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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 [...]

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 [...]

Jaxtr, the company that lets you make and receive calls through various social networking sites such as MySpace and more recently Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, Flickr and also blog platforms such as Blogger, Typepad etc. has now opened up its walled garden to allow users to send SMS’ to other mobile phones outside the Jaxtr network. [...]

A few months back we had announced that Cricinfo has launched live ‘mobicasts’ i.e. ball-by-ball update and scorecard service for Internet/GPRS enabled mobile phones.
 
 
ESPN owned Cricinfo, announced the launch of Cricinfo Mobicast for Apple’s iPhone today.
 
 
Mobicast is the first full-fledged cricket widget for iPhone.
 
 
 
iPhone users will now have access to Cricinfo’s famous, live, ball-by-ball updates, scorecard, match schedules, [...]

There is news for every one willing to start up. Recently Yahoo India announced their new strategy to help young entrepreneurs. Yahoo wants to invest its fund in untouched areas like Indian food, health and nutrition etc.
 
“We are interested in partnering with entrepreneurs who would develop some applications that can be leveraged through Yahoo,” [...]