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We have had more than a dozen social networks targeted @ various Indians. Ashish Baluda and his brother Manish have come up with a new network, which borrows the concept of networking, listing and reviews for your city. Ashish said, Opinions of reviewers are good but opinions from your “friends”Continue Reading
While BSNL is planning to use the WiMax network for its ambitious 50,000 kiosk project, Motorola is planning to make a comeback as wirless giant in the US. BSNL is a truly government organization with several layers of fat making it difficult to move briskly. BSNL has the largest networkContinue Reading
ibibo social network became the first network in India to offer free mobile to mobile chat to its members. Yes!!! you can call your friend in the network and he maybe located anywhere in India. What ibibo is essentially doing is connecting you and your friend for a brief mobile chatContinue Reading
There is a massive rush from different corners of corporate India to run mobile services. It all started with realty firm Parsvnath Developers, followed by Unitech and DLF. IndiaBulls, retail stock broking chain has also thrown its hat in the ring. Existing operators, HFCL and Spice who have slept over aContinue Reading
As web applications get more and more bandwidth intensive, Google can’t afford to sit quiet and dance to the tune of Telcos. Last week Om wrote about Google’s Trans-oceanic bandwidth needs. Latest reports suggest, Google is reportedly in talks with Reliance Communication’s Flag Telecom to lease 500Gb of dark fibre at around $100 million.Continue Reading
Is it under the inspiration of Indian Idol or Contest2Win ? I am unsure, but India Ka Hero for sure is a neat idea to let users exhibit their talent and let others choose the most talented. India Ka Hero has launched four contests and the prizes for each ofContinue Reading
TRAI has initiated a consultation paper [PDF] on how to accelerate the growth of broadband services in India. At the end of June-2007, there were 2.52 Million broadband subscribers in India. TRAI’s target for 2007 is 9 million and is is likely that we will not even touch the half way mark 🙂Continue Reading
Accelerated coverage into interiors of India helped mobile operators add more cellular subscribers in August-07. As usual, RCom doesn’t have its numbers yet[Ambani doesn’t want to be first here ?] and excluding it, GSM operators added 5.95 million subscribers in August-07 taking the total GSM subscriber base to 147 million. Bharti Airtel continuesContinue Reading
MobileNXT, one of the first Mobile phone retailers in the country has divested 35% stake in favour of the Network18 group. MobileNXT plans to utilize Network18’s content – ringtones, movies, web creatives as well as advertising on its network. They may also explore sales on HomeShop18. MobileNXT has opened justContinue Reading
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