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The Indian startup scene is heating up by the day with large companies and investors from developed nations willing to acquire or invest in many of those instances. While that said, most of those companies are mostly in the SaaS model.…

The Supreme Court of India has realized the importance of keeping updated with the times and has released an Android app for users to access information about the operations of the court. The app was developed by Center for Development…

Updated: We have updated the post at the end with links to their developer platform and other information. Earlier... Due to fierce smartphone growth across the world, and especially in India, development of mobile apps and games has…

Apple products sold like hot cakes in 2013, yet again. Tech savvy consumers lapped up 150 million iPhones, 71 million iPads and 16 million Mac laptops in 2013, generating revenues of $171 billion and profits of $387 billion. Behind these…

It was the year of mobile in 2013. Globally, more than 100 billion mobile apps were downloaded in this year, with revenues from apps touching approximately $26 billion. It is an increase of 44% compared to 2012, when 64 billion apps were…

During Mumbai Comic Con event in Mumbai, Microsoft announced the launch of Amar Chitra Katha Comic App, which will offer comics created by Amar Chitra Katha is an easy to read, downloadable format. Currently, there are more than 200 titles…

You remember the controversial Google Mapathon contest, where Google had asked users to help build location point of interest data. Google had got into trouble with it, as security agencies were of the opinion that it may be a threat to…

Mixing work and pleasure can prove to be disastrous sometimes, as I discovered last month. I had asked my boss for a leave in the middle of a week, as my ‘aunt was not well and needed immediate medical attention’. Things were going on fine,…

Vodafone India has launched an annual developer contest – Vodafone AppStar – that will enable a Indian mobile app developers to showcase their talent to a larger global audience. With this contest, Vodafone becomes the first telecom…

Here is the 2nd edition of Trak.in AppWire, a place where we feature mobile apps that have been recently launched by Indians and for the Indians. Since we published Trak.in AppWire last week, we got quite a few mails asking for…

Mobile messaging client apps are hot right now in India – While Whatsapp is leading the charts here in India, there are others who are climbing the charts fast as well. There is Indian born Hike, Chinese WeChat and Japanese Line messaging…

Businesses are going mobile and there is not a single day that goes by when we do not receive emails in regards to launch of new mobile apps. Till now we have been writing about those mobile apps on trak.in quite selectively, especially…

Sygic, one of the world’s most downloaded offline navigation app has brought free offline (without internet) navigation to Android devices in India. Globally, Sygic has over 30 million users using their offline navigation services.…

Today is 21st September and like me, hordes of Android users are waiting for Blackberry Messenger to arrive on Play store. Social Media sites are abuzz with talks of BBM downloads. Like many others, I visited play store to check BBM’s…

Blackberry will bring it’s iconic Blackberry Messenger on Android and iOS this weekend. They had earlier announced in May that BBM will soon make its foray on these 2 mobile OSes, however the date of release was not confirmed. BBM will…

This seems to be a major catch for Windows 8 App ecosystem in India. Microsoft and IRCTC have jointly launched exclusive Windows 8 App that will run on Windows smartphones, Tablets as well as Windows 8 based PCs. It is interesting to…