The mobile media consumption has grown to a proportion where now it has surpassed the amount of time spent by consumers watching TV. InMobi’s first Mobile Media Consumption report states that consumers spend 27% of their media time on mobile, compared to 22% on TV. One of the key
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First the 2G, then 3G and now its time for another high octane drama of 4G spectrum Auction. The 2G spectrum was sold very cheaply (and now licenses getting scrapped). 3G auction was bumper which raked in 70k crore rupees for Indian government. Now, its time for 4G auctions
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Looks like BSNL is taking the limelight off Aakash – They recently announced launch of 3 low cost tablets – The lowest one starting at just Rs. 3250/-. Although it is Rs. 1000 higher than Aakash, people seem to have mopped it up in big numbers. According to the
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TRAI has taken a serious cognizance to the fact that very high number of MNP port-out requests are being rejected by Telecom Operators in India. In interest of mobile consumers TRAI has now come out with a official directive to not reject a porting request under any circumstances except
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Samsung is one of the largest mobile manufacturers for the Android OS and the Windows OS. Both these OSes have strong ecosystems which sustain and enhance their growth. Samsung however is still going ahead with its Bada OS, and has recently launched three power packed Bada OS smartphones; Samsung
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The 2nd largest private bank in India today announced the launch of its mobile payment service that allows its customers to make payments through their mobile phones using their debit / credit card registered with the bank. Movida, a mobile payment joint venture between Monitise and Visa, will provide
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In last few days there has been a talk about Datawind being the shown the door – Most of the online media sites covered this story. We also wrote about it citing NDTV & Livemint articles. However, the reality seems to be quite different. We have learnt from reliable
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After nearly 2 years, Blackberry has finally agreed to setup its server in Mumbai, India. This controversy has had quite a effect on Blackberry’s business in India. According to the latest report by convergence catalyst, Blackberry marginally lost its market share in smartphone category. According to the news,
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It’s only natural that when foreign nationals visit India either for business or for leisure, they’re going to arm themselves with utility oriented information that they need to travel within the country. This would include apps for finding taxis in India, maps of India, metro train apps, ATM locators,
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Year 2012 seems to have started with a change of order of sorts among the top mobile companies in the world and India. Apple had briefly handed over the leaders’ podium to Samsung in the global scenario. Closer home it is now turn of Nokia to hand over the
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