Month: October 2006
Diwali Online Shopping expected to touch Rs250 crores
Indian’s are choosing to shop and send gifts online rather than driving on pot-holed roads in city full of pollution like Bangalore. In a survey conducted by IAMAI, Indians are likely to shop goods worth Rs250 crores this Diwali. Last diwali(2005) the figure was Rs115 Crores an increase of 117%…
Mallika and Kareena SMSs can go Global this Quarter
Do you recall the sizzling Mallika Sherwat or Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur Lip L**king MMS that was in such a huge demand in the US ? Even though you had it on your cell phone in India, yet couldn’t send it to your friends abroad because of incompatibility with…
Time for Mobile Instant Messaging
It’s not Yahoo! or MSN Messenger, but SMS is the most popular communication medium for Millions of Indians today. To cash in on the Mobile boom, all the GSM mobile service providers in India have come together to build a Mobile Instant Messaging Platform. This will enable all the mobile…
Nokia NSeries music edition launch in November
After tasting the success of high end NSeries, Nokia is all set to launch enhanced version of its, NSeries – NSeries Music edition. The music editions of N70, N73 and N91 will be launched in India in November-2006. Nokia N70 Music Edition:In addition to the features that already exist in…
Mobile Operators Market Share – Sept-2006
The top 6 Mobile Service providers in India(GSM & CDMA) depending on the number of subscribers at the end of Sept-30-2006. 1. Bharti Airtel limited – 26,267,5932. BSNL – 20,536,253 (Excludes MTNL numbers for Mumbai and Delhi)3. Reliance Communications Ltd – 2,708,881(GSM) + CDMA individual breakup is not given and…
Web 2.0 Social networks in India
Web 2.0 is all about social networking in different forms. All of the recent mega deals involve Social Space be it the Google MySpace Advertisement deal or Google buying YouTube. However, in the Indian valley where the entire country has mere 1.7 Million broadband connections, localized social networks have come…
Idea Cellular Valuation climbs to $2.5 Billion
Aditya Birla group company, Idea Cellular Ltd today sold, 16% of its stake at $400 Million to Providence. This deal values Idea Cellular Limited at $2.5 Billion. Earlier this year in April, Tata’s exited Idea Cellular when the company was valued at $2.0 Billion. In July, Idea Celular announced that…
Nortel to conduct IPTV Trials
Canadian telecom, Nortel is planning to conduct IPTV trials in India. It has tied up with LG to manufacture its settop boxes. The company plans to use the services and networks of Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd and Reliance Communications Limited. However, Bharti has been totally silent over its IPTV launch. Reliance…