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Now You Can Remove IE From Windows, But There’s a Catch
…And the catch is that you will need Windows 7. Microsoft is trying as hard as it can to sell Windows 7 to their consumers. And if it means correcting their act then so be it? A while back,EU started...
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JPG Magazine Back on Track After Near Death Experience
JPG the popular photography magazine with user generated content is back from the gallows. Seth Familian, the VP of Product Management at JPG Magazine explains in this blog post. “Our new investors...
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Microsoft unplugging Encarta! Wikipedia to blame?
On my 12th birthday I received my first Microsoft Encarta CD. The year was 2000 and it was my most prized possession. Things surely have changed for there was no Wikipedia back then, for if there was I...
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Yahoo Unveils Its Elections Portal
Yahoo! India has come up with a portal to keep its users up to date with the on goings of the 2009 General Elections. The website can be viewed at elections.yahoo.in. The ultimate aim of the portal as...
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VoteReport.in Launched To Report Election Centric Violence & Mishaps
When I attended the innovation brainjam at Proto.in‘s Delhi edition last year, the top two spots were grabbed by ideas that integrated Politics with technology. Which goes to show that there is serious...
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Get Your Exam Results On Mobile Via Sms
IMImobile really knows how to cash in on the exam season. It has tied up with the National Network of Education (NNE) to deliver board and university examination results to students via a mobile SMS....
View ArticleIndian Mobile Subscriber Base Touches 400 Million
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a statement issued recently announced that nearly 11.9 million wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL(F)) subscribers were added in April 2009. Comparatively...
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Twitter To Verify Accounts This Summer
Last week Tony La Russa, the Manager of the baseball team St Louis Cardinals filed a lawsuit against Twitter when he found out that someone created a fake account under his name and was posting obscene...
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Social Media and the Newsroom – Give Us Your Views
News of The New York Times hiring it’s first ever “social media” editor has created waves everywhere. The leaked email tell us about her role (via Venturebeat). As soon as the news was made public,...
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Navify= Wiki+Flickr+Youtube?
So it seems as if Wikipedia has been the same since the beginning of time with its bland UI. Ok, maybe not bland, but the use of images has been minimum and sadly there are no videos. In comes Navify...
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Aardvark, the human search engine. Free invites [Limited number only]
A couple of months from now when you’re sitting at a corporate quiz, a question will appear on the screen which will ask you to connect the African animal more popularly known as an anteater and a...
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Chinese Government Warns Google To Clean Up! Again!
According to Google “all necessary steps” will be taken to make its Chinese language portal, Google.cn, free of pornographic links. By now almost everyone is aware of the Great Firewall of China, the...
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Google Internet Bus Now Travels Through Andhra Pradesh
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...
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Scribd Becomes More Social
New developments are taking place at the Scribd office in recent times. The site which helps users share documents is now working on becoming a little more “social”. Scribd recently announced that...
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Now Movie & TV Previews In Search Ads And Maybe Product Demos Too..
In an attempt to find more ways to rake in the cash from internet search advertising, Google recently announced that it will include movie and TV show previews along with its plain text searches. In an...
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SMS GupShup Launches Swine Flu Community + Other Online Resources
Now that the Swine flu has created quite a furore in India, various new services revolving around disseminating information about it have started. The latest of these is the social messaging platform,...
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Google Books Ties Up With British Company Interead, Amazon Accusing Google Of...
A British company called Interead (which makes an e-book reader, COOL-ER) has tied up with Google and thus becomes the first e-book store outside the US to partner with Google Books. It will now get to...
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Twitter Unleashes New Terms Of Service – Learns From Facebook
So now Twitter has revised its terms of Service. In a mail sent by Biz Stone, he announced that the folks down at the start-ups office have gained a better understanding of how users use their service...
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TEDIndia’s List Of Speakers Announced: A Tasty Line-up
The list of speakers for TEDIndia was announced recently on the TED Blog and what a smashing line-up it is. There are folks from the developmental sector: There’s C.K Prahlad, who has sparked...
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2 Days To Go For TEDIndia, WATBlog shall be ready!
With less than 3 days left for India’s first ever TED conference, the excitement for the event is at an all time high. We had earlier covered TEDIndia here and then listing all the speakers and...
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