Applications

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

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

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

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

RCOM Launches Socially With Unlimited Access To Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 9th, 2010 |

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Reliance Communications has launched a mobile VAS application called Socially, which gives access to to social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn through a single client. What’s interesting about it ... Continue_Reading

July Systems, Indiagames, GoBindaas Ink IPL 3 Deals; Complete List Of Mobile Partners

By Preethi J on March 8th, 2010 |

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More from the IPL front. Bangalore-based mobile firm July Systems has bagged the exclusive rights to the mobile Internet portal M.IPLT20.com, the official site for the third Indian Premier League on ... Continue_Reading

Hungama Tries Mobile Apps & Services With Hungama Labs

By Preethi J on March 5th, 2010 |

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Update: Hungama appears to have closed the site after we wrote about it. Why the stage fright? In our defense, if we can access the site, we can write about ... Continue_Reading

IPL Global Smartphone App Rights Go To DCI Mobile & Sigma Ventures

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 5th, 2010 |

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Sliced and diced. The chopping up of the digital rights for the Indian Premier League continues unabated, with the “global mobile smartphone rights” being sold to Singapore based venture capitalist ... Continue_Reading

Updated: SMS GupShup Announces App Store AppShup; Nothing New?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 5th, 2010 |

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An Afterthought: in the mobile industry, the term ‘application’ usually refers to a software that is hosted on the mobile handset, not ’services’ available on an SMS short code. Else, ... Continue_Reading

Pay Tax For Downloading Apps?

By Preethi J on March 2nd, 2010 |

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Knock, knock. Who’s there? E-commerce. E-commerce, who? India does not care for you. The Union Budget 2010 is setting up the government for some serious ridicule from the Indian Internet community if this Business ... Continue_Reading

Affle Raises Strategic Investment From Japan’s Itochu Corp; Deployments

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 2nd, 2010 |

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Update: Responding to our query, Anuj Kumar, ED (South Asia) at Affle, informs us that all investors, including the Times of India group, continue to stay invested in the company. ... Continue_Reading