How The Young Buy Mobile Phones : Report

by | posted: December 16, 2010
Neilsen has released a whitepaper tited : Mobile Youth Around the world. It goes into details of how they select their phones, who decides what phone they buy and factors they take into consideration –...
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RIM buys TAT – Hopes to Boost Sales via BlackBerry Makeover

by | posted: December 3, 2010
Another attempt, to enable the ‘Sexy’ BlackBerry makeover. And, this one seems a strategic one. There’s still hope for BlackBerry maker RIM after it was announced that a solution with...
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Nokia Teams Up With Hungama For “Ovi Music Shorties”

by | posted: November 10, 2010
Nokia looks determined to maintain its market leader position in India. The phone of the masses is now introducing “Ovi Music Shorties” in partnership with Hungama Digital Media Entertainment  Ltd....
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Google Instant Goes Mobile!

by | posted: November 6, 2010
In September, Google stepped many levels above its competition when it launched Google Instant Search. It estimated that “more then 3.5 billion seconds in a day” would be saved thanks to Instant...
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Mobile Advertising On A High

by | posted: October 28, 2010
The opinion that mobile advertising would be bigger than internet advertising had a few doubters, but day by day the number of converts is on the rise. A recent research by Informa Telecoms & Media...
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Telenor To Sweat It Out In India

by | posted: October 7, 2010
Cut. Pain. Endure. Heal. This is the story of the Indian telecom sector. Last time around, Telenor was bleeding and we dripped that here. Now, it is not that it has stopped bleeding but the commitment...
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TelePhone User Base Crosses 70 Crores In India – Tele-density Crosses 59%

by | posted: October 6, 2010
The mobile phone craze started in India a long time back and it certainly is not going to die down for a long time to go.  Based on this, we had earlier reported that mobile phones will lead the digital...
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Tata Docomo Joins Airtel – Launches Own Handset (Co-Branded) – Bundled With Yahoo Services

by | posted: September 23, 2010
Recently we had blogged about how Airtel had ventured into the mobile phone business by launching its range of low cost handsets. Now it seems its time for another telecom operator to do the same. Though...
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Mobiles With High Speed Internet To Usurp Netbooks?

by | posted: September 23, 2010
What is the difference between a mobile phone and a laptop? While the answer was quite obvious some years ago, the lines that distinguish the two are wearing thin each day. The mobile phone is taking on...
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Ipomo Launches Mobile Learning Campus

by | posted: September 21, 2010
Till now, we only heard stories of colleges, schools, universities banning use of mobile phones by students on campus on the pretext of this device causing distraction from studies. However, Ipomo Communications,...
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Tata Indicom Launches ‘Doc On Call’ For Subscribers

by | posted: September 15, 2010
Often mobile has been blamed for being useful for just sms spammers and wallpaper downloaders. But as the mobile penetrates into the daily lives of one and all. There are services that are being launched...
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Nokia Looking For A ‘Smart’ Revival

by | posted: September 7, 2010
It is a known fact that Nokia is in troubled waters and trying hard to come out of the ditch it has dug for itself. Few years ago, Nokia was way at the top, but things changed after the introduction of...
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SEBI Draft Model Holds Good – Allows Trading Through Mobile Phones

by | posted: August 30, 2010
In 2009, the Securities and Exchange Board of India had issued a draft model to enable stock trading via mobile phones. According to this draft, brokers who offered internet-based trading services could...
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BSNL 3G Services In Gujarat Help One97 Test Video Portal

by | posted: August 18, 2010
BSNL recently launched 3G services in Gujarat. Taking advantage of this, One97 Communications have launched a pilot for video portal VAS in the state. Though this service is not available commercially,...
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Rupee Symbol On Your Phone – Lava Mobile First to Launch Rupee Key

by | posted: August 18, 2010
Since the unveiling of the new Rupee symbol, users were first able to use the new symbol in writings, which was followed by being able to use the symbol on websites using an API. But what about the mobile...
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Indian Company Onward Mobility Has An Offline App Store

by | posted: August 17, 2010
Apple’s famous “There’s an App for that” does not seem to have penetrated the Indian mindset. In spite of the great strides India has made in mobile penetration, both rural and...
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