http://www.mobilepundit.com Living through the Indian Mobile Revolution Mon, 26 May 2008 04:49:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The May event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Enterprise VoIP” and will be held on May 26th, 2008. Topic: Enterprise VoIP In this session, we will learn how to setup a VoIP solution for your company using the open source telephony engine Asterisk. This is the second event in the Asterisk ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/05/26/mobile-monday-may-enterprise-voip/ Sometimes introduction of a few pieces of detail makes you look at something you know - in a completely new way! Last month’s MoMo session changed the way I saw the Voice-based VAS opportunity. The April event of Mobile Monday Mumbai was on the topic “Voice-based VAS”, in which we ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/05/19/how-to-start-a-voicesite-with-rs-1-lakh/ The April event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Voice-based VAS” and will be held on April 28th, 2008. Voice portals are the voice equivalent of Web Portals, giving access to content and information through spoken commands (speech-recognition) and touch tones by using IVRS. Voice portals are extending the reach ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/04/27/mobile-monday-april-voice-based-vas/ Continuing the series on Mobile Payments and Commerce from last month, the March event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Wireless Commerce” and will be held on March 31st, 2008. Thanks to PayMate for sponsoring the event and supporting the community. Topic: Wireles Commerce Agenda: Akshay Sharma, AVP, Marketing & Brand Development, PayMate ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/03/30/mobile-monday-march-wireless-commerce/ The Indian budget for 2008-09 was expected to rationalise the taxes and duties applicable on the telecom sector. But the industry is dissatisfied with the proposals. Business paper Mint, has a sectoral analysis of telecom. Proposals: Customs duty on project imports attracting 7.5% proposed to be reduced to 5%; Customs duty ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/03/01/lacklustre-budget-for-telecom-industry/ The February event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Mobile Payments” and will be held on February 25th, 2008. Thanks to mChek for sponsoring the event and supporting the community. Topic: Mobile Payments Agenda: Sanjay Swami, CEO, mChek Vivek Gawri, AVP Mobility, MakeMyTrip Q&A Group Discussion Dinner When: Monday, 25th January 6.30pm - 9.30pm Where: Grapeviine Club Peninsula, Peninsula Corporate Park, GR Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/02/20/mobile-monday-february-mobile-payments/ Business Standard has an article on Netcore’s MyToday SMS service. MyToday offers 20+ SMS channels on various topics like News, Sensex, Cricket, Jokes, Horoscope and Bollywood free-of-cost to subscribers. A user needs to subscribe to the service by sending an SMS to a pre-designated number (9845398453) with the text START followed by ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/02/03/mytoday-sms-dailies-have-25-million-subscribers/ The January event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Opportunities in Proximity Marketing through Bluetooth” and will be held on January 21st, 2008. Thanks to TELiBrahma for sponsoring the event and supporting the community. Topic: Opportunities in Proximity Marketing through Bluetooth Bluetooth Marketing is a way of allowing users to interact with ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/01/17/momo-january-opportunities-in-proximity-marketing-through-bluetooth/ Aditya Mishra of TCS has written an event summary of MoMo Mumbai’s December event in the Mint newspaper. First, rural does not indicate poor. Service providers found mobile users in rural areas willing to pay good money, if offered the right services. However, local content would be key to growing the ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2008/01/03/event-report-momo-mumbai-december/ A research report “Future of Mobile Value Added services in India” done by Stanford University graduate student Mohit Gundecha and Prof. Tom Kosnik in association with BDA is available for free download. Its a must download for anyone interested in the Indian Mobile VAS space. Was good to interact with Mohit ... http://www.mobilepundit.com/2007/12/13/report-future-of-mobile-vas-in-india/