Me Too: Bharti Airtel Invites Developers To Make Mobile, IPTV, Broadband & DTH Apps Bharti Airtel's Open Developers Community initiative is now 1000 developers-strong, Economic Times reports. Last year, the company had invested Rs. 44 million in a platform similar to Forum Nokia for developers to create content and applications for its growing mobile user base. Around 100 developers were members in September 2008. Now, the company has invited the community to also write applications and services for its other products, namely broadband, IPTV, DTH (Airtel Digital). Bharti Airtel added 2.81 million mobile connections and 35,000 landlines in June and has an overall customer base of 110 million. A search of Airtel's website and the Internet did not give us the community's portal and so we are unable to learn who these 1000 developers are, nor what are the kind of applications that have been developed. If anyone is aware of them, please inform us. Star Channels On Portugese IPTV Provider Clix Clix, a Portugal-based IPTV provider, has added two Indian channels - Star Plus and Star Gold to its bouquet of channels. Star Plus will target Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshis there while Star Gold will bring Bollywood movies to residents there, BroadbandTV News reported. Idea Cellular's Investments The telco has earmarked Rs. 7500 crore as investments to expand into new circles this year. It will invest Rs. 1000 crore over the next three years just in Tamil Nadu, where it launched its operations last month. Idea has 100,000 subscribers…
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