Videocon Launches GSM Service In Coimbatore, Finally!
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |
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Videocon has become 14th telecom operator to launch GSM services in the crowded Indian market. The service, branded as Videocon Mobile Services (and not Datacom) is live in Coimbatore. Videocon has ...
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Mobile Apps: Downloads In Asia Expected To Grow…Revenue?
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |
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There were 7 billion mobile application downloads in 2009, and this is set to increase at a Compounded Annual Gross Rate (CAGR) of 92 percent to 50 billion by 2012, according ...
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Dow Jones Launches WSJ Mobile App On Airtel
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |
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Dow Jones has launched The Wall Street Journal India Mobile application with Indian telco Bharti Airtel, giving users access to the latest international and Indian financial and business news from The ...
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State Bank Of India & SREI Sahaj Tie-Up For Rural eBanking
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 17th, 2010 |
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State Bank of India has tied up with SREI Sahaj, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure that operates several broadband enabled Common Service Centers in India, in the states of West Bengal, ...
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Aircel Launches INQ ‘Social Mobile’ Handsets In India
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 17th, 2010 |
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Aircel has tied-up with London based handset mnufacturer INQ to launch two of its mobile handsets in India: INQ Mini 3G, which is a candy bar phone and INQ Chat ...
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Aircel Launches Peek, An Email Only Device
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 17th, 2010 |
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Aircel has launched Peek, a single purpose email device in India. The device comes with a full QWERTY keypad and a 2.5″ screen, is attractively priced at Rs 2999, and allows ...
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Ford Uses QR Codes In FIGO Advertisement; To What End?
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 16th, 2010 |
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It’s good to see QR codes are being further trialled as a cross-media tool in India. After Mid Day, car manufacturer Ford is using QR Code in print ads for ...
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RCOM Crosses 100M Wireless Customers; Next 100M Not So Easy
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 16th, 2010 |
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Telecom operator Reliance Communications has announced that it has crossesd 100 million wireless customers in India, covering GSM, CDMA and probably wireless data cards as well. To celebrate the success ...
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Facebook To Open Office In Hyderabad; Support Only?
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 15th, 2010 |
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(with inputs from Nikhil Pahwa)
Facebook has announced that they will open an office in India, in Hyderabad. While the company claims that it has 8 million users from India ...
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News Digest: BSNL, Infibeam, Airtel Audit, Vodafone & Dot-COAI
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 15th, 2010 |
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BSNL Exits Zamtel Bid
Indian PSU BSNL has quit the race to buy a majority stake in Zambia’s fixed-line phone operator Zamtel. Only three operators Angola’s Unitel, Libya’s LAP Green Networks ...
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Dialog Telekom Launches Music Station Powered By Geodesic; Mundu IM Now On IPhone OS
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |
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Sri Lankan telco Dialog Telekom, has launched an Internet Radio service called Music Station, built on Geodesic’s Mundu Radio platform for its six million subscribers.
The platform will work across both ...
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eYantra Raises $7.8 M In Series B From Argonaut
By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |
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Update: Phani Narayanam, Founder, EYantra informs us that the company had bought back stake from Times Private Treaties last year.
Earlier (March 12, 2009): Hyderbad based merchandising and corporate gifting solution company ...
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