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Yahoo! thinks it’s a cool feature to provide online backup for SMS. However, one can easily store upto 400 messages on Nokia 6600 and other such handsets. The SMS churn rate and the rate at which new SMSs are created, is so high that I have hardly seen anyone backing them upContinue Reading

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Mobile operators In India continued to add subscribers in the third quarter(Sept-2006) as if their is no tomorrow, which has made India the fastest growing mobile market in the world. Bharti Airtel Ltd, continues to be the single largest Mobile service provider in India with 26,267,593 subscribers representing 28% ofContinue Reading

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Company: MingleBox Communications. Co-ordinates:12.58N, 77.35E. huh!!! It’s Bangalore, India What is MingleBox ? A dedicated social networking platform for Indians only. Though still in Alpha, the site is fully functional with Blogs, Photos, Groups and Campus features. The company plans to mature as a next generation media company making the best use of technology. MingleContinue Reading

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Till date, Value Added Services on mobiles comprised of music, wallpapers, ringtones, messaging(SMS, MMS,etc.). Not anymore. State owned BSNL will go live with different Value Added Services like, Location Based Services, Mobile Advertising and Mobile Dating, Yeh! you heard that right 🙂 Late May, we had this prediction that different cellcos will roll out value addedContinue Reading

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Sedo – the domain name market place for buying, selling and parking domains listed InterActive Corp(Nasdaq IACI) owned MyWay.com domain for sale. Check this Sedo link here. Our associate first noticed it in a newsletter sent by Sedo.com. Sedo Newsletter :: October ’06 :: New Tactics for Combating Click Fraud (CheckContinue Reading

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American telecom giant Motorola and Chinese gear manufacturer – ZTE have been disqualified from BSNL’s mega $5 Billion 3G GSM tender. Motorola and ZTE failed to meet the stringent technical norms. The vendors now in race are all the European telcos, Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens. Part of the tender($1 Billion) hasContinue Reading

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According to the latest press release by TRAI,[PDF] broadband subscribers in India are at 1.7 Million at the end of Auguest-2006. TRAI has been aggressively reviewing the broadband policy to ensure higher penetration and growth rates in the next 3 years. Today it issued guidelines, for acceptable Quality of Service,Continue Reading

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Google’s Orkut is currently the number one social networking site in India. Who said so ? I am looking at the Alexa rankings for India and it ranks even higher than Google.Co.In 🙂 The Social Networking wave is now moving towards east and MTV’s Meet or Delete, a show toContinue Reading