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Country’s second largest real estate firm Unitech Ltd has appointed swiss investment banker UBS to look for a global partner to dilute the company’s 26 per cent stake in its telecom business.
Unitech Wireless, which has received pan-India telecom licences, today said it would launch operations in the first quarter of next year. [...]

India’s government is understood to have finished the plans to introduce limited mobile number portability in selected regions of the country from next year. The Economic Times newspaper says that the formal plans will be announced within the next few days by telecom’s minister, A Raja.
Under the plans, customers in the main metro circles and [...]

The attention-grabbing mobile gadget, MoPod, which took the UK, Europe and Japan by storm last year, is ready to be launched in India. HitPlay Devices, a Mumbai-based start-up gizmo company, will roll out the gadget next month, under a licence from the UK-based giftmaker, The Monster Factory.
MoPod comprises a glass capsule with a battery-powered light [...]

The small Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives has begun setting up a pioneering system which it hopes will make it one of the first countries whose citizens bank primarily using mobile phones.
All the country’s banks have been brought together under a single system to allow the islands’ residents to pay money in and out [...]

Samsung has launched much hyped mobile phone innov8 or i8510 in global market. It has eight mega pixel camera along with blink shot, smile shot and face recognition. The handset promises that with the help of innov8 one would be able to capture and store all the memories in style.
Launching the product Geesung Choi, President, [...]

A path-breaking joint venture (JV) between Bay Talkitec and Saimira Access Technologies will help film buffs abroad watch trailers of the forthcoming Rajnikanth starrer “Kuselan” on mobile phones. “Thanks to huge inventory of movie software of Saimira, our collaborative venture would help us corner a large segment of the Rs.84 billion value-added services (VAS) global [...]

If you find classroom teaching boring or computer sessions a little too tiring then it’s time to break the mould and switch over to learning on the go! Now, you can take lessons in maths, English and science and also do your training on your mobile and PDAs. And what more, you can also take [...]

Ticketvala.com, an Internet-based bus ticket booking platform, has launched mTicket – the Mobile Bus Ticket solution. Customers can now opt to pay and receive bus tickets on their mobile phones. This is a part of the company’s endeavour to use the telecom revolution optimally and cater to the anytime, anywhere needs of today’s mobile consumers.
The [...]

Clickindia.com, one of India’s leading classifieds website, has announced the launch of its mobile version. The mobile website can be accessed at wap.clickindia.com from all WAP capable and GPRS enabled mobile phones.
“Mobile phone space is very exciting and full of opportunities. There has been a remarkable increase in the number of mobile users who access [...]

Global mobile phone majors Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and others are offering a slew of products including touchscreen and music capable handsets in India to counter the might of Apple’s iPhone, which is expected to hit the markets in September.
Handset vendors in the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market have worked out the strategies, to [...]