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Divyansh Sharma our guest blogger attended the TIECon Delhi which concluded last week and came back with some interesting insights from the panel discussion on ‘The future of internet’.

The panel included

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder, Naukri.com – Chair
Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India
R.Ramaraj, Sr.Advisor, Sequoia Capital Advisors
D.Shivakumar, Vice President & General Manager, Nokia
Mahendra Swarup, Chief Mentor, SITG
Rohit Agarwal, [...]

Nokia has taken a significant step in being a Mobile Ad Network, by adding Sprint and Bharti Airtel to the list of carriers, reports Reuters India. Last year Nokia acquired Enpocket to start building its Mobile advertising business. Enpocket.com now redirects to advertising.nokia.com.
Two days back we have covered the trend of Publishers Creating Their [...]

Nokia will be adding Microsoft Mail for Exchange in its E and N Series of phones. The series runs on Nokia’s S 60 platform. It has added the software to almost 80 million mobile devices already, reports ET.
Mark Louison, head of Nokia’s North American operations, said,
“Microsoft Mail For Exchange is the world’s most popular e-mail [...]

When you have a 60% market share of a rapidly increasing mobile handset market in India, what else can you ask for? Well, more. And for Nokia that’s the Mobile VAS, another rapidly growing market. In India.
It was almost one year back, when Nokia announced. Described as an integrated services platform Ovi was a platform [...]

It shouldn’t come to you as a surprise that the Indian Mobile Market is growing at an alarming rate, with the total mobile subscriber base almost touching the 300 million mark. We’ve been covering the industry’s every move here on WATBlog as it happens and as your may know, everyone is eagerly anticipating the [...]

Ever since Preshit wrote about iPhone on WATBlog, everyone at WAT had been speculating about the prices at which Vodafone and Airtel would make iPhone available in India. Out there, there were many who were just waiting to lay their hands on the iPhone as soon it appears in India.
Well, a lot of them have [...]

First announced on August 29th, 2007, at the Go Play event in London, NOKIA has been trying to make its presence felt in the social networking scenario for a couple of months now. Ovi (“door” in Finnish) is expected to the focal point of a personal dashboard that NOKIA plans to simulate, where users can share photos with buddies, buy music and also showcase applications. NOKIA’s Ovi enables consumers to easily access their existing social network, communities and content, as well as acting as a gateway to NOKIA online services.

Airtel has been trying to increase the share of its VAS services. Its Airtel Live service, which offers a host of VAS features, is quite a hit with its subscribers. Now, Airtel has tied up with Nokia to embed the Airtel Live icon in its handsets.

After its foray into mobile advertising in India and a joint WAP site with BPL mobile, Buongiorno seems to be pretty bent on digging deeper into India’s premium mobile market. According to afaqs, the mobile VAS (value added services) company based in Italy, will launch Blinko.com in India in the next quarter.

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, [...]

“Shake Well Before Use” - You might have read this on the text label on a bottle of medicine. Now, this fits into the context of Nokia Nseries mobiles too.
 
Tong Ren has developed an application, ShakeSMS for Symbian S60 mobile phones based on Accelerometer technology that requires just shaking your mobile phone to unlock the [...]

So if on one end its startups that are bubbling on the scene on the other end there are VC’s and Angel’s who are lining up to fund these startups and help in taking them to the next level. So here is a low down on whose raising money and who isn’t!
 
 
AutoIndia Receives Angel investment
 
AutoIndia [...]

With local search engines spurting out on a  regular basis we have been able to observe certain interesting trends in their strategies over 2007.
 
 
 
Here’s a look at some tie ups and mergers that were significant enough to catch our attention.  The local search engine market is now huge and here to stay contributing 25% [...]

Earlier we blogged about Yahoo! tying up with major Indian telecom companies for its OneSearch technology, We have just heard the news that MSN has launched India centric MSN Mobile services very recently and is also tying up with major Indian telecom companies for developing location-based search.
 

 
MSN has recently launched a new mobile client which [...]

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”, [...]