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ET reports that Egyptian Telecom giant, Orascom Telecom Holdings is in talks with Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL) to take control of HTIL. Late last year, Orascom bought 19.3% stake in HTIL, giving it an indirect stake of 10% in Hutchison India and a board reprsesntation as well. This move byContinue Reading

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I had a chance to correspond with founders of burrp! a platform established with the goal to build highly localized online communities around local businesses and events. They have acquired the most comprehensive database of lifestyle-related local businesses in the country and their aim is to provide people a platform toContinue Reading

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Models at the Mobile Asia Expo 2006 underway in New Delhi pose with the world’s first touch screen PDA phone manufactured by iMate and powered by Windows Mobile. India’s Mobile phone industry has grown in value from $45 Million in 2001 to $4.5 Billion in 2006. During the same period, theContinue Reading

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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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Chances are you are a reader from outside India and maybe planning to visit India. Now this time you need not activate romaing on your mobile but instead Rent a SIM or Mobile or Both with Clay. Clay provides cellular phones by the day, week, month or year for use in overContinue Reading