Wadja.com, a unique social networking site that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has introduced an exciting new communications platform, which enables users to send unlimited group messages as well as allowing users to remotely update their online feeds. Read full story »

Wadja.com has created a developers platform, which allows users to create applications that run inside Wadja. These can be anything from games to new features on the site or the provision of SMS. With the Wadja Developer API you can get a basic application – Flash Games, SMS apps and any other kind of application – up and running in minutes and available to over 5 million users. Read full story »

Wadja.com, a unique social networking site that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has created a developer’s platform, which allows SMS providers to offer their services to an audience of over 5 million registered users. Read full story »

Tranz (gotranz.com) is a file sharing and networking mobile application that stay connected with your friends in your phonebook from your Internet enabled (GPRS / 3G / Wi-Fi) mobile phone. With the Tranz social tool, you can simply share pictures, videos and your thoughts. Tranz is launched by Technopark, Kerala based Innoz. Read full story »

BSNL plans to launch a mobile banking platform which will help mobile subscribers to send money orders electronically through SMS. The SMS by the sender will be encashable at all post offices. In order to send money, go to the nearest post office and transfer the money by way of an SMS. The SMS will contain a unique code. The person who receives this SMS real time, can go to his nearest post office and collect the money by showing the code. BSNL expects to roll out the service after getting the Reserve Bank of India’s approval. Read full story »

The Union Minister for Communications and IT, Mr A Raja, on Friday announced that mobile number portability would be introduced by the first week of May in Chennai and Bangalore. The MNP implementation got delayed due to certain issues related to getting security clearances. Read full story »

Amazon launched its Kindle application for the BlackBerry devices. Kindle For BlackBerry app enables users of the Blackberry smartphone to read digital books purchased from Amazon and synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices. Apart from the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader device, currently it is available in Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch with a Kindle app and also on Windows PCs. Amazon also plans to release applications for the Mac and Apple iPad, a tablet computer set to be released at the end of March. Read full story »

Meebo instant-messaging tool is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. It provides full chat history, enabling you to view and search your complete chat history anytime, anywhere. The apps syncs with Meebo on desktop. Take your chats seamlessly from your desktop to your iPhone or iPod touch. IM messages show up just like text messages when you enable push notifications. Meebo iPhone app supports landscape mode, providing you a widescreen view and a larger keyboard by turning Meebo on its side. Read full story »

mChek is certified by Western Union as a Mobile Money Transfer Vendor. Whether for sending money or receiving money, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) around the globe can now use the mChek platform as their technology service provider platform and partner with Western Union to offer Money Transfer Services to customers through a turnkey hosted service. This reduces integration costs and accelerate go-to-market activities for banks and mobile operators by creating standard technical deployments. Read full story »

WSJ reports that, barackobama.com has published an online job description for the post of Social Networks Manager, who will be responsible for maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The person currently holding the job of ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer’ is stepping down soon. Obama now has more than three million followers on Twitter and nearly 7.5 million Facebook fans. Read full story »

Google may create a stand-alone version of Google Buzz social networking tool and will continue to keep Buzz in Gmail too. Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service launched earlier this week. Bloggers and social media experts have raised privacy concerns on the Buzz contact network being publicly viewable by default which could could expose people’s private contacts. To overcome these concerns Google announced a couple of changes including making it easier for Buzz users to keep their contacts list private and option to select followers from the recommended list. Read full story »

The Bhuvan, ISRO’s mapping application is now revamped. National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO, Hyderabad has revamped its Geoportal Bhuvan (www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in) providing enhanced user experience. The Bhuvan team have now removed the login process to access the application. You will be taken directly to the 3D globe page wherein you can explore all the Bhuvan functionality. Bhuvan is poised with a vision to be a one-stop versatile Indian Earth Observation visualization system evincing the Indian imaging capabilities. Bhuvan visualization portal is now serving the global data from IRS P6 (Resourcesat-1)-AWiFS data. Updated raster and thematic information, Bhuvan 2D Viewer and Ocean related services will soon be launched. Read full story »

Google Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service introduced by Google. Google Buzz is built into Gmail Inbox. You can simply go beyond usual status messages and share updates, photos, videos, and more. The Buzz tab is right below the Inbox tab in Gmail. To access Google Buzz, logon to your Gmail account and click on Buzz. You automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail. Buzz provides a rich and fast sharing experience, within your friendly Gmail UI and supports Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Buzz supports public and private sharing. If you need to, you can block users too. Your public messages are are instantly indexed by Google. Read full story »

Facebook announced that Facebook Chat is now available on Jabber (XMPP) clients – which means you can chat with your Facebook friends from any of your favorite desktop instant messaging client including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more. Jabber (XMPP) is an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software and Facebook is now using the Jabber technology to make Facebook Chat available everywhere. Read full story »

In an effort to offer improved access to the Internet, Google plans to create fast, cheap and ubiquitous fiber-to-the-home Internet broadband networks with one-gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) speed. The broadband connections will be as much as 100 times faster than most cable and DSL services. Google hopes to offer the service to at least 50,000 people and as many as 500,000. It will announce which communities will get the service later this year. Google said it will sell access to customers directly “at a competitive price” and team with telecommunications companies that want to package services with its fiber network. Read full story »