Mobme integrated their SMS short code platform GO with Mobshare Channels enabling easy Subscriptions via SMS. One of the first channels to launch on this plaform was that of Malayalam Newspaper Daily Mathrubhumi which due to the launch by Actor Mamooty saw over 44000 subscribers in Day 1 itself.

This shows how offline content delivered by [...]

WATBlog attended the Mobile VAS Roundtable on crystal ball gazing for the VAS Industry organised by IAMAI and Businessworld and came back with some interesting insights from the panel which had the following panelists.

Krishna Durbha, Head-VAS Business & Marketing Applications Solutions & Content Group, Reliance Communications
Manoj Dawane, CEO, Mauj Mobile
Abhijit Saxena, CEO, Netcore Solutions
Sanjay Swamy, [...]

It seems like Unitech wireless has been up for sale for quite sometime now and finally someone seems to have bought into the telecom firm which has a pan india telecom license and spectrum in 13 cities.

Unitech which was earlier rumoured to have sold off 26% to Telenor and then reported to have sold 49% [...]

So Slowdown or No Slowdown the telecom subscribers refuse to slowdown in this country. Total addition as on september as per TRAI has been 10.07 million mobile subscribers and at the current rate it wont take more than 18 months to touch the 500 million mark!
Even the subscribers are increasing the ARPU’s (Average revenues per [...]

Mapmyindia the map based navigation products company which was on a tie up spree lately and which expects to touch 1million + sales of in car navigation devices in 3 years has launched three new features.

Mapmyindia has launched:

An iNav mobile application which transmits your location to anyone so they know where you are
New next-generation in [...]

We reported on Nayanaya.mobi being launched today morning and there being a confusion on the business model and monetization of third party content on Nayanaya sites.  So we got in touch with Mr.Rajesh Jain as promised and questioned him about the details of the Nayanaya launch.
Here is the interview

1) What is the objective/business case behind [...]

Well we had blogged about the fact that 3G auction could be delayed and delayed it is but not by much its scheduled to be two weeks later than the earlier scheduled date due to requests by operators and bankers. The premise is that most global fund start a new financial year by January and [...]

Admob a global mobile advertising player which recently announced the launch of its services in India has raised its 3rd round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners (Yes the same guys who acquired Erasmic in India). Admob raised 15.7 million $ which ofcourse which wil be utilized to futher its expansion plans in [...]

Mytoday which is an sms group site by Netcore has launched a series of mobile portals by the brand name Nayanaya.mobi. These portals are aggregators which aggregate content from various sites and repurpose the same for mobile viewing. The Nayanaya concept is based on the breaking news premise in which the latest news updates via [...]

So with a large part of the world quickly going mobile the browser wars are moving from the desktop to the mobile. Firefox which is the No.2 browser in the world in terms of market share has hardly had a browser in the mobile arena. A Mozilla based browser minimo was launched in 2004 and [...]

Going mobile seems to be in vogue these days with a number of websites launching their mobile versions. Given that the cricket season is on with India battling Australia in Border -Gavaskar trophy its probably the best time to launch a feature or a cricket related product. Thats exactly what Web18’s Cricketnext.com has done.

Cricketnext.com has [...]

So mobile internet is taking off in India with players tying up to launch mobile versions of the websites be it travel, jobs, news or even classifieds. Its no surprise given that mobile subscribers have crossed the 300 million mark and are set to cross 500 million in the next 2 years itself.
So how does [...]

Spice Televentures has announced the launch of a new venture in mobile software called Mobisoc Technology Pvt. Ltd. Mobisoc’s vision is to enable rich internet experience on all mobile phones. Part of the MK Modi Group and led by chairman Dilip Modi mobisoc has already announced a number of tie ups with leading web players [...]

Just recently iXiGo.com had announced its tieup with Ndtv convergence for powering Ndtvtravels.com now iXiGo.com has launched a mobile version of its travel search engine. One can access this on m.ixigo.com

This is a move by iXiGO to tap the busy on the move executive who would be using this service to search for available tickets. [...]

Well a market crash affects everyone and even though Jet airways may have hived off and then called back its 1900 employees that in no way means that the worst is over yet! Looking at the current market scenario even Minister of Communications and IT seems to be reconsidering whether its the right time for [...]