Mobile
Coverage of mobile space and happenings
Apalya Technologies Expects To Double Subscribers Via Acquired IPL Live Mobile Streaming Rights
IPL fever is creating ripples for various digital media businesses to flourish with its scattered deals in place. In a demonstrate IPL earlier allocated first of its kind Online streaming rights for any sporting event in India to youtube and as anticipated did the same for mobile streaming rights. Apalya has managed to acquire live [...]
Vodafone Launches AppStore – 10K Downloads And Counting
It looks like almost every other cellular operator is launching their own AppStore these days. Thanks to Steve Jobs (of Apple and the iPhone fame) who has led to the rise of a new standard in the mobile industry – The Coveted AppStore. According to reports, Telecom major Vodafone Essar has also launched its very [...]
Tata DoCoMo Now Allows Rollover Of Talk-Time And SMS Plans
Tata DoCoMo does not want to trail behind in providing industry innovative plan offerings and as such is keeping the ball rolling. This time Tata DoCoMo has decided to bring ‘Rollover plans’ to sight which allows telecom subscribers to carry forward their unused talk-time and SMS packages to next month.
‘Rollover Plans‘ allows a subscriber to [...]
S-TEL Ordered To Shut Down Operations – 5 Lakh Users Hit
In a very shocking announcement, The Depertment Of Telecom (India) has asked Sivasankaran-backed S-Tel (a joint venture between the Siva Group and Bahrain Telecommunications Co) to shut down it’s network and operations in all the three regions where it is currently operating – just after two months of launching it’s mobile services. S-Tel [...]
Women Most Adaptive To Mobile Social Networking: Nielsen
It is largely argued that women are heavy users of online social networking and now that theory seems to overtake the mobile social networking scene as well. A recent nielsen study reveals that women constitutes majority ( almost 55 % ) of mobile social networking audience .
Nielsen study also reveals that women adopting mobile social [...]
vRock Mobile corners SMS, IVR, 3G rights For IPL
IPL is seeing massive commercial success in India and the same is being heavily monetized by the cricket board. So after giving away the online streaming streaming rights to Youtube, IPL has now allotted mobile rights for SMS, MMS, 3G and IVR related services to vRock Mobile for a period of 5 years.
vRock Mobile under [...]
Infosys to Tie up with 9 Telcos for its App platform ‘Flypp’
Infosys is seen expanding its telecom tie-ups for its flagship app platform – ‘Flypp’. It earlier tied-up exclusively with Aircel to implement app platform on Telco’s behalf and is now seen attracting new domestic telecom operators for the same. BS reports that Infosys even plans to take its app platform to international shores within few [...]
After Popeye & Supandi – Its Archie Comics On Mobile
Comics coming on mobile is fast becoming the norm. So if earlier we had our home grown Supandi going mobile and then came popeye the sailor man now its time for the very well known Archie comics to go mobile in India. The popular Archie comics will be released in vernacular languages for mobile users [...]
July Systems Raises 7 Million $ In Funding – Ties In ESPN, Univision & Discovery
July Systems the company that has been powering mobile sites for several offline and online media players has raised a series C round of funding of $ 7 Million. This round is lead by Intel Capital.
Along with the funding announcement they have also announced the roping in of new clients like ESPN Cricinfo, Univision and [...]
TTSL To Pay Cellphone Subscribers For Network Errants
Tata Teleservices continues to introduce industry breaking initiatives and this time it has taken customer care services to next level. Tata Teleservices has decided to compensate its CDMA cellphone subscribers with monetary benefits for their unresolved complaints and falling service standards.
Tata Teleservices has promised benefits of Rs. 25 for every additional day of unresolved complaints [...]
AppShup – SmsGupShup’s App Platform For SMS Apps
Smsgushup which recently raised 12 Million $ from GlobeSpan Capital Partners is in an aggressive mode. They have announced the launch of a unique sms app platform name AppShup. I don’t believe that there is any other sms app platform worth talking about in India atleast and this does make Smsgupshup’s foray a unique one.
Developers [...]
Apple Sues HTC In A Not-So-Veiled Attack On Android
It’s the news that has thrown the Tech World into a tizzy. Apple Corp is suing HTC for patent infringement. 20 of them! No surprise that they are all related to the iPhone – user interface, architecture and hardware. The lawsuit has been filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and a U.S. District [...]
Thanks To BSNL – Urban Mobile WiMAX Is Now A Reality In India
You must have heard a lot about WiMAX already. Now you can use it too. Thanks to BSNL, you will soon be able to browse the web anywhere with the country’s first mobile broadband – 4G Internet Access Network – The Urban Mobile WiMAX. BSNL was also the first to introduce 24 MBPS Broadband internet [...]
Budget 2010 Roundup: Impact Of Budget On The IT And Mobile Industry
Like every other budget, this year’s budget too had highs and lows for different sectors, especially the IT sector and the mobile sectors. We also have some good news for startups from this year’s budget. And there were strange announcements like tax for personal internet downloads, too! For those who could not catch the [...]
BIG FM Partners OnMobile – Launches 17 Multi-Lingual Mobile Radio Options
Going mobile is becoming the next big thing as we see partnerships after partnerships being formed to reach the huge mobile population of India. In the same vein Reliance Media World Ltd.’s radio division 92.7 BIG FM has entered into a partnership with VAS provider, OnMobile to launch the radio experience on the mobile platform. [...]