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Update: Afaqs has reported today that Bigadda is reportedly spending over 4 crores in popularising the mobile version of its site. Well I caught some ads on tv as well guess Reliance ADAG has pots of money..
Original Post: BigAdda the social network backed by Reliance ADAG which has already spent crores of rupees [...]

With mobile subscriber base rising with each month that passes by and the impending 3G launch in Indian markets in a year and the launch of mobile internet friendly phones like the iPhone and its competitors its only natural to feel upbeat about the future of mobile drive applications that connect to the internet whether [...]

Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there.

The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the market these days and the games have been designed [...]

I could not make out the specialty of the offer after going through the complete news and even after checking out the website.
They ask you to point your GPRS-enabled phone’s browser to wap.emailtomobile.com and acces your emails. Well, can’t I do it already with my Yahoo! Mail ? I think I can. Most of the popular portals have their WAP versions (Although WAP is hardly popular) and I can anyways access my Internet from my existing emails if I have a GPRS-enabled phone.

 
Online transactions are increasingly being used to pay bills, recharge, booking tickets and etc. Earlier, SpiceJet had tied up with BillDesk for easy and safe online payments. Now, the cellular companies have also stepped into online payments. Airtel has launched M-Commerce solution for easy payment.
 
 
Airtel customers can now pay their bills, recharge their talk-time, buy [...]

 
In one of my recent posts I had discussed about the IIT classes now on YouTube. This service could only be accessed through a laptop or your PC’s. YouTube videos can now be accessed on your mobile phones. The minimum requirement for the mobile phone to download the YouTube video is the feature of 3G.
 
 
What [...]

M Commerce is at a very early stage. Its about purchase and sale of goods and services through the mobile with the use of a financial institution. Purchase and sale of VAS content cannot be classified as M – Commerce.
 
 
The different areas that come under M – Commerce
 
 
a) Travel and Ticketing – convenience is [...]

Tomihisa Kamada, The Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Access Co. Ltd, Japan delivered the keynote address while Atanu Mandal, President of ACL Wireless, Viren Popli, Head of Mobile Entertainment for Star India, and Milind Pathak, Co – CEO & Country Manager, Buongiorno (Hong Kong) Ltd. Shared their insights on Mobile VAS in India.
 
 
Here is a compilation of what [...]

ESPN Star Sports has recently introduced Star Sports Mobile, a mobile content service that is similar to Mobile ESPN that was launched across multiple markets in Asia Pacific in May 2006. The service works on WAP and can be downloaded from espnstar.com.
 
The content that ESPN – Star distributes will mainly revolve around the football clubs [...]

At a recent auction on sedo.com for dot mobi domains generated astonishing results! A domain name music.mobi was sold for UDS $616000.
 
Other domain names such as games.mobi, sports.mobi, movies.mobi were sold for USD $401,500, $101,000 and $82,000 respectively.
 
Such astonishing figures would have benefited certain smart individuals greatly because they would have paid $9.99 for the [...]

The new reform to hit Indian Mobile Industry is money transfer through your cell phone. Isn’t that amazing? Its something that should have been introduced in India much earlier compared to foreign countries, but it’s never too late. Imagine a guy working (lets say in) USA will soon be able to transfer his hard earned [...]

Today everyone is aware about the convenience nature of mobile phones – known as third screen after TV and Computers, its growing popularity seems to be catching the eye of advertising media. Mobile market subscription in India for September was 248.7 million released by TRAI, mobile advertising is becoming more popular way to promote [...]