Worldwide mobile phone sales figures have increased slightly to .7 percent to a figure of almost 425.8 million figures, all thanks to rapid growth in the Asia Pacific region, mainly comprising of countries like India and China who are witnessing high levels of growth and industrialization. Mobile phone sales stood at 422.9 million units in the January-March 2012 quarter, according to Gartner in its...

iPhone rumors can easily be defined by the word ‘unstoppable.’ The iPhone 5S rumors started as early as September 2012, and as the year 2013 is going by, the iPhone 5S has become hot as far as rumors are concerned. At this stage, we do have a possibly accurate picture of  release date timing, features and what the iPhone 5S will look like. All the rumors so far do represent as to what...

LinkedIn has announced that it has crossed the 20 million member milestone in India. The company says that its total Indian membership would be comparable to Mumbai’s total metropolitan area. LinkedIn started its operations in India almost 3 years ago and now it has seen an user base growth of 500% starting from 3.4 million to the present figure of 20 million. LinkedIn has released an infographic...

Vserv.mobi, a prominent player within the Mobile Ads Segment has bolstered its HTML5 based Ads with additional features like Social Media Sharing & A/B Testing. These Rich Media Ads will now feature some nifty & interactive marketing features. Additionally, the company has also announced that it will offer HTML5 Creative Services for free to Digital Marketers. HTML5 based ads are one of the...

As consumers increasingly turn to mobile devices to do everything from looking up local restaurants to getting directions, it’s more important than ever that your e commerce website or company/business blog be mobile-friendly. Don’t confuse this with an app. A mobile-friendly website is essentially a version of your business website that loads quickly and easily on mobile phones or tablets. Consumers...

National Association of Software and Services Companies or more commonly known as NASSCOM has just commissioned an Independent Unit to give impetus to Indian Software Products. An ambitious target of exceeding US$ 10 Billion in revenues by the year 2020 has been set. The Chairman of this new Product Council will be Ravi Gururaj, a seasoned entrepreneur who is the co-founder of a seed-stage angel...

After almost a month after its release, Facebook’s custom Android launcher has passed the 1 million download mark from the Google Play Store, according to the figures of Google Play. This comes after the minor update that Home users received a few days back as part of Facebook’s four weeks update policy. The Home’s page had been updated on Sunday just after the news broke out regarding...

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the first adaptive array transceiver technology which will give rise to communications and data transfer at really fast Internet speeds. The new technology is the successor to the current 4G technology being used and Samsung says that they have managed data transfer speeds which are several hundred times faster than current 4G capabilities. According...

The Consumer Court has just struck a blow to Airtel for not providing reliable service to its customers. The East District Consumer Disputes Redressal came to the conclusion that Airtel did not fully comply on the service agreements as stipulated in the contract & has ordered it to remedy the situation & pay penalty compensation. What implications does this have on the Service Segment? Realizing...

At a Public Hearing Forum, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) answered a few fundamental queries about its newest endeavor of offering generic Top-Level Domain names (gTLDs) to corporations. Last year in January, ICANN had announced that it was now able to offer custom extensions that went well beyond .com, .org or .in, among other prevalent ones. At that time multiple...