Media

Mobile Apps: Downloads In Asia Expected To Grow…Revenue?

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |

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 ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

Updated: YouTube Struggles With IPL 2010 Live Streaming

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |

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Update (March 16th): Looks like YouTube’s got its act together. The live streaming is working fine for me today. I’m in the office, watching the Royal Challengers challenge the Kings ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

VRock Licenses IPL Mobile Content To Multiple Co’s; In Talks For Stake In PhoneyTunes

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |

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Well, this is unprecedented: within around seven days of acquiring global SMS, MMS and IVR rights related to the Indian Premier League, vRock Mobile has managed to license non-exclusive content rights ... Continue_Reading

Airtel Launches Digital Media Distribution Biz; Bigger Play Than Digital Cinema

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has entered the digital media distribution business, establishing what they’re calling a “digital media exchange”. The exchange will enable the transference of digital content from media houses, producers ... Continue_Reading

Vodafone Launches Mobile Application Store; IPL Tickets

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 10th, 2010 |

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Update: In an emailed response to MediaNama, Vodafone has said that the app store has around 200 Indian apps, and claims that thousand apps will be launched shortly. The telco ... Continue_Reading

Apalya Gets IPL 3 Global Mobile Live Streaming Rights For 3 Years; Subscription vs Advertising

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |

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Update: An interesting question from Kushan Mitra: if one can access YouTube’s live streaming on a laptop using a data card, why would they subscribe to the same content via ... Continue_Reading

BSE Launches GPRS Based SENSEX Streamer App; V.01 Hopefully

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |

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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a mobile application for receiving live quotes of its SENSEX index. Called BSE SENSEX Mobile Streamer, the Java based application is a 113 ... Continue_Reading