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“Bharat Bandh” Strikes Twitter – Tops Twitter Trending Topics

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

If you have been watching the news on television since morning you must have seen that the nation-wide strike in India has spread like anything with many cities. And now it has gone to Twitter too ! “Bharat Bandh” – the hindi term for India Strike has topped the twitter trending topics lists. Well, this is power you see – power of 1 billion bored Indians . If you see the live tweets page at twitter.com/search?q=Bharat+Bandh for Bharat Bandh, you should take a look at the rate at which tweets on this page are refreshing. Indian discussions have been on the twitter trending lists in the past too but none have topped the list ever which clearly shows the impact of the Country wide strike on the people in India, most of whom have chosen to stay back at their homes. However, people abroad are really puzzled about this “Bharat Bandh” topic in the twitter trending list as we can see from this tweet: Related Posts Yahoo To Launch Meme To Fight Down Twitter – Is There A War Plan? India Among The Top 10 Countries Using Twitter – Sysomos Report Government Gives RIM, Skype the Two-Weeks Notice.. Google Gets A Warning! MyToday Goes Paid.. Launches Super Store Snapdeal Acquires Grabbon – Have They Got Funding From Sequoia? 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: country, live, media, news, people, skype, social-media, work

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Opera 10.60 Released : Claimed as the World’s Fastest Stable Browser!

by Paul Joseph July 5, 2010 Featured

The Norwegian software firm Opera Software has released the final version of its 10.60 browser. It is claimed to be 50 per cent quicker than its previous release, and is also touted to be the “fastest browser on Earth” . The major improvements from the version of 10.54 are: • Opera 10.6 is the first stable version of a browser that lets you play WebM videos. • Opera has added support for many HTML5 features (geolocation, Web workers). • Enhanced mouse movement support and improved JavaScript performance. • Addition of AVG’s real-time threat detection network and phishing protection. • Support for using offline applications for using web based applications in internet unavailability also. • Opera Turbo compresses the data going over the connection by a good factor by feeding sites through Opera’s own servers. • Addition of a number of search engines includes Bing. • With the Speed Dial, to get you to your favorite websites with just a single click. In the web browsing arena, Opera has less than a 5 percent market share internationally, but it continues to have a legion of loyal followers. Its features such as tabbed browsing and tab previews, a customizable search bar, advanced bookmarking tools, and native e-mail, keyboard shortcuts, password management, anti-malware protection from Haute Secure make sure that it stays in the race. By contrast, in the mobile sphere, Opera is the biggest player on the market, and even recently scored approval on the iPhone. Check out the browser at http://www.opera.com/browser. Related Posts Netscape Founder Looks to Re-Enter the Browser Wars with RockMelt (The Facebook Browser?) Out Now! Opera Mini 4.1 – Fast & Furious Nokia , Opera Extends Support To Adobe’s Flash Vodafone Adds Opera Mini Browser For 2G Handsets Google Gets Facebook Fan Page Updates on Real Time Search 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: browser, data, flash, media, opera, opera-mini, race, search, web

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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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