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Its seems to be a trend for news channels to go digital in more ways than one through tie ups. So if Timesnow chose the online medium with a tie up with Nautanki Zee news has chosen to go mobile with a tie up with One97. Through this association mobile users across India can access [...]

Indiatimes.com had a busy couple of days if their latest announcements are anything to go by. Singing the same tune as we did here at WATBlog on Friday, when the air was filled with more mobile industry stories than any other, Indiatimes has launched three mobile enabled services catering to different needs and projecting different business streams that mobiles are capable of. I guess this only adds to our assertion that mobile is moving ahead and moving ahead big.

Update: Afaqs has reported today that Bigadda is reportedly spending over 4 crores in popularising the mobile version of its site. Well I caught some ads on tv as well guess Reliance ADAG has pots of money..
Original Post: BigAdda the social network backed by Reliance ADAG which has already spent crores of rupees [...]

Orkut has quietly launched a feature that will take the orkut platform beyond the web and into people hands i.e. sms for your scraps. I personally feel this feature has come too late for the early adoptor segment which already seems to have moved on to things like facebook, twitter and the even more enthusiastic ones are feasting on friendfeed which kind of aggregates your social graph.

Rediff has spruced up Product Search. It still essentially remains a retail aggregation model. Some things that Open2Save.in (we wrote about them Yesterday) can learn from this model and vice versa. A lot of innovative feature and interesting mashups. Search made interesting with peripherals.

 
Last week I had come across a site called spotcrime.com. This site is another example that how important an “About Us” page can be. As this site was missing it I had to mail them few of my queries from their contact page. And I have received their reply for the same.
 

 
 
Q) What is the [...]

Chandrababu Naidu has launched an SMS campaign to publicise his party’s website, www.telugudesamparty.org, all over the world.
 
 
 
The website itself is pretty impressive. It updates all the party’s press releases and press conferences using YouTube as a back end.
 
 
 
 
Naidu has instructed the party leadership to ensure that the SMS is sent to all those “who matter” in society. The [...]

 
Travel portals like MakeMyTrip.com has stepped into the business of booking online railway packages. Cleartrip.com can be used for searching railway tickets. This was a little inconvenient for people who didn’t have Internet or don’t know how to use it. Indian Railways (IR) is to start allowing booking of railway tickets through mobile phones. Mobile [...]

“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 [...]

In a wonderful step towards including the population at the lower strata of the income, the government of India has announced new a service which will allow them to receive SMS alerts for the food distribution.
 
Under a scheme, the Government of Chhattisgarh plans to provide 35 Kilo of rice per month to each family at [...]

M Commerce is at a very early stage. Its about purchase and sale of goods and services through the mobile with the use of a financial institution. Purchase and sale of VAS content cannot be classified as M – Commerce.
 
 
The different areas that come under M – Commerce
 
 
a) Travel and Ticketing – convenience is [...]

Webaroo can be termed as a company that adapted very well to dynamic conditions of the internet and mobile space. Started as a company that helped you access your important websites offline it quickly realised its mistakes and learned from them and shifted its focus by launching new product in the group messaging [...]

Results of Common Admission Test, CAT 2007 that was held on 18th Nov 2007, will be announced tomorrow i.e 8th Jan, 2008 from 3 pm onwards. Apart from the official website and telephonic service, aspirants can access their result on SMS too. The SMS service is backed by Rediff Mobile (short code 57333) and charges [...]

ChaCha.com, a human-powered search engine recently extended it’s service to mobile phones, where you can type your questions and sms it to 242242 (spells chacha on mobile keypad) and one of the ChaCha’s paid human guide will respond to your query with relevant links and maps unlike an automated machine, computer or robot generated answer.
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Webaroo SMS GupShup, a group messaging service which recently started to monetize the group messaging has now launched a new service that enables the user to send picture SMS’s from the www.smsgupshup.com website. This picture message can be sent to all the members or selected ones from the group. And the service will be offered [...]