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Ebook Readers Wars – Kobo Takes On Mighty Amazon In India!
eBook publishing is one of the hottest industries right now, with a market of over $300 million globally, it is growing at an impressive rate of 40% year on year. Last year, 20% of all books sold all over the world was in eBook format, and…
Tata Sky Brings 50 TV Channels Live On The Mobile
Tata Sky has always been a pioneer in the DTH domain, whether it is giving the choose-and-view option to let customers choose what channels they want to watch or the recording facility so that consumers can record ‘live’ TV and watch it…
Vodafone India Launches AppStar Contest For App Developers
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…
New Nexus 7 2013 To Arrive In India Soon!
Google has updated their Nexus 7 India website and have marked it as “Coming Soon”. This is a sure-shot indication that the new version of Nexus 7 that was launched in US on 26th July on this year will soon be arriving in India.…
Airtel & Reliance To Bring iPhone 5S & 5C In India on Nov 1
Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, today announced that it will offer recently launched iPhone 5S and colorful iPhone 5C in India on November 1st, 2013. This news comes at the back of Apple’s announcement that it will be launching…
TRAI Measures Bring Mobile VAS Activations Dwn By 60%!
TRAI, in the month of July of this year came up with some strict measures and guidelines on how telecom operators activate and de-activate value added services to their mobile customers. This was done because telecom operators sometimes…
Indian Mobile Subscriber Data: 874.88 mln Total Subscribers, 731.4 Mln Active [July 2013 Stats]
In the month of July India added 1.52 million new subscribers taking the total tally to 874.88 million. This is the 3rd consecutive month where the mobile subscriber growth has registered a rise. In last 1 year before July 2013, 9 out of 12…
Trak.in AppWire: Amazon.in, Bill Check, MapmyIndia Explore, eSwaraj, Zypher & YeTheka!
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…
Samsung Drops Their Galaxy S3 & S4 Mini Pricing
It is sweet to hear that Samsung has dropped the price for two of its upper-mid range smartphones. Samsung Galaxy S3, which was last year’s flagship model, has seen a price cut of Rs. 4000 and is now loitering at Rs. 25400. On Flipkart, the…
Runner Mobile Games: The New Mantra For Movies?
Anyone who has ever had a phone knows the importance of games. Be it a simple Nokia with a snake-game on it or today’s high definition games that we find churning out the last juice of performance from our Quad-core phones.
They are one…
Line Messaging App Registers Fastest User Growth In India, Reaches 10 Mln Users
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…
Trak.in AppWire: My Vodafone, Scandid By ShoppingWish, Coke Studio, Big Toss Cricket & Twine.Me
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…
Death Of SMS: Indians Are Now Sending Only 2 SMS Per Day!
Two years ago, Indians used to send 9 SMS per day but in the month of July, 2013, only 2 SMS per day were sent!
In a recent survey by Nielson, India, it was revealed that mobile chat applications such as Nimbuzz and WhatsApp have…
TRAI Ends “Roaming” Cash Cow Of Telcos In 6 Months
The Department of Telecommunications is one Dept affected the most with the rapid change in technology and consumer habits. With 22 circles, moving across circles depletes your mobile balance or raises your bills for sure. So in 2012, it…
Apple iPhone 5S 16GB Priced At 54,999/- In India
In the last few days there have been news that die-hard iPhone fans are picking up iPhone 5S for as high as 1 Lakh rupee from the grey market. If you visit ebay, the general pricing ranges around 70,000 for a iPhone 5S. The 64GB version is…
Sygic Brings Free Offline 3D Navigation In India For Android Devices
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.…
Fake BBM Apps Fool Thousands Of Android Users!
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…
Malware Becoming A Real Threat For Android Devices In India
With the advent of smartphones, the threats which computers used to face earlier are being passed down to smartphones as well. With the PC market shrinking and the tablets-smartphones growing by leaps and bounds every year, programmers are…
Opera Partners with 7 Indian Smartphones Vendors To Increase Mobile Browser Market Share
Few people know Opera in the desktop space but it’s opposite when it comes to Opera on mobile. Most of the mobile users know it, and have also used it.
While it comes to the web, Opera is the fourth most popular browser (after Chrome,…
Blackberry Messenger Coming To Android & iOS This Weekend
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…