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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today asked banks to keep their mobile payment services on hold till it issues final guidelines for such transactions.
Banks can, however, continue to provide basic services such as mobile alerts for credit or debit entry, balance enquiry or other services that are in the nature of providing information, the [...]

The DTH licence of Delhi-based Bharti group’s direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting company — Bharti Telemedia — may be suspended by the government for non-compliance with the foreign direct investment (FDI) norms and breaking the cross-media ownership regulations.
This follows the show-cause notice that was issued to the company last month by the Ministry of Informaton and Broadcasting [...]

Global consumer electronics and mobile phone vendors are going green in India. Heavyweight brands like Nokia, LG, Samsung and Haier, among others, are planning to roll out products that will be positioned on an environment-friendly platform.
It is the first time that environment as a brand strategy has evolved in the Indian consumer electronics industry. Till [...]

Planning to buy that fancy smart phone? A word of caution: Internet-enabled phones have gaping security weaknesses waiting to be exploited, warn cyber security experts. Any smart phone — including Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian phones — can be hacked by a nerd with a little bit of code and some cunning.
And they don’t [...]

Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s and Andhra Pradesh’s leading mobile service provider, today announced its strategic tie-up with SKS Microfinance, India’s largest and the fastest growing microfinance company in the world. The association is part of Airtel’s ambitious ‘Grameena Mobile Kranthi’ campaign to make mobile telephony available and affordable for rural consumers.
Airtel’s latest initiative is [...]

US-based mobile phone maker Motorola today said it has joined hands with Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari to launch a co-branded 3G-enabled handset priced at Rs 21,840 in the Indian market.
The new handset -MOTORAZR 2 V9 Ferrari would be available exclusively at the Mobile Store for the first week of its launch. However, the phone [...]

US based RockeTalk has launched it’s social entertainment mobile app in India.
RockeTalk is mobile based social entertainment application on Java and Symbian based phones and is supported on ~50 models. The application features include:

Spice Mobiles, India’s leading mobile handset-maker today launched Spice S-707n - the true m-commerce partner. With the Indian Govt. regularizing m-commerce, Spice Mobiles has tied up with ngpay, the leading mobile commerce service in the country. The launch of Spice S-707n is yet another initiative of Spice Mobiles to carry forward its tradition of offering [...]

Mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, may have to cough up at least Rs 1,600 crore each, as one-time payment for having spectrum beyond the stipulated 6.2 Mhz in the licence for cellular services (2G).
The Department of Telecom on Monday held a meeting with industry representatives to discuss the proposal whereby [...]

NDTV Convergence, the digital arm of NDTV, has announced the launch of the Mi (My Mobile Internet) SMS service. Mi is the industry’s first mobile 2.0 platform, which delivers live, personalized, socially networked, interactive and multi-media channels on mobile devices.
Simply put, Mi™ SMS unleashes the power of GPRS for traditional mobile users, helping them access [...]