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Social Networking App Downloads Top Airtel App Central
Its been just a month that Airtel launched its app store called the App central and it seems the 100 million plus subscriber strong has hit the sweet spot when it comes to downloads. The Airtel App central claims that it has done over 2.5 million downloads in just 30 days.
Here are some insights on [...]
Aircel Partners INQ – To Launch Device In India
Aircel is on a tie up spree with new devices that want to be launched in India. Just recently they had tied up with Peek (an email only device) and now they have gone ahead and tied the knot with a new mobile entrant in INQ. INQ Mobile is launching in India with Social Mobile [...]
Women Most Adaptive To Mobile Social Networking: Nielsen
It is largely argued that women are heavy users of online social networking and now that theory seems to overtake the mobile social networking scene as well. A recent nielsen study reveals that women constitutes majority ( almost 55 % ) of mobile social networking audience .
Nielsen study also reveals that women adopting mobile social [...]
100 Million Now On Facebook Mobile; Launches XMPP Chat Support As Well
Facebook has achieved yet another big milestone in the Social Media World. According to an official release, more than 100 million people are actively using Facebook from their mobile devices every month. This has happened in less than a period of six months after Facebook had announced a figure of 65 million [...]
InMobi Ties Up With Hi5 For Thailand Market
Hi5 was the first social network that I ever signed up to (I dont think fropper can be termed as a social network) way back in 2005. Infact it was the one social network wherein all my friends from college were also there. Then orkut came along and people shifted preferences. But Hi5 still remains [...]
Mobile Social Networking: Opportunities & Challenges for Indian Market
Mobile is always seen as a front runner in claiming India’s position in digital landscape. The mobile density in India is in upwards of 48 % whereas Internet penetration continues to lag between 4-6%. Mobile internet usages is also on upheaval trend worldwide due to increasing sales of iPhone and other high end phones. The [...]
Foursquare Launches For Mumbai – India – Opportunity For LBS Driven Mobile Social Network In India
If you have been tracking the social media scene globally then its very likely that you might have heard of Foursquare which is a location based game and social network mobile app. International blogs have been going gaga over this new app and some have even gone to the extent of labelling it as the [...]
Mobile Social Networking – It’s Not a Fad!
Taking the benefit of hind-sight, a survey was published 18 months back which clearly stated that Netizens would use the mobile to not just alert friends or family, but more. And this activity, which was unclear and termed more at that time is slowly becoming clear and has become one of the basic drivers for [...]
Orkut Launches Downloadable App – Too Little Too Late Or Perfect Timing?
Orkut yesterday announced the beta launch of the orkut mobile application, a downloadable app for Java-enabled phones (including popular phones like the Nokia N95, Nokia 6300, and Sony Ericsson W580i). Orkut is one of the top visited sites via mobile as per the state of the mobile web report that Opera releases every quarter.
So its [...]
Social networks Gung Ho On Mobile – Facebook-Nokia Alliance In The Making..
Many big social networks are seriously pitching for their entry into mobile platform as mobile advertisement market sees huge growth and with entry of google in mobile adspace arena it would lead to more participation of companies into mobile advertisement space.
This also comes at a time when online social networking is nearing saturation points and [...]
RockeTalk To Be Pre-Loaded On LG Handsets – Will It Have An Impact?
RockeTalk a mobile social networking application which had recently opened up to public has added a feather to its cap by tying up with LG Electronics India to bundle the RockeTalk mobile social networking application on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models. These bundled mobile phones shall be available with all [...]
Mobile Social Networking Rising In India? – Qeep Enters India While RockeTalk Opens Up To Public..
Mobile social networking and how is it different?
Mobile social networking is soon becoming a buzz word in India and why not after all India does boast of over 300 million mobile subscribers and social networking is a fad that has moved from Orkut To Facebook but hasn’t died down in India. Infact Indian social networks [...]
Jaxtr Opens up the Walled Garden
Jaxtr, the company that lets you make and receive calls through various social networking sites such as MySpace and more recently Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, Flickr and also blog platforms such as Blogger, Typepad etc. has now opened up its walled garden to allow users to send SMS’ to other mobile phones outside the Jaxtr network. [...]
More on My Space’s India Strategy
MySpace – for those of you who don’t know is a unit of Fox Interactive Media owned by Media Baron Rupert Murdoch. It’s a community forum that has sites in countries such as the US, Brazil, Canada, Austria, Denmark, and recently Korea.
According to various reports MySpace globally signs on 300, 000 new users daily and [...]
Indyarocks Goes Mobile!
Indyarocks which recently launched games on their social network has launched the mobile version of their social network. The mobile platform has all the popular features of Indyarocks like Profiles, People search, Personal Diary, Graffiti wall, private messaging, Free SMS, Movie reviews, Movie Wallpapers and Show times. The new mobile platform is also complimented with [...]