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One97 Going For An IPO -  To Raise $100 million

One97 Going For An IPO – To Raise $100 million

One97 communications, the provider of India’s largest deployed telecom application platform is reportedly planning to go for an IPO in 2010, One97 will use these additional funds for its exapansion plans both in India and abroad. This is the second vas player after Onmobile which will look to be a listed entity in India.

One97 has [...]

Wordpress.com Becomes Mobile Friendly

Wordpress.com Becomes Mobile Friendly

Finally! Wordpress has launched two mobile themes that will be automatically rendered when someone accesses the Wordpress blogs with a “compatible mobile phone“. These themes will be independent of the themes rendered on web browsers. It will only depend on the type of mobile phone used.

According to the Official Wordpress blog, mobile devices account for [...]

Star News Now On Mobile TV

Star News Now On Mobile TV

As an internet enthusiast, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see a news channel being aired on your mobile? You think, is it the internet booming or is it the internet-on-mobile facility aiming the apex position? Well, anyway Star News seem to have something similar planned in the coming [...]

Mobile News Roundup - Nokia Ntheatre, IMI & T20 RCom

Mobile News Roundup – Nokia Ntheatre, IMI & T20 RCom

Nokia Ntheatre
In a bid to increase it’s hold on MVAS in the country, Nokia has now launched Ntheatre on all it’s Nseries phones in India, Ntheatre offer brings a selection of movies in DVD quality movies on to all it’s new Nseries phones. The offer valid until June this year let’s a buyer to choose [...]

SchoolMATE Raises Funding From Chennai Fund

SchoolMATE Raises Funding From Chennai Fund

We had written about Schoolmate a while back in 2006 and we had given it a thumbs up for being a mobile based complete student analysis system. Well Schoolmate has finally got its due and has raised funding from Chennai fund through a business plan contest. Chennai fund angel investors comprising Suresh Kalpathi (SSI, Aptech, [...]

FHM Men's Magazine Goes Mobile - Ties Up With Mauj Mobile

FHM Men’s Magazine Goes Mobile – Ties Up With Mauj Mobile

A popular international mens magazine FHM (For Him Magazine) which had launched its Indian version last year in association with Next Gen Publishing which owned the license to publish in India has now launched its content on mobile phones for Indian men. FHM is currently targetting men with GPRS enabled phones.

The magazine has tied up [...]

Zee News Goes Mobile - Ties Up With One97

Zee News Goes Mobile – Ties Up With One97

Its seems to be a trend for news channels to go digital in more ways than one through tie ups. So if Timesnow chose the online medium with a tie up with Nautanki Zee news has chosen to go mobile with a tie up with One97. Through this association mobile users across India can access [...]

Mytoday Launches Breaking New Mobile Portal - Nayanaya.mobi

Mytoday Launches Breaking New Mobile Portal – Nayanaya.mobi

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 [...]