[When you read the article title, did you feel some sort of connection? Well, read on. This is a guest article by Alok Kejriwal, founder of Games2Win] Can you postpone paying your telephone or electricity bills by a couple of months by sweet talking your Utility providers? Would you continue working for a company that [...]

Alright, SMS spam has become a case of concern and TRAI’s attempt to control the same has been a massive failure. As per estimates, close to 150 million marketing messages are sent every day and assuming cost of Rs. 3 paisa/sms, the SMS spam brings around Rs. 200 crore revenues to the operators. Bharti Airtel [...]

At 59Mins.com, entrepreneurs ask questions and also help others with their insights. Here are some of the interesting questions (asked recently by fellow entrepreneurs) that needs your attention. Inventory Management Software ..to maintain Inventory in India and in US, we are finding difficult in updating our excel sheet every day. Those who know and tested [...]

Indias are going mobile and given the competitive GPRS tariff plans, expect mobile Internet to gain huge popularity in the coming days. An obvious application/service one would need is aggregation of hyperlocal service. A service that essentially replaces the newspaper and gives you information on-demand, on-the-move. Mobiesta is a neat app that provides latest information [...]

Alright. Apple has launched the new iPod touch that comes with facetime, retina display, HD video recording and importantly, 40 hours battery life for audio playback (details). The best way to describe the new iPod touch is that it’s an iPhone without a phone! Apple iPod Touch Price 8GB $229 32GB $299 64GB $399 iTunes [...]

StratosHear, a leading mobile media company, today announced the launch of MobiAdz (www.mobiadz.com), its premium mobile advertising network. With MobiAdz, StratosHear has expanded its mobile advertising offerings from rich audio advertising to include mobile Internet ad formats—such as banner, video and text—and has emerged as the one-stop solution for all advertisers embracing the mobile medium. [...]

Dear Friends of Sid, The Indian Government is chasing Blackberry for all the data. As if it can sort out the data it will get. Fat chance! To see other cartoons of Sid series, click here.

Wooqer is a startup targeting the promotions market across the whole value chain of a product, from manufacturer to consumer. They help manufacturers get in touch with brands, help brands design better promotional campaigns and help retailers to announce offers and sales to consumers and lastly giving consumers a structured look at the offers and [...]

ABC Consultants, one of the oldest (and topmost) recruitment firm in the country missed out on the Internet era and Naukri.com zoomed past everybody to become the defacto name for hiring in the corporate world. Having said that, Naukri still needs to hone its positioning in the mid-to-senior management jobs and that’s where the next [...]

Inspite of the market share loss, Nokia emerged out as India’s topmost brand (in 2011), for third time in a row. “If this proves anything, it is that trust is not what it used to be. The categories and brands that earn it are changing. Mobile telephony is hot and it reflects not just in [...]

Roundup of latest jobs – right from Chandigarh to Chennai.

You’ve finally got that viral tweet! Something about your start up or product is finally tweeted by a high klout tweetaholic.You have your eyes glued to half a dozen screens that show you retweets, mentions and twitter searches for your company/URL/product/keyword. It looks great – for about 42 minutes, or at best a few hours. And then…Poof!

Mobile Apps have defined a new economy, i.e. of apps being more important than the device. We earlier shared a report on the growth of smartphone app download statistics in first half of 2010 (3.8 Billion Apps were Downloaded!) and here is probably one of the most comprehensive report/facts on the mobile appnomy. Apple’s App [...]

Consumers today are bombarded with increasing number of direct marketing messages coming through a variety of channels such as phone call, SMS, direct mail, email, etc. In most cases these messages, with the purpose of acquiring new customers, are irrelevant and time wasting to the consumer- succeeding only in irking them. In current competitive environment [...]