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Mobile commerce is the new buzzword doing the rounds of mobile telephony and m-Commerce is on its way to become a significant part of the $1.5 billion mobile value-added services (m-VAS) industry in India.
It’s a fresh lease of life for the m-VAS sector, which till now was hugely dependant on music and content-based downloads. The [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided to impose a fine on mobile operators in case subscribers listed on the National Do Not Call (NDNC) registry continue to get calls from telemarketers.
The move comes after subscribers complained that they were receiving unwanted calls from telemarketing companies despite having put their number of the [...]

Samsung has announced the launch of five new mobile phones in India. Further, the company appointed Bollywood star Aamir Khan to be the brand ambassador for Samsung handsets in the country.

The new range of mobile phones is sleek and stylish and is being targeted at consumers across the multimedia (imaging and music), business and lifestyle [...]

As a part of its new brand positioning exercise that is aimed at doubling its market share, Samsung Telecommunications India (STI) has roped in film actor Aamir Khan to endorse its mobile phones.
The company has announced a new tagline -”Next is What?” being used in all its communication material along with the launch of five [...]

Initially started as a normal website www.indianblooddonors.com offering blood donors and recipient a place to exchange blood, a new service has been added to this website. Thanks to a newly activated service run by Nagpur based Khushroo Poacha, getting a Unit of blood is just an SMS Away.
As internet reach is not [...]

“India’s mobile television market will be worth $360 million by the end of this year,” says a report by Springboard Research, a Singapore-based IT market research firm. Courtesy mobile TV, users can view regular television programs on mobile phones and other mobile devices. It marries two dominant consumption trends of entertainment and mobile telephony in [...]

“The security agencies are saying that we should have access to data that are being encrypted by services like BlackBerry on mobile phones and then decrypted when the phone reaches its nominated destination,” the source added. RIM does not, or has not been asked, to do this in any other country but [...]

With the announcement of iPhone SDK, there’s every sign of a promising future for Apple. As it turns out, Electronic Arts (EA) announced “the first 3rd party game for the iPhone“. Spore, an already famous arcade game, will now be available for the iPhone.
However, it will not be until September that anyone will get to [...]

In an attempt to offset their disadvantage of having just 4 branches in India, Barclays Bank has launched a mobile banking service that will enable customers to make banking transactions from their phone, irrespective of its make.
The service is menu-based and the first one in the country to be on the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data [...]

Virgin Mobile’s launch has hit a regulatory hurdle, reports CNBC-TV18. It seems that the Department of Telecom has issued a notice to Virgin’s JV partner Tata Teleservices, asking for details on the terms of the agreement between the two companies, to check whether Virgin Mobile India is an MVNO or not.
Virgin has been asked [...]