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Nokia enters the online service space

Nokia enters the online service space

 

Nokia has plans to enter the internet service space. The revenues will be generated from advertisements. The service will offer songs, video clips, games and other downloadable stuff. Some of the “premium” content like new songs will not be free and Nokia India is structuring the pricing strategy for it. Under the brand name “Ovi”, [...]

Yahoo and MSN talk about Mobiles and Social Networking!

In two separate interviews the co-founded Yahoo! Inc, David Filo and the Country Manager, Online Services Business, Microsoft India Mr.Jaspreet Bindra talk about Mobiles and their impact on Internet, their [...]

Access unlimited internet on mobile @ Rs.99!?

Yes! You read it right! And im hoping these isn’t a *terms and conditions apply for this one! Or it isnt a PR/Communication faux pas.. So heres the whole story.. Tata Teleservices which owns the brand tata indicom has launched a mobile internet enabled phone along with mobile manufacturer Samsung. Now before you make a face [...]

Will mobile internet drive online population surge?

Norwest Venture Partners Partner Pramod Haque in an interview to mint has said "Mobile Internet will be bigger here than broadband, PC-based Internet."
Even the economic times recenltly featured an article where it tom tommed about internet reaching its subcriber target 3 years ahead of time based on mobile access to the internet. It also outlined [...]

The future is Mobile?

Brand Equity (Economic Times) came out with its annual list of India’s Most Trusted Brands today. While brands like Colgate, Vicks and Lux took the top 3 positions – the interesting aspect was seeing the rise of mobile related brands.
Nokia featured as the 4th most trusted brand in India. Here’s a handset company which was [...]

Airtel to provide google search to its customers

India’s largest private telecom operator Bharti Telecom has tied up with search engine giant Google and would now be offering Google’s search service to their mobile customers. My question is isn’t a GPRS phone already able to access google.com?
To answer that Bharti Airtel President Manoj Kohli spoke about this deal: “Under the agreement, Airtel will provide ‘Google [...]

Internet access through mobile - Is it the future? (Part 2)

Well since our last article we have come across a lot more stories on Internet access through mobile. Firstly the bad news! According to a study by SmartTrust, 53% of Indians whose cellphones have internet access don’t use it to surf the net as they feel it is too expensive. The slow pace of the Net, fear of [...]

Internet access through mobile - is it the future?

Well it is no secret that in India the number of mobiles are more than the number of internet enabled computers. Also the fact that mobile penetration is happening in India at a record breaking spead. 6.6 million mobile phone subscribers were added in October 2006. Now the question that’s probably on most technology entrepreneurs and [...]

Reliance - UTStarcom launch Wifi enabled pocket pc phone

Reliance and UTStarcom launched PPC-6700 a windows 5.0 and WiFi enabled mobile phone which stretches the boundaries of what a mobile phone can do. The "Reliance Mobile Pocket PC" as it is called has data and video transmission capabilities of up to 144 kbps, with average download speed ranging from 60-80 kbps, on high speed Reliance Communications network, is [...]