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Book Your Meals With Your Ticket Online via IRCTC

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

Travelling by train and worried about your meals en route? Well, no more! INDIAN RAILWAYS Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has started a new scheme of “Book a Meal” category on online booking service in which the passengers can avail their choice menu and food while they reserve their berth via E-ticket. WATBlog had earlier reported that IRCTC is on a high profit spree and is making a huge amount via air ticketing . Seems that they want to continue the good provisions in other services as well. To start with, the IRCTC has introduced the Book-a-Meal scheme through internet on Karnataka Express and Goa Express as a pilot project, an IRCTC spokesperson said. The payment is not taken online but on completion of delivery by the train pantry car staff in cash. The meal can be booked online from originating or enroute stations and the process is quite customer-friendly and gives all details including tariff, quantity and combination items with the main menu. The menu options are different on both the trains and range from the standard breakfast, lunch and dinner to a-la-carte vegetarian and non-vegetarian items. The items are reasonably priced like the previous Janta Meals and Jan Ahaars and range from Rs 10 for a veg-cutlet to Rs 30 for an egg biryani. The passengers can select from a detailed menu and the item and the quantity has to be selected. A print out of the order has to be retained by the passenger to be shown to the pantry people. The IRCTC maintains that once the pilot project is successful, the project would be extended to other routes as well. Related Posts IRCTC To Sell CommonWealth Game Tickets Online IRCTC Rakes In Rs.50 Lakh Daily Via Air Ticketing! Yatra Ties Up With Yahoo! India & Renews Contract With IRCTC ‘Value Addition Is What Digital Commerce Needs To Offer’ – Sanjay Agarwal, GM, IRCTC @ IAMAI Digital Commerce Conference Tie-up Fiesta – Spice Digital To SMS Ads And Travel Details To IRCTC Users Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

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Google to Become e-Tourism Specialist! Acquires ITA for $700 million

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

Google has reached an agreement to buy ITA Software, a maker of air-travel flight-information software whose customers include major airlines and online travel agencies. Google will pay US$700 million in cash for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software vendor. According to Google, the acquisition will benefit passengers, airlines and online travel agencies by making it easier for users to comparison shop for flights and airfares and by driving more potential customers to airlines’ and online travel agencies’ websites. Google won’t be setting airfare prices and has no plans to sell airline tickets to consumers. Travel information searches make up a significant portion of Google queries, so the company wants to enhance its technology in this area, which is ripe for innovation, Google and ITA executives said during a press conference. “ITA’s very talented team has created an impressive product to organize flight information,” Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google, has said. “Their technology opens exciting possibilities for us to create new ways for users to more easily find flight information online, and we are looking forward to welcoming them to Google. More than half of all airline tickets are bought online, making this a very large business, but the user experience leaves a lot to be desired, which affects not only consumers but also airlines and travel agencies. Consumers often have to visit multiple sites to find the best deals, which constantly change”, he said. ITA, founded in 1996, counts among its customers American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Kayak, Orbitz, Southwest Airlines, TripAdvisor, United Airlines, US Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Microsoft’s Bing. The QPX technology from ITA is designed to organize data such as flight times, flight availability and ticket prices. Coming up with a better user experience will be “a big engineering challenge,” Schmidt said. The deal should allow Google to match innovations made by Microsoft Corp, whose recently re-launched Bing search engine has gained share by focusing on a handful of specific search categories like travel and shopping. With this acquisition, Google ensures from the outset a leading position in the market for tourist information. According to one industry expert, quoted by AP news agency, U.S. travelers will acquire for 45 billion dollars of tickets online. A sum that will rise to 59 billion in 2014. Related Posts Is Google Planning To Venture Into Social Gaming? Google Chrome Os Vs Microsoft Windows Government Gives RIM, Skype the Two-Weeks Notice.. Google Gets A Warning! Google.cn – Dark Times Ahead Dell Netbook With Google’s Chrome OS – Future Of Computers? Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

Tagged as: computers, google-chrome, marketing, search-engine, social, work

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Facebook and Twitter- A Hit With Traffic Cops for Nabbing Offenders!

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

Social Networking sites, Facebook and Twitter have found their way to the Delhi Police. No, not for any malfunction case, but for nabbing offenders of traffic! In an effort to manage the traffic situation in the city during the Commonwealth games slated for October, The Delhi Traffic Police has come up with their pages on these popular sites in a bid to request the citizens to show their cooperation in doing their job. The only tool that you require to don your cop hat is just your cell phone camera! The offenders pictures- be it unregistered vehicle numbers, tinted glasses, riders without safety helmets, are posted on the site by the users and the case is registered with the DTP. Users post queries, complaints and suggestions and receive immediate responses from the DTP. One month on and the Facebook page has over 9000 fans where dozens of photos and videos are uploaded everyday. Twitter has over 850 followers. With so many “assistants” roaming around the city, offenders should not be surprised to get a notice for a violation committed when they thought no traffic cop was around. “It’s a big success. We get a lot of suggestions, complaints and comments. “Delhi Traffic Police has taken the first step and we will definitely reciprocate. I hope other departments and various public agencies also launch similar initiatives,” Ajay Chadha, special commissioner of police (Traffic), told IANS . The cops regularly post important information and appreciation of the user’s effort on the wall. So, the next time, you jump a red light or park in a No parking zone and have got away from the cops or the surveillance cameras, don’t have a reason to cheer.. Some other alert citizen ‘cop’ might have caught your offence! Most Commented Posts Paypal India Block Leaves IT Guys High & Dry – Need For An Indian Paypal? Wish Us Happy Birthday And WIN Free Customized TShirts from Myntra.com – Domain & Hosting from LimeDomains Be a BIG part of the next BIG thing! Join WAT! Now Women Meow On FM Radio! WATBlog Wins The Best Indian Blog Award 2009! Thanks To Our Readers, Bloggers & Staff! Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

Tagged as: facebook, india, Indian, networking, social-networking, web, work

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Airtel Digital TV Enables Live Recording Via Internet!

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

Just a few days back we covered Airtel’s launch of a mobile service that would enable subscribers of its digital TV service to record live TV shows by initiating the recording action via their mobile phones. In a further enhancement of this service the company has now launched a service that will allow the users to record live shows controlling this action via the internet. The service is available to users who have specifically subscribed to Airtel digital TV Recorder service. The procedure that currently users will have to follow on the internet is that they will log on to their Self Care account on www.airtel.in/digitaltv. They will be able to access the feature by clicking on “Program Guide” at the top navigation bar. This will lead to a grid view of channel -wise listing of programmes by time. The programs can also be searched by genre, channel, name etc. Clicking on the programs will give details and a recording option. The recorder has to be on the power on mode at home and the chosen programme will automatically get recorded. Airtel is only the second DTH player after Tata Sky to offer recording services. It offers a recording capacity of up to 100 hours and 160 GB hard disk currently and is equipped with an HDMI port which allows it to be connected the latest tv display panels in the market. Airtel and Tata Sky are in direct competition with each other and the market growth potential is promising. Globally more than 30% of the content watched by the subscribers in the UK, USA, Japan and Australia is recorded television rather than live television. Moreover it has been observed that 35-40% of the new DTH subscribers buy personal video recorders in global markets. Similar behavior is expected from Indian consumers. Lets see who wins in this race. What do you think? Related Posts Dish TV Plans to Take its Subscribers to 8 Million by This Year Digital TV Watchers Spend More Time In Front of TV Airtel Test Launches 3G Service in 3 Metros Pakistan Announces Monitoring Of Websites India’s SMBs Set To Drive Internet Spending Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

Tagged as: Indian, internet, marketing, media, mobile, plans, power, race, social, technology, work

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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 28th June – 4th July 2010

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

Last week brought the facebook vs Google saga into spotlight yet again. We also reported the government warnings issues to RIM and skype as well as the revamp and launch of Mytoday sms super store. This and lots more in last weeks weekly wrapup. Posts via WATBlog.com iXiGo Powers Flight Search On New Delhi And Hyderabad Airport Websites Spice Mobiles Merges With Its Parent Company Is Google Planning To Venture Into Social Gaming? Mobile Number Portability Should Be Renamed Mobile Number Postponability Yet Again! Social Gaming On The Rise In India – Zapak Launches All Its Game On Facebook Google Chrome Os Vs Microsoft Windows Srei Sahaj And Bharat Matrimony Bring Online Matrimony To Villages Government Gives RIM, Skype the Two-Weeks Notice.. Google Gets A Warning! Facebook vs Google – Will You Google Me? Mobile Web Traffic Grows 4 Times In 2 Years : AdMob Metrics Report Tata DoCoMo’s Middle East Offer: Another 1st in Indian Telecom Industry Pakistan Announces Monitoring Of Websites Google.cn – Dark Times Ahead Rediff Wins Domain Squatting Case Over Rediff Pakistan Domain India’s SMBs Set To Drive Internet Spending MyToday Goes Paid.. Launches Super Store New Trend: Discount Vouchers On Mobile Phones MTN Trying To Enter India Through Loop Mobile Indian Handset Manufacturers Go International Facebook India Operations To Commence In 2 Months Snapdeal Acquires Grabbon – Have They Got Funding From Sequoia? Social Media via SocialTrakr.com Twitter Statistics: Asia has largest number of Tweets Is Your Web Analytics Tool giving you Valuable Insights? Social Media is on the Rise with Rising Privacy Concerns How Do You Define Success in Social Media? 5 Steps to Rock Your Event Marketing via Twitter Press Releases via WATPR.com Wipro’s Demand Management and Vendor Collaboration Solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry Now SAP-Endorsed Business Solutions Wipro Announces Legacy Migration Initiative Based on Oracle® Tuxedo What is faster than the fastest? Kinetic Events Partners with Business Wire India for IT Leaders India Summit 2010-06-16 SYSTIME Announces the Appointment of Vijayaraghavan T.S. as Global Head – Marketing Cisco WebEx Offers Remote Support through Web Collaboration 9.9 Media Launches NEXT100 – the Biggest Search for India’s Future CIOs Wipro to Fund ACM Scholarships for Women Students Attending Computing Research Conferences INTEX raises the bar in Dual SIM -QWERTY phones Pegasystems and Tata Consultancy Services Form Global Strategic Alliance Jobs on WATJob.com Full-time Tech & Digital Blogger Required @WATBlog Graphic/Web Designer @WATConsult Social Media Application Developer @WATConsult Gaming via WATGame.com EA Sports reveals FIFA Manager 2011 World of Warcraft: Cataclysm entered closed beta testing The Game critic Awards: Best of E3 2010 nominees… Related Posts WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 21st-27th June 2010 WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 14th – 20th June 2010 WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 7th June – 13th June 2010 WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 31st May – 6th June 2010 WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 24th – 30th May 2010 Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

Tagged as: business, Indian, industry, marketing, media, microsoft, middle-east, traffic, weekly wrapup

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Airtel, Vodafone confirmed to launch iPhone 4G in September

by Paul Joseph July 3, 2010 Featured

Apple iPhone 4 is ready to launch in India by September 2010, announced by Airtel and Vodafone India’s no 1 GSM service provider. Airtel and Vodafone launched the Apple iPhone 3GS in India and now they confirmed to launch Apple iPhone 4G . Recently, the Apple iPhone 4 , the smartphone, is launched in U.K., France, Japan and Germany and India will be the part of 88 countries where iPhone 4G is going to be launched in September as announced by the GSM network companies Airtel and Vodafone. The features of the iPhone 4 make it a latest version mobile in India whereas of Old version and this will be latest featured mobile and Apple iPhone offers more battery life around 40% in comparison to the older version, Wi-Fi connectivity and 5 mega pixel camera which offers excellent camera quality. iOS 4 is a application where the mobile runs and it has multi touch facility of ‘Retina display’ with a resolution of 960×640 pixels. Apple iPhone 4G 16GB is expected to be priced at Rs. 35000/- and 32GB at Rs. 41500/- whereas the network company’s hadn’t disclosed the price details.

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Oscar ready to launch new mobiles in India

by Paul Joseph July 3, 2010 Featured

Oscar recently announced to launch ten new mobiles in the Indian market particularly in northern and eastern parts of India at reasonable prices. Oscar is to launch the mobiles in the price range of Rs 1700/- to Rs. 4500/- with a lot of features and specially the company is going add Dual Sim GSM connectivity. Whereas the Oscar has tied-up with China manufacturers but later the company decided to start there own unit. Oscar mobiles are ready to hit the Indian market within next two months, most special feature of the mobile is vibration speaker this will be the first entry mobile in the market with speaker vibrator. Most of the people will surely attract towards this feature. some other special features read DVDs, home theatre systems, televisions and multi-media speaker systems. Oscar has big plans to get into the mobile market and to attract the Indian mobile users with special features in mobile. Oscar Group Executive Director Suresh Wadhwani said in a statement “We will invest Rs 100 crore this year on our product and marketing. By the end of first year, we hope to sell one lakh mobiles per month in North and East India with a turnover of Rs 250 crores.” Nokia C6, C1, C1 00, C3, N8, E5 and X2, Sony Ericsson Zylo , Spiro , xperia x8, HTC wildfire, Desire and Google Nexus one, Samsung B7722 Duos, Samsung Xcover will be launched with special features like Touch screen, Music Player, qwerty keypad, etc. smartphones and slider mobiles are now more affordable with attractive features which will be available in these mobiles as well.

Tagged as: china, google-nexus, Indian, mobile, music, north, price

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Nokia 2720 Fold, Nokia 7020, Nokia 3710 flip phones unleashed in India

by Paul Joseph July 3, 2010 Featured

Nokia 2720 Fold flip phone has two varies sized displays, a 1.8 inch internal display and second external monochrome TFT display of 1.36 inches size. Its nicely designed palm-friendly keypad and a responsive navigation control are also awesome. The colours available are Black, Deep Red. Its multimedia features are chic as it is laid with Stereo FM radio with RDS, MP3 music player and MPEG-4 Player. Its 1.3 MP camera with LED flash capture precious video actions via CIF@15fps. The Nokia 2720 stores 500 entries in 9MB internal memory, though the card slot is missing. Its standard battery Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S) gives the talk time performance is up to up to 5 h and stand by time up to 432h. There is lack of Wi Fi and 3G features but other connectivity options are present as bluetooth which is in the configuration of v2.0.The GPRS system is of Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps and EDGE is also available in the configuration of Class 6, 177.6kbps. SMS, MMS and Email messaging features are well laid out in the handset. The Nokia 2720 Fold has an in built browser which is in the configuration of WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML. The Nokia 2720 Fold is said to be a simple, user friendly and sleek handset appealing people with all necessary and latest features. Nokia 7020 has similar multimedia functionality, messaging features and connectivity options but a 2MP camera is an improvement. Its internal memory is improved as it is 45MB and memory card upto 16GB is handy.Design-wise, Nokia 7020 are laid with 2.5mm audio jack and microUSB port on sides. Overturning it reveals its plain design with camera lens coupled with a silver lining. When unfolded, the Nokia 7020 presents us with a 2.2 inch thin Film Transistor Second external monochrome display of 128 x 160 pixels color screen. The colour availability is three viz. Graphite, Hot Pink, Silver, Blue. The Nokia 7020 has the standard battery Li-Ion 860 mAh that gives the stand by time Up to 360h. Nokia 3710 is powered by the S40 platform, sports a nice 2.2 QVGA display , does Assisted GPS .For music the phone has a stereo music player and a FM Radio. In Nokia 3710 fold, there’s a 3.2 MP camera with flash and a photo gallery application lets you browse your pics easily.There’s a secondary video calling camera with 3G feature. The 3710 fold is expected to sell at around Rs.10000.

Tagged as: black, internal-memory, nokia mobiles, phone, silver, wap

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Tata Motors sales grew 49 percent in June 2010

by Paul Joseph July 3, 2010 Featured

Tata Motors ’ total sales (including exports) of Tata commercial and passenger vehicles in June 2010 were 67,730 vehicles, a growth of 49 percent over 45,440 vehicles sold in June 2009. The company’s domestic sales of Tata commercial and passenger vehicles for June 2010 were 62,602 nos., a 45 percent growth over 43,284 nos. sold in June last year. Cumulative sales (including exports) for the company for the fiscal are 181,708 nos., a growth of 48 percent over 123,114 nos. sold last year. The company’s sales of commercial vehicles in June 2010 in the domestic market were 34,791 nos., a 33 percent growth compared to 26,245 vehicles sold in June last year. LCV sales were 19,652 nos., a growth of 21 percent over June last year. M and HCV sales stood at 15,139 nos., a growth of 52 percent over June last year. Cumulative sales of commercial vehicles in the domestic market for the fiscal are 97,229 nos., a growth of 35 percent over last year. Cumulative LCV sales are 55,073 nos., a growth of 21 percent over last year, while M and HCV sales stood at 42,156 nos., a growth of 58 percent over last year. The passenger vehicles business reported a total sale and distribution offtake of 29,948 nos. (27,811 Tata 2,137 Fiat ) in the domestic market in June 2010, a 53 percent increase compared to 19,513 nos. (17,039 Tata 2,474 Fiat) in June last year. Sales of Tata passenger vehicles were 27,811 nos., a growth of 63 percent over June 2009. Sales of the Tata Nano were 7,704 nos. The Indica range sales were 9,003 nos., lower by 12 percent over June last year. The Indigo range recorded sales of 7,502 nos., a growth of 113 percent over June last year. The Sumo / Safari range accounted for sales of 3,602 nos., higher by 9 percent over June last year. Jaguar Land Rover sales continued their upward trend since launch in June 2009. Cumulative sales and distribution offtake of passenger vehicles in the domestic market for the fiscal are 78,336 nos. (72,236 Tata 6,100 Fiat), against 50,691nos. (45,837 Tata 4,854 Fiat) last year, a growth of 55 percent. Cumulative sales of the Nano are 14,779 nos. Cumulative sales of the Indica range are 26,507 nos., lower by 8 percent. Cumulative sales of the Indigo family are 21,303 nos., higher by 139 percent. Cumulative sales of the Sumo/Safari range are 9,647 nos., higher by 20 percent. The company’s sales from exports at 5,128 vehicles in June 2010 registered a growth of 138 percent compared to 2,156 vehicles in June last year. The cumulative sales from exports for the fiscal at 12,243 nos. are higher by 134 percent over 5,221 nos. in the same period last year.

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iXiGo Powers Flight Search On New Delhi And Hyderabad Airport Websites

by Paul Joseph July 2, 2010 Featured

In a new win for iXiGo, the company is now powering the travel search on the official websites for the Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad. This will definitely help the company to reach out to a larger audience. This move is in conformance with the views Aloke Bajpai, founder of iXiGo outlined in an online interview last year. He said, “We are also working on the challenge of building connectivity and relationships with all international airlines flying from India in order to take our international flights product (in beta) to the next level and ready to be immersed into the core product.” He also went on to say that online travel agencies depended on flight transactions for a significant percentage of their revenues. Moreover iXiGo considers as one of its major strengths in being able to reach out to those consumers who can shell out Rs.10000-20000 for air tickets and accommodation. IXiGo is of the opinion that patronizing this relatively elite group of consumers is their niche and helps in gaining efficient returns. Last year itself it claimed that its flight engines caused 2% of online transactions in India. Therefore it is clear that the company considers flight travel as a very promising segment for the company and has been working to develop enhanced search engines for the same. They are employing a meta- search based engine for the new websites, which is relatively new in India though it is used quite commonly in international systems. The new websites have a good interface. The flight search listings are comprehensive offering the required options for customizing the search options such as arrival times, departure times, price range of tickets etc. Same can be said about the hotel search listings as well. Its services can further add value to the traveler by combining its search capabilities regarding bus and other modes of transport within the respective cities and all modes connecting the city to other smaller places. This deal will help iXiGo in increasing its customer base. Lets hope that its search engines will result in a better user experience. What do you think? Related Posts iXiGo Now To Power Flight Search & Booking On TravelGuru.com Recap 2009: Online Travel Recap 2008: Online Travel iXiGo Launches Hotel Search iXiGo.com Gets Funding From Singapore Based Fund! Need Help With Social Media Marketing?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Submit Your Work To The 1st International Social Media Awards

Tagged as: city, hyderabad, international, online, singapore, social

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