Movie tickets now on the mobile

Gurgaon-based ConvergeLabs has launched m-ticketing designed for Deep Multiplex in Gujarat. The ticket will be sent as a bar-code on the mobile, which will allow entry on a quick swipe through a scanner installed in the multiplex.
The user has to get a M-PIN, a unique pin number that will authorise mobile payments, by registering once [...]

Reliance Info bets on localized content

Reliance Infocomm sees a lot of growth in providing local content and support. The company is working at trying to provide multi lingual support to address localization. It currently provides support in four Indian languages and plans to further increase this number.
Reliance Info also has a regional focus of providing local language content. It currently [...]

Nortel’s outlook on 3G in India

Excerpts from an interview in CIOL with Malur Narayan, Director, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks.
Will the operators migrate to 3G service provision with their existing vendors?
3G is fundamentally a different technology. So the markets are wide open. For example, in the Europe, we were not with many operators of GSM. But a lot of them when [...]

Tegic’s Hindi T9 dictionary

AOL owned Tegic Communications has announced an enhanced version of the T9 predictive text input software in Hindi.
In one of my recent posts on vernacular SMS in India, I had expressed concerns on the difficulty in learning to SMS in Indian languages compared to English; But having Indian language T9 dictionary on the phones would [...]

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