Mobile Banking – Will It Be Ever Be Bigger Than E-banking?

by | posted: July 26, 2010
Mobile banking has been knocking on our doors since quite some time now. In India, one of the first entrants were BOKU, who along with Airtel, were one of the first to introduce mobile banking solutions...
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MyToday Goes Paid.. Launches Super Store

by | posted: June 29, 2010
There are a plethora of things you can do on your mobile today, the SMS feature being exploited the most. You get constant updates on your phone regarding various events and advertisements. You get annoyed...
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Loop Mobile And SMSGupShup Bring Group SMS Service ‘Reply All’

by | posted: June 22, 2010
Loop Mobile in collaboration with SMSGupShup has announced a new service ‘Reply All’. This service which almost seems a mobile phone version of Google Groups will allow Loop Mobile subscribers to SMS...
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Bigshoebazaar.com Enables Shoe Shopping Via SMS

by | posted: June 22, 2010
Bigshoebazaar.com, an online portal started in 2007 for business-to-customer footwear retailing, has recently announced a new service. It will start its new SMS catalogue shopping format wherein customers...
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Netcore Acquires Greynium – Bullish On Local Languages

by | posted: May 4, 2010
Our recent WATShow with Abhijit Saxena Of NetCore Solutions had questioned the importance of vernacular content to his business (check his answer here) and now it seems Netcore has gone ahead and acquired...
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Sms Could Be the Driver Of Data & Mobile Internet Growth! Unbelievable? Read On..

by | posted: December 7, 2009
Its funny how two businesses which may look like competitors to you and me in a growing industry might actually be complementary businesses in the long run. What Im talking about are the businesses of...
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On SMS Volumes, Interconnect Charges & Impact On Bulk SMS Players

by | posted: November 27, 2009
SMS is probably the second most used feature in a mobile phone after voice. No doubt then that in a market as large as 500 million plus mobile subscribers SMS forms for sizable usage. According to a recent...
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Tie-up Fiesta – Spice Digital To SMS Ads And Travel Details To IRCTC Users

by | posted: November 25, 2009
IRCTC has come a long way in the e-commerce space in India since its estimated gross annual sales of Rs.3400 crore comprised 1/3rd of the total e-commerce industry worth Rs. 9000 crores in India. This...
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Exclusive Interview With Amit Mehra – MD, Reuters Market Light – Enlightening Farmers

by | posted: November 18, 2009
We spoke to Amit Mehra this week who apparently looks to build his enterprise along with the growth of telecom in the hinterland. He joined Reuters in Nov 2001 in the London office as Manager, New Business...
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Twitter Updates: Find People API Released, UK First For MMS Support

by | posted: November 18, 2009
November 16th, was a certainly an eventful day for Twitter. Apart from moving into a new office as tweeted by @twitter itself  ‘Official pics from the shiny new Twitter HQ! http://bit.ly/2oVk85‘,...
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SMS Based IM, Social networking – The Next Killer App For Indian Mobile?

by | posted: November 13, 2009
Couple of years ago I stumbled on an idea of SMS based IM and social networking, though the idea gave me goose bumps with the extent of potential market, I was eventually convinced that mobile internet...
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Track Your Mail Via SMS

by | posted: October 20, 2009
The Indian Government seems to be taking to technology pretty quickly. We’ve covered some of the initiatives to incorporate current easy-to-access technology like email and SMS to further their outreach...
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Netcore Sent 60 Crore SMSes For BJP During Elections! – Did Intrusive Marketing Hurt BJP?

by | posted: September 14, 2009
We were attending IAMAI’s Digital convergence event at Welingkars on Saturday and Abhijit Saxena CEO of Netcore stated a statistic which baffled us. He stated that they had partnered with BJP during...
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Can SMS Ever Be Dead? Can You Survive Without Them?

by | posted: September 10, 2009
With the ever-improving telecom infrastructure, can it ever happen that one fine day people stop text messaging once in for all? Vinay Goel, Head of products, Google India certainly thinks so. In a recent...
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Way2SMS launches email alerts on mobile

by | posted: June 1, 2009
Way2sms, the popular nation wide free SMS provider has now launched Email alerts on mobile! Through this you can get alerts about incoming e-mails in your mobile inbox at no cost. The alerts are limited...
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Zee News Goes Mobile – Ties Up With One97

by | posted: November 19, 2008
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...
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