To have a relevant visibility in the mobile phone business Tata DOCOMO have introduced many different services. From unveiling 3Gservices and tariff , m-health awareness service called SPARSH, 10-hours...

MapmyIndia which specializes in  GPS navigation, location-based services as well as online maps has now added address of 18 cities to it’s recently released online map. These location are free for...

A lot things have been said and reported about the location based services providers by different mobile phone operators. But due to the inaccuracy of the feature these features are useless to rely on....

There is something so exciting about discovering places and what is even more exciting is the power to share that excitement with friends. Add to it, the potential of Local and location-based advertising...

Have you ever been in a situation when you have wanted to find a particular place say a restaurant or a theater within an area but have to troll through pages and pages of search results looking for reviews...

The first reports on Reliance’s BIG Maps came out around late 2007, while the official word went out sometime in May 2008. At that time we had reported on bits regarding the team and their plans...

Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added...

Rishabh had blogged about the launch of Google Latitude and how it allowed you to share your current location with anyone you wished to. Now it seems google has integrated this feature to its social networking...

Fire Eagle is a technology from Yahoo that lets you update your info about your location through your mobile or web, and share that information with many other web/mobile apps. For example, you can update...

Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com.   I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s...

MapMyIndia has just launched a GPS Based Navigation Solutions. To use it, you need a Mobile Phone running Windows Mobile 6, and a phone with an in built GPS receiver (or one connected with a Bluetooth...

What is LBS? Location based services are basically services built on knowing where you are and knowing what’s around you. Challenges for LBS in India 1) India does not have standardised addresses 2)...

 TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington wrote a great article last week about the future of social networking, which is now moving to the mobile. We have seen how online social networks such as Orkut...