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With the Reserve Bank issuing draft guidelines for mobile banking, at least three leading public sector banks are getting ready to roll out full-banking services via cell phones in the coming few weeks.
Country’s largest lender State Bank India said it is in the final stages of its M-Banking roll-out and has scheduled its launch in [...]

Vodafone and Airtel started pre-registering customers for the iPhone 3G this week, and ever since, offices and blogs have been abuzz with discussions on what Apple’s much-awaited product will be priced at.
Many think it will be just a shade over Rs 8,000 — the rupee equivalent of the price in the US, which is $199. [...]

MetroMela.com, India’s first multi-modal, multi-location Local Information Services Company that connects the city’s merchants with consumers today announced SMS Alerts and Recommendations service. This service allows all MetroMela users to receive instant and up to date information of over 1,600 deals, discounts, sale alerts and promotions in local stores across seven cities.
In addition, it [...]

Nokia has announced that it is taking up several initiatives as part of its strategy to address India’s rural market, which is seen as the next big opportunity for mobile service providers and handset makers.
The company’s strategy includes financing options to reduce up front costs for ownership of mobile phones in cost-sensitive rural markets. The [...]

In one of the biggest deals in the Indian telecom sector, Aditya Birla group’s Idea Cellular on Wednesday said it would acquire BK Modi’s Spice Communications to strengthen its position in the growing telecom market. The deal consists of four related, but distinct transactions.
To begin with, Idea will acquire the Modis’ 40.8% stake in Spice. [...]

Here comes the news that would surely give all the iPhone enthusiasts huge adrenaline rush. Yeah, as the headlines suggest, Vodafone has, today, opened up registrations for the brand new iPhone 3G.
Although the phone hasn’t been officially launched in India as yet nor has any date been officially announced, the very fact [...]

Taiwan-based firm, ASUSTek Computer Incorporated (ASUS) announced the launch of ASUS P320 PDA phone in India which operates on Microsoft Windows® Mobile 6.1™ Professional platform, has GPS navigation features, EDGE/GPRS and Wi-Fi service, Bluetooth, USB to name a few.
RSS feature is also added on to the phone to ease mobile browsing experience through the phone. [...]

Following the huge success of Amitabh Bachchan’s blog site which has fast become the most popular celebrity blog among users today, Bigadda has introduced MoBlog exclusively for the Big B.
Considering that he blogs once or twice everyday, with MoBlog he can now keep his fans updated on his activity by the minute. He can micro-blog [...]

UK-based Affle has said its flagship product SMS2.0, which offers an advertising platform for mobile phone users, has attracted about six lakh users in India and is getting one lakh new users a month thanks to its exclusive partnership with Airtel.
Affle had launched its SMS2.0 application in India in January 2008. The service is currently [...]

US-based handset manufacturer Motorola has joined hands with digital imaging solution provider Kodak to launch a new line of camera phones, which will hit the market this year.
The company unveiled the first phone of the series, MOTOZINE ZN5, a five-megapixel cameraphone with built-in image correction, here today. Motorola has entered into a ten-year agreement with [...]