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Mobile World Congress RoundUp – Day 1
The 2010 Edition of Mobile World Congress (MWC) is being held in Barcelona, Spain. The event is basically spread over four days, and at this event, mobile leaders gather, collaborate, conduct business and experience vision at action. We will tell you about a few important developments from the 1st day of the Mobile World [...]
Battle Of Telephonia II: It Isn’t Just The Operators
Yesterday, we told you about the grand battle which is taking place between the mobile operators, fondly called the Tariff War. On the other hand on a relatively smaller scale (as it appears) another battle is on, and this one is between the phone-makers. After all without handsets, the operators are totally useless.
First of all [...]
Android On Its Way To Indian Shores – Will It Give iPhone A Run For Its Money?
Ever wondered, Why Android is sure to be a hit in Indian markets ?
Let me tell you that it could be one because Mobile is the future of communication. Mobile is for the masses to use and with expectations that the number of mobile users in India will overtake the number of users in US [...]
Motorola To Sell Soundbuzz and Shuts down Motomusic Stores In India
At a time when many Mobile players are increasing their presence in newer segments,Motorola has decided to clamp down on its non-core activities. The first casualty seems to be Motomusic Music store in India which would be closed down by July 15, 2009.
Motomusic store in India offers more than 3,50,000 tracks and other multimedia content [...]
Tie Ups Updates: Motorola – Pressmart / RCom – Flytext
India has over 347 million mobile customers and the growth story still continues. Increasingly more companies are eyeing this space as the leverage it offers with the presence per se is huge and revenues they offer are big too and that is the reason the news/tieups on mobile and VAS just will not stop coming.
Motorola [...]
MOTOMusic Gets Launched in India – Competition For Apple’s iTunes
Finally iTunes gets into some tough competition in the Indian market. After Motorola had acquired the pan Asian music service provider, SoundBuzz, Motorola seems to be working overtime to launch the its much celebrated music portal, MOTOMusic, before iPhone gets a chance to grab that share in the Indian market, thanks to Apple’s very popular iTunes service.
TATA, Reliance, NOKIA & Motorola – All Ride High On WiMAX
WiMax is planning to ride high on the Indian Market. After TATA & Reliance, it’s Motorola’s turn to endorse WiMAX. Pundits believe that given the geographical features of India, WiMAX provides a much cheaper alternative for providing internet access to every nook and cranny of the country, as compared to the wired connections. More so, [...]
Videocon Eyes Motorola Mobile Handsets
One of India’s oldest refrigerator company and most trusted electronic appliances company, Videocon has expressed an interest in bidding for Motorola’s mobile handset business. According to the sources, the discussions on the acquisition of the third largest mobile handset maker are on the cards within the Videocon stable.
With the current onslaught on increased spectrum allocation [...]
Generating User Awareness for VAS Offerings in India
At the IAMAI Mobile VAS 2008 Summit, the topic of VAS and user awareness was discussed by an esteemed panel that included:
Mr. Pradeep Shrivastava – CMO, Idea Cellular
Mr. Arvind Rao – Co – Founder of One Mobile
Mr. Ajay Vaishnavi – Director of Telecom at Times Internet
Mr. Raj Singh Bhandal – Managing Director, Active Media
Much [...]
Motorola Following The New Expansion Mantra: Acquisitions!
Acquisitions is surely the new expansion mantra. We have blogged on – WPP acquiring Quasar Media, UTV acquiring ITNation and now it is Motorola who has keen interest in acquiring Soundbuzz, the Asian online and mobile music company. Financial terms regarding the deal are yet to be disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close [...]
Google Offering $10 Million To Mobile Application Developers
Google bowls a googly to its competitors. Google is giving away prizes worth $10 millions to people who can come up with an innovative software for the company’s upcoming cell phone operating system.
By taking this initiative, google has made it clear that it is interested in capturing the wider range of market by wiping [...]
Motorola patents Solar-Cell for mobile devices
Charging gadgets is quite a pain – especially when one is always on the run. It’s a drain on our resources and also the environment to a certain extent. Solar chargers have been around for some time now, but nothing as cool and non-bulky as that this:
Motorola was recently awarded a patent for putting a [...]
Mobile Manufacturers in rural India
Mobile manufactures like Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung etc. have started to reach out to the Indian villagers trough Mandi’s, Haats (unregulated markets) etc as their on-ground activity to attract the villagers towards their handsets.
I think it’s about time they did so, considering 70% of the Indian population are from the rural areas. The rural market [...]