Conduct

Just ran through a post by Jason Miller at WebProNews about Bloggers reaction to a proposed "Code of Conduct" by a government body. Here is the low down … It can be debated that...
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