Bollywood’s phone problems

Phones are landing Bollywood stars in trouble. This week saw two controversies where phones played an enabling role – the Mallika Sherawat MMS case and the Salman Khan tapes. ToI talks of how such MMS clips benefit Cellcos and rants about the inadequacy of IT laws in the country. While it may be true that [...]

Phoney videos

Rashmi Bansal, Editor and Publisher of a youth magazine called JAM – Just Another Magazine blogs about how mobile phone technology can change the business of film-making. Nokia is airing a commercial which focuses on how mobile technologies can potentially change film-making. The url www.mobifilms.net appears at the bottom of the screen. Take a look [...]

Repair Culture, India

Jan Chipchase who works in user-research at Nokia blogs about India’s informal mobile phone repair culture. Many of these guys can strip and rebuild a mobile phone in minutes. How do these kind of services affect the mobile phone user experience? What happens when everyone has affordable access to these kind of services? Side-note: a [...]

BSNL invites $5bn bid for GSM equipment

Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is floating a tender for the world’s largest single procurement of GSM equipment, worth over $5 billion in the next two months. It is inviting bids for procuring GSM equipment of a total capacity of 60m lines, 40% more than India’s existing GSM subscriber base. The value of the total order [...]

Good Technology acquires JP Mobile

US based Good Technology has acquired the key technology assets and engineering talents of Hyderabad based JP Mobile. The acquisition will give Good Technology access to advanced server technologies that connects with a variety of back-ends, including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Novell GroupWise and IMAP, developed by JP Mobile. With this acquisition, Good Technologies [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Telekom Malaysia keen to enter Indian market Motorola opens Bangalore research center 2.57 million phone customers added in May TRAI to discuss Number Portability Reliance Info gives bonus talktime Qualcomm to create major BREW development hub in India

Brand-New-Chief for Reliance Info

Sanjay Behl has joined Reliance Infocomm as head of branding. Sanjay comes from Nokia, where he was head of marketing for India. Reporting to the MD, his responsibilities includes managing the brand, products, technology, retail and media.

GrapeCity software bags award

‘Talking Phrasebooks’ by GrapeCity India has bagged the Handango Champion Award for Best Industry Application for the Pocket PC for 2005. The software is a Windows-mobile application for the international traveler going to non-English speaking countries. India needs more such ISVs who understand the peculiarities of mobile phones and build applications around them. Unlike PCs, [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Belgian wireless data card maker Option to supply to Airtel MBT signs partnership agreement with ClarityAdd to Clippings ValueFirst launches short code services for enterprises Mobile management software provider mFormation enters Bangalore Jabra launches mobile headsets

Airtel Services

Among the GSM operators Airtel is taking the lead in launching popular data services. It had recently launched a mobile stock tracker application in association with the BSE. They are launching two more apps this month – Trak Ur Mate and Sudoku. Trak Ur Mate was launched as a Sim Tool kit application in 2002 [...]

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