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Tencent’s Social Messaging Mobile App WeChat launches in India
Tencent, a Chinese Internet company has launched it popular cross-platform mobile Social Messaging App – WeChat – in India. They have collaborated with ibibo (in which they have a minority stake) to bring WeChat in India. WeChat Mobile…
Mobile usage in Agriculture & Healthcare Sector in India [Report]
World Bank recently published a report titled Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile which looks at how mobile phones and apps are changing the lives of people across the world and in India. In this post, we…
5 ways BlackBerry can save itself from the Damocles’ Sword
The writing on the wall has been the same for over 3 years now. The days of RIM and Blackberry seem numbered and there’s hardly anyone who seem to protest even diplomatically. Optimism may soon have a unit of measurement in number of RIM…
Indian Mobile VAS Market to reach INR 33,280 Cr. by 2013
It is clear from the lackluster Mobile subscriber growth numbers that it has hit a ceiling. Although, the rural mobile subscriber numbers are still showing decent pace of growth, urban subscriber numbers have more or less reached the limit.…
Indian Mobile phone Sales: 50 mln units, 90% are sub Rs. 5k range
Cyber Media Research yesterday released their Mobile Handsets Market Review giving insights on the mobile handset sales in India for the first quarter of 2012. The report finds that 90% of all the mobile handsets sold in India are priced at…
Truecaller Reverse Lookup: Useful or Outright privacy breach?
If you are not aware, TrueCaller is an app for iOS, Android, Windows and Symbian based mobile phones. Developed by a Swedish company called True Software Scandinavia AB, TrueCaller is a reverse lookup App which also serves as a caller ID…
3G Data Rate Comparison: Airtel vs Vodafone vs Idea vs Reliance
Update: We have published a new article comparing the 3G Data plans of various mobile operators for 2014.
In the last few months, mobile service providers in India have been aggressively slashing their 3G rates to get India Inc. craving…
Top of the line tablet with Sim Card for only Rs.2200…fraud?
The tablet prices are tumbling… Literally every second week, we hear a new cheap / budget tablet is launched with price tag ranging from Rs. 4k to Rs. 8k.
Currently, the cheapest tablet in the market – Ubislate (the commercial version of…
Adaptxt – Android Keyboard with 3 Indian languages including “Hinglish”
KeyPoint Technologies, a India & UK based company has recently launched Adaptxt, an android keyboard app which supports over 50 languages. Currently in Beta Version 0.9, adaptxt has addons for 3 Indian languages – Hindi, Marathi and…
The Mobile Platform Ecosystem [Infographic]
Did you know that in last decade alone there have been nearly 30 mobile platforms that took birth and died as well? Visionmobile, a leading market analysis and strategy firm, has created a infographic that gives you a great low-down on the…
71 Mln Indians use Dual / Multi-Sim [Nielsen]
Nielsen yesterday released a survey - The Rise of Multi-SIM users: Customers shifting to dual SIM phones to have effective control over costs – which pointed out the growing trend of using more than one sim card in India. It also…
Are Online retailers really going Mobile? [Infographic]
Most online retailers already have or currently are in process of creating mobile apps for their storefronts given the explosive growth of Smartphones across the world. It is estimated that very soon, India will have more people access…
Airtel 3G Data Rates slashed for Prepaid/Postpaid customers!
Airtel today announced significant reduction in their 3G data tariffs, much to the delight of Airtel subscribers. As per the press release sent to us Airtel has also launched additional data usage plans “Smartbytes” for postpaid 3G data…
Global Mobile Handset Market 2012: Mobile Sales Decline, Smartphones Surge
A study by IT research and advisory firm Gartner pointed out that global sales of mobile phones decreased 2% in Q1 2012 for the first time after a similar trend back in the Q2 2009. Leading mobile manufacturer Samsung topped mobile phone…
India’s Mobile Banking Adoption highest in World!
Mobile Banking has really caught up in India – according to recently conducted survey by ACI Worldwide, 76% of Indian mobile respondents used their mobiles for banking in last 6 months. This percentage is highest across the world.…
Most Popular Gadget Brands in India [eBay report]
Ebay yesterday released “Battle of the Gadget” Rankings for the most popular gadget models & brands based on the transactions that happened on ebay between Jan 1st 2012 to March 31st 2012. The rankings showcases popular gadgets &…
Spice M5600 – Mobile Handset offering live TV without data connection!
S Mobility, the company behind Spice brand have launched a mobile phone which has ability to receive analogue TV signals. The mobile handset called Spice FLO TV M-5600 allows users to watch free to Air Channels live. The concept of…
Paymate’s PayPOS : India’s first Mobile app to Accept Card payments!
Paymate, one of the leading company in India for mobile payments has launched PayPOS, a mobile app that converts your mobile phone into a card processing terminal and allows merchants to accept credit card payments on the move. India…
Airtel launches 4G in Bangalore
Bangalore has become the 2nd city in India to have access to 4G LTE technology. After launch of 4G in Kolkata a few weeks back, Airtel has gone ahead and launched cutting-edge 4G LTE technology in IT hub of India, Bengaluru. 4G services are…
Why Samsung Galaxy S3 will revolutionize Android’s battle for Supremacy?
Smart phone enthusiasts, journalists, geeks and gadget freaks spent the whole of yesterday night tweeting, blogging and sharing about just one event. The launch of Samsung Galaxy S3 on May 3rd, 2012 at 7pm, GMT was a momentous event in…