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| Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| Is Mobile aiding for Malpractices ? |
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 We all know that the Mumbai underworld banked heavily on Mobile phones and hence were made inaccessible in J*ils.
Their have been reports of Mobile being used as an aide in exams and hence District Magistrate in Merrut ordered mobile service providers to turn off their services during exams and elections.
India with 1 Billion population conducts so many exams and so many elections, this way the mobile service provider may have to switch off hsi service for mroe than 30 days in a year. Fantastic administration dear Magistrates!!! |
Published on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 11:31 PM  |
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| Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| Nokia N Series Mobiles pre-loaded with Movies |
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 If Steve Jobs and Ballmer think that iPod and Zune are the entertainment devices, they are so wrong about it. Teens in this part of the world want a Triple Play (Mobile Phone, Digi Cam and Music) ready to go handheld device.
In a new marketing gimmick, Nokia Corp, has decided to pre-load on its Nokia N93 Mobile Phone, Hollywood's super hit movie, Mission Impossible 3. This coincides with MI3's DVD release on Oct-30th.
Nokia N93 has a QVGA 320*240 display. It also comes with a built-in 512MB memory card. The pre-loaded movie is streamed at 25 fps and has stereo quality audio. It's FREE when you pay for the N93 :-)
Check out the Nokia N Series Music edition set for Launch in November in India.
Technorati: Mobile India , Nokia N Series , Mobile Movies
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| Published on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2:26 PM |
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| Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| Mobile ISVs in India |
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 Asia is a hub for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in the mobile space. Today we have around 120 ISVs targeting the Indian space aiming to get a pie of the Rs4,200 crores Mobile Value Added Services Market. Some of the most prominent ISVs in India are as follows.
Astute Systems
Focus Areas: Mobile Content Development.
Applications: Games, Spiritual & Devotional Applications, Utility applications, Business & Financial, BSE Portfolio Tracker as well as Wallpapers, Ringtones, Videos and Themes. Developing IT products, games and applications for stock exchanges and for Corporates
Cellebrum
Focus areas: VAS solutions across platforms like SMS, IVRS, ASR, TTS, WAP, GPRS, USSD. Expertise in the fields of roaming solutions, call processing, protocols and specifications.
Applications: Developed and deployed product offerings on the IVRS platform. The bouquet of services spans across the information, communication and entertainment domain and includes music, gaming, downloads and utility services. The product line includes background music, Pay-4-Me, select caller list, missed call alert, international call back, voice mail system, caller ring back tone. In addition to this SMS gateway, Web2Mobile SMS, SMS 6300, global number solution, roaming solutions are also currently being offered.
Elitecore
Focus areas: Billing solutions that can deliver FMC and data-voice convergence. Driving modularization of Crestel Convergent Billing platform to ensure greater flexibility to providers in solution choice.
Hellosoft
Focus areas: The company enables mass deployment of multi-mode wireline and wireless devices by providing optimized RISC-based VoIP products with voice quality, QoS, and call switching y designed for next generation end-points.
Applications: Next generation multi-mode mobile handsets, PDAs, IP phones, and ATAs.
Infozech
Focus areas: Focuses on real time transaction processing in transaction critical applications.
Applications: Venturing into the personalized voice solutions space, complementing mobile enabled applications.
Mars
Focus areas: ERP/CRM space includes consulting on packaged applications, development/support and infrastructure management services.
Applications: Voice and data networking (VoIP and unified communications) and business productivity improvement solutions using ERP and CRM packages.
mlogica
Focus areas: Mobile database applications, RFID, GPS, tracking systems, order processing and home-land security.
Applications: Emergency information systems, tracking system for hunting down terrorists and criminals using RFID and GPS, RFID and biometric based intelligence management systems, PDA solutions for healthcare organizations and security databases
OnMobile
Focus Areas: VAS, mobile content distribution, one to one direct marketer on mobiles and m-commerce enabler. Spinoff of Infosys Technologies Limited.
Applications: The current suite of multimodal VAS offered include ring back tones, voice portal & WAP, corporate value added services, m-commerce services, media portals and interactive TV programming, in-call network solutions, and customer care-using speech recognition to automate routine call center interactions.
Roamware
Focus areas: Provides value-added voice and data roaming, and voice and messaging solutions.
Applications: Proprietary platform 'Roamware Service Delivery System', using open standards enables integration of multiple mobile applications. Apart from this other products include traffic redirection, signaling relay, optimizer product, virtual home environment, SMS VAS, enhanced messaging products, roaming gateway and network monitoring products.
Tags: Mobile India , ISV+India , Mobile Software
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| Published on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 2:09 AM |
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| Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| Motorola FLIP W375 India launch in November |
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 Motorola Inc is all set to launch the MotoFLIP W375 in India this November. The budget clamshell category has received a huge boost with the entry of the stylish MOTOFLIP W220 for just Rs 3,900 launched earlier this year.
The Good: The W375 has a larger 128x160 display, 1.5 MB of internal memory, MP3 ringtones support a VGA camera and USB connectivity support. It also has a FM Radio.
The Bad: The internal phonebook seems to have been reduced to 100, which is quite surprising.
Technorati: Mobile India , Motorola India , Phone India |
| Published on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 8:00 PM |
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| Saturday, October 21, 2006 |
| Top 5 Mobile Phones to Gift this Holiday Season |
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Unlike the popularity of iPods or Tablet PCs in the west, mobile phones are the most popular and sought after devices in India. We are presenting reviews of top 5 cell phone gift ideas for this Holiday Season. None of the Samsung or LG phones made to our list since they don't pack with featuers that Nokia, Sony or Motorola are packed in the same price range. Samsung SGH-P310 is a good one but currently unavailable in India.
The one to your left is the Sony Ericsson W810i. The W810i Walkman is a powerful DTS music player with everything you need for a mobile music lifestyle. A digital music player, FM radio, music management software and accessories to make music listening pure pleasure. It has all the features like Bluetooth, MMS, Video Capture except wi-fi. Comes with a 512 MB meory card which can be exchanged for a 2GB card for an additional Rs4,000 taking the total cost ogf the phone to Rs20,000. Truly a Sony Product.
 The Nokia N70 is the most sought after phone in high end models. Though not available in Black like the N72, this phone has several advantages over N72, the most important being the 3G phone. If you want to wait for few more days, then you will have an enhanced version of Nokia N70 known as Nokia N70 Music edition, which will come with 1GB memory and also has the sexy appeal of Nokia N72. Priced around Rs16,000. With additional memory card, it will go upto Rs20,000.
 After tasting the success of Moto Razr, Motorola has now launched, Moto Krzr. It is a feature-packed high-end GSM Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) cell phone. Stylish and slim phone has a distinctive metallic gloss front finish and features that match its innovative good looks and craftsmanship. Key phone features include 2.0 mega-pixel camera w/ 8X zoom, Bluetooth version 1.2 that supports A2DP and AVRC as well as basic Bluetooth profiles, MP3 player, video capture and playback, microSD / TransFlash memory card slot that supports up to 2GB capacity. Its is priced at Rs16,000.
 Slide open the Nokia 6280 phone to unleash the multimedia and imaging power hidden beneath its sleek and modern cover. See how your friends and loved ones are doing with the Nokia 6280 phone. With two digital cameras and the high-resolution color display you can conduct face-to-face video calls on the go. Capture, show, and share pictures and video – all in landscape mode with a 262,144-color display, 2-megapixel camera, 8x digital zoom, and integrated flash. When you need to get files from one device to another, the Nokia 6280 phone gives you true versatility with Bluetooth technology, infrared, Pop-Port, USB, and GPRS/EDGE networks.
If you are looking for a corporate gift for your managers, then BlackBerry 7130g is the ultimate phone you can think of.
BlackBerry 7130g Wireless Handset – uncompromising phone, email and browsing performance in a small, lightweight, business phone design that elegantly combines the industry’s most advanced hardware, software and network technologies.
With complete BlackBerry functionality, expanded memory, powerful Intel XScale processor and high resolution colour LCD screen, the BlackBerry 7130g delivers an unrivalled voice, messaging and data experience, plus advanced device features including speakerphone, Bluetooth connectivity, polyphonic ringtones, and tethered modem capability – turning laptops wireless without the need for a PC data card.
If you are looking to gift a Laptop, then check out the top 5 laptop reviews for this holiday season. |
| Published on Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 1:13 AM |
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| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| Mallika and Kareena SMSs can go Global this Quarter |
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 Do you recall the sizzling Mallika Sherwat or Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur Lip L**king MMS that was in such a huge demand in the US ? Even though you had it on your cell phone in India, yet couldn't send it to your friends abroad because of incompatibility with operators.
After witnessing exponential growth in SMS market over the past 5 years, Indian cellcos now want to boost their bottomline by offering MMS services. To overcome this barrier of sending SMSs abroad, telcos like Reliance Communications Limited and Bharti Tele-ventures Limited are in talks with global majors for a tie-up said ET.
Reliance Infocomm wants to launch the initial service as early as this week, starting with high-traffic countries like US, UK, Middle East and Far East. Idea Cellular sources said the company had MMS interoperability agreements with most GSM operators. Hutch and Airtel are also signing pacts with all global majors. Hopefully, the long wait for your friends abroad will be fulfilled this Diwali :-)
Tags: Mobile India , MMS India , SMS India
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| Published on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 1:57 PM |
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| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| Update: Mobile Gaming Conference 2006 - Mumbai |
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 The second Annual Mobile Gaming Conference concluded recently in Mumbai. Mauj Telecom showcased future technology in Cell Phone Gaming. For example one of the game requires use of Mobile phone camera to to capture a particular color while the other uses pictures from Phones folders, as a backdrop during the playoff.
Mauj games are priced anywhere between Rs50 and Rs250. These games may come on memory sticks. Mauj also introduced Multiplayer Bluetooth Games and Games in regional languages. In India, currently 20% of the mobile handsets are gaming compatible.
Technorati: Mobile India , Mobile Gaming, Multiplayer Mobile Gaming
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| Published on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 1:53 AM |
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| Sunday, October 15, 2006 |
| Nokia NSeries music edition launch in November |
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 After tasting the success of high end NSeries, Nokia is all set to launch enhanced version of its, NSeries - NSeries Music edition. The music editions of N70, N73 and N91 will be launched in India in November-2006.
Nokia N70 Music Edition:
In addition to the features that already exist in N70, the N70 Music edition comes in Black Color as shown and will have 1GB memory storage space large enough to hold 600-700 songs and a 2 megapixel camera. :-)
 Nokia N73 Music Edition:
Some exciting features of N73 Music edition are,
Dual mode WCDMA/GSM and quad band GSM coverage on up to five continents, 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels) with up to 20x digital zoom, 40 MB internal dynamic memory for contacts, text messages, multimedia messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications, Support for miniSD memory card (hot swappable), 2GB Memory Card large enough to hold 1200 songs.
 N91 Music Edition:
Nokia N91 Music Edition comes with 8GB memory storage good enough to hold 6000 tracks. Automatic switching from music to call mode. However, it has only a 2 MegaPixel camera.
Expected launch date in India - November - 2006. |
| Published on Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 8:14 AM |
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| Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| Idea Cellular Valuation climbs to $2.5 Billion |
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 Aditya Birla group company, Idea Cellular Ltd today sold, 16% of its stake at $400 Million to Providence. This deal values Idea Cellular Limited at $2.5 Billion. Earlier this year in April, Tata's exited Idea Cellular when the company was valued at $2.0 Billion. In July, Idea Celular announced that it would invest $400 million or Rs2,500 crores to expand in various circles in India to get a PAN India footprint.
Finally, in October, they have raised the money required for expansion. Idea has a 10.87% market share amongst GSM service providers.
Technorati: Mobile India , Idea cellular , India Telecom , Private Equity India
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| Published on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 8:01 PM |
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| Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| Samsung SGH-P310 launched in India - Review |
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 The sleek and sexy Samsung SGH-P310 is officially launched in India. It is the size of a credit card and has all the latest features for you to make a gadget guy or gal :-) It is also known as The Card Phone II
Specifications: 86 x 54 x 8.5 mm, 75gms, GSM/GPRS EDGE Triband (900 / 1800/ 1900MHz)
Camera: 2 Mega Pixel. Video Recording and Messaging (MPEG4, H.263) MP3 / AAC / AAC+
Display: 1.9 inch 262K Color QVGA TFT LCD
Memory: 80MB Embedded. External: MicroSD Add on slot available.
Features: Bluetooth 1.2 / USB 1.1 BT Printing / PictBridge / Stereo BT Headset TV out /Email Sync (Outlook). Dual Battery. One in the mobile and otehr in the attached cover. It is expected to give a talk time of 15 hours. So all you folks who love to talk to your spouse, kids or your gal friends, this is the phone you must carry to impress her :-) Introductory price in India for SGH P310 is mere Rs 21,000.
Technorati: India Mobile, Samsung Mobile , SGH-P310 |
| Published on Friday, October 06, 2006 at 7:40 PM |
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| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| 5Paisa.Com to offer services on Mobile |
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 Just few minutes ago, I learnt that, IndiaInfoLine's 5Paisa.com, the pioneers in Internet stock trading in India at a brokerage of just 0.05% are now venturing into value added services on cell phones for their clientele. In a communication to the Mumbai Stock Exchange, they said,
"The Company will provide its customers with first hand information about their own stocks and account positions." Additionally, the client would also get Market Updates, Real Time quotes about scrips in his account and day-end net position.
They are also planning to launch Mobile Phone Based Trading and are waiting for necessary approvals from regulatory. I am pretty sure ICICI Direct will soon join the bandwagon of Mobile Trading.
Internet Trading, Mobile Trading , Indian Stocks , 5Paisa |
| Published on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 at 3:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| Matrimony the Mobile Way |
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 Indians are obsessed with their mobiles. Mobile for shopping, stock trading, cricket scores and now for match making :-) Bharat Matrimony, one of the leading matrimonial sites will soon launch its mobile portal. (Link says under construction). Here is another page from the same website, grabbed from Google cache :P Looks like they have some operation through SMS.
The company has tied up with Hungama and Mobile2Win for content. I fail to understand why every major Indian portal has one track mind - Matrimony/Dating, Jobs, Classifieds and Travel makes their world. Maybe it's time they take some directions from a disruptive thinker like Mahesh Murthy and Dr. V Vinay of PinStorm. |
| Published on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 at 10:09 PM |
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| Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| Airtel Mobile TV to be introduced in 4 months |
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 Bharti Airtel Limited is all set to launch Mobile TV in India on the existing 2.5G network using GPRS technology. Bharti is unwilling to wait for the lethargic Indian TRAI for auction guidelines and regulations on 3G. Bharti's group company Bharti Telesoft has tied up with UK based Vimio to enable live TV to be streamed on Airtel mobile phones in India.
Speaking on the development, Sanjiv Mittal, CEO of Bharti Telesoft told CNBC TV 18 that,
"What we are looking at is allowing live video broadcasts on the current network of GPRS and Edge on the current bandwidth of 2.5 G network".
Mobile TV service will be launched within 4-6 months and Bharti expects to have 50,000 to 100,00 customers within the first year of launch. |
| Published on Monday, October 02, 2006 at 5:51 PM |
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