Its been a long journey and a labour of love for me and all those who have worked with the WATMedia . What started as an amateur blog in the middle of 2006 by an ignorant (and some what arrogant) 21 year old (yes thats me!) is now a growing company that owns and runs not 1 but 2 offices in Mumbai. As you might have noticed from the Job openings we posted recently we have been on an expansion mode starting year 2010
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WATMedia Opens Its 2nd Office In Mumbai!
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Dec. 31, 2009 — PricePickle.com, a leading coupon code shopping portal, has announced their top New Year’s resolution offers for the 2010 New Year. These are the most sought after online retailers and advertisers by consumers looking to save money online and improve or enhance some aspect of their life
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Hottest Consumer New Year’s Resolution Offers for 2010 at PricePickle.com
This year, we teamed up with San Francisco artist Coley Wopperer to spread some WordPress-themed holiday cheer. We thought it turned out so well, we wanted to share it with everyone as a collection of desktop wallpapers. Sure to bring a smile to your face, even if you’re staring at spreadsheets all day.
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WordPress Holiday Desktop Wallpapers
While T-Mobile customers across the UK have been left outraged at the news that their own network has breached every kind of privacy law by selling their personal data, non T-mobile customers are equally incensed that their own networks are actually creating the market by purchasing the data! As our friend Flora at CNET comments , if you get a cold call from another network offering you a deal when your contract is about to run out, not only is it unsolicited and potentially rather annoying but they could have actually paid to steal your data in the first place! One of our stellar software developers on a T-Mobile tariff was caught up in this fracas and recently pelted by all manner of calls from out of the blue. Little did we know that was only the tip of the iceberg! Luckily using a comparison service like ours, which actually tracks your usage month by month and reminds you when your contract is about to expire, or another price comparison calculator, allows you to take your mobile matters into your own hands and find the best deal for you without the “help” of those data cowboys
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T-Mobile! Scandal!
Videoconferencing services have been touted as the “next big thing” for a decade or more, but poor video quality and time lags have hampered uptake. However, the latest generation of videoconferencing services, known as Telepresence, take advantage of class-of-service capabilities on MPLS networks to deliver high-definition video and audio, life size and in real time. The first-generation uptake on Telepresence has largely been for within-organization collaboration at large multinationals
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Why Carriers Should Care About Telepresence
Pakistan military closes in on Taliban stronghold ISLAMABAD — Pakistani forces killed two dozen militants in 24 hours and were closing in on a prominent insurgent stronghold in the mountains of South Waziristan, the army said Friday. Government soldiers now control the hills above the village of Sararogha, where Taliban leaders long have operated openly, officials said
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Pakistan military closes in on Taliban stronghold, says 24 militants killed in latest fighting
Sprint has finally reached an agreement with Big River Telephone over the lawsuit filled against it by the former as regards VoIP patent right. Details of the agreement reached were not disclosed, but it is clear that Big River Telephone would be allowed to wholesale telephone services to other small cable operators. Under the terms of the settlement, Big River will compensate Sprint for a non-exclusive license to Sprint’s VoP patent portfolio to allow Big River to provide services to predefined cable companies.
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Sprint Settles Big River Telephone Over Patent Agreement
The Publisher Simon & Schuster may soon be forced to cough up the roughly $90 million in fines and payouts associated with the class action lawsuit it’s facing for the ill-advised Stephen King promo. This was made known by the court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which has decided unanimously that a text message campaign led by the company that sent an unintentionally threatening message to thousands of users could cost the publisher $90 million dollars. In 2003, to promote the then new Stephen King novel, ‘Cell,’ the publisher used a list of over 60, 000 phone numbers collected by a third party, not involved in the case, to send the offending text message
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Courts May Award Damages Against Publishers for Sending Unsolicited Text Messages
Unveiling its third powered smartphone branded The Hero, HTC promises that this sense user interface device will be available on some other existing devices. This will give added capabilities such as an expanded Home screen with unique HTC widgets and tighter integration with social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook
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HTC Announces Third Android Powered Smartphone, The HTC Hero
Noteable as this news cycle winds down ( “ Craigslist Pwns McMaster ,” “ Pandering Has Its Price ,” “ Craigslist 1, McMaster 0 ,” “ McMaster’s Final Humiliation” ) has been the absolute disinterest shown by politicians and journalists in hardcore sex-for-money ads featured in journalistic media, no matter how numerous or graphic they may be. Here are a few out of tens of thousands of “escort ads” featured on backpage.com adult classifieds owned by Village Voice Media , publisher of a chain of weekly newspapers. (WARNING – EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT): I am a nasty freaky girl who loves sucking cock (Chicago) An Irish blowjob and a cum showering rainbow (New York) Cum lay your hotdog on my bun for memorial day (Dallas) Doing men 18 to 65 with trucker parking (Toledo) Three holes anything goes $90 – GREEK included (New Jersey) Can u fuck my tight pussy hard ask for alexis – age 18 (Atlanta) Thick meaty transexual treat (Philadelphia) I luv 2 suk n fuk – age 18 (Phoenix) Deep throating full service freak (Orlando) I gotta big a$$ fat pu$$y big boobs need I say more (St Louis) Enjoy multiple orgasms with “Flavor” (Myrtle Beach, SC) Let me put you to bed backdoor available $80 (Columbia, SC) Ebony slut will blow u away wet n ready 4 u gfe (Greenville, SC) UPDATE – Now deleted ads included photos of sex acts, and price quotes for: “GFE, BBBJ, CIM, greek, swallow, DATY, 69, facials, golden showers, anal” UPDATE – Screenshot of ad cited above (CAUTION, EXPLICIT SEXUALITY) These examples were “featured” ads for which Village Voice charged extra, such that this content presumably fell well within their guidelines.
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Turning a Blind Eye
My team and I are at the Game Developers Conference this week, thanks to Nokia . We presented and demoed our game, Weekness, today. Weekness turns your text messaging habits into a game. In one player mode, users guess who text messages were sent to and received from, from weeks past. In the two players mode, uers play in real time on one phone with another user to guess each other’s most often text messaged words. In both modes, a new social interactions can be created, extending the pre-existing socail usages of the phone. Rabia Malik , Yumi Endo and I were the Weekness development team.
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Weekness at GDC
This week at EclipseCon I have had the pleasure of meeting Alex Buckley, Sun’s Java language supremo and spec lead for JSR 294 . For those of you who do not memorise JSR numbers, 294 was originally known as “superpackages”, was killed off for a while, and is now back in the form of enhancements to the Java language to support modularity. As an OSGi supporter I have no problem in principle with JSR 294, indeed it may make the use of OSGi easier, especially for beginners learning the Java language
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Using Sun’s Jigsaw May Get You Fired
Indeed a very happy new year, having bagged two of the most prestigious awards an Indian start-up can dream of. As we had mentioned in the previous post, getting short listed in itself was a huge honor. Winning the title proves that Dreams _can_ be turned to Reality! These awards come as a huge motivation for our entire team as its an appreciation and recognition of the hard work each one of us have put in , in the past one year
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NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 & ISBA Entrepreneurship Award
Businesslights.com stocks Sylvania and Eye Lighting mogul base HPS lamps, which meet Federal EPA TCLP guidelines to qualify as non-hazardous waste, and are available in 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 400, and 1000 wattages. These high output HPS lamps feature significantly reduced Mercury content and there disposal results in a cleaner environment compared to standard HPS light bulbs. Eye Lightings 1000 watt HPS lamp features a ceramic base that prevents arcing and a nickel plated base that will not seize in the light fixtures.
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Metal halide Light Bulbs & Light Fixtures