When you get a SMS these days, in most likelihood it will be something like the one I got today morning which said “Best Buy for Property in Pune: Laburnam Park. Pls Call 26****00“. As much as I want to build an empire in Pune, such messages annoy me to the core. Spam messaging have [...]
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Opera: Percentage Of Females Using Mobile Web Is Lowest In India
Opera recently released its monthly State of the Mobile Web report for July, offering up in-depth insight into all facets of mobile Web usage worldwide. There is a remarkable discrepancy in the male or female split when it comes to mobile data usage. Only four percent of Indian users are female, which is very [...]
3G Services Almost Here – Government Allocates 3G Spectrum To Service Providers
Government has allocated 3G spectrum to mobile service operators including Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communication and Tata Teleservices. The operators are excited to rollout the 3G services to the Indian customers. We can expect the world class 3G service which will redefine the telecom experience in India to be introduced in the next few months.
Roll out [...]
Survey Says eReaders Helping In Driving Book Buying Growth
A survey has revealed that those with eReaders now frequently read more than they did with traditional printed books. The survey, carried out by Marketing and Research Resources Inc., showed the impact that portable eReaders are having on reading habits. The results revealed that 40 per cent of eReader owners now read more than they [...]
Bharti Airtel Stops Bulk SMS Business – Other Service Providers To Follow?
When you get a SMS these days, in most likelihood it will be something like the one I got today morning which said “Best Buy for Property in Pune: Laburnam Park. Pls Call 26****00“. As much as I want to build an empire in Pune, such messages annoy me to the core. Spam messaging have [...]
WorldSIM Debuts In India With Free International Roaming
International travelers from India can heave a huge sigh of relief courtesy WorldSIM. The UK based global SIM card was launched in India yesterday in Chennai. Despite not being an international traveler, I cannot seem to stop my excitement at the new service.
While the local telecom market in India has come down to very [...]
BCG Reports 237 Million Internet Users In India By 2015 – Possible?
India’s population and the number of mobile phone connections in the country seem to be growing at similar rate. Ok maybe, just maybe, the mobile revolution is growing much faster. A recent report by Boston Consulting Group concluded that India will reach 237 million internet users by 2015. Considering the increasing mobile connections, and the [...]
IIT Bombay’s Eureka! – Ideal Platform For Budding Entrepreneurs
You think you have a good idea for a business? Here is an opportunity for you to present it to Mumbai Angels, a company that enables startups to meet successful people in the industry and more importantly businesses or companies that have funds to invest in the startup, and in the process maybe win INR [...]
Ranking Search Results Via Behaviour On Facebook Through New Patent
The giant in the Social Networking business has come up with yet another invention for which it has won relevant patent rights. Facebook has quite often patented most of its innovations and its recently patented innovation was that of The News Feed. The reason for such an initiation by Facebook to follow a systematic patenting [...]
New Competitor In Mobile Advertising World – StratosHear Launches MobiAdz
The more we talk about it, the more we learn about its potential. The mobile revolution has long been talked about by us, and by the looks of it, we shall continue to do so for some time now. Mobile marketing/advertising is surely the future for the marketing/advertising world. Keeping this in mind, there have [...]
Bharti Airtel’s Zain Loses Subscribers – Videocon May Sell 26% of Telecom Arm
Zain losing ground in Kenya
We have been following Kuwait-based Zain Telecom’s Africa unit right since it showed interest to when the deal was finally sealed, to when Bharti decided to pump in $308 million in the next 1 and a half years to reach the top spot in mobile services providers in Kenya. However things [...]
DoCoMo Initiated 1 paisa/sec Goes International Via Videocon – Call US, Canada
We are set to witness another tariff war after the 1 paisa/sec billing that Tata Docomo brought about roughing up quite a few established telecom operator feathers, Videocon has drawn first blood in the international calling rates. Arvind Santhanam, Chief Operating Officer of Videocon Telecommunications, unveiled the brand’s new 1 paisa/sec calling voucher for international [...]
Will You Change Your ‘Google’ Name For Online Privacy?
Many of us have done things in our teenage years that we might not particularly be proud of, but back then we believed it to be the funniest thing possible and uploaded it or spoke about it on various social networking websites. However, once working life starts, we would rather have our employers not find [...]
Intel Weds Infineon – Could This Be A “Merger Made In Heaven” ?
Intel Corporation, the firm that claims to be the “Sponsors of Tomorrow” definitely wants to prove so with another acquisition up its sleeve and the incumbent takeover would be of Infineon – an organization whose primary segments include automotive, industrial, chip card and security solutions with wireless system solutions and applications in communications encompassing its [...]
Annual Apple iTunes Event May Reveal New iPod, iTunes Or Apple TV
Apple Inc., hosting an annual event devoted to music and media tomorrow, may introduce a revamped iTunes site, an upgraded iPod and push deeper into consumers’ living rooms with a new TV set-top box that plays video. Long before the iPhone, the iPod was the device that helped transform Apple from computer company into a [...]
Organize Your Gmail Inbox Through Google Priority Inbox
Are you one of those who feel overwhelmed, just looking at number of mails received in the (gmail) Inbox? Well, if you are not an Email person, you might want to overlook them but if you are amongst those individuals who run on Emails, there is no other option but to arrange them. And this [...]
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