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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." - Mitchell Kapor If this quote has made you laugh, think twice about it. What would we do without technology in our daily lives? We're so used to…

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: VERSIONs." - Dave Barry Now, this rings really true in hindsight, doesn’t it? For a second, imagine how many versions you must…

Indiaplaza is allowing pre-orders for new range of Kindle’s - Namely Touch & Fire tablet. The new family of Kindles which were announced by Amazon in September are going on sale in November in the US. Indiaplaza is trying to offer the…

Here is a quick wrap-up of some of the buzzing posts of last week that were published on trak.in & TGF. Close to the heels of Indian Railways going mobile with their e-tickets, there may be a pleasant news for air travellers as well,…

Here is the first news that has come out - The price of the MHRD’s Aakash Tablet is going to be Rs. 2276 and it will be available in retail. It was previously thought that it will only be available to students. But that’s not the case, it…

I had to share these stats about trak.in for quite some time now, especially because we feature so many external Mobile usage related reports showing popular mobile devices and their OSes - however, one thing I have found with those reports…

How many tablets are sold in India? The answer largely varies. There could be anywhere between 1 lakh tablets to half a million tablets, though half a million seems a little far fetched. We can never get the exact sales figures, but we…

Android has gone from strength to strength over last 2 years and now accounts for 54 percent of entire Global Smartphone Market Share. That’s really a huge achievement for a Mobile OS, especially because it is also the youngest of the lot.…

Looks like this time around Pesky Calls & SMS issues will finally come to an end - However, there is a flip side to this. Customers may end up loosing some very genuine and important SMS notifications and calls as well. Since last…

The state run Telecom Operator - BSNL - also has now joined the “app store” bandwagon. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) yesterday officially announced the launch of its own mobile applications store – BSNL Apps Store. So, going forward…

Update: Apparently, it looks like it is a hoax, and not the reality - Here is a post explaining the same (It is a translated page, so English will be a bit wonky) Looks like there is no stopping Google when it comes to entering a new…

Tata DOCOMO has always been in the forefront of innovation - They have had many firsts to their name till now. According to latest press release sent to us Tata DOCOMO has now announced the launch of a unique VAS service called Video…

LG Optimus Pro and Motorola Fire are two Android 2.3 powered phones released in the last two days. The phones share similar launch dates and whole lot of other things too. Both the phones have the same form factor of touch + type with a 2.8…

While you may be enjoying free incoming calls on your BSNL land line network, the state-run service provider actually charges other private operators for termination of mobile calls on their network. Mobile termination and telecom carrier…

So the trend continues - This is 5th straight month when Mobile subscriptions have fallen - and pretty sharp fall at that. I have covering mobile subscriber addition data since 2007, and this must be probably lowest that I have witnessed.…

We have seen close to 50 tablet launches in India, and I see that one after the other seems to fail on at least one thing or the other. Though we provide commentary on tablets which these companies work hard to bring to market, it is sad to…

Indian mobile handset market is expected to grow at 25% by volume in 2011. Of which, smartphones will be one of the hottest growth category comprising 6% of the shipments. 2.5 million smartphones were shipped to India in 2009 and 6 million…

Disclaimer: This post is essentially to let Tata Indicom know that they have serious security hole in their website. They need to get in touch with us urgently, so we can make them aware of what this security flaw is. Just came to know…

India probably has the highest volume of SMS exchange through-out the world, except maybe China - Millions of SMSes are sent and received on daily basis, yet till today mobile subscribers do not have facility to send and receive smses in…

Tablet is still a recent phenomenon in India. It all started with Olivepad which was later followed by the launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPad. Tablet hasn’t reached the mass market product status and the entry of Reliance and Airtel…