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iPhone fans may vouch for its style, features and navigation, but what made the phone truly trend-setting is its touchscreen feature.
The day Steve Jobs announced that Apple’s first mobile device will have a touchscreen, it became the hottest mobile feature, swinging the entire industry into action. Suddenly, touchscreen became `the’ feature for all hot phones.
The [...]

BPL Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of BlackBerry Connect software v4.0 on a range of handsets from BPL Mobile in India. With BlackBerry Connect, users will be able to access the BlackBerry services with support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.
“We are delighted to extend the choice of [...]

Deciding to net the student segment and widen its customer base, Corporation Bank on Wednesday announced a tie-up with Bangalore-based technology solutions provider IDenizen Smartware Private Limited to launch SmartCampus, a smartcard enabled software package for the education vertical.
SmartCampus, developed by IDenizen over the last four years, is a student identity card that can be [...]

Momail today launched its entry into the Indian market with its popular and award winning mobile email product.
The site for Momail India is now open for up to 100 000 beta testers; they can sign up at www.momail.in using the password momailrox.
The Momail offer is perfect for a market like India with an ever increasing [...]

India has decided to auction CDMA licences for 3G services, a change in policy that means Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices will have to bid for spectrum they were previously guaranteed of getting.
No. 2 mobile operator Reliance Communications and sixth-ranked Tata Teleservices are the only operators with major CDMA operations in India, where the GSM [...]

Apple, the US consumer electronics and software company, is close to opening its iTune Store in India. iTune Store, the world’s most popular online entertainment store, offers songs, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks and iPod games.
Apple will open iTune Store “immediately” to enable users buy legitimate entertainment content for their iPods, touch iPods, Mac PCs [...]

Spice mobile has announced the launch of its new handset S-820 for the music lover, with a Yamaha audio amplifier which ensures 3D surround sound.
The external memory of the phone can be expanded to 1GB which can store music and other multimedia content. With a built in FM player receiver, the phone can record FM [...]

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar will on Friday launch Apple’s third-generation (3G) iPhone in India, a nation with an estimated population of 1.13 billion, where one in five people owns a mobile phone.
Two models will be up for grabs: one with 8GB memory (in black colour) and another 16 GB (white and black) for Rs [...]

Competition in Kenya’s telecommunications industry is heating up as the latest entrant in the market announced plans to make the biggest investment in the industry in recent years.
India’s Essar Global Ltd. will invest US$500 million over two years in Kenya’s newest mobile phone service operator, Econet Wireless Kenya Ltd., to set up a network, among [...]

This is the week of the geeks, as the Apple iPhone finally was officially launched in India amidst fanfare. Both the official operators for the phone Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar launched the phone at midnight across eight cities.
But the launch was a far cry from that witnessed in international markets where iPhone lovers had [...]