Other Notable News & Articles

Interview with Dhruva Interactive CEO K Rajesh RaoHe puts the number of GPRS enabled handsets in India at 6 lakhs.
Hungama clocks 500,000 downloads a dayClaims CEO Neeraj Roy.
BSNL offers mobile for Rs100 pm to govt staffWaives registration and activation charges to mark its 5th year of operations.
BSNL asks staff to collect ADC from Tata Tele“Recover [...]

Jataayu bets on IM

Jataayu believes Mobile Instant Messaging coupled with Presence services may be a major revenue generator for operators. The company recently launched the beta version of its instant messaging and presence services (IMPS) platform, based on the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) IMPS ver1.2 specifications.
He believes that once the OMA standard comes into place, there will be [...]

China’s Bird to set up handset plant in India

According to Kin Ping Wong, Bird is targeting a 5% marketshare by 2007 and is in talks with Reliance Infocomm, Tata Tele, Airtel and Hutch for handset bundling. The company has tied up with Chennai-based Accel ICIM for all India after-sales service.
“We are evaluating the plan of setting up a manufacturing facility along with our [...]

Mobile magazine

Ajay Adiseshan, MD of Mumbai based Coruscant Tec claims that the company has been growing by 100 per cent a year.
It is digitising M F Husain’s paintings and magazines like Man’s World and Rave. Consumers can download music related content, both Indian as well as western, so that they not only get to listen to [...]