Motorola is launching Motorola Milestone, the GSM version of Droid in India by March 22nd. Motorola Milestone – Worldwide Sales As per Flurry, 1.05 million Droid handsets were sold during the first 74 days of launch, as compared to 1 million iPhones sold over the same 74 day launch period. Essentially, Motorola has carved a niche with...
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iPhone 3GS was supposed to be launched in India by August of 2009 and as expected, Airtel has confirmed that it will sell iPhone 3GS in India.
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Orkut has launched its app on Android, that is well integrated with one’s contact book. The app syncs your phonebook with Orkut friends’ phone numbers as well as status messages.
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I have always believed that one’s mobile phone is the starting point of one’s social network and one’s contact book is the friend list to exploit.
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So finally IPL starts its third edition on a big note. IPL, in my opinion is not so much about cricket as much it is about the advertisement revolution that it has brought to this country. Zoo-Zoo's were launched in the last season of IPL, and the advertising fraternity does realize that it has...
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SMSGupshup recently announced the formal launch of its Appstore, Appshup and since we have been receiving a few queries from our readers, we just passed on the questions to SMSGupshup team. Here is a short QnA with the team on Appshup: Qn: What is the revenue share percentage between SMSGupshup and Developers? 70-30 (70% for the developers,...
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Firstly, I must say " why would anyone organize a grand-scale event in the freezing winter",well its been an experience which i can't forget easily. GSMA -Barcelona, the mecca,the Jerusalem,the Varanasi of Mobile Technology, this is the place where deals happen, people envisage the future of Mobile and bring in a new paradigm of...
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Nokia has partnered with YES BANK to launch a pilot of Nokia Money mobile banking in Pune. The pilot scheme will let people transfer money to another person simply by using the person’s mobile phone number. They’ll also be able to pay utility bills and top up SIM cards. Looking ahead, there will also be...
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Nokia has launched Nokia 2730, at a price of Rs. 4,499/ making it probably the cheapest 3G phone in India. Nokia 2730 is integrated with OVI suite of products and Nokia has embedded Nokia Life Tools service in the mobile as well. The company has partnered with Airtel, enabling Airtel subscribers to post pictures for...
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Opera Mini has announced that the mobile browser has crossed 50 million unique users in the month of January, an all time high. Opera Mini has seen unprecedented growth in every geographic location, with the number of users growing 150 percent from 20 million monthly unique users in January 2009 to 50 million monthly unique...
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SBI will roll out no-frills saving account on mobile phone for those who earn less than Rs, 5,000/ a month. The project, targeted towards construction workers, vegetable vendors and the likes will involve a BC (Business Correspondent, grocery store owners/chemist/mobile recharge owners in this case), national level entity associated with BC (Eko) and the...
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Sanjay Swamy, mChek CEO has decided to hang his boots for a while and has decided to take a break from corporate life. I’ve had great support from all of you over the past 4 years of building mChek...
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Airtel has launched an App store, which boasts of 1250 Apps across 25 categories (both free and paid applications). Airtel users can navigate to the app store via Airtel Live app and there are quite a few interesting apps – for instance, Gilli Danda, and apps based on festivals like Holi, Diwali.
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Mobile ad network InMobi has entered into an exclusive tie up with Hi5 to serve ads on the latter’s Mobile Site. The tie-up is only for Hi5’s Thailand traffic. This tie-up will help boost Hi5’s revenue growth and also help create InMobi’s dominance in the mobile advertising space. Depending on the mutual...
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Recently Nokia had announced a new version of OVI maps available for download at no cost & within few days of their launch only, Nokia observed a huge upsurge in their download numbers. Since the launch of the new version of Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been 1.4+ million downloads with...
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IMImobile, the global service creation partner for operators, media providers and enterprises today announced the launch of DaVinci Social, a white-labeled service that will enable people to easily manage their mobile digital social-life.  Users will have immediate access to all of their communications, social networks and communities and ensure their content and contacts are...
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Eros Bollywood is OVI application for Bollywood Streaming. It is apparently the first Bollywood streaming application ready on Nokia S60 5th edition devices. The app streams Bollywood songs , Movie Trailors, Director’s cut etc. The app can be downloaded on your Nokia devices from the OVI store. See the YouTube video launch of the application: Nokia...
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Recently, we showcased our new look which was appreciated by pretty much everybody and today, I am glad to announce our mobile site. http://m.pluggd.in or http://mobile.pluggd.in If you ask me, what’s the big deal about this (after all, there are loads of wordpress plugins to mobilize one’s site), here is the feature list: Built for Mobile : Surfing...
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Opera has published its State of Mobile Internet report for the month of December 2009 (link) and the top visited sites from India are: google.com orkut.com facebook.com wikipedia.org yahoo.com  youtube.com songs.pk zedge.net cricinfo.com (new) wap.in And interestingly, all the top handsets belong to Nokia, topped by Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, followed by Nokia 2700c and N70. Moreover, it’s important...
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Hungama has launched it’s first branded app, Kingfisher Calendar for iPhone users. The application is available through the iTunes App. stores at $1.99 for iPhone users and incidentally, happens to be India’s first branded calendar application on the iPhone. While the print form of kingfisher calendar is a coveted possession that very few receive, digital...
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