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Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far
The huge Google Books fiasco began in 2004, when Google ambitious tried to recreate a digital Library of Alexandria. The aim, to scan and place on the Internet, every book that they could have access...
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Wikipedia to Open India Chapter?
What’s the first result you find when you Google something? More often than not, it’s Wikipedia. It caught on in 2002, and from there it has become the textbook definition of the success of a...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Award To The Internet?
The Nobel Peace Prize is undoubtedly one of the most reputed international awards. Over the past few years, it’s been awarded to a lot of people and organizations. I was hitherto under the impression...
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Chief Justice of India : “Block Porn Sites”– Easier Said Than Done?
WATBlog has kept a close eye on cyber crimes and the evolution of cyber laws in India. The urgent need for improvement in the current state of affairs is felt very strongly. The need for stronger cyber...
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India Ranks 3rd in Censoring & Removal Requests To Google – A Detailed Look
Google’s always stood by their stance of “Don’t be Evil“, which apart from their policy on software, also covers basic human rights. The recent Google China controversy brought to light how the company...
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Impact Of Facebook Feature Changes & India Tie Ups
According to Facebook, Public will be the New Private. Goodbye Privacy, Social will now be the default status of the Internet as dominated by Facebook. At the F8 conference, Facebook released stats of...
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UID Round-Up: All The News on AADHAAR : For IT, Against It?
It’s been quite a while since we wrote about the latest developments on the UID front. The Unique Identification project might just be the biggest changer in the way we lead our lives. Recently, the...
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Google’s Pac-Man Just Cost the World 4,819,352 Hours of Time
WATBlog covered Google’s addition of Pac-Man to the list of their famous Google moments. After having made the game free for all (and having me play it for over an hour), the verdict is out. As awesome...
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In-Game Advertising : The Potential
Social gaming is all set to make its place among the most important developments in the history of the Internet. Today, FarmVille is one of the most popular game applications on Facebook. It has 82.4...
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Enabled BEST Buses – Coming Soon!
BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport) buses have seen a drastic improvement over the last few years. There are several who don’t mind the extra road journey for the comforts of the new AC...
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Indian Company Onward Mobility Has An Offline App Store
Apple’s famous “There’s an App for that” does not seem to have penetrated the Indian mindset. In spite of the great strides India has made in mobile penetration, both rural and otherwise, the concept...
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Facebook Will Dominate Orkut In Social Networking In India – Was There Ever...
It’s been well known across the web, that no matter how popular Facebook is, there are two countries where Orkut still dominates – India and Brazil. Around a year back, WATBlog had posted an article on...
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Gmail Labs – Sound Familiar?
I was browsing the news yesterday when I came across a series of articles on “How to Undo a Sent Mail”. What I found surprising was the feedback. Apparently, this tidbit of fact was unknown to quite a...
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Are Smartphones The Future of Mobile?
Check out any new mobile that’s just out in the market. What are the chances that it lacks the ability to access Facebook? Close to zero. What are the chances that it doesn’t come equipped with a...
View ArticleSTAMP – $50 Tablet Prototype From Indian Company
Whoever recognized the concept of Reverse Innovation and emphatically stated that development would initiate from the Third World countries and propagate was not kidding. Though this isn’t a clear case...
View ArticleThe Verdict – Facebook Overtakes Orkut In India
It may seem slightly childish to start a blog post in this fashion but… We Told You So! – Of course, it wasn’t just us, and I certainly took my clues (and data) from a lot of other sources except my...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo...
Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular Search...
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E-book Adoption And The Indian Public
E-readers and the Indian Public There was an article in the Business Standard yesterday that got me wondering. Will e-readers improve the adoption of e-books in India? While the answer might seem an...
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ICANN for New .xxx Domain – India Against It
The members of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) approved the addition of the .xxx domain to the ‘generic top level domains’ (gTLDs) , including .com .org .gov , etc recently....
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Indian Online Bookstores Growing And How!
What’s the first place you would go to buy a book? As an ardent book lover, it’s never been easy to get a nice big bookstore to browse. No bookstore can actually be big enough to appease someone whose...
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