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In order to launch two new value added services called Friend Circle and vGenie for its GSM subscribers, Mobile Tribe, a premier provider of blended social networking, messaging and rich media solutions for mobile carriers has entered into a partnership relation with Virgin Mobile India.
Friend Circle is the first blended social networking application on mobile devices across the sub-continent on their GSM service.
Close to 60 per cent of mobile ad impressions are served on Nokia handsets, followed by Sony Ericsson users who comprise about 10 per cent of the total number.
These findings are extrapolated from a sample surveyed by AdMob, a USA-based mobile advertising network. AdMob Mobile Metrics Report is based on a study first carried out in August 2009 and repeated six months later in February this year.
The Handcase launched its mobile search system, called Gune. Gune is a system of meta-search, ie it searches the other websites and generates a single page of results, optimized for small screen phones and smartphones. The websites consulted by the Gune are: Google and Bing.
Tata Teleservices Limited, today launched a new value added service ‘Push 4 All Mail’, for all its Tata Indicom and Tata DOCOMO customers that will offer first of its kind personalised email service on SMS. ‘Push 4 All Mail’ will enable Indicom and DOCOMO customers to access their Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo emails on any type of handset via SMS.
Push 4 All Mail eliminates the need for expensive data plans or high-end phones to receive emails and rich attachments on the go at the same time customers will have to no longer need worry about device capability and email client installation on the handset.
Logix Microsystems Limited, India’s fastest growing Software Company in the Automotive Retail space, recently announced that its Carazoo division had launched “carazoo.mobi”, India’s First Mobile Portal for Automobiles (www.carazoo.mobi).
With 152 car models and 614 variants from 27 manufacturers onboard, Carazoo.mobi brings all the cars available in India to mobile visitors. Visitors will be able to check out new cars by make, model, variant and city, and browse exterior and interior images and available model colors, as well as features and specifications.
Trading in markets through mobile phones could soon become reality with final guidelines expected in the next few months, National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chief Executive Ravi Narain said today.
“We had discussions with the regulator on security and other issues. We are ready with the set-up,” said Narain.
NSE’s 15-20 per cent volumes came from internet trading and things could become more interesting once the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) allowed mobile trading, he added.
If you happen to be one of the few lucky people on the planet who happens to own a Nokia N900, this is to inform you that Mozilla, the same company who releases browsers for PC, has just pushed a Release Candidate of its mobile browser, the Fennec for the N900 and the N810.
The browser, which we talked about last week, is seeing its last stages of development and this Release candidate is just a precursor to its imminent launch. Fennec’s N900 avatar promises to make you “forget about the clunky, stripped-down mobile Web you’re used to”.
A problem in a mobile service station in Salt Lake caused a signal blackout, which effected 18 lakh BSNL mobile customers. The glitch disconnected these subscribers for more than six hours. Subscribers in Calcutta, barring some with prepaid connections, were not affected, according to The Telecgraph – India.
“There was a power problem in a major service station in Salt Lake as a result of which all connections in the West Bengal circle were disrupted,” said a senior BSNL official.
724 Solutions, a leading provider of next generation mobile data solutions that enable seamless access and communications in an IP-based world announced today the expansion of its relationship with Xoriant, a Product Engineering Services company focused on the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) market throughout India, to include 724’s Seamless Access solution for India and other Asia Pacific markets.
eBay India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based internet marketplace major eBay Inc, is planning to come up with a marketplace platform for mobile phones. The company is already in talks with telcos and handset vendors, and plans to roll out the venture once 3G services come into India.
This apart, eBay is also evaluating options to foray into newer services like second-hand car sales to consumers, ticket sales and shopping comparison services in India. The company plans to roll out its mobile platform and the online marketplace for sales of second-hand cars to consumers by 2010.
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