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Facebook Finds India Essential: Golden Age Of Social Networking?

by Paul Joseph February 6, 2012 Featured

Mankind’s basic need is to stay & feel connected. This is  echoed  perfectly in Facebook data analyst,  Inside Facebook Gold’s  2011 data which revealed that India was the third biggest Facebook market after US and Indonesia. In terms of growth rate, at 162.4 per cent, India is second only to Brazil. No wonder, Facebook finds India  indispensable . We tried to analyze the reasons: Orkut was the pioneer of Social Networking. Facebook, which still respects Orkut, however, swept the ground from under its feet. We think, owing to Orkut’s cluttered interface & growing menace of SPAM, users, slowly but steadily shifted towards the simpler & fun to use interface of FB. On the other hand, Google+ may be  growing , but it has still to go viral in India. Guess FB has the first mover advantage here? One might say, Orkut pulled-in the crowd & Facebook kept them engaged! FaceBook has always maintained a streamline approach & “The Wall” concept was simply brilliant. It did  jolt  us with the “ Timeline ” (that was customized  for phones too), but people seem to be slowly warming up to the idea. With increasing access to internet, Indian professionals bogged down by work found a fresh breeze to interact not just with present friends, but track & befriend long lost buddies as well as revealed by Rituparna Borah from Assam, “ I use Facebook to connect with my friends with whom I am not in regular touch with .” With games heavily based on Social interaction, Facebook once again captured the  idle time  of India Youth.  So much so , that they prefer to while away time  than seriously pursue work ! Though we are seeing some people who are starting to  alienate  themselves from this time consuming “menace”, the user-base of FB is growing steadily. We can only see further  growth  as cheaper Internet  becomes  easily accessible. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency

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Google’s Shailesh Rao Joins Twitter: What To Expect Now?

by Paul Joseph February 6, 2012 Featured

Google’s Asia-Pacific operations MD, Shailesh Rao has bid adieu & joined the world’s largest Micro-Blogging Site Twitter. Shailesh Rao who was heading the Media & Platforms Dept. of Google’s Asia-Pacific operations, will now join Twitter as VP International Operations. Shailesh migrated to Google India in 2007 from the Company’s California HQ where he was working as director for the search business. Google is in fact happily bidding farewell, “ We thank Shailesh for his fantastic contributions to Google and Google India, in particular, and wish him the best in his future endeavors .” Shailesh draws with him a large vault full of  experience  garnered while working at Google. Twitter, who is trying to enhance its revenue by introducing  an advertising platform will do well with him at their side. We all know Google’s  bread & butter  has been advertising. On Twitter’s side it was just  clever promotions  via tweets that go viral. Shailesh, with his MBA from Kellogg & BS from Wharton, will certainly strike a beautiful balance between what people talk about & what companies  want them to talk about . Twitter, who is indirectly competing with other social media networks such as Facebook, growing its operations in the markets outside of the US is vital. With Shailesh at its helm, we can surely expect he will help Twitter garner  revenues  from advertisers in Asia and elsewhere as it steadily progresses to wards a  global ad push . Google’s Social Networking has been growing  steadily . However, so have  complaints  of malpractice using its Adwords. That too, in India! Shailesh spearheading the International Operations makes us wonder, has Twitter hired him as a precautionary measure? Diplomatic mission to pacify the “local” crowd? Share your thoughts with us.  Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency

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Mahindra Xylo facelift launch on cards

by Paul Joseph February 4, 2012 Featured

Making new versions and introducing them in the market has become the passion of automakers, that‘s why a number of revamped versions of existing cars are all set to roll out in market. Every carmaker is working to give its vehicles a mid-life facelift form in order to increase its sale counts. Well one example which is in news currently is Mahindra Xylo facelift. The all new facelift version of Mahindra’s popular MPV Mahindra Xylo is all set to rock Indian shores on February 8 th this year, for this the company has already started the production. Talking about this all new 2012 Mahindra Xylo MPV, it is coming with some major changes on part of exteriors of the car. Refreshed headlamps, redesigned Front bumper are adding more beauty to the car. Apart this brand new stylish grille and new bonnet are like feathers in the cap. Added to it the interiors of the all new Xylo can be seen with a bit of revamp and have been made more contented and stylish. Coming to the technical specification of the car, it will be offered in two Powertrain which comprises a with 2.2 litre of direct injection diesel engine able to generate 95 BHP of peak power and 2.2 litre of mEagle common rail turbo diesel engine producing  a peak power of 112 BHP.  Mahindra Xylo price is going to be tagged very competitvely.  So it is pretty clear the all new MPV Mahindra Xylo is geared up to garner the sales numbers of Mahindra like its previous model. Well Mahindra & Mahindra is already doing very good in market with its XUV 500 which managed to get a whooping booking numbers when opened for rebooking from 25 th January to 3 rd February. So stay tuned for more updates and gets prepared to greeting new Mahindra Xylo MPV on 8 th February.

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New Motorola Razr leaked with Ice Cream Sandwich

by Paul Joseph February 4, 2012 Featured

Amazing advances in technology made cell phones evolution possible; with the arrival of smaller electronic components every day, cell phones manufacturers like Motorola is able to include much many features in the same physical space. The company has launched many smarter and slim mobiles in India and this time again company comes with thin smartphone Motorola Razr which official leaked with Ice Cream Sandwich ROM. The Motorola Razr price in India is Rs. 31,799. As per available Motorola Razr pictures the handset has thin body measurement. The Motorola Razr features make-known that the touch bar smartphone comes with Digital compass as additional features along with Document viewer. The mobile phone is inbuilt by 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor along with Android v2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system but the Motorola mobiles are also officially leaked this smartphone with Ice Cream Sandwich ROM by online. The Motorola Razrcomes with HTML internet browser. The Android phone is enabled with GPS with A-GPS navigation services along with GLONASS service. The smartphone comes with 3.5mm audio jack and loud speakers sound output devices for supports of MP3 and MP4 players for presenting excellent entertainment service. The Motorola Razr specifications inculde   with 4.3 inches super AMOLED capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 540 X 960 pixels. The multi touch input, splash resistant and touch sensitive controls display features are enabled in the model. The Motorola Razr is providing better pictures and video recording with help of 8.0MP main camera and best video calling facility with supports of 1.3MP secondary camera. The smartphone comes with Li-Ion 1780mAh standard battery that is deliver good talk time and standby time period. The Motorola Razrhas internal memory of 16GB and external memory of up to 32 GB via microSD memory card. The handset is offering some data transfer connectivity features as Bluetooth v4.0 with LE+EDR, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, micro USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n.

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Orkut Still A Contender Reveals Facebook’s IPO Filing!

by Paul Joseph February 3, 2012 Featured

Facebook feels that Orkut is still a worthy adversary for it in India. One of the largest, Facebook’s IPO filling keeps revealing many interesting tidbits. We recently wrote about how Facebook actually accepted it had rivals. But considering Orkut to be one of them is, well, amusing in the least. Sure it was a huge rage when Google introduced it. We remember filling in so many fun trivia & quizzes. However, since Facebook reared in India, people have literally forgotten Orkut. While Facebook may consider it a rival lets evaluate; Why? Facebook has named others along with Orkut, such as Cyworld in Korea, Mixi in Japan, vKontakte in Russia & of course Orkut in India as well as Brazil. These are being referred to as Social Networks with Deep Regional Roots . Nonetheless, together they have sizable population of active & passive users attached to them. This has directly affected Facebook’s march in these regions. In their absence Facebook would have garnered considerably more users per month. Facebook grew 132% over last year in terms of Monthly Active Users (MAU) in India, while in Brazil it was a whopping 268% . Despite this the Filling relegates us to “ relatively less-penetrated, large markets such as Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea ” In case of Japan & Korea, the filing reveals penetration of only 15% & censorship-riddled China has near 0% ! Orkut, once a vibrant network has been relegated to the Back-burner, both by users & by Google. Though it’s own have abandoned it, Facebook is still watching it cautiously. Do you still use or prefer Orkut? Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts How The Young Buy Mobile Phones : Report The Verdict – Facebook Overtakes Orkut In India Twitter Usage Dominated By Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela – India Comes In At 18th Twitter Moves Towards Content Curation Special Feature: Facebook, Twitter & Firefox Requests Google Not To Be Evil

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HTC ChaCha Price, Features

by Paul Joseph February 3, 2012 Featured

Today, Android is the best operating system for mobile devices due to several reasons. Mobile manufacturing companies like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola are using this open source operating system in their products. But the HTC mobiles company is one of the best mobile manufacturing company that has launched best of Smartphones in India. Now the company comes with another Android Smartphone HTC ChaCha in India. According to the company the HTC ChaCha price in India is tagged at Rs. 11,590. The HTC ChaCha pictures are available on net.      As indicated by the HTC ChaCha fetaures , the mobile consists of the 5.0 megapixel camera which is held by the LED flash, autofocus and Geo-tagging camera features along with VGA front camera for live video calling services. In this phone 3.5 mm audio jack, video as well as audio player, FM radio, connectivity features are added for best entertainment service. Additional features like Document viewer, photo and video editor, voice memo and Digital compass are also available in the mobile. This smartphone phone comes with face book dedicated key as special feature.     The internal memory of 512 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM is available in this mobile and the mobile also supports an external memory which can be expanded up to 32 GB via microSDcard. The HTC ChaCha works on Android v2.3 Gingerbread OS and a 800 MHz processor. For perfect body shape the smartphone has 114.4×64.6×10.7 mm of dimension and the mobile has 120 gm of light weight. Messaging service of the Smartphone offers best text message, multimedia message and Email messages along with instant messaging. Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi and USB data connectivity features are added for wireless connectivity. The HTC ChaCha is inbuilt with a large 2.6 inches capacitive TFT touch display screen along with HTC sense 2.1 UI sense.

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Honda not to bring Diesel Brio in India

by Paul Joseph February 3, 2012 Featured

Speculations are sometimes meant to be avoided. Same happened this time, actually few days ago it was rumored that Honda India is coming with diesel version of Honda Brio in 2012, but for now this seems not to happen anymore. The Honda India officially declared that the company is not planning to introduce diesel variant of its popular hatchback Honda Brio not at least in year 2012. Earlier told that the 1.2 litre of diesel engine will house the diesel Brio which will be offered along with petrol version of the car. So this is going to disappoint many car lovers who were pretty excited for the launch of new i-DTEC diesel engine to be adorned in diesel Honda Brio. Well no more despair, as the Honda India introduced this 1.6 litre i-DTEC diesel motor which will be able to generate high power, torque along with higher fuel competency which will be witnessed by the consumers in 2012 Honda Civic. The above mentioned engine is the first of its kind and is said to be being developed by the company. Well for now with the announcement of non introduction of diesel Brio, the company is quite prepared to resume its full production of both Honda Brio and Honda Jazz whose demands are on peak right now. Talking about Honda Brio and Honda Jazz, the Honda Jazz is the face lifted version brought in 2011 and Honda Brio was launched at entry level car  which created  a lot of buzz in market,  Honda Brio price was tagged vry competitvely.Honda Brio pictures are quite attractiive.  Production of both the cars have been stopped due to Thailand floods . So the only Honda City Sedan is being produced in small numbers since that time. But now the company is all geared to resume its production.

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Samsung Galaxy S Advance specifications

by Paul Joseph February 2, 2012 Featured

The mobile phone from the particular Samsung company has gained much response that is extra ordinary. With selling maximum number of mobile phones in the mobile market, the Samsung Mobiles Company has taken maximum amount of share in the international market included India. The company is going to be launch a new model in India and that is Samsung Galaxy S Advance .  The model is well endowed with good latest options and touch screen display as per shown by the Samsung Galaxy S Advance pictures. The Samsung Galaxy S Advance price in India is not yet confirmed.   The device comes with best messaging service likes SMS, MMS, Email and Push Email service that are offering nice messaging communication. In this model, social networking services are available that connect the user with the friends and family. For fast data transfer service the Samsung Galaxy S Advance has Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and micro v2.0 USB connectors. Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS and EDGE wireless connectivity’s are integrated in this mobile for best wireless service. For better internet access the smartphone comes with HTML and flash browser. In the Samsung Galaxy S Advance a Li-ion 1500 mAh capacitive battery is available which is offering long talk time and standby time. The Samsung Galaxy S Advance features included with a 4.0 inches Super AMOLED capacitive display screen which has touch technology along with multi touch input method and touch sensitive controls.the display has 480 x 800 pixels resolution. The smartphone  is providing  with 5.0 mega pixels main camera along with 1.3 MP secondary camera for video calling services. The Samsung Galaxy S Advance has  external memory of up to 32GB via as microSD card along with 768 MB RAM. the  Samsung Galaxy S Advance comes with lots of normal games and download able games for lots of fun.

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Beat diesel outshines Indica eV2, become most fuel efficient car

by Paul Joseph February 1, 2012 Featured

This spells good news for Chevrolet Beat consumers, fans and the company as the diesel Beat has been acknowledged as the most fuel-efficient car in india. The International Center for Automotive Testing (ICAT) has announced that the new Chevrolet Beat has registered a fuel efficiency of 25.4 kmpl beating its closest rival Tata Indica eV2 that had registered a fuel efficiency of 25 kmpl and claimed to be the car to record the highest mileage so far. It looks like Indian cars have marked a huge improvement in terms of fuel efficiency as evident from cars such as the 2012 Tata Nano that have numbers of 25.3 kmpl despite being powered by a petrol engine. The new Beat had undergone a minor engine upgrade that has increased its mileage from 24 kmpl as recorded earlier to the current figure of 25.4 kmpl that marks quite an increase. This case is quite similar to that of Tata Indica eV2 that too had been reintroduced after a small engine overhaul. The Chevrolet Beat pictures show that the interiors and the overall look of the car have been rated as better than eV2 which has more appeal in the business sense than personal. Car manufacturers over the world have been going strongly in terms of coming out with cars recording good numbers in terms of fuel efficiency. Tata Nano 2012 is one such example where a car has great mileage and has low levels of fuel consumption. The increase in demand of diesel cars is evident of the direction in which car companies are making efforts to come out with vehicles that cater to the primary demand of every car owner – good mileage. Relevant examples include Tata Nano CNG and Volkswagen XL1 diesel that have phenomenally overwhelming numbers of 30-35 kmpl and 111 kmpl respectively. 

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Samsung Galaxy S III Features

by Paul Joseph January 31, 2012 Featured

After creation of wireless technology, the new era of the world has provided a new and excellent face to the wireless devices. Many mobile manufacturing companies have stepped in to this industry and earned name and fame. The Samsung mobiles company has launched many mobiles which got good response from the market. People are great lovers of the mobiles launched by Samsung. The company is going to launch a new and unique masterpiece smartphone in India and that is Samsung Galaxy S III . The Samsung Galaxy S III price in India is not yet declared. The Samsung Galaxy S III pictures are available on net for getting more details about the model.     A wide 4.6 inches Super AMOLED plus capacitive touchscreen display is available in this mobile so user can see high quality pictures and also can watch video on this display. The display has 720×1280 pixels of resolution with 16M colors. The smartphone comes with an Android v2.3 Gingerbread operating system along with 1.8 GHz dual core processor. For more data storage, the mobile is built with internal memory of 16/32GB and up to 32 GB external memory via microSD memory card along with 2GB RAM.     The Samsung Galaxy S III features a 12 megapixel camera at rear surface along with LED flash and autofocus options. The smartphone is also added with 2.0 megapixels secondary camera. The Li-Ion capacitive standard battery is available in this mobile for long performance of talk time and standby time. The Samsung Galaxy S III is integrated by wireless connectivity like Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v3.0 + HS, 3G, GPRS and EDGE. An HTML Web browser is also added in this mobile for internet access service. SMS, MMS, Email, push Email and IM as messaging services features are included in the model.

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