Nokia has recently announced the release of its latest smartphone N8 hosting its improved Symbian 3 software. The phone will be available globally, including India, from September onward and is priced at 370 euros (Rs 21,019). While this announcement was much awaited, many analysts have met it with an admonition that it maybe a little too late
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Smartphone Wars: Nokia Stumbles
A very interesting survey has been recently completed by Indiabiz News & Research Services (INRS). The survey was conducted with the aim of tracking the emerging social media behavior in the youth. 350 respondents were questioned across the 4 Indian metropolitans Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.
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30% Indians Access Social Media Via Mobiles: Social Media Survey
Ever uploaded a video on Youtube and realized you had made some mistakes and wanted to edit out a few things? Earlier you had to edit it using the basic features of software like Windows Movie Maker and re upload it. But fret no more! Youtube has introduced an online video editor which allows you to do just that and something more
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Now Edit Youtube Videos Online Via Online Editor
Facebook has added a new feature to its already existing and extremely popular website. It has extended its extremely popular, albeit somewhat controversial ‘ like ‘ feature to comments too. The ability to comment on news feed was introduced in 2008, with the like feature introduced a year later
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Facebook Rolls Out Like Comment Feature
vRock Mobile, a mobile value added services focused on cricket, has acquired mobile rights for the Asia Cup Cricket Tournament in agreement with Nimbus Sports (a sports management firm) via Offspin Sports & Entertainment. vRock has the rights to Asia Cup for the next two seasons, till 2014
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vRock Mobile Brings Asia Cricket Cup To Cellphones
The unveiling of the iPhone 4 raised the hopes many Apple fanboys and non fanboys alike. But Apple’s new Mobile Advertising Rules raised many eyebrows. Seemingly pointed at keeping competitors(read : Google and Admob) out of the Mobile Advertising race on iOS devices, the new rules are facing heavy criticism and some additional interest from the FTC.
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Apple Under The FTC’s Scanner
In a new move to increase its user base, Skype has showcased its new software which will allow users to make video calls from their mobile phones to web enabled TV sets or computers at CommunicAsia, a technology tradeshow in Singapore. Currently this service will be available only on Symbian phones. Skype has tied up with Sony Ericsson to enable the VoIP software on the Satio, Vivaz, and Vivaz pro devices
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Skype Calls for ‘Ubiquity’: Mobile Video Calls
Flipkart the online books retail portal recently forayed beyond books by adding CDs & DVDs of Movies, Music and Games to its offering. This expansion comes at a time when VCCircle reports a funding of 10 million dollars for Flipkart. The funding confirmation apparently took place a few months back
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FlipKart Raises 10 Million $ From Tiger Global – Expands Beyond Books
YouTube Play is a joint initiative by You Tube and the Guggenheim museum which aims to recognize You Tube’s transformative influence on the online video medium. In collaboration with HP, YouTube has created this global event to recognize the world’s top 20 most creative videos featured on YouTube
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YouTube Play: You Tube and Guggenheim Search For World’s Most Creative Videos
The unexpected re-entry of Reliance Industries into telecom with its recent acquisition of Infotel Broadband Ltd. has raised high expectations for smoothing broadband penetration in India. RIL , through its acquisition has managed to grab pan-India license for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum just days after the high-drama auction process ended
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RIL To Step Up Broadband Penetration – Tikona Readies Entry Into 100 Cities
For all the gaming enthusiasts, here is your chance you stop and stare at the microsoft’s much talked about and much anticipated hands-free games controller, for its Xbox 360, now known as Kinect. This device was originally named Project Natal and was showcased in Los Angeles this Sunday night. The company had mentioned this product a year back and since then there has been huge anticipating about its features and release. Natal’s body gesturing system relies on cameras, sensors, microphones and software to understand voice commands and capture the motions of a player as they jump, kick or wave
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Microsoft’s Kinect For XBox 360
Millions and millions of crazy football fans across the world have joined in on the excitement of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And multifarious services have risen up around the event to cash in on its popularity as fans shell out big bucks to maximize their fun.
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Fifa Fever Spreads Across Web, Mobile & Sms
India finally closed the long and exciting Broadband Wireless Auction on Friday. After 16 days and 117 rounds of auction in which 11 companies fought tooth and nail for a share of the ‘most happening ‘ spectrum, the Government has accrued Rs 38,543 crore from selling three slots of airwaves. The total revenue from the 3G auction and the BWA amounts to a whooping Rs 1.06 lakh crore
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Broadband Wireless Auctions Close – Brings Mukesh Ambani Into Telecom Business
I am thinking of trying AIRTEL but want know are the plans showing on AIRTEL mumbai plans already double or will double in JUNE according to the report that AIRTEL is doubling all plans in JUNE? wanting to take 2mbps unlimited plan in MUMBAI ALSO answer the following questions: uploads speeds in 2mbps?
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Are the current Airtel plans already doubled or will double in JUNE?
According to numbers released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), close to 11.2 Million new (GSM Only) mobile subscribers were added, excluding Reliance as their numbers were not published. The pace of growth has slowed after 3-4 months of record subscriber additions. In the month of March close to 14 million GSM subscribers were added whereas the figure has fallen to 11.2 Million this month
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Airtel tops mobile subscriber addition in April – Adds 3 Million .
The All India Mobile subscriber base of April month is unveiled by Cellular Operators Association of India that showed a plausible growth in subscriber addition. The GSM subscriber base for the month of April is 11.8 million subscribers ie relatively low when compared to the 14 million subscriber addition in the month of March.
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Indian GSM Subscriber base hits 433 million
Komli Media launches video pre-roll offering for brand advertisers. Komli had previously launched an in-banner video ad format, but with the launch of video pre-roll, Komli is now targeting the fast growing video pre-roll advertising market. Komli’s new ad format would be available across publishers like mid-day.com, planetradiocity.com, mypopcorn.com, zeenews.com, santabanta.com amongst others. According to eMarketer video advertising grew by 40% in 2009 and is expected to keep up the momentum
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Komli Media Launches Pre-Roll Video Ads – Do Pre Roll Ads Irritate You?
It seems the varied opinions and freedom of speech on social media isn’t going down too well with the Pakistani regulators and legal system. How else would one explain the block on two top social media sites within a span of 2 days.
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Pakistan Calls War Against Social Media – Blocks Facebook, Youtube & Wikipedia
Google kick started its Google Input / Output conference yesterday ( 19th May) and the first day of Google I/O was very exciting. Day One has lot for developers and some interesting views and applications based on HTML 5. Lets take a look at what Google’s I/O Day 1 was all about : Google / Opera / Mozilla ( Mozilla has been a supporter of Ogg Theora ) and several other companies join hands to adopt an open Web video codec called ‘ WebM’ which is seen as a direct competitor to the ‘ Apple backed ‘ H.264 codec .
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Google I/O Day 1 : A Brief Summary
It seems Yahoo continues its focus on bringing great content ability on board for its readers. We had blogged about how they roped in mainline journalists for many of their online news properties. Now Yahoo has gone ahead and taken a step further in bringing in a host of freelance writers on board as well but this time via an acquisition
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Yahoo Increases Focus On Content – Buys Associated Content For 100 Mil $
Last financial year seems to have not gone down well with India’s largest online portal. Rediff.com has reported reported a net loss of $7.97 million for the year ended March 31, 2010. Though if you compare it to last year then it paints a picture that’s getting better as last year Rediff had netted a loss of $11.26 million
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Rediff FY09-10 Results: Revenues Decline 7.59 Mil $; Net Loss of 7.97 Mil $
If you are the kinds who hasn’t had enough of ploughing fields and being a don in the virtual world then this piece of news is just for you. Facebook and Zynga (the company that made us farmers through Farmville) have announced a five-year strategic relationship As per this strategic tie up one can expect to see more social gaming on Facebook and introduction of the Facebook Credits system in Zynga’s games.
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Facebook – Zynga Tie Up For 5 Years – Expect Social Gaming To Grow!
Auction for 3G licence ended Today with bids reaching Rs 16,751 crore which means that the total revenue for government is pegged at Rs 67,719 crore. We have expressed our concerns earlier on how this could mean a higher cost to be paid by the end subscriber for availing 3G services. Delhi vs Mumbai Battle The delhi vs Mumbai battle for the most valuable circle was finally won by Delhi even though Mumbai lead the race for most of the 34 days that the auction was ongoing.
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3G Auction Ends (Finally!) – Government Grosses 67,719 Crore!
India can be credited (in part) for the phenomenal growth in email services across the world. After all Hotmail which technically was the first hot email client that went viral across the web was started by an Indian in Sabeer Bhatia. Later it was acquired by Microsoft and since then it has become a part of a really large company which is slightly slow with innovative features
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Microsoft Announces New Improved Hotmail – Too Little Too Late?
We had blogged about the size zero facebook announcement and the fact that this would be useful in penetrating Indian markets which have a high mobile userbase. This is exactly what has happened with this latest announcement by Reliance Communications. RCom has announced that Facebook Zero shall be available to all its mobile subscribers for free! That means there will be no data charges charged to he users to access this site and go through ones facebook updates.
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RCom Gets You Facebook Access For Free!
Aircel the 36 million subscriber base strong telco has tied up with and ibibo.com to introduce Social Gaming to Mobile Customers in India. One of Ibibo’s online games called the “Great Indian Parking wars” is now made available on the Aircel Pocket Internet. Aircel plans to soon expand the catalogue of games in the future
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Aircel Brings Ibibo’s Social Games To Its Users
Well if you thought the auction of 3G would bring in cheap and super fast internet browsing in the years to come then you can be very disappointed. This is because the manner in which 3G auctions is played out the only person benefitting from the spectrum auction would be the government that will laugh its way to the bank. The 3G auction has reached unexpected overall numbers and bidding still continues in over 7 circles which have excessive bids.
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3G To Be Very Expensive Sirji!
The Google vs Microsoft battle is an old one. While Google rules the web Microsoft has ruled the desktop office software business for many a years. Since last 5 years though Google has made strides in what one calls cloud based office productivity products
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Cloudy Times Ahead: MS Office 2010 Takes To The Clouds Against Google
You live in India, when was the last time you went abroad for a holiday or a business trip. And how much money you spent on your international roaming calling rates. If you are using your Indian SIM you are definitely paying too much on receiving calls as..
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Airtel World Sim Review : Save on International Roaming and call charges
What fate did those investors meet who shunned the shares of the Infosys during 2007-08, at a time when the Rupee had inched higher around 40s against the Dollar on the back of robust inflows into the country? Infosys is currently quoting at all time highs even as Indian benchmark Sensex is still way off from its peak levels.
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Finance Friday: Why Investors Should Buy Bharti Airtel stock ?