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Alabot has announced its partnership with mobile-worx, a mobility solutions firm to launch Intelligent SMS Search in India. The service will be powered by a “bot” - a self directed intelligent agent, who understands natural human language and interacts with users using non syntax based data inputs.
This Intelligent SMS Search will enable users to search [...]

Stock feed, cricket scores and a slew of services will be accessible to subscribers, from iMobizo, the joint venture between Indiatimes and Mobio, the US-based mobile VAS major.
Times Internet and US-based mobile VAS provider Mobio on Tuesday announced the availability of iMobizo to mobile subscribers in India. Users will be able to access cricket or [...]

IMImobile, the global provider of value-added services to mobile telecoms operators and content owners, today announced that it has commenced pre-launch trials of its ‘Ad-Ring’ mobile advertisement platform. Ad-Ring is the industry’s first fully integrated mobile advertising platform. It provides an environment in which multi-format ad campaigns can be created and delivered to consumers via [...]

Telecommunications value added services provider OnMobile Global will enter the capital market with an initial public offer of over 1.09 crore equity shares on January 24. The IPO of the company, which opens on January 24 and closes on January 29, has fixed the price band between Rs 425 and Rs 450 per equity share, [...]

In a bid to make mobile phones more affordable, the Ministry of Communications and IT is preparing a roadmap to lower the local tariff rates to 25 paise from the current Re 1.
This initiative is a step ahead of the ‘One India’ plan announced by the former telecom minister, Dayanidhi Maran.
According to sources in the [...]

Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets that offer useful features, range of colors or exchangeable covers for consumers in emerging markets. Nokia 2600 classic, which will retail for approximately 65 euros before applicable taxes or subsidies, has begun shipping, ramping up in all key markets during the first [...]

Blogging is a buzzword in India and Reliance Communications is therefore trying to cash in. They are aggressively marketing Reliance Mobile World, an SMS based application that allows customers to publish pictures, videos and text blogs on the Internet using any Reliance cell phone.
To set up a mobile blog, you need to send the text [...]

Indian conglomerate Spice will list its mobile services unit in May or June this year in Singapore and Bombay in an initial public offering (IPO) worth $100 million, its chief executive said on Monday.
Spice, which owns telecommunications firm Spice Communications and Spice Mobiles, is looking to list its mobile value-added services firm, Cellebrum, on the [...]

ICICI Bank, India’s second largest bank launched today iMobile, a unique mobile banking platform on mobile phones. iMobile is a breakthrough innovation in banking where practically all internet-banking transactions can now be simply done on mobiles phones.
Customers can now transfer funds to ICICI and Non ICICI Bank accounts just with the click of their [...]

Virgin Group plans to enter the Indian mobile phone market and will announce details of the new venture possibly within a month, group chairman Richard Branson said on Sunday.
While Branson did not comment on a possible tie-up with Tata Teleservices, he said: “It is true we are planning a mobile phone business and we hope [...]