Yahoo Closes Another One – MyBlogLog

by | posted: February 25, 2011
We knew this was coming, back in December when a leaked screenshot from Yahoo! listed sites like Delicious and MyBlogLog in the ‘sunset’ column. It hasn’t been a particularly good week...
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eBay India Forays Into mCommerce

by | posted: February 24, 2011
eBay India has just announced its move to mCommerce. m.ebay.in will connect users anytime, anywhere to eBay’s huge collection of deals and products. eBay India Mobile Web has been designed in a way...
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Vdopia Names Mimmie Ong As Sales Head – South East Asia

by | posted: February 24, 2011
Vdopia, online and mobile video monetization company, announced the appointment of Mimmie Ong as its head of South East Asia sales. Mimmie Ong is a telecom industry veteran with 20 years of experience...
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Reliance Entertainment Appoints Manish Agarwal As COO For Its Digital Business

by | posted: February 24, 2011
Reliance Entertainment has just announced the appointment of Manish Agarwal as the Chief Operating Officer for its Digital businesses. Manish Agarwal has 14 years of experience and 6 of these were dedicated...
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After BlackBerry, Others Could Come Under Security Scanner

by | posted: February 24, 2011
The BlackBerry saga has been going on for about 3 years now. And even though the likes of Google, Skype and VPN providers have been named by the security establishment – it has mainly been a sideshow...
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Indian Youth Has Lowest Percentage Of Mobile Data Users : Nielsen

by | posted: February 23, 2011
Yesterday Nielsen released part of its Mobile Youth Around The World report in a blog post. Nielsen studied patterns in 9 countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, Vietnam, Germany, U.S., U.K., Spain...
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Airtel And Uninor Join The Cricket Bandwagon With Special Offers

by | posted: February 23, 2011
Last week, when we wrote about the various offers/promotions from telcos for the Cricket World Cup, we noted there was nothing substantial from Airtel’s side. Just yesterday, they announced a set...
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Nokia And Reliance Bring Operator Billing To India’s Ovi Store

by | posted: February 22, 2011
Back in August, Reliance and Nokia announced a ‘multi faceted partnership‘ that included Nokia Ovi Life Tools, Nokia Ovi Music Unlimited, GPRS and Data Card offers for Reliance subscribers....
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Facebook Chat Rolls Out To All Hotmail Users

by | posted: February 22, 2011
In September 2010, when Microsoft announced a feature that would let Hotmail users chat with their Facebook friends from their hotmail accounts, it was restricted to 6 countries – US, UK, France,...
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Apps Beat Web Browsing On Mobile Devices?

by | posted: February 22, 2011
As long as I’ve been using the web on various mobile devices, I’ve always found my usage heavily biased towards using apps. Right from Windows Mobile 6.1 (yes, they do have apps) to iOS, it...
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Team India Dominates Social Media Buzz Before The World Cup

by | posted: February 21, 2011
Honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised by this. NM Incite’s analysis has revealed that Team India has eaten a lion’s share of the conversation on Social Media about the world cup....
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Gaadi.com Inks Partnership With MIH Group

by | posted: February 21, 2011
Gaadi.com, today announced a partnership with MIH Group. MIH Group is a subsidiary of Naspers, and its operations are concentrated on internet platforms, paid television and related technologies. The groups...
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Facebook Places Begins India Roll Out

by | posted: February 21, 2011
Reports are flying in about people being able to access Facebook Places here. And while there seem to be conflicting reports, it seems that iOS, BlackBerry and Android users were able to access Places....
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 14th February – 20th February

by | posted: February 21, 2011
Last week, we saw the BlackBerry saga continuing with Indian Government insisting that RIM provide them with access to corporate email services. The funding train saw Kaltura and Jisgsee jump onboard....
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Google Tweaks Social Search And Bing Bar Gets Facebook Integration

by | posted: February 18, 2011
Remember Google’s Social Search? Google’s attempt to inject a ‘social’ element to its search results? As interesting as the idea sounded on paper, when it was announced around October...
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Reliance Brings Radio Netherlands Worldwide To R World

by | posted: February 18, 2011
More news from R World after this. Yesterday, Reliance announced that it had signed a deal with Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW).  RNW boasts of a 60 year presence in the news and entertainment broadcasting...
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