A lot can happen over a coffee. And if the new age marketing trends from the smartphone industry are any indicators, a lot is already brewing. In a world clogged with the dominance of Google’s Android mobile and massive eminence of Apple, Blackberry has put its invasion mode in the top gear by deciding to demonstrate its latest handset, Blackberry Z10, at hundreds of cafes across India. According...

It is now 8 years since Youtube came online. YouTube users are now uploading 100 hours worth of video to the content viewing platform every single minute, according to the company blog post. YouTube now claims four days worth of video uploaded every minute and 144 billion minutes of playable video uploaded every single day.  Back in 2011, YouTube users were adding 48 hours of video per minute, while...

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS continued to dominate the worldwide mobile OS market in the first quarter on 2013, as per the latest report from IDC. The  report suggests that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter. Android and iOS combined for an overwhelming 92.3 percent of all smartphone...

Google’s flagship Jelly Bean device, the LG made Nexus 4 may finally become available in the country in the coming weeks, according to a new listing on Flipkart’s website. Google has been very laggard when it comes to releasing their Nexus brand of products in India in spite of the high demand for them across urban areas. Nexus 4 had really high global demand since its launch and both LG and Google...

Blackberry announced quite a few new things at the Blackberry Live Summit held yesterday in Ontario. This includes the Q5(third phone in the Blackberry 10 series), BBM for iOS and Android, BBM Channels and secure enterprise Instant Messaging on Blackberry 10.  Thorsten Heinz, CEO of Blackberry seemed upbeat about these developments and maintains that company has had a favourable response to all the...

In a bid to further expand its user base, Bharti Soft Bank (BSB) has joined hands with Nokia to pre-load its instant messaging application ‘Hike’ on its smartphones. As per the agreement Nokia will preload Hike on Lumia 510, Lumia 720 and all Nokia Asha Full Touch phones sold in India. Speaking about the integration,  BSB’s Head of Product and Strategy Kavin Bharti Mittal said, “We are...

Yesterday, we reported that smartphones sales have surpassed that of feature phones. Now, it seems instant messaging apps have overtaken traditional SMS texting. According to a latest report form research firm Informa, six of the most popular mobile chat applications, including WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, Apple’s iMessage, and KakaoTalk, averaged nearly 19 billion messages...

Global smartphones sales eclipsed those of feature phones for first time ever in the first quarter of 2013, as per the latest report from research firm IDC.  The report revealed that 216.2 million smartphones were shipped accounting for  51.6% of all mobile phones shipped  globally in the first quarter of 2013. This marked the first time when smartphones have claimed more than half of all quarterly...

Instant Messaging service Hike has landed a funding of $7 million from Bharti Soft Bank (BSB). Developed by (BSB), a 50-50 partnership between India’s Bharti Telecom and Japan’s Softbank telecom provider, Hike recently crossed 4 million users just four months after its launch. Speaking about the investment Kavin Bharti Mittal, Head of Product and Strategy, BSB, said, “We are thrilled by...

As per a latest report from market research firm research2guidance, revenue generated with sensors connecting to an app will reach $5.6 billion by 2017. The firm believes that this segment of the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 69 % and 61 million health sensors will ship in 2017. Sighting further insights the report says that mHealth app based business models, which rely on...